Google welcomes people with disabilities. Minimum qualifications: + Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience. + 4 years of experience in management consulting, sales operations, business strategy, investment banking roles, or digital ads sales. + Ability to communicate in English and Japanese fluently to interact with internal and external stakeholders. Preferred qualifications: + Experience using business intelligence and dashboards, and analyzing large data sets. + Knowledge of digital ads and Google’s business. + Ability to succeed and exercise judgment in a fast-moving and ambiguous environment. + Excellent collaboration skills, a passion for the Internet, and ability to work with people from a broad range of backgrounds and experience. + Excellent communication, teamwork, and presentation skills, with ability to write well and convey complex issues clearly. As a Strategy and Operations Associate, you will provide business critical insights and recommendations that support decision making, cross-functional alignment of goals and expectations, and drive/help teams to execute plans and operate. By working closely with Sales Strategy and Operations Managers, you will run the business cadence, help the organization navigate the complexities of systems and tools, and collaborate with cross-functional Japan Large Customer Sales (LCS) teams to solve problems, design, manage, and successfully deliver projects against operational standards. As a team member, you will help to set the focus, pace and direction of our business across Japan LCS and unite teams to deliver on Google’s most important business opportunities by supporting, challenging, and enabling our sales organization. The Go-to-Market Operations (GtM) team ensures Google's complex and ever-evolving Ads business runs smoothly. We are instrumental in setting go-to-market strategy, and ensuring flawless execution and operations against the strategy. We have teams embedded in each of the major Ads business areas as well as global teams that work across the business areas. Team members are analytical and strategic, with a pragmatic sense of how to get things done. + Provide strategic, analytical, and day-to-day operational activities for the Japan Large Customer Sales team. + Perform data analysis and modeling to identify trends and efficiency opportunities. Build and maintain tools and dashboards to help with reporting and needs of the team and key stakeholders. + Engage in ad-hoc analyses to understand business performance, user metrics, KPIs, and provide concise summaries and recommendations to management. + Identify process gaps and opportunities for process improvement. + Define and solve problems/opportunities that impact the business organization. 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 https://careers.google.com/eeo/ and https://careers.google.com/jobs/dist/legal/OFCCP_EEO_Post.pdf If you have a need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form: https://goo.gl/forms/aBt6Pu71i1kzpLHe2.