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The Role:

We are looking for a highly motivated individual to become Chief of Staff for our EMEA Commercial Management team. Reporting to the Sr Director EMEA Commercial Sales, this role is responsible for structuring and organizing business planning activity for the team to maximize their impact and productivity. This includes managing and measuring the current business performance to drive best possible results, as well as forward looking business and market analysis to define strategies and plans for high growth.

The Person:

Does this sound like you? We’d love to talk!

• Passion for producing best-in-class business plans to drive high growth
• Ambitious and positive, with a growth mindset to continuously improve
• Collaborative and team-oriented, driving unity across the organization
• Project Management skills, prioritizing actions and resources to stay on track
• Analytical skills, willing and able to deep dive into large and detailed data sets to identify business trends and drivers
• Communication skills (Verbal), able to present with impact and provide clear and concise conclusions and recommendations to management
• Presentation skills (Written), including the ability to produce high quality visual impact in .ppt slides with creative flair
• Able to navigate large multinational organizations (both internally and at customers/partners) to identify decision-makers and action drivers
• Negotiation and Influence skills
• IT Industry awareness, including familiarity with AMD commercial products across Server, Client, Graphics

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead sales planning processes for the EMEA Commercial organization, including annual business plans, quarterly goal setting, and ad-hoc customer initiatives
• Support EMEA Commercial Sales Teams as needed to engage customers in discussions to identify key market opportunities and trends
• Integrate management, team, and customer priorities into clear actions and schedules, and track follow-up to keep teams coordinated
• Link the EMEA Commercial Sales teams and processes to other EMEA regional teams including BMS, Marketing, and Finance, as well as global Business Unit, Sales Operations, and Sales Strategy groups to align mutual goals and plans
• Define and implement dashboards on key business metrics, including closed-loop feedback with teams and stakeholders to stay on-track, learn, and improve
• Consolidate data, analysis, and stakeholder inputs to produce high quality presentations to support decision-making, QBRs, and long-range plans
• Support organizational expansion and development, including structuring the team for success and onboarding new team members

Preferred Experience:

• Business Planning Experience: Combining internal and external business data with strategic business objectives and team resources/capabilities to define high growth business plans, ideally within a multi-national organization
• Business Operations Experience: Creating and implementing dashboards to track and manage performance to maximize business results and team productivity
• Sales Experience: Engaging OEM, Channel, and end-user customers to understand their needs and match the products and resources of the organization to best support them
• Marketing Experience: Understanding the Data Center and Commercial Client PC market segments, the leading OEMs and Channel Partners in EMEA, and the current/future trends that are driving them

Academic Credentials:

BS or relevant technical/business degree; MSC or MBA is preferred/desirable

Location:

United Kingdom (or Germany may be considered)

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Benefits offered are described:  AMD benefits at a glance.

AMD does not accept unsolicited resumes from headhunters, recruitment agencies, or fee-based recruitment services. AMD and its subsidiaries are equal opportunity, inclusive employers and will consider all applicants without regard to age, ancestry, color, marital status, medical condition, mental or physical disability, national origin, race, religion, political and/or third-party affiliation, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.   We encourage applications from all qualified candidates and will accommodate applicants’ needs under the respective laws throughout all stages of the recruitment and selection process.

Benefits offered are described:  AMD benefits at a glance.

AMD does not accept unsolicited resumes from headhunters, recruitment agencies, or fee-based recruitment services. AMD and its subsidiaries are equal opportunity, inclusive employers and will consider all applicants without regard to age, ancestry, color, marital status, medical condition, mental or physical disability, national origin, race, religion, political and/or third-party affiliation, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.   We encourage applications from all qualified candidates and will accommodate applicants’ needs under the respective laws throughout all stages of the recruitment and selection process.

The Role:

We are looking for a highly motivated individual to become Chief of Staff for our EMEA Commercial Management team. Reporting to the Sr Director EMEA Commercial Sales, this role is responsible for structuring and organizing business planning activity for the team to maximize their impact and productivity. This includes managing and measuring the current business performance to drive best possible results, as well as forward looking business and market analysis to define strategies and plans for high growth.

The Person:

Does this sound like you? We’d love to talk!

• Passion for producing best-in-class business plans to drive high growth
• Ambitious and positive, with a growth mindset to continuously improve
• Collaborative and team-oriented, driving unity across the organization
• Project Management skills, prioritizing actions and resources to stay on track
• Analytical skills, willing and able to deep dive into large and detailed data sets to identify business trends and drivers
• Communication skills (Verbal), able to present with impact and provide clear and concise conclusions and recommendations to management
• Presentation skills (Written), including the ability to produce high quality visual impact in .ppt slides with creative flair
• Able to navigate large multinational organizations (both internally and at customers/partners) to identify decision-makers and action drivers
• Negotiation and Influence skills
• IT Industry awareness, including familiarity with AMD commercial products across Server, Client, Graphics

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead sales planning processes for the EMEA Commercial organization, including annual business plans, quarterly goal setting, and ad-hoc customer initiatives
• Support EMEA Commercial Sales Teams as needed to engage customers in discussions to identify key market opportunities and trends
• Integrate management, team, and customer priorities into clear actions and schedules, and track follow-up to keep teams coordinated
• Link the EMEA Commercial Sales teams and processes to other EMEA regional teams including BMS, Marketing, and Finance, as well as global Business Unit, Sales Operations, and Sales Strategy groups to align mutual goals and plans
• Define and implement dashboards on key business metrics, including closed-loop feedback with teams and stakeholders to stay on-track, learn, and improve
• Consolidate data, analysis, and stakeholder inputs to produce high quality presentations to support decision-making, QBRs, and long-range plans
• Support organizational expansion and development, including structuring the team for success and onboarding new team members

Preferred Experience:

• Business Planning Experience: Combining internal and external business data with strategic business objectives and team resources/capabilities to define high growth business plans, ideally within a multi-national organization
• Business Operations Experience: Creating and implementing dashboards to track and manage performance to maximize business results and team productivity
• Sales Experience: Engaging OEM, Channel, and end-user customers to understand their needs and match the products and resources of the organization to best support them
• Marketing Experience: Understanding the Data Center and Commercial Client PC market segments, the leading OEMs and Channel Partners in EMEA, and the current/future trends that are driving them

Academic Credentials:

BS or relevant technical/business degree; MSC or MBA is preferred/desirable

Location:

United Kingdom (or Germany may be considered)

#LI-KH1