Chief of Staff - US Remote

Chief Of Staff To The Executive Managing Director, North America Partner Growth

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NTT DATA is seeking a highly motivated, senior operator to serve as Chief of Staff to the Executive Managing Director, North America Partner Growth. This high-visibility role provides operating leverage to the Executive Managing Director by driving leadership cadence, governance, executive readiness, decision follow-through, and cross-tower alignment across the North America Partner Growth operating model.

The successful candidate will bring a strong combination of business operations, executive communications, program management, stakeholder orchestration, and organizational effectiveness experience. This individual will help ensure priorities are clear, decisions are documented, actions are tracked, and the work of Partner Sales, Partner Execution & Insights, and Strategy & Solutioning stays connected without duplicating the accountable work of those towers.

This role requires exceptional judgment, executive presence, operational discipline, and the ability to synthesize complex inputs into clear priorities, decisions, communications, and follow-through mechanisms for senior leadership.

Job Responsibilities Include:

Leadership Operating Cadence & Governance

• Own and manage the operating cadence for the Executive Managing Director, North America Partner Growth, including leadership meetings, decision forums, operating reviews, and executive follow-up.
• Ensure meetings are purpose-built, materials are decision-ready, actions are captured, and owners are accountable for timely follow-through.
• Maintain governance mechanisms that create visibility, reduce duplication, and reinforce clear ownership across the Partner Growth operating model.

Cross-Tower Alignment & Decision Support

• Create an integrated view of priorities, risks, dependencies, and decisions across Partner Sales, Partner Execution & Insights, and Strategy & Solutioning.
• Identify handoff gaps, overlap, escalation needs, and decision points that require Executive Managing Director attention.
• Support leadership alignment by synthesizing inputs from tower leaders into clear options, recommendations, and tradeoffs.

Executive Readiness & Communications

• Prepare the Executive Managing Director, North America Partner Growth for executive meetings, partner discussions, governance forums, and internal leadership engagements.
• Develop concise briefing materials, talking points, decision summaries, and communications that clearly convey priorities, progress, risks, and asks.
• Help translate Partner Growth priorities into clear narratives for senior leadership, Global stakeholders, BU leaders, and strategic partners.

Strategic Priority Tracking & Issue Escalation

• Track the Executive Managing Director's highest-priority initiatives across the Partner Growth organization and maintain visibility into status, owners, blockers, and next decisions required.
• Proactively surface risks, misalignment, resource constraints, and execution gaps that could slow progress or create confusion across towers.
• Drive follow-through on leadership commitments while ensuring accountable tower owners retain responsibility for execution, insights, sales activation, strategy, and solutioning deliverables.

Success Measures

• The Executive Managing Director, North America Partner Growth has a clear, current view of organizational priorities, risks, dependencies, and decisions required.
• Leadership meetings and governance forums are disciplined, decision-oriented, and tied to accountable follow-through.
• Partner Sales, Partner Execution & Insights, and Strategy & Solutioning operate with clearer handoffs, fewer overlaps, and stronger cross-tower alignment.
• Executive communications and briefing materials are concise, accurate, and aligned to the Partner Growth narrative.
• Escalations, blockers, and decision points are surfaced early and resolved efficiently.
• The Chief of Staff increases operating leverage for the Executive Managing Director without duplicating tower-level ownership or deliverables.

Basic Qualifications:

• 15+ years of experience in business operations, program management, consulting, chief of staff, alliances, technology services, or related leadership roles.
• Proven ability to operate effectively with senior executives in complex, matrixed organizations.
• Strong executive communications skills, including briefing development, meeting preparation, decision summaries, and leadership messaging.
• Demonstrated ability to build operating cadence, governance mechanisms, action tracking, and escalation processes.
• Ability to synthesize complex inputs into clear priorities, risks, options, and recommendations.
• Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence across sales, execution, insights, strategy, solutioning, marketing, finance, delivery, and partner teams.