Manager, Partner Development

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP • New York, NY

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About The Position

The Manager, Partner Development supports the firm’s equity and income partner life cycle by providing operational, analytical and coordination support across partner committees, compensation planning, and partner review processes. This role serves as a key point person for managing complex, confidential partner matters and will work closely with Partner Development leadership and cross-functional stakeholders. This position is responsible for managing key partner life cycle logistics such as onboarding and offboarding-related activities; coordinating partner committee activities; producing executive level compensation analytics and summaries; and supporting partner reviews and year-end compensation planning.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
• Minimum of 5 years of relevant experience
• Significant experience supporting partner, executive, or senior leadership populations in a professional services environment
• Excellent interpersonal, written & verbal communication skills
• Strong analytical skills with experience creating dashboards, reports, and executive-level summaries
• Demonstrated ability to manage complex, confidential and bespoke processes with accuracy and discretion
• Strong organizational skills, attention to detail and ability to prioritize and balance competing demands and manage multiple projects concurrently, meeting deadlines in a fast-paced professional environment
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a highly competitive and demanding environment
• Proficiency in MS Office Suite
• Must be flexible and willing to work outside of normal business hours

Responsibilities

• Coordinate, schedule, and manage meetings for committees and key partners, including calendar management, agenda preparation, logistics and follow up
• Provide action tracking and project management including preparing and distributing meeting recap documentation to ensure timely execution of committee decisions
• Generate monthly hours report and other recurring analytics for leadership review
• Provide analytical expertise to support compensation, reviews, and planning initiatives
• Design and maintain dashboards and spreadsheets to support review meetings, compensation planning, and other ad hoc reporting
• Create templates to present compensation metrics as executive summaries for practice leaders and directors
• Partner with junior team member on year-end compensation planning including global communications to partners, payroll processing activities and managing data validation for Workday uploads
• Perform regular audits and data checks to ensure accurate documentation, system updates and timely execution
• Conduct and coordinate first-year income partner reviews
• Manage partner offboarding logistics ensuring coordination with HR, Finance, Payroll, IT, and other stakeholders
• Coordinate and help with the global new partner orientation planning inclusive of operational logistics around AV and room set-up, partnering with conference services and the Events team, communications to Partners, Executive Leadership, and Firm leadership
• Organize agenda and presentations to execute in a timely manner and send out all calendar holds
• Perform other duties as assigned

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager