Category Business Manager, Pixel at Google

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 4 years of experience in a finance, business, or management consulting role.
• Experience in spreadsheets.
• Experience synthesizing analyses and creating data visualizations on presentation software.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience in SQL, and with BI platforms like Looker or Tableau.
• Experience in commercial growth, strategy, sales, data, and operations in tech, finance or consulting.
• Experience in business finance, consulting, or investment banking, in the consumer electronics, original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), telecom, e-commerce/retail, or technology industries.
• Ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams and engage with all levels of management.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to take ambiguous topics and turn them into engaging narratives for different audiences.
• About the job
• As a Category Business Manager, you will be leading the go-to-market strategy for Pixel hardware across the entire EMEA region. This role demands thinking in identifying and cultivating new growth opportunities. You will build and leverage investigative insights to empower our partners and ensure customer success.
• You will blend a business-oriented mindset, sharp investigative abilities, and exceptional collaboration skills to align various teams—business, demand planning, operations, product, marketing, and finance at local, regional, and global levels.You will be navigating market and internal dynamics, delivering significant business impact, and embracing a high-velocity environment. You will act with autonomy and take ambiguity in your stride. You will also be committed to exceeding targets and driving substantial growth. This will be a rewarding environment where your individual contribution is paramount and measured by ambitious growth goals.
• The Platforms and Devices team encompasses Google's various computing software platforms across environments (desktop, mobile, applications), as well as our first party devices and services that combine the best of Google AI, software, and hardware. Teams across this area research, design, and develop new technologies to make our user's interaction with computing faster and more seamless, building innovative experiences for our users around the world.

Responsibilities

• Scope and conduct in-depth data analyses to identify trends and opportunities, identifying, trialling and implementing new investigative methodologies, including using the latest Google AI tools.
• Develop and execute the go-to-market strategy for Pixel hardware across the EMEA region, identifying and building new growth opportunities, and driving upgrader/switcher demand, and complaince targets.
• Lead the ideation and implementation of promotional offer strategies, partnering with business and channel teams to generate and manage commercial strategies and budgets.
• Understand and interpret business performance, engaged intelligence and market share data, identifying key drivers of growth and translating them into specific recommendations and initiatives for the business.
• Establish yourself as the internal authority on all things Pixel, leveraging both external and internal data to inform strategy and decision-making.