Program Manager, Retail Regulation

Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: London, UK; Dublin, Ireland.

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.

• Experience in planning, change management, stakeholder consulting, and project management.

• Experience in product development, sales, and/or marketing within advertising, e-commerce, or search, structuring and implementing operational initiatives with Sales teams

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience in performance with increasing levels of responsibility and independence.

• Ability to lead complex operational and strategic initiatives.

• Ability to work across various business functions.

• Excellent problem solving and analytical skills with the ability to communicate with technical teams.

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.

In this role, you will be responsible for program managing the shopping operating model in the European Economic Area, Switzerland, and UK markets and maintaining compliance across impacted markets. This is a key strategic role for Google with frequent interactions with high-level stakeholders.

You will collaborate with the Google Shopping Europe Governance Team board, Go-To-Market, Legal, Compliance, Finance, Performance, Product, Engineering, Global Product Leads, Large Customer Sales, and Google Technical Services teams.

The Go-to-Market Operations (GtM) team ensures Google's complex and ever-evolving Ads business runs smoothly. We are instrumental in setting go-to-market strategy, and ensuring flawless execution and operations against the strategy. We have teams embedded in each of the major Ads business areas as well as global teams that work across the business areas. Team members are analytical and strategic, with a pragmatic sense of how to get things done.

Responsibilities

• Supervise the shopping operating model in the European Economic Area, Switzerland, and the UK across functions/teams and adjust when needed to ensure an efficient business and clear role and responsibilities for Google teams to provide optimal service to clients and users.
• Work closely with Retail Go-To-Market and Product teams to assess and advise on regulation readiness of commerce/retail product strategy.
• Ensure all processes are in place to be compliant with the European compliance remedy and partner closely with the compliance team to identify gaps and create appropriate safeguards and controls. 
• Support Performance Strategy and Operations Manager to sustainably enable retail growth.
• Help Google Executives to make decisions by frequently sharing updates and identifying topics that require top-level decisions.

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form.