Account Strategist, SBS Engage, Google Customer Solutions, Market: Italy

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  
• 2 years of experience in advertising, consultative sales, business development, online media environment, or marketing role.
• Ability to communicate in Italian and English fluently to support client relationship management in this region.
  

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience working with channel sales, advertisers, agencies, or clients.
• Experience strategically assessing and achieving client success via sales techniques, including effective questioning, objection handling, and competitive selling.
  
• Ability to manage and prioritize a portfolio in an advertising or media sales context, and demonstrated ability to achieve goals to drive growth.

Demonstrated ability to build compelling narratives and utilize storytelling as a client engagement strategy.

Expertise in launching and managing paid digital advertising campaigns, particularly in Google Ads and other digital marketing platforms.

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 (GCS) sales teams are trusted advisors and competitive sellers who maintain a relentless focus on customer success by bringing the best Google has to offer to small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), which are the backbone of our communities. As a member of our team, you'll have the opportunity to work with company owners and make a real difference in their businesses by helping them grow. Together, we help shape the future of innovation for customers, partners, and sellers...and we have fun doing it.

Responsibilities

• Build and manage relationships with clients, and develop an understanding of their business challenges, marketing objectives, and success metrics.
  
• Work proactively and cooperatively with internal and external stakeholders to ensure workflows and projects are completed on time to a high standard.
  
• Plan for, and achieve, growth goals, through the presentation of Google advertising products/solutions that will help clients to meet their marketing objectives.
  
• Develop forward thinking, data-driven analyses and consultative recommendations that align with customer goals, and quantify high-impact opportunities with clear recommendations to present to customers.
  
• Build an in-depth knowledge of how Google advertising products work and can be used to help meet a wide range of marketing objectives.