This position is based in Lagos, Nigeria.
The area: Business Development
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.
The role: Business Development Associate
Google is expanding our Sub-Saharan Africa team in Africa. You will work closely with the wider Google team on new product initiatives and key strategic relationships. 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 Senegal 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
Method of Application
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