Chief of Staff - London, United Kingdom - Kingfisher

Kingfisher

Verified Company

London, United Kingdom

1 week ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Overview:

We're Kingfisher, A team made up of over 80,000 passionate people who bring Kingfisher - and all our other brands: B&Q, Screwfix, Brico Depot, Castorama and Koctas - to life.

That's right, we're big, but we have ambitions to become even bigger and even better.

We want to become the leading home improvement company and grow the largest community of home improvers in the world.

And that's where you come in.

At Kingfisher our customers come from all walks of life, and so do we.

We want to ensure that all colleagues, future colleagues, and applicants to Kingfisher are treated equally regardless of age, gender, marital or civil partnership status, colour, ethnic or national origin, culture, religious belief, philosophical belief, political opinion, disability, gender identity, gender expression or sexual orientation.

What's the job?:

The purpose of this role is to directly support our Director of Engineering on their agenda, strategy direction setting, strategy initiatives, key meetings, key stakeholder interaction, external communication and engagement with the broader Technology and Banner Leadership teams.

What will you do?

Oversee strategic business initiatives from development through successful execution under the guidance of senior leadership.
Strategic advisor to the Engineering Leaders and their teams, supporting them in shaping and delivering their holistic engineering agenda also crossfunctionally across Kingfisher Group.
Own and lead the framework of governance, rhythm and routines to ensure we are efficient and effective in our decision making.
Preparation of strategic Engineering topics for the Technology Leadership and Executive Leadership team.
Provide initial engagement for key stakeholders to ensure proposals to the Director of Engineering & Tech board are complete and clearly articulated.
Improving the functions ongoing processes and organising procedures to ensure optimal efficiency and productivity of the Engineering organisation.
Ensure the Engineering communications plan is understood and implemented by the engineering team.
Building relationships with all key colleagues in the Engineering and broader Technology organisation for increased efficiency to help monitor and deliver on the strategic planning delivery including communicating and resolving in case of risks.

What we need:

What will you bring to the table?

Excellent communication skills, allowing you to structure documents and quantitative analysis into compelling documents for executive level interaction.
Significant experience from a toptier management consulting company or similar relevant experience.
Experience in Technology, Digital, Online or related Tech topics.
Topnotch quantitative and analytical skills that allow you to extract logic, insights and meaningful conclusions from complex business problems.
Result orientation consistently deliver quality work to support and drive strategic change in the Engineering agenda.
Collaboration able to interact with top management and broader leadership teams, provide inspirational leadership and strong interpersonal skills.
Strategic orientation holistic thinker who is able to extract logic, insights and meaningful conclusions from complex business problems and transformational strategic projects.
Agile way of working ability to run projects in agile way and in a fastchanging environment.
Fluent in written and verbal English is a must, fluency in spoken French is a plus

In return, we offer an inclusive environment, where what you can achieve is limited only by your imagination We encourage new ideas, actively support experimentation, and strive to build an environment where everyone can be their best self.

We're adopting a hybrid approach with some office and some home working, on average 40-60% in the office.

Your office location? This person will be UK based with our Head Office in Paddington, or we could explore the option of being based in one of our other retail banners head offices in Southampton or Yeovil.

We also offer a competitive benefits package and plenty of opportunities to stretch and grow your career.

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