Business Manager, Vice President - Aladdin

BlackRock•New York, NY

11d•$137,500 - $194,000•Hybrid

About The Position

BlackRock is seeking a Vice President, Business Manager for the Aladdin COO office. Aladdin is BlackRock’s technology platform, supporting investment and operational workflows for BlackRock and external clients. The Business Management team drives operational discipline, financial rigor, and transparency across Aladdin’s global footprint, while partnering with leadership to execute strategic priorities. This position reports directly to the Head of Financial and Operational Excellence for Aladdin. The role leads workforce-centric processes, including headcount planning, recruiting strategy, internal mobility, and resource allocation. It helps shape team structures, reporting lines, talent allocation, and location strategy using data, operational insight, and long-term business needs. The position works with senior leaders and stakeholders across a distributed organization, translating analysis into recommendations and decisions and carrying those decisions through to execution. The successful candidate will support workforce planning and talent processes, improve organizational design and operating coherence, act as the COO’s primary conduit to Talent Acquisition, strengthen core people processes and workforce data, and connect workforce decisions to financial planning and execution. The role also drives process improvements, automation, transparency, and alignment across business, engineering, product, and COO teams.

Requirements

At least 7 years of relevant experience across COO, business management, HR, talent acquisition, or financial planning and analysis roles.
Demonstrated ownership of workforce planning, hiring strategy, or operational execution in a complex organization.
Undergraduate degree required.
Strong business acumen, including the ability to connect workforce decisions to budget outcomes, understand cost drivers, and manage growth, efficiency, and capacity trade-offs.
Demonstrated interest in shaping modern talent models and building scalable people processes.
Ability to operate in complex, distributed environments, drive alignment across teams, navigate ambiguity, and ensure execution without direct ownership of all stakeholders.
Clear and effective communication skills, including the ability to distill complex topics into actionable insights and influence senior stakeholders; skill in professional presentations and business proposals and in articulating 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.
Analytical ability and experience working with large, imperfect datasets to generate insights and drive decisions.
High ownership and follow-through, with the ability to move from problem identification to implemented solutions in a multi-stakeholder environment.

Nice To Haves

MBA or another advanced degree.
Experience working in or supporting large-scale technology or platform organizations, particularly in engineering or product environments.
Familiarity with workforce systems such as Workday and data visualization tools such as Power BI, especially for improving data quality, reporting, and transparency.
Experience with financial systems or enterprise planning tools such as TM1, SAP, or Cognos, and a working understanding of how financial processes connect to operational decision-making.
Exposure to location strategy, including evaluating trade-offs across cost, capability, and scale.
Experience driving process automation or tooling improvements, including using 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 visibility into headcount, location, and organizational structure.
Partner with cross-functional leaders to improve long-term organizational design and operating coherence, including team structures, role and functional evolution, and domain clarity.
Serve as the Aladdin COO’s subject matter expert and primary conduit to Talent Acquisition to shape and execute hiring strategies, align priorities, timelines, and candidate profiles, and improve hiring outcomes.
Oversee and improve people processes, including early careers, immigration, internal mobility, and workforce data management, ensuring strong controls, data integrity, and consistent adoption of systems and standards.
Translate workforce, financial, and resource data into decision-oriented insights; align stakeholders, track progress, and ensure follow-through.
Manage planning, forecasting, and in-year execution for workforce-related investments in partnership with Business Management peers and FP&A; connect hiring and organizational decisions to budget outcomes and surface risks and trade-offs.
Build partnerships across business, engineering, product, and COO teams to understand priorities, challenge assumptions, and align on operational and organizational decisions.
Drive process improvements, introduce automation, and improve stakeholder transparency, including through effective use of AI.