Google Business Development Associate Job Lagos Nigeria

Google Business Development Associate - Lagos

Google is inviting applications for the position of Google Business Associate for Lagos, Nigeria.  JobsNigeriaPlus is of the opinion that this job position is in line with Google's stated strategy in Africa of developing a relevant and vibrant Internet ecosystem.

According to the release from Google "the New Business Development group works with Product, Engineering and other teams on new product incubation and exploratory efforts, technology and meta-data licensing, strategic partnerships, urgent special projects, and alternative distribution for existing and new business initiatives. Our team consists of creative, entrepreneurial, highly organized leaders, well versed in a broad range of technologies, who can spot opportunities, evaluate inbound inquiries, build partnerships, collaborate with many internal functional groups globally, and negotiate and close business deals".

JobsNigeriaPlus notes that Google is expanding its human capacity in Sub-Saharan Africa. The successful candidate is expected to work closely with the wider Google team on new product initiatives and key strategic relationships. Further details from Google state that:
You will be entrepreneurial, creative, open-minded and adaptive. When interacting with internal and external clients, you will be persistent, action oriented and highly collaborative.

As part of the Sub-Saharan Africa team, you will work with product, engineering and other teams on new product incubation and exploratory efforts, strategic partnerships, special projects and alternative distribution for existing and new business initiatives. This team consists of creative, entrepreneurial, highly organized leaders, well versed in a broad range of technologies, who can spot opportunities, evaluate inbound inquiries, build partnerships, collaborate with many internal functional groups globally and negotiate and close business deals.

Responsibilities:
- Work closely with the Country Lead and the Africa Business Development team to achieve objectives and key results for the region in addition to developing a strong understanding of Google products, strategy, and values.
- Build and leverage relationships across Google globally with a focus on the New Business Development, partnerships, product, marketing and PR teams.
- Identify deal opportunities and assist deal leader in negotiation process, manage deal implementation with partner team to ensure timely execution, including developing term sheet summaries, working with legal team to process contracts.
- Shape and implement other priority projects that could involve product launches, PR or marketing activities, leading Google product training sessions.
- Create project support and analysis, presentations, reporting, industry research.

Requirements:
- MA/MS degree preferred with a strong academic record.
In-depth experience operating within cross-functional teams (product management, implementation, legal, finance, marketing).
- Experience identifying partners, analyzing and structuring complex deal structures with a proven track record of deal negotiation and execution.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills; communicates project priorities and represents Africa Business Development team well internally. High level of comfort escalating and presenting key deal issues to Google senior management when appropriate.
- Ability to perform research on and assist with execution on several time-sensitive project/deals at once in a fast paced environment with minimal direction.





In the opinion of JobsNigeriaPlus this job is clearly intended to play a strategic role for Google in Africa. This is indicative of Google's growing interest in taking advantage of business opportunities in Nigeria, Africa's biggest market. Growing Internet activity in Nigeria, means Google already benefits tremendously from this massive audience but beyond Google's mission of making information universally accessible and useful, it clearly still has important commercial and business objectives in Nigeria and Africa.

JobsNigeriaPlus asks: interested in this job opportunity? Then email your resume to nabilk@google.com


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