Job Requisition ID #

24WD82345

Position Overview
We are looking to hire a Chief of Staff for our VP of Global Emerging Business. This role is a trusted advisor to the leader and will focus on strategy, operational efficiency, and organizational alignment. This includes managing and driving the engagement model for leadership staff to ensure rapid decision making, coordinated execution, and visibility to key initiatives within the team all while incorporating the Autodesk culture.

Candidates need to demonstrate a successful history of challenging the status quo, driving team collaboration across different business units, developing strategy and realization plans, meeting facilitation, and staff development. This is an individual contributor role at this point.

• Manage the organization's strategic roadmap by tracking all initiatives and verifying execution and updating dashboards as needed. May confer with leadership in determining key performance indicators, scope and structure of the process
• Create, plan, and facilitate staff meetings to accomplish clear and effective decision making, tracking and reporting on follow-up actions required. May create strategic messaging both written & spoken to provide an overall view across teams to help collaboration across the organization
• Serve as a trusted advisor to elevate and amplify the Leader's capacity, capability, and effectiveness. The Chief of Staff will act as a sounding board, serve as liaison or proxy when needed, and may manage executive communications for the leader being supported
• Coordinate opportunities for efficiency by conducting research, benchmarking & analytics, propose new systems/processes to streamline as needed, and manage budgets
• Drive strategic projects across the business in partnership with Corporate
• Develop approaches to drive effective use of sales processes, tools and methodologies across global teams
• Well-practiced in holding discovery sessions and creating an action plan from the results

• Relevant experience of 5+ years as CoS, sales strategy and excellence or program management
• Demonstrated ability to build and maintain relationships across multiple business units and functions
• The person will also require having a high degree of influencing skills to be able to succeed. Ability to work in a matrix structure and navigate networks is essential
• Manage diverse and complex tasks: Works on issues of diverse scope where analysis of situation requires evaluation of a variety of factors, blending strategic policies with an understanding of current business trends
• Demonstrated ability to act as an advisor to peers on topics of employee engagement, strategy development, operational efficiency, and global standards
• Knowledge and experience with key sales functions, sales proposals, and presentations, with attention to detail
• Ability and willingness to Travel (likely range of 20% - 30%)