Platforms Partner Manager, Google Marketing Platform

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**Sydney NSW, Australia; Melbourne VIC, Australia**.
**Minimum qualifications**:

- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- Experience in Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), website analytics, and digital Ad platforms.

**Preferred qualifications**:

- Experience in meeting or exceeding business goals and maintaining relationships within a book of business.
- Experience in technology sales and Ad technologies, with an understanding of the SaaS market and key players.
- Understanding of the industry issues and established relationships within the digital marketing and analytics industry.
- Ability to develop and grow executive-level relationships with advertisers, publishers, consultants, and agency partners.
- Ability to work in a fast-moving, complex, and ever-evolving environment.

**About the job**:
Businesses that partner with Google come in all shapes, sizes and market caps, and no one Google advertising solution works for all. Your knowledge of online media combined with your communication skills and analytical abilities shapes how new and existing businesses grow. Using your relationship-building skills, you provide Google-caliber client service, research and market analysis. You anticipate how decisions are made, persistently explore and uncover the business needs of Google's key clients and understand how our range of product offerings can grow their business. Working with them, you set the vision and the strategy for how their advertising can reach thousands of users.

As a Platforms Partner Manager, you will grow the platforms partner business by developing a strategic approach to the market for an assigned territory and/or account list. You will identify new business opportunities, facilitating a business cycle with many cross-functional dependencies, facilitating and securing agreements for new partners, and ensure that end clients achieve complete adoption and satisfaction with the platform.

Our Large Customer Sales teams partner closely with many of the world’s biggest advertisers and agencies to develop digital solutions that build businesses and brands. We enjoy a bird’s eye view on the massive transformation occurring as advertising shifts to mobile and online platforms. We're uniquely situated to help shape how companies grow their businesses in the digital age. We advise clients on Google's broad range of products across search, video and mobile to help them connect instantly and seamlessly with their audiences.

**Responsibilities**:

- Conduct partner portfolio strategy and planning, including developing partner capabilities adherence to the Google enterprise menu of services.
- Provide a future proof partner commercialization strategy by supporting our partners' business value proposition in transitioning from license or media to service-based business models.
- Pursue and develop opportunities in close collaboration with organizations, focusing on both new business acquisition as well as partner-led maturity efforts through joint business plans or joint technical plan delivery.
- Provide thought leadership on partner servicing, global/regional/local releases of best practices and use cases, and leading similar efforts with partners locally.
- Build on the need for digital marketers to establish a user privacy centric data and measurement strategy.

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