Location: Hamburg
Are you a strategic thinker with a passion for turning vision into action? Do you thrive in fast-paced environments, influencing at the highest levels while ensuring cross-functional alignment? FREENOW is looking for a Chief of Staff to the CEO to be a critical partner in driving business success and organisational excellence.
YOUR DAILY ADVENTURES WILL INCLUDE:
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Strategic Partnership: Act as a trusted sounding board and strategic advisor to the CEO - offering counsel, generating ideas, and ensuring their time is spent on the highest-impact priorities.
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Drive Strategic Alignment: Translate the CEO’s vision into actionable, cross-functional plans that align with business goals.
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Program & Initiative Management: Drive a select portfolio of high-priority, multi-market, cross-functional initiatives directly tied to the CEO’s agenda. Ensure strategic alignment, executive-level coordination, and sustained momentum, stepping in as needed to navigate complexity and remove barriers to execution.
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Executive Communication: Create board-level materials, CEO messaging, and internal updates that support strong decision-making and company alignment.
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Stakeholder Management: Serve as the connective tissue between the CEO and internal stakeholders, ensuring transparency and consistency across leadership.
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Decision Enablement: Analyse business data, identify key risks and opportunities, and support timely, informed executive decisions.
- Communication Impact:
- Act as a trusted voice for internal messaging from the CEO
- Manage confidential, high-stakes communications with clarity and diplomacy
- Align stakeholders across departments and seniority levels around complex and sensitive topics.
- Innovation & Agility:
- Continuously challenge the status quo and drive operational improvement
- Apply critical thinking and creative problem-solving in a fast-moving environment
- Embed agile practices into strategy execution and project delivery.
TO BE SUCCESSFUL IN THIS ROLE:
- Master’s degree, ideally in Business Administration or a related field.
- 7+ years in management consulting, strategic planning, corporate development, or executive operations.
- Strong business acumen and ability to navigate complex organisational systems.
- Exceptional communication - verbal, written, and interpersonal.
- Proven ability to manage large-scale projects and influence senior stakeholders.
- Comfortable with ambiguity and shifting priorities in a high-growth, high-speed environment.
- Demonstrated ability to coordinate effectively with colleagues in different time zones, adjusting meeting times as needed to keep global initiatives moving forward.
BENEFITS & PERKS IN A NUTSHELL:
- Flexible working arrangements
- Sabbatical & special leave policies
- Birthday, 24th + 31st December off
- Short term EU work policy
- Employee assistance program
Plus more local benefits depending on your work location!
DIVERSITY, EQUITY & INCLUSION:
FREENOW is an equal opportunity employer and we consider qualified applicants regardless of race, religion, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability or age.
We want you to grow and evolve, bring your true self to work.
