Top Partner Manager, Broadcast, Media and Entertainment (English)

Google's line of products and services to our clients never stops growing. The Partnerships Development team is responsible for seeking and exploring new opportunities with Google's partners. Equipped with your business acumen and extensive product knowledge, you are right on the front line of interacting with our partners, and helping them find ways to grow using Google's newest product offerings. Your knowledge of relevant verticals and relationships with key industry players will help shape our great applications and content for products such as YouTube, Google TV and Commerce. 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

• Drive commercial impact by unlocking sustainable cross-functional value and advancing Google’s AI leadership through partnerships with key European Broadcast Media and Entertainment ('BME') organisations to drive business acceleration and product adoption.
• Build executive-level relationships with key BME executives up to CEO, aligning Google with partners’ most critical objectives while serving as the internal point of contact to ensure transparency, cohesion and clear objectives across all Google teams.
• Deliver cross-Google industry strategy by providing thought leadership and driving specific partner initiatives based on industry expertise, enabling cross-functional teams to develop tailored vertical solutions across the BME value chain.
• Protect license to operate by supporting GAPP and Velocity priorities and engaging key stakeholders through a structured, targeted approach across industry events, panels and marketing campaigns.

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 7 years of experience in business development, partnerships, management consulting, or investment banking in the broadcast or sports industry.
• Experience working with C-level executives and cross-functionally across all levels of management.
• Experience in managing partnerships and agreements by collaborating with stakeholders across all functions and levels.
• Ability to communicate in English fluently to support client relationship management in the market.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience in managing strategy projects (e.g., strategic plan, new product launch) from inception to deployment.
• Experience in working with Product teams and with PR/ Marketing/ Policy teams.
• Ability to cultivate close working relationships with key leaders both internally and externally.
• Ability to manage with ambiguity, to solve problems and to scale effectively across a large and highly distributed organization.
• Excellent problem-solving skills, combined with impeccable business judgment.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills reflecting a nuanced approach to various audiences.