Chief of Staff - Exclusive
EMEA Recruitment ·www.emearecruitment.com
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EMEA Recruitment is partnering with a global organization to hire a Chief of Staff to play a key role as the business experiences significant transformation.
As Chief of Staff, you’ll turn strategic priorities into disciplined execution across the Executive Committee (EXCO), accelerating decision-making and protecting the CEO’s time and focus during a major business repositioning.
Success in this role will involve the execution of CEO-sponsored projects, tracking strategic priorities transparently with proactive escalation, and delivering CEO external and internal communications consistently sharp and on-message.
Responsibilities of Chief of Staff:
Experience required:
EMEA Recruitment is committed to promoting Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in the workplace. We act as a neutral third party in the recruitment process, basing our candidate searches on skills and experience. We welcome all applications regardless of age, gender, sex, relationship status, disability, race, religion/beliefs, or sexual orientation.
As Chief of Staff, you’ll turn strategic priorities into disciplined execution across the Executive Committee (EXCO), accelerating decision-making and protecting the CEO’s time and focus during a major business repositioning.
Success in this role will involve the execution of CEO-sponsored projects, tracking strategic priorities transparently with proactive escalation, and delivering CEO external and internal communications consistently sharp and on-message.
Responsibilities of Chief of Staff:
- Convert the CEO agenda into clear workstreams, owners, milestones and KPIs; drive delivery of cross-functional priorities
- Own the CEO operating cadence: EXCO rhythm, business reviews, action tracking, decision follow-through
- Lead quarterly EXCO offsites end-to-end (objectives, agenda, pre-reads, decision moments, outcomes, post-offsite execution)
- Prepare the CEO for key external moments (board/investors, clients/partners, conferences, regulators, media): briefs, talking points, decision asks, follow-ups
- Shape CEO internal communications (townhalls/all-hands/leadership sessions) with Comms and People leadership
- Support M&A / strategic transactions (diligence coordination, deal memos, integration planning)
- Lead CEO-sponsored special projects (strategy reviews, new models, restructures, partnerships)
Experience required:
- 5–8 years’ experience across top-tier strategy consulting, investment banking or private equity, plus operational leadership in growth/transformation
- Strong commercial and financial judgement (models, deal structures, pipeline, KPI dashboards)
- Board-level credibility, discretion and high-trust stakeholder management
- Excellent written English; working French is an advantage
- High-agency operator - structured, decisive, comfortable with ambiguity, able to deliver without formal authority
- Willingness to travel internationally
EMEA Recruitment is committed to promoting Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in the workplace. We act as a neutral third party in the recruitment process, basing our candidate searches on skills and experience. We welcome all applications regardless of age, gender, sex, relationship status, disability, race, religion/beliefs, or sexual orientation.
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The Chief of Staff - Exclusive role with EMEA Recruitment is based in Amsterdam, NL.
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