Strategic Business Partner, Extended Workforce Solutions

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 11 years of experience in business partnership and account management roles.
• Experience managing agreements or partnerships and delivering programs.
• Experience working with C-level executives and cross-functionally across all levels of management.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience managing contingent workforce strategies and initiatives across functions.
• Experience working with and managing partners in complex programs.
• Experience with vendor management and understanding on how to produce business impact.
• Ability to cultivate global partnerships, aligning stakeholders towards strategic initiatives with regional/global impact.

About the job

gTech's Extended Workforce Solutions (xWS) team empowers Product Areas (PAs) to optimize outsourced operations while reducing risks and driving efficiency through the enforcement of Google best practices and policies. We advocate for informed decision-making, ensuring our partners find the right talent in the right locations. Our collaboration across Google leads to streamlined processes, minimizing administrative burdens and optimizing the extended workforce (xW) experience. We ensure Google's policies and guidelines are consistently adhered to.

As a Product Area (PA) Business Partner, you will partner with stakeholders to mandate extended workforce (xWF) policies and guidelines, drive cross-functional Objectives and Key Results (OKRs), and mitigate risk. Identify obstacles to policy adoption across PAs, promoting company-wide best practices to enhance operational success. An understanding of PA business objectives is important, along with the ability to collaborate with senior leaders across Google to drive goal achievement while prioritizing compliance and cost optimization. You will understand the business goals and regularly engage with senior stakeholders across a cross-functional and geographically dispersed team to ensure adherence to Google best practices. Google creates products and services that make the world a better place, and gTech’s role is to help bring them to life. Our teams of trusted advisors support customers globally. Our solutions are rooted in our technical skill, product expertise, and a thorough understanding of our customers’ complex needs. Whether the answer is a bespoke solution to solve a unique problem, or a new tool that can scale across Google, everything we do aims to ensure our customers benefit from the full potential of Google products.

Responsibilities

• Build trusted relationships with senior PA decision-makers and collaborate with Product Excellence (PE) team members on Director-level engagement, gaining a deep understanding of their strategic priorities within Product Areas.
• Have knowledge in Extended Workforce menu of services, support PAs, xWF strategy by enabling cost effective recommendations and compliance to Extended Workforce Solutions (xWS) policies.
• Develop an understanding of the PA’s business objectives, operating model, structure, business demand vs. staffing capacity needs and is capable of educating the xWS team with ongoing strategic insight to unlock opportunities for economies of scale.
• Navigate internally across xWS specialist teams, Finance, Google Procurement Organization (gPO) and other organizations to align on how best to service Google PAs extended workforce needs.
• Orchestrate change management within PAs to support multiple, xWS deployments. Consult senior executive on xWS policies and impact analysis.

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