QualificationsAnalysis skillsCommunication skillsMarketingSalesBusiness developmentBachelor’s degree
Preferred qualifications:
Experience with effective questioning, managing objections, and sales.
Experience with managing a sales portfolio in business development, customer services/relationships, and solution-based sales.
Ability to lead and manage projects with a broad range of internal and external partners simultaneously.
Ability to identify challenges and develop recommendations/action plans.
Ability to influence executive stakeholders.
Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
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.
Google Customer Solutions teams are made up of trusted advisors who maintain a focus on customer success. The Traditional Media Agency (TMA) team, a subset of Google Customer Solutions, is responsible for driving incremental business growth via our full-service, creative, and media agency partners.
As a Business Development Manager, you will focus on growing long-term relationships with our managed traditional media agencies and drive business growth through agency-managed accounts with brand and performance opportunity.
When our millions of advertisers and publishers are happy, so are we! Our Google Customer Solutions (GCS) team of entrepreneurial, enthusiastic and client-focused members are the “human face” of Google, helping entrepreneurs both individually and broadly build their online presence and grow their businesses. We are dedicated to growing the unique needs of advertising companies. Our teams of strategists, analysts, advisers and support specialists collaborate closely to spot and analyze customer needs and trends. In collaboration, we create and implement business plans broadly for all types of businesses.
Responsibilities
Deliver against goals while prioritizing and delivering an excellent experience to Google’s managed agency partners.
Partner and consult with agencies with the goal of extending relationships, growing the customer/agency base, and optimizing advertising.
Manage and grow primary agency relationships with executives and specific account teams, including media planners/buyers.
Analyze data trends and customer performance.
Develop strategic plans and prepare/conduct strategic presentations.
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