Business Manager, Vice President - Aladdin

BlackRock • New York, NY

4d • Hybrid

About The Position

BlackRock is one of the world’s preeminent asset management firms and a world-class provider of global investment management, risk management and advisory services. Aladdin is the firm’s investment and operating technology platform and is offered to external clients. Within the Aladdin COO office, the Business Management team is responsible for driving operational discipline, financial rigor, and aligned transparency across our global footprint. The team ensures effective execution of core processes—including workforce planning, budget oversight, and governance—while also partnering with leadership to operationalize and scale strategic business priorities. We are seeking a Vice President, Business Manager, who will report directly to the head of Business Management. This individual will oversee a range of people-focused processes, including headcount planning, recruiting strategies, mobility initiatives, and resource optimization, ensuring strong controls and alignment with business priorities. In parallel, this role will partner closely with business-wide leaders to bring greater coherence to how Aladdin designs and deploys its workforce. This includes contributing to and driving forward decisions on team structures, reporting lines, talent deployment, and location strategy – grounded in data, operational insight, and a clear understanding of long-term business needs. This role provides significant exposure to Aladdin’s global operations and senior leadership. The ideal candidate combines strong analytical thinking with sound judgment, translating data into recommendations and driving decisions through to execution. They will operate as a trusted partner to diverse stakeholders—helping shape direction, challenging assumptions where needed, and driving alignment across teams while operating at scale. Success requires the ability to manage competing priorities, influence across functions, and deliver outcomes that support operational improvement and disciplined financial management.

Requirements

• 7+ years of relevant experience across COO, business management, HR, talent acquisition, or financial planning & analysis roles, with demonstrated ownership of workforce planning, hiring strategy or operational execution in a complex org
• Undergraduate degree required, with an MBA or advanced degree desirable.
• Strong business and financial acumen, with the ability to connect workforce decisions to budget outcomes, understand cost drivers, and manage trade-offs across growth, efficiency, and capacity
• Highly analytical, with experience working across large, imperfect datasets to generate clear insights and drive decisions; advanced Excel/data skills expected, with the ability to build and evolve practical tooling as needed
• Proven ability to operate in complex, distributed environments—driving alignment across teams, navigating ambiguity, and ensuring consistent execution without direct ownership of all stakeholders
• Clear and effective communicator, able to distill complex topics into actionable insights and influence senior stakeholders; skilled in professional presentations and business proposals while clearly articulated future deliverables and goals
• Strong judgment and problem-solving ability, with a track record of identifying inefficiencies, simplifying processes, and improving operational outcomes at scale
• High ownership mindset with a focus on follow-through—able to move from problem identification to implemented solutions in a multi-stakeholder environment

Nice To Haves

• Experience working in or supporting large-scale technology or platform organizations, particularly within engineering or product environments
• Familiarity with workforce systems (e.g., Workday) and data visualization tools (e.g., Power BI), with a focus on improving data quality, reporting, and transparency
• Experience with financial systems or enterprise planning tools (e.g., TM1, SAP, Cognos), and a working understanding of how financial processes connect to operational decision-making
• Exposure to organizational design, workforce strategy, or location strategy work, including evaluating trade-offs across cost, capability, and scale
• Experience driving process automation or tooling improvements, including leveraging AI or workflow tools to reduce manual effort and improve consistency

Responsibilities

• Support workforce planning, talent acquisition and day-to-day talent management across Aladdin, translating business priorities into hiring, mobility, and resource allocation operations while maintaining accurate, real-time visibility into headcount, location, and organizational shape.
• Serve as Aladdin’s subject matter expert and primary conduit to Talent Acquisition to shape and execute hiring strategies, ensuring alignment on priorities, timelines, and candidate profiles while improving consistency and outcomes across the hiring lifecycle.
• Oversee and continuously improve core people processes—including within early careers, immigration, internal mobility, and workforce data management—ensuring strong controls, high data integrity, and consistent adoption of systems and standards across teams.
• Partner with cross-functional leaders to improve long-term organizational design and operating coherence, including team structures, role/functional evolution, and domain clarity, while reinforcing consistent approaches across a highly distributed environment.
• Translate workforce and financial data into clear, decision-oriented insights, and drive those decisions through to execution by aligning stakeholders, tracking progress, and ensuring follow-through in a complex, multi-stakeholder environment
• Ensure financial discipline across workforce-related investments by managing planning, forecasting, and in-year execution in partnership with Business Management peers + FP&A, connecting hiring and organizational decisions to budget outcomes and surfacing risks and trade-offs early.
• Build strong partnerships across business, engineering, product, and COO teams to understand priorities, challenge assumptions where appropriate, and drive alignment on key operational and organizational decisions.
• Drive process improvements, introduce automation, and enhance transparency for stakeholders, focusing on achieving desired outcomes efficiently and being a student of AI.

Benefits

• employees are eligible for an annual discretionary bonus, and benefits including healthcare, leave benefits, and retirement benefits
• strong retirement plan
• tuition reimbursement
• comprehensive healthcare
• support for working parents
• Flexible Time Off (FTO)

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees