Minimum qualifications:
- Experience with business/media strategy.
- Experience as an account executive.
- Ability to speak and write in English and Italian fluently.
Preferred qualifications:
- Experience online media with an extensive understanding of advertising ecosystem online and offline.
- Experience in performance management and business-to-business communication with an established network in the digital and retail industry.
- Experience in digital business (e.g.
agency, consultancy) and in sales/marketing and/or experience in digital marketing with deep knowledge of Google advertising products.
**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 business grow.
Using your influencing and 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 Industry Manager on the Retail Team you will have the opportunity to work with large Retailers in a highly growing market.
You will go deep into understanding their business, consult them holistically, and become a trusted advisor on the management level.
You will extend our network beyond the advertising business as Google has various business touch points within the retailing industry (e.g., Ads, Hardware, Assistant, Cloud).
In this role, you will be expert on marketing strategy and google solutions that provide the maximum value for the client.
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**:
- Develop relationships with clients, their agencies, and their consultancies.
Target new budgets and develop solution based pitches on performance, consideration, and branding.
- Understand client business objectives and analyze data trends and client performance.
Develop strategic sales and marketing plans and prepare and conduct strategic presentations.
- Represent the Retail team at internal and external events and trade fairs, as well as new product releases, internally and externally.
- Develop case studies of successful campaigns in order to share insights with the broader industry and to serve at industry events and conferences.
- Collaborate with customers beyond ads business with the goal of extending relationships, increasing our client and agency network, and establish strategic relationships.
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.
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