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As an Administrative Assistant, you're at the heart of your team's business operations and activities and the soul that keeps your team moving forward. You anticipate the needs of your managers and team members and help them stay focused on their projects by resolving operational and administrative issues before they arise. You move quickly with changing environment and are up to date with the latest Google products and services. You also use that knowledge to strategically support your team's projects. In addition to being organized and analytical, you possess the strong business judgment and communication skills needed to interact with a variety of people and job functions. The position will be based either in Lagos or in Nairobi and will support the Emerging Markets team across Sub-Saharan Africa as well as remote support for the Director of Sub-Saharan Africa who is based in Paris.
 
Responsibilities

• Undertake administrative tasks include managing scheduling and calendars for multiple people; making extensive international travel arrangements; coordinating weekly team meetings and group events; office space planning along with office moves; managing team/vacation calendars; processing expense reports; booking meeting rooms; taking meeting minutes.
• Organize logistics for a variety of team offsites and events.
• Set up and maintain websites for the team to include information such as key contacts, meeting minutes/schedules, teams, projects etc.
• Liaise with external clients in setting up meetings and organizing workshops.

Minimum qualifications

• BA/BS degree or equivalent practical experience.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience as a PA to a team or senior manager, involving calendar management, event planning, leading projects, travel scheduling and booking, budgeting and minuting meetings.
• Strong organizational skills with an attention to detail and a proven ability to handle multiple priorities.
• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills.

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Job Details
Our relationships with partners should run like well-oiled machines, and Google's Publisher & Distribution Solutions ensures partners are empowered to grow their businesses by making the most of Google's expanding suite of products. Technical Account Managers are advertising and technology consultants who serve as liaisons between our top partners and Google's Engineering and Sales teams. You are a Google product expert who can nurture and deepen the partner relationship through successful multi-product integrations, providing day-to-day support with your extensive expertise in AdSense, AdMob, DoubleClick, Chrome and other Google products.
 
You flawlessly lead implementations and integrations for a variety of our product lines during the pre-sales and post-sales process. You provide end-to-end support to our publisher partners, from deployment to ongoing support of daily business. As the technical expert, you work closely with the partner sales teams to monitor our products' performance for top clients, develop tools that address their technological and business needs and identify opportunities to grow Google's partner business.
 
Responsibilities

• Help partners resolve day-to-day challenges by delivering innovative and scalable solutions. Ensure the prompt and proper resolution of any technical challenges.
• Evangelize new product features and assist clients in the adoption of new products via upgrades and migrations to help them build long-term success. Provide documentation and technical guidance to ensure the technical success of clients’ integrations.
• Improve product offerings by providing client feedback on features to Google product managers and engineers.
• Perform implementation reviews, and analyze and optimize clients’ product mix to ensure their success.

Minimum qualifications

• BA/BS degree in software engineering or related field or equivalent practical experience.

Preferred qualifications

• Strong troubleshooting skills in common web technologies, such as XML, HTML and HTML5, JavaScript, Flash.
• Good scripting language knowledge such as Bash, Python, PHP.
• Collaboration skills for working across geographically dispersed functions.
• Fluency in French and English and at least one another African language.