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What you'll build
We are seeking a highly trusted, strategically minded, and execution-oriented Chief of Staff (f/m/d) to support the CHRO and lead the CHRO Office. The ultimate objective of this role is to ensure that the CHRO has the right information, context, preparation, and follow-through at the right time to make informed decisions, anticipate key topics, and focus on the highest-impact strategic priorities, while ensuring professional governance of the CHRO Office and fulfillment of relevant governance and audit requirements.
The Chief of Staff (f/m/d) will operate at the intersection of strategy, leadership, communication, delivery, governance, and team leadership. The successful candidate will act as a proactive advisor and information integrator for the CHRO, ensuring that topics are appropriately prioritized, decision materials are clear and complete, risks and dependencies are visible, follow-ups are driven to closure, and the CHRO Office team operates effectively across senior leaders, functional teams, and key internal and external stakeholders.
Key Responsibilities
- Strategic agenda management: Partner with the CHRO to clarify priorities, translate strategic objectives into actionable plans, and ensure focus on the most critical topics.
- Trusted advisor and board interface: Serve as a trusted advisor to the CHRO and act as a interface to the Supervisory Board, board governance functions, and board offices, ensuring high-quality preparation, coordination, follow-through, and alignment on CHRO-related topics.
- CHRO readiness and information flow: Ensure the CHRO consistently receives the right information, context, analysis, and stakeholder input at the right time to support informed decision-making and effective engagement.
- Executive decision support: Prepare high-quality briefings, presentations, talking points, analyses, and recommendations for leadership meetings, Board discussions, stakeholder engagements, and external events, with a strong focus on what the CHRO needs to know, decide, or communicate.
- Portfolio coordination: Drive alignment across initiatives, functions, and leadership teams within the CHRO’s area of responsibility; track progress, risks, dependencies, and decisions.
- CHRO Office team leadership: Lead and develop the CHRO Office team, ensuring clear priorities, effective collaboration, high-quality execution, professional office operations, and strong service orientation toward the CHRO, senior stakeholders, and governance bodies.
- Documentation and governance: Maintain clear, accurate, and audit-ready documentation of decisions, follow-ups, governance processes, and key CHRO Office materials to ensure transparency, continuity, and compliance with relevant requirements.
- Governance and operating rhythm: Align and manage effective meeting cadences, agendas, follow-ups, and decision processes to ensure transparency, accountability, and timely execution.
- Stakeholder management: Act as a trusted liaison between the CHRO, senior executives, internal teams, customers, partners, and other external stakeholders, ensuring clear and consistent communication.
- Special projects: Lead or coordinate high-priority, confidential, or time-sensitive initiatives on behalf of the CHRO, often in ambiguous or fast-moving environments.
- Communication and messaging: Support leadership communications, organizational updates, speeches, narratives, and materials that reinforce strategic direction and priorities.
- Issue escalation and problem solving: Identify bottlenecks, surface risks, recommend solutions, and help resolve complex cross-functional challenges before escalating and address topics that require attention with clear options and recommendations.
- Confidentiality and judgment: Handle highly sensitive information with discretion, professionalism, and sound judgment.
- Travel accompaniment and on-site support: Accompany the CHRO on international business travels, executive engagements, and external events to ensure effective preparation, real-time coordination, stakeholder alignment, documentation, and timely follow-up on decisions and commitments.
What you bring
- Significant professional experience in human resources, strategy, consulting, program management, or a comparable leadership-advisory role.
- Strong AI proficiency, including the confident and responsible use of AI and digital productivity tools to enhance research, analysis, communication, preparation, and operational efficiency.
- Proven ability to work effectively with senior executives and to influence across organizational boundaries
- Strong business acumen, analytical skills, and ability to structure complex topics into concise, decision-ready materials.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to craft executive-level narratives, presentations, and recommendations.
- Demonstrated experience managing complex projects, priorities, stakeholders, and deadlines in a dynamic environment.
- High degree of integrity, discretion, resilience, and professionalism when handling confidential and sensitive topics.
- Ability to balance strategic thinking with hands-on execution and follow-through.
- Fluency in English; additional languages may be an advantage depending on the scope of the CHRO’s portfolio.
Other Preferred Qualifications
- Experience working in or with a large, matrixed, international organization.
- Background in executive office operations, board-level preparation, transformation programs, corporate strategy, or management consulting.
- Experience coordinating topics across multiple business units, regions, or functions.
- Ability to build trusted relationships quickly and navigate complex stakeholder environments with confidence and empathy.
- Familiarity with governance processes, leadership communications, and executive decision-making forums.
Bring out your best
SAP innovations help more than four hundred thousand customers worldwide work together more efficiently and use business insight more effectively. Originally known for leadership in enterprise resource planning (ERP) software, SAP has evolved to become a market leader in end-to-end business application software and related services for database, analytics, intelligent technologies, and experience management. As a cloud company with two hundred million users and more than one hundred thousand employees worldwide, we are purpose-driven and future-focused, with a highly collaborative team ethic and commitment to personal development. Whether connecting global industries, people, or platforms, we help ensure every challenge gets the solution it deserves. At SAP, you can bring out your best.
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Requisition ID: 460234 | Work Area: Administration | Expected Travel: 0 - 40% | Career Status: Executive | Employment Type: Regular Full Time | Additional Locations: #LI-Hybrid