Product Area Strategic Business Partner, Extended Workforce Solutions
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Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 11 years of experience in business partnership and account management roles.
- Experience managing agreements or partnerships and delivering programs.
- Experience working with C-level executives and cross-functionally across all levels of management.
Preferred qualifications:
- Master's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- Experience managing contingent workforce strategies and initiatives across functions.
- Experience working with and managing partners in complex programs.
- Experience with vendor management and understanding on how to produce business impact.
- Ability to cultivate global partnerships, aligning stakeholders towards strategic initiatives with regional/global impact.
About the job
As a Product Area (PA) Business Partner, you will partner with stakeholders to mandate extended workforce (xWF) policies and guidelines, drive cross-functional Objectives and Key Results (OKRs), and mitigate risk. Identify obstacles to policy adoption across PAs, promoting company-wide best practices to enhance operational success. An understanding of PA business objectives is important, along with the ability to collaborate with senior leaders across Google to drive goal achievement while prioritizing compliance and cost optimization.You will understand the business goals and regularly engage with senior stakeholders across a cross-functional and geographically dispersed team to ensure adherence to Google best practices.
The Global Partnerships organization is responsible for exploring new opportunities with Google's partners. Google’s Global Partnerships team works with a wide range of partners to bring the best of Google to power their business. The Global Partnerships team supports Google’s own Product teams with essential partnerships to help Google’s user experiences in advertising, Search, Assistant, Maps, Travel, Shopping, Payments and more. Teams create product-enabling partnerships, go-to-market strategies and incubate business growth for a variety of products.
Responsibilities
- Build trusted relationships with senior PA decision-makers and collaborate with Product Excellence (PE) team members on Director-level engagement, gaining a deep understanding of their strategic priorities within Product Areas.
- Have knowledge in Contingent/Extended Workforce menu of services, support PAs, xWF strategy by enabling cost effective recommendations and compliance to Extended Workforce Solutions (xWS) policies.
- Develop an understanding of the PA’s business objectives, operating model, structure, business demand vs. staffing capacity needs and is capable of educating the xWS team with ongoing strategic insight to unlock additional opportunities for economies of scale.
- Navigate internally across xWS specialist teams, Finance, gPO and other organizations to align on how best to service Google PAs extended workforce needs.
- Orchestrate change management within PAs to support multiple, xWS deployments. Consult senior executive on xWS policies and impact analysis.
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