Chief of Staff - Corporate Legal

HP•Houston, TX

31d

About The Position

Chief of Staff - Corporate Legal Description - High Level Role Description: The HP Legal Corporate organization is seeking a Chief of Staff who will directly report to the Senior Vice President and Deputy General Counsel, Corporate. The Chief of Staff is an enterprise-first, solutions-oriented partner who plays a crucial role by supporting the planning and execution of our organizational and Legal strategies, priorities and key initiatives. As a trusted partner to senior leadership on a wide range of matters, they drive operational excellence, collaboration and alignment. As a solutions-oriented self-starter, the ideal candidate thrives in ambiguity and is organized, detail-oriented and passionate about developing and implementing processes to strengthen capabilities to support the Corporate Legal organization. If this sounds like you, please read on!

Requirements

Typically 10+ years total experience in strategy, planning, legal, operations, finance, or related functional area.
Advanced university degree preferred (e.g., MBA) or 5+ years of experience in a Corporate Legal department or supporting public company corporate governance.
Excellent analytical thinking, technical analysis, and data manipulation skills.
Ability to leverage new analytical techniques to develop creative approaches and insights.
Superior business acumen and technical knowledge within area of responsibility.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including negotiation and influence skills.
Excellent project management skills, including leading large, cross-functional initiatives that impact the organization.
Strong relationship management skills, including partnering and consulting.
Strong leadership skills, including team building, conflict resolution, and management.
Ability to lead multiple, large, time sensitive projects or work streams.
Ability to identify emerging trends from market and industry data and make clear and compelling business planning recommendations.
Creative and innovative thinker, willing to challenge the status quo.
Leads efforts to develop innovative business models and analyses to support multiple, large projects.
Manages proactive business planning activities and priority projects.
Decision-making implications extend to multiple functions and/or businesses and impact the business directly.
Designs and directs various approaches to address broad planning needs within the most complex business functions.
Recognized as an expert for developing and managing follow- through of complex, comprehensive business plans.
Develops new, creative approaches to improving the business planning cycle.

Responsibilities

Manages relationships with key stakeholders.
Comfortable communicating with and interacting cross-functionally at all levels, both internally and externally, and understands how to navigate a complex, matrixed organization.
Effectively carries out day-to-day action items for senior leadership as assigned to increase speed of execution, including working on project coordination and legal business administration.
Oversees organization meetings including drafting/owning meeting agendas (weekly leadership team, AEM, others) and leading meetings as needed.
Assists with cross-team dynamics by identifying and helping to resolve any cross-team matters of concern with the goal of the team working in harmony with all the other Legal teams.
Responsible for project management and assessments including risk, cost, and work required to achieve such, followed by facilitation and oversight.
Helps support the team to maintain excellence in Integrity and Compliance.
Upholds team and legal priorities, fostering a positive and cohesive work environment that helps to champion HP culture and values.
Prepares internal and external communications, drafting speeches, presentations and other materials, ensuring consistent messaging from the organization.
Helps to ensure that decisions made by the Leadership team are effectively carried out throughout the organization, tracking progress, and resolving any obstacles.
Provides data analysis and metrics of the team’s productivity to the executive leadership team, and suggest strategic initiatives to improve workflow, teamwork, and budget management.
Establishes the metrics required to measure business performance, and recommends the go-forward strategy to address performance gaps
Drives coordination of all aspects of priority projects and makes recommendations for final team decisions.
Develop business plans and proactively identify new opportunities as partners with client business leaders.
Develops and drives comprehensive business plan recommendations, based on analysis, emerging trends, and experience.
Identifies or develops cutting- edge analytical tools, models, and methods for making key business decisions.
Counsels business leaders, recommends approaches for executing high-level strategies and develops creative solutions.
Performs other duties and involvement in special projects as assigned.
Partners closely with the Executive Assistant as the connective tissue of the executive office, aligning strategic priorities with day-to-day execution, coordinating workflows, leadership cadence, communications, and follow-through to maximize executive effectiveness.