Analytical Lead, Google Shopping Solutions

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 2 years of experience in a management consulting, sales operations, business strategy, investment banking, venture capital or private equity role, or 1 year of experience with an advanced degree.
• Experience analyzing data sets to deliver insights.
  

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience with retail marketing analytics.
• Experience with Google shopping, optimization levers, and structure best practices.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced and dynamic work environment.
• Ability to manage projects with communication and planning throughout.
  
• Ability to comprehend and align needs from different stakeholders.

About the job

The Business Strategy & Operations organization provides business critical insights using analytics, ensures cross functional alignment of goals and execution, and helps teams drive strategic partnerships and new initiatives forward. We stay focused on aligning the highest-level company priorities with effective day-to-day operations, and help evolve early stage ideas into future-growth initiatives.

Google Shopping account teams work with a range of available data sources and insights to bring recommendations to power merchant’s business. As an Analytical Lead, you'll act as a strategic analyst, advisor and consultant, providing data supported insights, reports and tools to clients to help improve their business. You will own business initiatives across the organization due to Google Shopping Solutions (GSS) structure requiring all data to be owned and managed internally.

As part of Google Shopping, you will be part of a Customer Analytics team and will partner with technical and infrastructure teams, Account Managers and Executive Leadership to build and present integrated business opportunities based on industry trends and insights for clients worldwide.

Responsibilities

• Develop solutions for client business and shopping challenges, collaborate with Sales, GTM, and Finance to innovate and develop a range of customer solutions, from bespoke client offerings to scalable solutions across the retail ecosystem.
• Act as a retail industry advocate and analyst to surface key trends, consult with leadership and account management teams on opportunities associated with trends and potential business impact.
• Advise and coach the Sales team on methodologies for designing recommendations via customer analytics and data insights.
• Seek out key decision makers and influence decisions, support client relationships with Sales teams in the organization.
• Partner with external partners on setting up data infrastructure for the CSS ecosystem to bring full analytical capabilities to customers.