Chief of Staff - Sales

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What We'll Bring:
We're excited to announce Neustar has joined the TransUnion team as part of an acquisition that took place in late 2021. As part of the transition, there may be changes specific to the organizational alignment and title of this position. All other details of this position, such as job responsibilities, will not be impacted due to the transition. Neustar's addition to TransUnion is leading to accelerated growth to our marketing, risk and communications businesses and furthers our data-oriented strategy. We hope you'll join us in the next phase of this journey.
What We Are Looking For:
We are looking for a superstar who is versatile, ambitious, has high intellectual horsepower, and exceptional quantitative skills. This role will be focused on strategic, analytic and communications initiatives with high visibility across the senior leadership team.
Reporting to the EVP, Sales you will work with the Sales Senior Leadership Team, and other stakeholders to drive the development and execution of current project and strategic growth plans needed to support our most critical program priorities. You will enable the EVP Sales to execute strategically, ensure full alignment within our leadership team, and be a key driver in the growth of TransUnion. In this position, you will be highly influential as you assist with the execution of strategic plans, business management, internal communications, and cross-functional initiatives.
What You'll Bring:
Strong leadership, interpersonal, and influence skills
Excellent organizational and communications (verbal and written) skills
Demonstrated project management, analytic and decision-making skills
Capacity to balance both short and long-term issues effectively and handle many simultaneous and often conflicting priorities
Ability to relate effectively up, down, and across the organization
Ability to simplify complex information and design clear, value focused messages to a variety of audiences under tight timeframes
Positive and consistent; good sense of humor is a plus!
The Fine Print:
A BA/BS Degree is required, MBA a plus
Previous project management, chief of staff (5+ years), ideally supporting C-suite member in a 1-1 partnership at high-growth organizations.
Experience in management consulting, operations, executive management or similar.
Advanced MS Office, particularly Project Management and PowerPoint skills
Impact You'll Make:
Utilize your financial, business and project management skills to manage and complete various Sales/Company oriented projects, removing them from the EVP, Sales plate.
Provide timely and consistent updates to the EVP, Sales and other leaders in order to facilitate teamwork and accountability
Leverage your teamwork, communication and collaboration skills to ensure alignment, prioritization and successful execution of strategy & planning initiatives across the organization
Provide project management knowledge to key strategic initiatives to convert those strategies into actionable tactics - that "influence without authority" across multiple team initiatives and senior leaders
Own the production and coordination of KPIs, presentations, stakeholder updates and other planning/governance-related reporting deliverables
Leverage critical thinking and analysis skills to maintain a deep understanding of the competition (both existing and potential) and monitoring the competitive landscape and emerging industry trends, designing reports and presentations to display results and impacts
Identify the best channels and formats for distribution of information; tactically execute communications in a clear and timely manner
Create standard reporting and integrated calendar to provide status and health of all initiatives, enable tradeoffs/counter measures and track progress against outcomes;
Monitor and provide awareness of all milestones / deliverables for all phases on a routine basis, driving teams to deliver on schedule;
Ensure productive meetings, structure agendas and facilitate meeting preparation and follow up;
Be comfortable influencing the organization through direct and indirect reporting relationships;
Identify areas for efficiency gain, cost reduction, or program improvement.
We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability status, veteran status, marital status, citizenship status, sexual orientation, gender identity or any other characteristic protected by law.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, TransUnion has several safety protocols in place to protect associates, customers, and visitors. You may be required to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 as a condition of employment and/or to participate in certain work-related activities. Exemption is available to qualified candidates as a reasonable accommodation.
TransUnion's Internal Job Title:
Acquisition Exempt, Acquired Associate