Chief of Staff - Umhlanga at Ignition Group

Description

The Chief of Staff is responsible for ensuring the efficient day to day operational functioning of the office of the Group Chief Executive Officer (CEO). The role requires engagement with senior executive leadership, facilitating and driving strategic initiatives and facilitating stakeholder engagement. The Chief of Staff is also responsible for programme management of all key initiatives of the CEO office.The Chief of Staff will use strong leadership and problem-solving skills to assist with the daily operation of an organization.

Key roles and responsibilities:

• Working with our Group CEO, and Executive Leadership team to help drive and execute the company’s strategy and work on high-level strategic projects assigned bythe CEO.
• Participates and leads programme management of CEO initiatives, which involves duties on a weekly, monthly, and quarterly basis.
• Providing department leaders with recommendations and consultation to improve teamwork.
• Planning, coordinating and keeping contents of a meeting focused.
• Determining key performance indicators and how to measure team performance.
• Providing tactical support to implement ideas.
• Working with leadership to deliver, monitor and communicate progress towards goals.
• Responding to inquiries on behalf of the Chief Executive.
• Overseeing strategic business initiatives from ideation to implementation.
• Identifying and helping solve core problems or opportunities within business processes.
• Providing Chief Executive and other senior leaders with insight and analysis on the company’s operations.
• Assessing risk when business decisions are made.
• Providing support and oversight for special projects and initiatives.
• Planning, coordinating and leading meetings and workshops.
• Identifying and providing recommendations on improvements across the organisation.
• Look externally and internally to drive forward innovation ideas that will support driving business profitability.

Requirements

• General knowledge, skills and attributes:
•  Exceptional quantitative, analytical and conceptual problem-solving skills combined with outstanding business acumen.
•  Broad functional knowledge, including but not limited to strategy, business development, product development, project management, human resources, marketing and sales, etc.
•  Excellent interpersonal, engagement and communication skills.
•  Entrepreneurial and results-driven achiever.
•  Ability to work effectively with people at all levels in an organization.
•  Ability to influence decision making at executive leadership level.
•  Excellent presentation skills.
•  Fluent in change management and continuous improvement methods, such as Six Sigma or Lean.

Qualifications and certifications:

•  Relevant Master’s degree (e.g. MBA).

Work experience:

•  Strong work experience leading projects, teams or organisations.
•  Market research experience a plus.
•  Proven track record of effectively interacting with executive management.
•  Experience with project management methods like Scrum or Agile.