Chief of Staff - EMEA

An exciting opportunity to support the Vice President of Sales in EMEA, in the strategy, vision and execution of the organisation to accelerate Elastic's transformation. You will play a key role in helping the organisation focus on and achieve its most important goals in the coming years. In this role you will think strategically and drive a strong agenda of accountability, execution and delivery. Partnering with the Field Operations Leadership team, you will help to align and execute against the team's objectives.

What You Will Be Doing:

Working as a trusted advisor, you will collaborate with leadership, business partners, and several cross-functional teams (Finance, Human Resources, Legal, Technology, Strategy and Operations). Demonstrating a strong executive presence in representing the organisation and easily navigating from strategy to tactical issues.

• Administrative leadership and facilitation of staff meetings, monthly all field meetings, Field Leadership Team (FLT) meetings, QBRs, strategic off-sites, and planning sessions. Establish and maintain operational cadence(s) and drive actions to completion. Create and run the organisational calendar of meetings, events and check-points
• You are the conduit between leadership to the rest of the Field Operations organisation, conveying and ensuring successful communication and implementation of critical initiatives
• Working cross functionally in a Programmatic function with marketing, sales development and partners on campaigns, targeted promotions and messaging to targeted industries, and effective rollout and adoption to the EMEA sales team.
• Provide effective counsel on complex organisational matters, and projects. Facilitate effective decision-making
• Identify and tackle ad-hoc strategic projects from defining new opportunities to executing key initiatives, and closing the gaps within the Field Operations team while working towards closure
• Coordinate execution of crucial initiatives and programs. Drive process improvement and simplification wherever possible
• Liaise with the Finance Partner to develop the financial plan needed to support the annual plan and strategies, tactics and resources necessary to achieve goals
• Help to create operational cadence and then track high-level organisational goals and accountable owners with monthly and quarterly reviews and checkpoints

What You Bring Along:

• 10 years of experience, preferably with executive experience
• You are known for being able to prioritise your tasks in an ever-changing, dynamic environment where no day is like the previous. Working at Elastic will challenge your ability to see the bigger picture of what you are doing while never losing the nitty-gritty detail out of focus.
• The courage to voice an alternative point of view with senior executives
• Intellectual curiosity, creativity, and passion
• Management experience with a good understand of Field Operations; Sales experience is a plus
• Entrepreneurial and efficient with limited resources
• Sounding board for others in the company with ability to provide open, honest feedback
• Impeccable managerial and interpersonal skills
• Ability to work strategically and collaboratively across departments
• Effective, versatile and action-oriented