Location: Hamburg
Are you a strategic thinker with a passion for turning vision into action? Do you thrive in fast-paced environments, influencing at the highest levels while ensuring cross-functional alignment? FREENOW is looking for a Chief of Staff to the CEO to be a critical partner in driving business success and organisational excellence.
YOUR DAILY ADVENTURES WILL INCLUDE:- Strategic Partnership: Act as a trusted sounding board and strategic advisor to the CEO - offering counsel, generating ideas, and ensuring their time is spent on the highest-impact priorities.
- Drive Strategic Alignment: Translate the CEO’s vision into actionable, cross-functional plans that align with business goals.
- Program & Initiative Management: Drive a select portfolio of high-priority, multi-market, cross-functional initiatives directly tied to the CEO’s agenda. Ensure strategic alignment, executive-level coordination, and sustained momentum, stepping in as needed to navigate complexity and remove barriers to execution.
- Executive Communication: Create board-level materials, CEO messaging, and internal updates that support strong decision-making and company alignment.
- Stakeholder Management: Serve as the connective tissue between the CEO and internal stakeholders, ensuring transparency and consistency across leadership.
- Decision Enablement: Analyse business data, identify key risks and opportunities, and support timely, informed executive decisions.
- Communication Impact:
- Act as a trusted voice for internal messaging from the CEO
- Manage confidential, high-stakes communications with clarity and diplomacy
- Align stakeholders across departments and seniority levels around complex and sensitive topics.
- Innovation & Agility:
- Continuously challenge the status quo and drive operational improvement
- Apply critical thinking and creative problem-solving in a fast-moving environment
- Embed agile practices into strategy execution and project delivery.
- Master’s degree, ideally in Business Administration or a related field.
- 7+ years in management consulting, strategic planning, corporate development, or executive operations.
- Strong business acumen and ability to navigate complex organisational systems.
- Exceptional communication - verbal, written, and interpersonal.
- Proven ability to manage large-scale projects and influence senior stakeholders.
- Comfortable with ambiguity and shifting priorities in a high-growth, high-speed environment.
- Demonstrated ability to coordinate effectively with colleagues in different time zones, adjusting meeting times as needed to keep global initiatives moving forward.
- Flexible working arrangements
- LinkedIn Learning
- Sabbatical & special leave policies
- WeRoad partnership
- Birthday, 24th + 31st December off
- Short term EU work policy
- Mobility Credit
- Health Insurance
- Employee assistance program
Plus more local benefits depending on your work location!
DIVERSITY, EQUITY & INCLUSION:
FREENOW is an equal opportunity employer and we consider qualified applicants regardless of race, religion, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability or age.
We want you to grow and evolve, bring your true self to work.
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What We Do
FREENOW is the Mobility Super App with the largest vehicle choice for consumers across Europe available in 9 markets and in over 150 cities. Users can access all types of mobility services within a single app including taxis, Ride (PHV), Carsharing, eScooters, eBikes and eMopeds and public transport. FREENOW aggregates numerous mobility brands with the ambition to make urban mobility more efficient and sustainable without adding new vehicles on the street. The Germany-based company is backed by the BMW Group and Mercedes-Benz Mobility. In total, around 1,000 employees in more than 26 offices work for the services of FREENOW, which is led by CEO Thomas Zimmermann. Intelligent Apps GmbH Neumühlen 19 22763 Hamburg Germany Managing Directors (Geschäftsführer): Thomas Zimmermann, Dr. Johannes Prantl Chairman of the Supervisory Board (Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrats): Stephan Unger Contact: Tel.: +49 40 30606890 Fax.: +49 40 306068966 E-Mail: [email protected] FREENOW FAQ: https://support.free-now.com/hc/en-gb Help Center: https://support.free-now.com/hc/en-gb/requests/new Registry entry: Register court: District Court Hamburg Register number: HRB 110377 Privacy Policy: https://free-now.com/uk/gtc-privacy-policy-cookies/
