Vendor Performance Manager, Small/Medium Businesses Growth

Job Description

Minimum qualifications: Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience. 10 years of experience using analytics or applying project management tools to address business issues. 10 years of experience in operations or business management, and vendor management. Preferred qualifications: MBA or Master's degree or equivalent practical experience. Experience managing and influencing external partner teams in advertising, sales, or customer experience workflows. Experience with digital media strategies or advertising and marketing solutions. Excellent operational experience with analytical skills. About The Job In this role, you will drive the performance and success of a customer segment or innovation workflow. You will develop relationships across an internal and external network of stakeholders to manage both short-term business growth performance and long-term business sustainability for a variety of go-to-market customer segments. You will own driving in-quarter performance for operations, and develop strategies with vendor partners to drive operational excellence and mitigate performance risks. You will be responsible for enabling vendor partner long-term success by leading strategic changes, influencing internal partner teams with on-the ground feedback and evaluating the efficacy of vendor partner’s capabilities and infrastructure as this customer segment evolves. Google Ads is helping power the open internet with the best technology that connects and creates value for people, publishers, advertisers, and Google. We’re made up of multiple teams, building Google’s Advertising products including search, display, shopping, travel and video advertising, as well as analytics. Our teams create trusted experiences between people and businesses with useful ads. We help grow businesses of all sizes from small businesses, to large brands, to YouTube creators, with effective advertiser tools that deliver measurable results. We also enable Google to engage with customers at scale. Responsibilities Deliver on key business operation metrics for scope of program and analyze performance trends, synthesize common performance challenges, design and execute consistent solutions across vendor partners. Build and deliver performance review narratives to vendor and cross-functional partners and utilize knowledge of customer segment and sales operations to identify and drive operational improvements. Govern on-ground operations, develop best practices and influence vendor leadership to evolve workforce capabilities and leverage change management frameworks to enable vendor site success and mitigate performance volatility. Lead and partner with cross-functional teams to influence program, product, and technology strategies for specific customer segment and govern quality of business operations, mitigate risks, and scale learning. Engage with internal teams to design collaboration processes and share best practices for segments, and also engage with customers to mitigate escalations. 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 .