Industry Manager, Automotive

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Minimum qualifications:

- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience
- Experience in the digital space
- Ability to speak and write in English and Italian fluently

Preferred qualifications:

- Experience with Google products (e.g., Search, Display, etc.)
- Experience in a client-facing role
- Experience in Media, Marketing, Brand Management, or Advertising Sales
- Excellent business relationship skills

**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.

As an Industry Manager, you will help set the vision and strategy for how clients’ advertising can reach users and promote across the entire Google product offerings. You will demonstrate how Google products can generate business and consult them on suitable advertising solutions based on their business needs.

Over the past decade, the automotive sector has been facing an unprecedented revolution. Autonomous driving, connected, shared, electric cars. These are just some of the factors of change that are creating a new consumer and a new approach to mobility, globally. As a result, being part of the Automotive team in Google Italy means having the opportunity to be protagonists of this change together with those who experience it and create it every day.

Our Large Customer Sales teams partner closely with many of the world’s biggest advertisers and agencies to develop digital solutions that build businesses and brands. We enjoy a bird’s eye view on the massive transformation occurring as advertising shifts to mobile and online platforms. We're uniquely situated to help shape how companies grow their businesses in the digital age. We advise clients on Google's broad range of products across search, video and mobile to help them connect instantly and seamlessly with their audiences.

**Responsibilities**:

- Define clear and shared key performance indicators in order to be aligned with customer priorities and build proof points to scale our product solutions.
- Lead the annual business plan across planning, quarterly c-level meetings, executive connects, and high internal cross-functional teamworking.
- Be a trusted advisor to key client stakeholders by bringing compelling insights and ideas to solve some of our client’s business challenges.
- Build C-Level relationships with automotive players in Italy. Understand their priorities and challenges in order to influence their short
- term and long-term marketing and business decisions.

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