Partnerships Manager, Global Partnerships

Minimum qualifications:

- Bachelor's degree in a business/technical field or equivalent practical experience.
- 7 years of experience in business development, partnerships, and corporate strategy.

Preferred qualifications:

- Experience influencing across different functions/levels in a cross-functional environment and working with C-suite, and comfortable presenting ideas and influencing executive internal/external stakeholders.
- Knowledge of News, Media and Entertainment businesses and ecosystems in Australia and New Zealand.
- Ability to work ambiguously and autonomously within a large matrixed organization to drive alignment and key deliverables.
- Excellent communication and relationship building skills, with the ability to inspire trust and influence outcomes.
- Proactive, results-driven, and highly collaborative with outstanding organization and project management skills.

**About the job**:
The Partnerships team is comprised of both industry (e.g News, Media and Entertainment, Telecoms, Financial Services, Commerce) and country partnerships experts that collaborate with multiple global business, partnerships, and product teams to provide streamlined support to partners of significant strategic and financial importance to Google.

As the Partnerships Manager, you will incubate transformative plans and rally cross-functional teams towards new opportunities by accelerating agreements and driving strategic initiatives, for example through industry strategy alignment, cross-functional joint business plans and key industry initiatives and programs. You will engage with ecosystems to understand their needs and bring the best of Google to solve industry challenges and then enable front line teams by providing cross-functional industry narratives and sharing best practices.

Applicants must have a right to work in New Zealand as Google is currently unable to sponsor a visa for this position.

Google’s Global Partnerships team powers extraordinary user experiences through partnerships that solve users’ needs, advance our partners’ goals, and further Google’s mission. Our team provides meaningful solutions — from helping publishers and developers grow their businesses through monetization solutions, to helping our long-term partners anticipate and navigate change in a way that delivers economic and reputational value. We build and distribute products through partnerships across a multitude of product areas, including Ads, Search & Assistant, Geo, Platforms & Ecosystems, Devices & Services, Health, Retail, Payments, Next Billion Users, and more. We collaborate across Google, ensuring a coordinated approach when engaging with our most complex and strategic partners.

**Responsibilities**:

- Develop an understanding of partner cross-Google activities/operations in support of Executive Sponsor relationship with partners C-Suite including coordination.
- Facilitate alignment and communication between relevant cross-functional teams.
- Collaborate internally to create and drive Cross Google Joint Business Plans and be the internal advocate for your partner's goals.
- Coordinate and drive transformative new partner led solutions by working collaboratively across multiple product areas at Google.
- Support partnership solutions industry/country experts on partner approach to inform narratives, and drive all operations for partners (e.g., briefings, reporting, communications).

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form.