Product Area Strategic Business Partner, Extended Workforce Solutions
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.
- 5 years customer-facing experience, delivering programs.
- Experience working with C-level executives and cross-functionally across all levels of management.
- Experience managing agreements or partnerships and delivering programs.
Preferred qualifications:
- MBA, or Master's degree or equivalent experience.
- Experience managing contingent workforce strategies and initiatives across functions.
- Experience in vendor management and understanding on how to drive business impact.
- Experience with working with and managing partners in complex programs.
- Ability to cultivate global partnerships, aligning stakeholders towards strategic initiatives with regional/global impact.
About the job
gTech's Extended Workforce Solutions (xWS) team empowers Product Areas (PAs) to optimize outsourced operations while reducing risks and driving efficiency through the enforcement of Google best practices and policies. We advocate for informed decision-making, ensuring our partners find the right talent in the right locations. Our collaboration across Google leads to streamlined processes, minimizing administrative burdens and optimizing the extended workforce (xW) experience. We ensure Google's policies and guidelines are consistently adhered to.
As a Product Area 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 Product Areas (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 executive leaders across Google to drive goal achievement while prioritizing compliance and cost optimization.
You will be understanding the business goals and regularly engage with executive stakeholders across a cross-functional and geographically dispersed team to ensure adherence to Google best practices.
Google creates products and services that make the world a better place, and gTech’s role is to help bring them to life. Our teams of trusted advisors support customers globally. Our solutions are rooted in our technical skill, product expertise, and a thorough understanding of our customers’ complex needs. Whether the answer is a bespoke solution to solve a unique problem, or a new tool that can scale across Google, everything we do aims to ensure our customers benefit from the full potential of Google products.
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The US base salary range for this full-time position is $162,000-$243,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target salaries for the position across all US locations. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.
Responsibilities
- Build trusted relationships with executive PA decision-makers and collaborate with Product Excellence (PE) team members on Director-level engagement, gaining an understanding of the priorities within Product Areas and Bets.
- Have knowledge in Contingent/Extended Workforce menu of services, support PAs, xWF strategy by enabling cost effective recommendations and compliance to xWS policies.
- Develop a deep understanding of the PA’s business objectives, operating model, structure, business demand vs. staffing capacity needs and is capable of educating the Extended Workforce Solutions (xWS) team with ongoing insight to unlock additional opportunities for economies of scale.
- Navigate internally across xWS specialist teams, Finance, Google Procurement Organization (gPO) and other organizations to align best to service Google PAs extended workforce needs.
- Orchestrate change management within PAs to support multiple, large-scale xWS deployments. Consult leads on xWS policies and impact analysis.
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