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Manager, Global Contracts Negotiation

On-site in London·Added 13 days ago (last checked 1 Oct)

Google

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Requirements

Minimum qualifications:
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  • 10 years of experience leading to negotiations or business development.
  • Experience in people management.

Preferred qualifications:
  • Experience leading complex and scalable cross-functional programs.
  • Ability to deliver results against key operational metrics and key performance indicators, to diagnose issues and drive corrective actions to improve performance.
  • Excellent communication and influencing skills.

The role

Google's infrastructure needs go far beyond server computers. As Google's products and services scale the globe, the Strategic Negotiation team works behind the scenes to secure infrastructure for Google's future -- everything from underwater cables to physical data center space. As a Strategic Negotiator, you combine your deep market knowledge of a given sector with tech industry savvy to negotiate cost-effective solutions to support Google's infrastructure growth. You'll work with specific project teams on negotiating deals, managing vendor and partner relationships and presenting deal recommendations to our Tech leadership. Your successful negotiations have the potential to save Google millions of dollars in operating costs and impact every part of the business.

In this role, you will act as a financial architect of the global portfolio, responsible for the oversight and assistance of the contractual needs for all aspects of building Google's Cable Landing Stations globally. You will take a leadership role in working with peers, managers, internal stakeholders, and executives of Google and general contractor partners to build a delivery ecosystem.

Your key priorities are ensuring that our delivery teams' contractual needs are fulfilled, negotiation of agreements to protect Google's rights while ensuring consistency in contracting and agreement performance, oversight of agreement administration across all projects, and interfacing with a wide variety of internal and external stakeholders. The role requires a deep knowledge of construction agreements, including design-build, design-assist, design-bid-build, and others, as well as demonstrated commercial acumen to understand how construction agreements assist and structure.

Google Cloud accelerates every organization's ability to digitally transform its business and industry. We deliver enterprise-grade solutions that leverage Google's cutting-edge technology, and tools that help developers build more sustainably. Customers in more than 200 countries and territories turn to Google Cloud as their trusted partner to enable growth and solve their most critical business problems.
Responsibilities
  • Lead General Contractor (GC) pre-qualification and selection, managing the end-to-end procurement process from RFP to contract execution, ensuring market-specific commercial terms adhere to Google's risk appetite.
  • Develop high-fidelity parametric budget forecasts and implement controls to manage cash flow and prevent capital leakage across the development pipeline.
  • Craft integrated management schedules that synchronize site due diligence, design milestones, and equipment lead times to proactively manage dependencies.
  • Manage the end-to-end lifecycle of Owner-Furnished Equipment (OFE) from sourcing to on-site delivery, insulating the program from supply chain volatility.
  • Oversee on-site agreement administration support staff and support key contractual requirements for delivery teams, including scope amendments, change orders, and dispute resolution.

Hiring process

4 steps3 interviewsa task to do6–8 weeks in all
  1. Apply online

  2. Assessments

    Online test · Not every role

    You may be asked to take the Google Hiring Assessment (workstyle skills) and, for some roles, role-related assessments such as a coding exercise.

  3. Recruiter conversations

    With a recruiter · Phone call · 1–2 sessions

    One or two shorter conversations assessing key skills, sharing information about the organisation and team, and asking about your preferences such as location.

  4. Project work

    In your own time · Not every role

    For some roles, a small project before interviews: a case study, writing or code samples.

  5. Interviews

    With a rotating cast of Googlers

    A panel of structured interviews, over video or in person, with a rotating cast of Googlers; open-ended role-related questions scored against the same rubric for every candidate, no brainteasers.

  6. Decision and offer · With a recruiter

  • Structured interviews: every candidate for a role is scored against the same rubric; no brainteasers.
  • AI tools are not permitted during interviews.
  • For some roles, pre-selected interviews happen virtually before final interviews onsite.

About Google

Industry
Technology
Founded
1998
Employees
100,000+
Headquarters
Mountain View, USA
Website
google.com
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