Job Description

This highly visible and critical enabling role to the Head of Strategic Growth Markets will be based in Abu Dhabi. The newly created role will report to the Head of Business Management for Strategic Growth Markets (SGM) and will mainly support business management and strategy execution for SGM (Middle East & North Africa, Latin America and Nordics). The Chief of Staff (COS) function plays a critical role in the realization of SGM strategy and achieving its desired effectiveness, finance objectives while managing all business aspects of the region.

Business Management:

• Timely production of management reporting and insights & dashboards
• Pipeline reporting and coordination between sales and executives to monitor progress of key opportunities
• Active oversight and enhancement of existing MI reporting to ensure information is relevant and processes are streamlined
• Provides direction and support to managers in developing their goals, programs and specific responsibilities in support of broader organizational goals; builds and leads a process to measure and evaluate progress against goals
• Working close to Management to develop the regional goals and track performance and execution progress including for the mid-year and year-end performance-measurement process
• Develop strong working relationships with other corporate groups (e.g. Strategy, Finance, CAO) to drive common priorities
• Supports & produces materials for governance and committee processes, operating policies and procedures to improve effectiveness, mitigate risk and accelerate speed of decision-making; pro-actively identifies issues, engages in collaborative problem-solving

• Shape and support development of the business strategy, including periodic reviews for the region and align with global strategy
• Engages in business level strategic planning, aligning group goals to overall strategy and goals of State Street
• Create / reinforce the linkage between the global and regional strategies
• Works closely with global strategy team to track & execute strategic initiatives
• Proactively brings industry and business insights to help management shape strategy, and to provide an independent view / challenge to these plans
• Provides targeted ad-hoc support e.g., strategy off-sites, Investor Relations presentations, Board strategy materials etc.