Daily Mail And General Trust

Chief of Staff

Location: DMGT Headquarters – London

Position: Permanent 

Package Description

In return for their energy and ideas we ensure our people are well rewarded. Our benefits package increases the longer you’ve been with us. Here’s what to expect:

• 25 days’ holiday (increasing by 1 per year up to a total of 30)
• Upon joining you will be automatically enrolled onto the Pension Plan at the minimum level of 5% employee contribution, 3% Company contribution. 
• Life cover under the Pension Plan 4x your basic salary.
• DMGT Discounts (for discounts on online shopping, vouchers and reloadable cards)
• Subsidised canteen
• Onsite gym (Northcliffe House only)
• Onsite nurse and GP clinics (Northcliffe House only)
• Our Employee Assistance Programme
• Discounted dining cards

Plus many other benefits….

Job Introduction

DMGT is seeking a motivated and adaptable individual to work alongside and act as a thought partner to the Executive Office. As a strategist, analyst, consultant and implementer, the successful candidate work closely with Chief of staff to CEO to run the Executive office and will work closely with the Chairman, CEO other Executives and advisors to ensure the smooth running of the organisation in accordance with the business priorities. The right candidate for the job will have complete oversight at how a large, multi-national organisation runs at the highest level and will contribute to the long-term success of the company.

Main Responsibilities

Ensuring the smooth running of the Executive Office and schedule, by briefing the Chairman and CEO in advance of meetings, noting decisions and action points from meetings, and ensuring that critical decisions are understood and followed up by relevant stakeholders.

Independent leadership of special projects for the Executive Office

• The Chief of Staff will need to run and own several projects independently. This individual will need to use their sound business judgement and analytical skills to be an extension of the Chairman or CEO and support key areas of the business.

Coordination of strategic projects or commitments

• This role is a critical position to organize, drive and support strategic projects. This individual will have an eye and ability to successfully drive projects forward, identify the bottlenecks or issues, provide the Exec Office with information on the opposing views or challenges and propose resolutions that enable the project to proceed.

Preparation for, and facilitation of key Leadership and Board Meetings

• This role will support and drive the execution of these meetings. This includes, developing analysis, preparing materials, including excel analyses, PowerPoint presentations or speaking notes. It may also include assisting meeting attendees in their preparation for their interactions with the Chairman and CEO to ensure that they are effective sessions.

Proactive identification of potential future issues and opportunities

• The Chief of Staff will need to proactively identify key issues that may affect the Chairman and Leadership team across DMGT. This will require the Chief of Staff to flag issues and opportunities as they arise from the business. The Chief of Staff will gather and position these to the Leadership team clearly outlining the challenges and propose potential options to address.

Person Specification

• 5+ years’ executive level experience in management consulting, strategy, venture capital or private equity related
• Experience in media and tech
• Experience in managing client teams, junior staff or advisors
• Impeccable managerial and interpersonal skills
• Proven track record of effectively interacting with senior management
• Strong execution-bias in order to make progress and push forward DMGT’s strategy.
• Strong problem-solving ability in order to identify and solve issues when they arise, proposing options or a solutions
• The ability to identify in advance key issues or potential roadblocks and to flag these to senior leadership
• Ability to adjust to multiple tasks and demands and constantly shifting priorities under tight deadlines and time constraints
• The ability to own and run projects by identifying and driving the critical path actions for each project
• Data analysis skills, in order to use data and facts to prepare and develop materials and to support recommendations that are grounded in facts

About DMGT

DMGT manages a diverse, multinational portfolio of companies, with total revenues of around £1bn, that provide businesses and consumers with compelling information, analysis, insight, events, news and entertainment.

On the consumer side, with origins as one of the UK’s most successful newspaper companies, we now have a large and engaged audience in the UK and globally. As the digital world changed the face of media we extended the Daily Mail brand online, where it is one of the world’s most popular newspaper websites.

Our B2B Information Services businesses supply high-value data, analytics and insights for the Property Information sector whilst our Events & Exhibitions business operates highly successful large-scale events.

Our venture capital business, dmg ventures, holds minority stakes in early-stage businesses and focuses particularly on disruptive consumer media propositions.

Our Commitment

We are committed to increasing diversity and maintaining an inclusive workplace culture. We welcome applications from all qualified candidates regardless of their ethnicity, race, gender, religious beliefs, sexual orientation, age, marital status, or disability.

We are Disability Confident Committed. Please let us know if you require any recruitment documentation in other formats or if you require reasonable adjustments to be made during the recruitment process. Please be assured that any such information will be held separately to your recruitment application and will not be considered as part of the selection process.