Program Management Lead, gUP Operations
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Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 7 years of experience delivering cross-functional technical projects and programs with multiple stakeholders.
- 3 years of experience in people management.
- Experience managing and aligning executive leadership and stakeholders.
- Experience with project/portfolio management.
Preferred qualifications:
- Certification in program management or experience in program management with a technology company.
- Experience designing and implementing scalable processes and guiding organizational improvements.
- Familiarity with business planning processes and best practices.
- Ability to identify, collect, and analyze relevant data to help guide informed decisions.
- Ability to synthesize complex views and form unique perspectives.
About the job
In this role, you will serves as a Contract and Category Management specialist within the Contracts and Commercials team, collaborating closely with designated business units or categories to guide strategic sourcing and engagements, ensuring alignment with organizational goals. You will acts as a trusted advisor and subject matter expert, working with stakeholders to understand their needs, identify optimal vendor solutions, lead complex Request for Proposals (RFPs), leverage deep category expertise to collaborate with global procurement on establishing category strategies, and contribute significantly to the implementation and evolution of the overall contract and category management strategy.
In gTech Users and Products (gUP), our mission is to advocate for Google’s users by creating helpful and trusted experiences across the product ecosystem. We achieve this by meeting partners and consumers where they are with support and help, representing their needs with our product partners and proposing fixes and features that elevate their engagement with Google's diverse product ecosystem. Additionally we provide a range of product services that ensure our products are optimized for every user, no matter where they are in the world (e.g., localization, digitization, partner integration and more).Responsibilities
- Define, own, and drive the planning, execution and governance for large-scale, complex, ambiguous programs critical to gUP.
- Lead the execution and delivery of a portfolio of complex, interconnected programs, from conceptualization through landing, ensuring outcomes.
- Influence and align product leadership and key stakeholders across gUP and partner organizations on program goal, priorities, resource allocation.
- Identify opportunities and lead initiatives to establish systems to identify improvements and drive future improved business processes, products, or services on an ongoing basis, through measurement of performance, progress, and success metrics.
- Lead a team, guide goal and strategy, while balancing workloads, and ensuring ongoing development.
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