Chief of Staff to the Advisory Managing Partner (Senior Director)

Chief Of Staff To The Advisory Managing Partner

Grant Thornton is seeking a Chief of Staff to the Advisory Managing Partner to join the team. This is a Senior Director level position. Approved office locations can be found below.

About the Role

We're seeking a Chief of Staff to the Advisory Managing Partner (MP), who will act as a strategic operator, growth enabler, force multiplier, and trusted partner to the Advisory Leadership Team. You'll help drive alignment across our rapidly scaling organization, ensuring Advisory executes with excellence on our short-term and long-term objectives, collaborates seamlessly with partners across the other lines of business and enterprise functions, and stays focused on what matters most as we intentionally build our future together.

This is a visible and high-impact role that blends strategy, operations, and execution enablement. You'll refine and orchestrate the operating cadence of the Advisory governing structure, streamline decision-making, and strengthen alignment across key partner functions. Your impact will be from strategy through execution.

In this role, you will provide :

• Strategic Partnership : Help drive clarity, alignment, and follow-through on key priorities across the Advisory Leadership Team, working closely with the Advisory Managing Partner (MP) and Advisory Operations / Transformation Leader; serve as the MP's proxy in select settings.
• Global Platform Expansion : Play a critical role in driving and supporting the global Advisory leadership strategy, country-by-country strategy adoption, as other GT firms come onto the platform.
• Organizational Operations : Design and run the operating cadence - staff meetings, MP organized PMD forums, solution reviews, quarterly planning, PMD calls / meetings, ALT meetings with client ready deliverables etc. This includes proactively recommending and planning the leadership meetings and strategic events, overseeing agenda development, content creation, and end-to-end logistics to ensure productive and outcome-driven discussions.
• Connection with One Firm : Communicate and interact credibly with executive leadership, including the firmwide CEO, COO, P&C, and Service Line Leaders and their Chiefs of Staff to drive aligned outcomes; interact with the investors as needed.
• Cross-Functional Execution : Partner closely with our enterprise (firmwide) functions to ensure priorities and initiatives represent the growing needs of the Advisory business and are scoped, resourced, and progressing against key milestones.
• Decision Support : Prepare briefing materials, synthesize sales, finance, and HR data, and surface insights to support fast and effective decision-making.
• Communications : Draft and drive internal communications and narratives that keep teams aligned and inspired to achieve our plan, including updates to the Executive Committee and Board.
• Leadership Enablement : Enable the Advisory MP to scale impact by managing bandwidth, anticipating organizational needs, and driving leadership focus on top priorities. Work with Advisory Leadership to define and execute strategic priorities, driving accountability across key initiatives with partners and senior leaders.
• Special Projects : Lead critical cross-functional initiatives and stand up new workstreams to accelerate impact, operational maturity, and organizational health.
• Metrics : Analyze overall Advisory and practice-level KPIs to deliver insights and recommendations that inform strategic and operational decisions, collaborating closely with enablement teams including Finance and People & Culture.

What we are looking for :

The base salary range for this position in the firm's Chicago, IL, Downers Grove, IL, Denver, CO, Reno, NV, Cleveland, OH and Baltimore, MD offices only is between $187,500 and $312,500 per year.

The base salary range for this position in the firm's Washington, DC, Bellevue, WA, Los Angeles, CA, Newport Beach, CA San Diego, CA, Boston, MA, Iselin, NJ and New York, NY offices only is between $202,500 and $337,500 per year.

The base salary range for this position in the firm's San Francisco, CA and San Jose, CA offices only is between $215,600 and $359,400 per year.