Role Title: Chief of Staff – Executive Business Manager
Location: Austin, TX
Duration: 12+ months contract
The Role
The Chief of Staff is the chief operating officer for the global Server Business Unit. In this “hands-on” role, you will manage daily operations and serve as a focal point for communication and interaction within the management team. Finally, the Chief of Staff acts as a trusted advisor to the Sr. Director and her staff.
The Person
The successful candidate is a proactive and execution focused leader! She/he is skilled in developing and sustaining positive interpersonal relationships, with a consistent track record of influencing in a matrixed environment. The Chief of Staff is creative and innovative in crafting solutions; is results driven with the ability to make decisions quickly.
Key Responsibilities
- Drive Server governance model (weekly staff and operational meetings); maintain a calendar of events (internal, customer, partner); prepare presentations for key internal executive, customer meetings, and events
- Effectively work with each function across the Server staff for overall strategic planning, program planning and management to support strategic goals
- Coordinate and manage key segment and corporate deliverables on behalf of the Server business unit
- Effectively work across functional teams for overall strategic planning, program planning and management to support strategic goals
- Drive and enable a culture of innovation
- Develop effective partnerships and work collaboratively with business partners (HR, Fin, Legal, etc.)
- In partnership with Communications and HR, develop and manage internal and external communications
- Workforce capacity and capability development including workforce planning, resource management, skill gap analysis and skill inventory, and technical development
Knowledge, Skills And Experience
- Demonstrated technical team/project and program leadership success;
- Recent and thorough experience in the hi-tech industry; experience in the PC industry is highly desirable;
- Proactive and execution focused;
- Skilled in developing and sustaining positive interpersonal relationships;
- A track record of creativity and innovation in solutions;
- Excellent communication skills both verbal and written;
- Action and results-orientation with the ability to make decisions quickly;
- High level of proficiency in MS office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), and in data manipulation, analysis and presentation.
- Undergraduate degree required, MBA preferred