Chief of Staff to Senior Vice President, META Business

Overview

The Chief of Staff serves as a trusted strategic partner to the SVP – META, acting as a force multiplier to drive alignment, execution, and operational excellence across the region. This role bridges strategy and execution, ensures follow-through on critical priorities, and enables effective decision-making by coordinating across senior leaders, functions, and countries within the META organization. This role is based in Riyadh, KSA.

• Strategic Execution & Prioritization:
  Translate the SVP’s strategic priorities into actionable plans, milestones, and measurable outcomes;
  Drive execution of regional strategic initiatives, transformation programs, and cross-functional projects;
  Monitor progress against key objectives and proactively escalate risks, dependencies, or roadblocks.
• Leadership Advisory & Decision Support:
  Act as a trusted advisor and sounding board to the SVP on strategic, operational, and organizational matters;
  Prepare high-quality briefing materials, business reviews, and decision papers for executive and board-level forums;
  Support data-driven decision-making through analysis, insights, and synthesis of complex regional topics;
  Develop key metric dashboards and analysis to track business performance in close collaboration with the Business Leaders across the region.
• Cross-Functional & Regional Coordination:
  Align META leadership team members around shared priorities, timelines, and execution discipline;
  Facilitate collaboration across functions, countries, and business units within the META region;
  Ensure clarity of ownership, accountability, and communication across regional initiatives.
• Business Management and Governance:
  Establish and manage the META executive operating cadence (LT meetings, QBRs, offsites, leadership reviews);
  Track decisions, commitments, and action items from leadership meetings and ensure follow-through;
  Support governance models, escalation frameworks, and execution rigor across the region.
• Communications & Stakeholder Management:
  Support the SVP’s internal and external communications, including leadership messages, updates, and presentations;
  Act as a central coordination point for high-impact regional and global stakeholders;
  Ensure consistency of narrative, priorities, and messaging across META leadership channels;
  Ensure participants are prepared for executive meetings, including advance distribution of discussion documents, and communicate clear takeaways and actions with relevant stakeholders.
• Special Projects:
  Lead or support high-priority, confidential, or time-sensitive initiatives on behalf of the SVP;
  Serve as project owner for complex cross-functional initiatives requiring neutrality and senior-level coordination.

• 5+ years of experience in comparable roles, preferably as Chief of Staff for a similar organization or within the ICT industry
• Strong ability to get access and credibility with senior leaders internally and externally
• Ability to manage a broad level of tasks at the same time, ability to prioritize is key
• Proven track record of project management experience
• Familiarity with close collaboration and representing Senior Leaders is a must have
• Experience managing large, complex Projects and navigating leaders and stakeholders through this
• Demonstrated ability to communicate and to moderate
• Strong commercial acumen, with P&L awareness
• Executive-level communication, presentation, and stakeholder management skills
• Fluent in English;
  Arabic proficiency is a significant advantage
• Willingness to travel and engage directly with clients, partners, and internal teams across the Kingdom and regionally
• Strong understanding of complex, matrixed organizations

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