Vice President Chief of Staff for Head of Apac

**Job Description**:
**Wealth Segment Description**

The Wealth team is responsible for understanding market trends and client needs across Asia-Pacific’s diverse Wealth markets and translating these into commercial opportunities for our business. The team works with regional distributors and banks, as well as global private banks and insurers to offer the full range of BlackRock active funds, ETFs and alternatives products.

We partner with clients to build bespoke solutions that meet their specific needs, while offering model portfolios and discretionary investment offerings backed by our market-leading in-house technology and risk analytics. The team sits across Singapore, Hong Kong, Taiwan, China Offshore, Australia and Japan, and works closely with colleagues around the globe to deliver the best of BlackRock to APAC Wealth investors.

**Job Purpose/Background**:
**Key Responsibilities**:
Prioritize and prepare for external and internal engagements
- Draft presentations, talking points and briefing memos for the Head of Wealth’s client engagements, industry or internal conferences, board presentations, etc.
- Prepare and execute (or oversee the execution of) clear action items and commitments for the Head of Wealth’s meetings
- Proactively manage relationships internally and externally; serve as an ambassador and provide context to key stakeholders to
- Coordinate and consolidate input on strategic priorities for the APAC Wealth business
- Handle special projects and ad hoc incoming requests

Drive progress around strategic priorities
- Scope, plan, and partner on strategic priorities that support the APAC Wealth business, including regional initiatives, internal and external engagements, and content for client engagements
- Ensure all projects have accountable ownership, clear timelines, context for partners, specific and measurable deliverables, and alignment with business priorities
- Act as a thought partner to the Head of Wealth and other Wealth business leaders
- Proactively identify potential issues/pain points and take steps to mitigate or escalate as necessary
- Collaborate and partner with colleagues at all levels of BlackRock to drive projects through to completion - including with colleagues based in other regions
- Work closely with the APAC Chairperson’s office and the APAC Wealth COO team on key strategic and business initiatives
- Navigate the matrix organization effectively to obtain necessary fact-checking and insights in a timely measure

**Knowledge/Experience/Qualifications**:

- 7+ years of industry experience in a directly relevant field (financial services, management consulting or similar)
- Unquestioned integrity, discretion and the highest ethical standards
- Sense of urgency around client, management and partner requests
- Strong ownership mentality and extremely high attention to detail
- Ability to communicate upcoming deliverables and objectives, influence stakeholders and effectively manage projects with lead time, clear and consultative guidance, and empathy
- Team player with high level of motivation and inquisitiveness, comfort with ambiguity and the ability to function well under stress or time pressure
- Intellectually curious with the ability to take initiative and deliver results in a matrixed organization
- A strong understanding of the APAC Wealth business and the broader asset and wealth management industry
- Excellent written and oral communication skills
- Advanced PowerPoint and business writing skills; ability to quickly produce management-level presentations, business memos and exhibits utilizing data and synthesizing key information