Senior News Manager, News Partnerships

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Minimum qualifications:

- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience
- Experience working in regulated market environments
- Experience sourcing, negotiating, and closing partnerships
- Ability to speak and write in French and English fluently

Preferred qualifications:

- Deep industry knowledge of the news publishers’ business or comparable experience in another industry and keen interest in news
- Knowledge of multi-dimensional deal architecture
- Ability to communicate and influence partners at executive level and work on multiple work-streams in an ambiguous, fast-paced environment with close attention to detail
- Excellent problem solving skills

**About the job**:
The EMEA News and Books Partnerships team works to transform Google’s relationships with the news industry in the Europe, Middle East and Africa region. We build relationships that solve users’ needs, advance our partners’ goals, and further Google’s mission. Our team provides meaningful solutions, from helping news organizations grow and transform their business and find new audiences, to helping our long-term partners anticipate and navigate change in a way that delivers economic and reputational value. We collaborate across different Product Areas at Google, ensuring a coordinated approach when engaging with our strategic partners, including news associations/trade bodies, to grow our business and theirs, build trust, and deepen relationships. Our team collaborates closely with other teams at Google to highlight our work to tell great stories about our engagement with the news industries and influence key opinion formers in our region.

In this role, you will execute the strategy set for France, based on new or existing programs and products, together with the cross-functional teams. You will maintain a keen pulse on the News ecosystem in France and Google’s role within it, be an adovocate for our partners with internal regional and global stakeholders, and play a pivotal role in shaping Google’s News initiatives. You will work closely with the cross-functional leadership in France to ensure the strategy aligns with their activities.

The Global Partnerships organization is responsible for exploring new opportunities with Google's partners. Google’s Global Partnerships team works with a wide range of partners to bring the best of Google to power their business. The Global Partnerships team supports Google’s own Product teams with essential partnerships to help Google’s user experiences in advertising, Search, Assistant, Maps, Travel, Shopping, Payments and more. Teams create product-enabling partnerships, go-to-market strategies and incubate business growth for a variety of products.

**Responsibilities**:

- Own planning and execution of the agreed News Partnerships strategy leveraging existing resources with the objective to address Google’s opportunities and challenges with the news players in France from a business and reputational perspective.
- Collaborate across different Google teams to drive a partner
- and industry-centric approach that elevates relationships to the executive level for strategic News partners in France.
- Propose strategies and provide insights on Google’s industry programs (e.g. Google News Initiative (GNI)).
- Co-lead, influence, and address our key external relationship challenges at executive level with key News partners and associations and owning relationships as needed.
- Identify and prioritize partner goals and become an expert on each organization, business model, and strategic priorities. Serve as a liaison with these partners regarding new product, feature launches, and distribution opportunities.

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