Senior Operations Manager, Corporate Affairs
About The Position
The Senior Manager, Corporate Affairs Operations serves as chief of staff to the Senior Vice President (SVP), Corporate Affairs, providing strategic, operational, and administrative leadership across the Corporate Affairs function. This role ensures the SVP’s priorities are executed efficiently and effectively, managing budgets, special projects, executive briefing materials, and high‑quality presentations The Senior Manager is a trusted advisor, problem solver, and integrator—responsible for driving operational excellence, improving internal processes, and enabling the SVP to focus on strategic engagement and external leadership. The ideal candidate is highly organized, detail-oriented, and thrives in a fast-paced environment.
Requirements
- Bachelors degree Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Finance
- Minimum 7 years of experience in operations, project management, or corporate affairs roles
- Exceptional organizational and analytical skills with ability to manage multiple priorities.
- Demonstrated experience supporting senior executives in a chief of staff, operations, or strategic management role.
- Strong experience managing budgets, planning, and operational processes.
- Proven ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast‑paced, high‑visibility environment
- Motivated self-starter, goal-oriented, and strong problem-solving and analytical abilities
- Proven ability to build relationships at all levels of an organization and can collaborate across multiple functions
- Excellent proficiency with Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook), building dashboards
- Detailed oriented, has strong business and financial acumen, and a sound understanding of business concepts
- Exceptional executive communication skills
- Ability to plan and manage high impact initiatives from concept through completion
- Ability to develp high impact executive materials, briefings, talking points, for SVP corp affairs engagement
- Strong organization skills, ability to coordinate multiple tasks and deliverables, manage competing priorities, and drive execution in a fast paced environment
- This position is an office-based role with some travel and visits to other RWE Americas office and field locations
- Must be able to sit, walk, or stand for long durations of time
Nice To Haves
- Advanced degree (Business Administration, Public Policy) a plus
Responsibilities
- Budget Management: Manage planning, tracking, and monitoring departmental budgets by developing forecasts, monitoring spending, and analyzing variances to ensure effective use of resources, financial transparency, and adherence to organizational controls
- Strategic Support: Serve as a strategic advisor to the SVP and lead special initiatives by prioritizing work, managing competing demands, and leading special projects from planning through execution, including meeting facilitation and follow up. This will enable the SVP to focus on high impact priorities and ensure initiatives are executed efficiently and effectively
- Reporting & Communication: Deliver clear, executive level reporting and communications, including preparing concise reports, presentations, and status updates that track progress, risks, and decisions to provide leadership with timely, accurate information needed for decision making and oversight
- Operational Excellence: Ensure effective day to day operations and cross functional execution. Coordinate across teams, track deadlines and deliverables, allocate resources, and implement process improvements to drive alignment, improve efficiency, and ensure consistent delivery of organizational priorities
- Leadership Coordination: Coordinate leadership activities and stakeholder engagement. Act as a liaison between the SVP and internal and external stakeholders, managing communications and alignment to ensure cohesive leadership operations and clear, consistent execution of leadership priorities
Benefits
- Medical
- Dental
- Vision
- Life Insurance
- Short-Term Disability
- Long-Term Disability
- 401(k) match
- Flexible Spending Accounts
- EAP
- Education Assistance
- Parental Leave
- Paid time off
- Holidays
- Eligible employees also participate in short-term incentives, in addition to salary.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Number of Employees
5,001-10,000 employees
