Head of Creative Works DACH, Germany - #2188146

About

Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: Hamburg, Germany; Berlin, Germany; Frankfurt am Main, Germany; Munich, Germany.

Minimum Qualifications

• 13 years of experience working in the advertising industry.
• 7 years of people management experience in leading customer focused teams.
• Experience in the development, implementation, and execution of business strategies.
• Experience working with customers and agency organizations.
• Ability to communicate in English and German fluently as this is a customer facing role.
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in leading teams and proven track record in development and coaching of experienced teams/individuals.
• Knowledge of the overall creative and media industry and track record of strategic and creative output that generates business, builds brands, and engages users.
• Ability to work in fast-paced environments with a high degree of autonomy, comfortable with ambiguity, and operating in a complex environment with multiple internal and external stakeholders.
• Excellent communication skills on C-level including probing, listening, and synthesizing across all levels of organizations.
• Strong connections within the marketing, creative and media landscape in DACH.
  
  

About The Job

Businesses of all shapes and sizes rely on Google’s unparalleled

advertising solutions to help them grow in today's dynamic marketing

environment. You bring a passion for sales, knowledge of online media, and commitment to maximize customer success. You act like an owner, move with velocity through change, finding innovative and strategic ways to consistently deliver extraordinary and incremental outcomes for both Google and your customers. You build trusted relationships with customers, uncovering their business needs and translating them into powerful solutions to achieve their most ambitious goals. You achieve as a team with sellers, shape the future of advertising in the AI-era, and make a real impact on the millions of companies and billions of users that trust Google with their most important goals.

Creative Works DACH is a dynamic team within Google that provides strategic creative value-add services to Google's largest customers in the DACH region. We empower companies to elevate their brand and communication campaigns in an AI-powered world by collaborating closely with customers and their creative partners on all aspects of their digital creative and marketing strategies with Google. Leveraging Google's diverse product range, with a strong emphasis on YouTube and AI-powered solutions, we enable our clients to seamlessly connect with their audiences and achieve their business objectives through creative excellence.

Google's Large Customer Sales (LCS) teams are strategic partners and

industry thought leaders to the world's leading brands and agencies. We continuously challenge how customers think about their business and how

Google can support growth. We focus on helping these players navigate profound industry shifts and drive outsized business performance by competitively selling Google's full suite of advertising solutions across Search, YouTube, Measurement, and more. As a member of our LCS team, you'll have the unique opportunity to sell at the forefront of technology, collaborating with executives, influencing market-shaping strategies, and delivering tangible results that significantly impact major global businesses and drive the growth of Google.

Responsibilities

• Manage the Creative Works team in DACH to deliver against quarterly and annual targets, coach and develop team members.
• Partner closely with LCS vertical and horizontal management teams to identify and prioritize opportunities for clients to grow with our creative consulting and solutions.
• Work closely with other Branding Solutions teams to ensure a deep connection of our creative solutions and offering with all other branding solutions.
• Build strong relationship with other cross-functional teams (e.g., gTech, Cloud) to ensure the technical infrastructure of scaled creative solutions.
• Set up a compelling strategy for Creative Works in the DACH region to help our customers grow and stay the leader in creativity in the market, translating into short- and long-term revenue growth. Drive the development of AI-based creative solutions and tools.
  
  

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form.

Nice-to-have skills

• YouTube
• Search
• Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
  
  

Work experience

• Brand Specialist / Manager
• CMO / Head of Marketing
  
  

Languages

• English