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About the role
- Chief of Staff providing executive partnership and operational support to the CEO at Allwyn UK. Driving organizational impact through strategic initiatives and consumer-focused innovation.
Responsibilities
- Preparation for high-stakes presentations and stakeholder engagements
- Act as sounding board for complex decisions and organizational challenges
- Own and manage the CEO’s agenda, ensuring top priorities remain visible, sequenced and resourced.
- Anticipate risks, opportunities and decision needs ahead of time—providing synthesised options and recommendations.
- Shape and run strategic decision forums that drive clarity and timely action.
- Prepare the CEO for key internal and external engagements with proactive, insight-led briefing materials.
- Act as an organisational leader for the CEO in selected meetings to maintain momentum and alignment.
- Lead selective CEO sponsored strategic and operational projects.
- Design and continuously improve the operating rhythm of the CEO Office and Executive, including team meetings, status updates, and decision-making forums
- Identify process inefficiencies and implement solutions that scale
- Build dashboards and reporting mechanisms to provide visibility into team performance
- Manage cross-functional dependencies and resolve bottlenecks
- Work closely with the CEO & Chair’s Executive Assistant to manage all CEO related matters, including diary prioritisation, summit and external event planning and related matters,
- Oversee Chair, Board and CEO budgets.
- Manage incoming correspondence on behalf of the CEO, including customer complaints requiring review or escalation.
- Partner with Executive team to develop the strategic plan for the business and then track the execution and achievement of milestones.
- Ensure leadership coherence, consistent messaging, timely decisions, unified prioritisation.
- Ensure effective operation of the Executive Team, including weekly meetings, quarterly performance reviews and offsites.
- Support onboarding of senior leaders and act as a key interface across the business.
- Collaborate with the Chief Finance Officer and Chief Security Officer to establish a unified dashboard covering key operational, financial, security, technology and people metrics for data-driven performance oversight.
- Work with the Chief Strategy & Transformation Officer to implement the new governance strategy that embeds accountability and transparent progress tracking.
- Lead quarterly planning cycles and monthly KPI review sessions
- Partner with Director of Talent and Chief People & Places Officer to ensure alignment across executive and SALT development work.
- Partner with the People Director and CPPO to ensure Executive priorities align with the P&P strategic priorities.
- In partnership with the CEO and Company Secretary, shape strategic narratives and materials for the Board
- Proactively manage agendas and produce high quality materials for strategic, reputational and licence critical matters.
- Lead planning for the annual Board offsite.
- Prepare executive briefings, board materials, and leadership presentations
- Represent in meetings and forums as needed
- Build relationships with key stakeholders across the organization
- Synthesize complex information into clear, actionable insights
- Shift reporting from backward-looking updates to forward-looking insight and decision recommendations.
- Synthesise trends and early warnings for the CEO and Exec.
- Lead reporting across Allwyn’s key stakeholder groups, including:
- 4NL Executive Team: weekly meetings, quarterly reviews
- AEL Board: weekly updates, monthly meetings
- SALT: monthly engagements and leadership effectiveness work
- Shareholder / Allwyn Group: bimonthly steering committees, quarterly investor reporting‑monthly steering committees, quarterly investor reporting
- Distributors: quarterly CEO Forum
- Government: support Public Affairs with briefs and materials for regular stakeholder meetings
Requirements
- Executive level support experience, ideally partnering directly with a CEO or Executive Team in a complex, fast paced organisation.
- Strong strategic judgement, with the ability to anticipate issues, synthesise information quickly and provide clear, insight led recommendations.
- Proven experience managing senior stakeholders, including Boards, shareholders, external partners and cross functional leadership teams.
- Exceptional organisational and operational capability, with a record of accomplishment of managing high-stake priorities, sensitive information and multiple time critical workflows.
- Experience leading or coordinating strategic projects or programmes with strong governance and delivery discipline.
- Effective communication and storytelling skills, capable of producing high-quality materials for executive and Board audiences.
- Confident analytical skills, able to navigate data, interpret insights and support performance reporting.
- Experience navigating corporate governance or regulated environments.
- Ability to work with discretion, resilience, and sound judgement, maintaining calm and professionalism under pressure.
Benefits
- Company bonus scheme
- Matched pension contributions up to 8.5%
- 26 days annual leave + 2 Life Days (and bank holidays)
- Complimentary Private Medical
- Life Assurance
- Enhanced Maternity & Paternity leave
- £500 wellness allowance
- Access to nutritional advisor and personal trainers
- Discounted Health Assessments
- Complimentary Financial coaching
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