About the Role:

Grade Level (for internal use):

The Team: S&P Global combines data, technology, and expertise to unlock the world’s most expansive insights across markets and industries.

S&P Global Ratings is an integral part of S&P Global. Our analyst driven credit ratings, research, and sustainable finance opinions provide critical insights that are essential to translating complexity into clarity so market participants can unlock opportunities and make decisions with conviction.

The Chief of Staff (CoS) works directly with the Chief Commercial Officer (CCO) of S&P Global Ratings and with the CCO’s senior leadership team both internally and externally. The role reports directly to the CCO and will work with the utmost confidentiality acting as a liaison and advisor. 

The Impact: The role of Chief of Staff is strategic and facilitative and requires a combination of analysis and project management skills together with a willingness to play an active, behind-the-scenes role. This means being a central intelligence and execution layer for the organisation amplifying leadership effectiveness through AI-enabled operations, automation, and data-driven decision systems, while upholding Ratings’ high standards of analytical rigour, governance, and trust. You will increasingly operate at the intersection of strategy, analytics, technology, risk/governance, and execution, helping ensure the organisation evolves with precision and leverages machine-augmented capabilities in a rapidly changing environment.

What You Stand to Gain: 

We are People Forward. When you join S&P Global, you’ll benefit from: 

• Joining a diverse community where your growth and well-being come first – just like the 40,000+ colleagues who choose S&P Global every day. 

• Bringing your best self to work in an environment that values inclusion, collaboration, and authentic engagement. 

• Celebrating your achievements with us. We’re committed to your continuous learning, offering education, training, and career coaching to help you grow and adapt in a changing world. 

• Connecting through our People Resource Groups, which foster awareness, engagement, and a sense of community – both within S&P Global and beyond. 
   

Responsibilities:  

• Optimisation of the CCO’s time, Manage and prioritise the CCO’s focus by triaging requests and aligning time allocation to the highest-value decisions and strategic priorities.

• Executive materials & presentation excellence: Develop high-impact presentations and pre-reads with strong narrative structure, including structured briefing notes, risks and effective data visualization to support decision-making

• Decision & action management: Maintain critical OneCommercial projects and programs, decision logs and action tracking, ensuring clear ownership, timely follow-through, and escalation of risks to drive measurable outcomes.

• Executive offsites & critical forums: With guidance from CCO, Plan and deliver offsites and key meetings end-to-end (Setting agenda for weekly OneCommercial leadership team reporting to CCO), Senior management training and team building projects ensuring clear objectives, effective facilitation, and actionable outputs.

• Partner with Communications to drive CCO communications, stakeholder outreach, and speaking engagements (internal and external) and ensure consistent, clear cascades of strategy, priorities, and decisions across the division.

• Performance visibility & reporting: Develop and maintain dashboards and reporting that provide clear visibility on execution health, enabling faster, data-driven decisions by leveraging internal resources to collect and analyze key data including KPI and financial performance metrics.

• Support CCO’s reporting activities; coordinate and support the preparation of CCO reports for internal awareness of the key developments in One Commercial. 

• Drive the effectiveness and organization of the CCO; 1) Drive domestic and international trip planning to maximize the CCO time and impact with key stakeholders and customers, 2) Analyze and create a strategic view of the CCO’s calendar with recommendations of countries to visit, 3) Facilitate effective interactions between CCO and internal/external constituents (meeting prep, briefings, follow-ups, etc.). Travel with the CCO as needed (domestic and international). 

• Track progress on action items for the CCO to present to the President and other members of Ratings’ Opco. 

• Execution of selected key initiatives or projects and additional duties as assigned by the CCO. 

• Proactive management the Office of CCO T&E Budget. 

• Partner with Divisional and Enterprise Chiefs of Staff to achieve enterprise outcomes. 

• Represent OneCommercial with professionalism, acting as a role model for delivery excellence. 

• Cross-functional execution: Drive alignment and coordination across teams to ensure priority initiatives progress effectively and remain aligned to strategic objectives. This includes building and maintaining a strong network with other Chiefs of Staff across S&P Global, sharing best practices, aligning on enterprise priorities, and mobilising the right connections to accelerate execution and amplify impact across Ratings and the wider organisation.

• AI-enabled productivity & automation: Design and implement AI enabled workflows that remove manual, low leverage work and improve quality and cycle time; this includes embedding LLM powered tools into day-to-day operations, deploying automation and agentic workflows where appropriate, and partnering with Data/Engineering to identify and scale high ROI use cases with the right controls.

• Governance, judgment & confidentiality: Operate with discretion and sound judgment, supporting governance processes and escalating risks appropriately.

Compensation/Benefits Information: (This section is only applicable to US candidates:) S&P Global states that the anticipated base salary range for this position is $124,192 USD to $232,000 USD. Final base salary for this role will be based on the individual’s geographic location, as well as experience level, skill set, training, licenses, and certifications. In addition to base compensation, this role is eligible for an annual incentive plan. For more information on the benefits we provide to our employees, please click here.  

What We’re Looking For:  

• An S&P Global employee at this level would typically have 8+ years of experience in financial services, professional services or related field

• Deep knowledge and understanding of S&P Global Rating’s businesses, products and services. 

• Ability to represent the role and the Office of the CCO with a style that is aligned with the CCO; maturity to work with confidence and urgency and balancing the role without ego. 

• Proven ability to optimise senior executive effectiveness, including prioritising time, triaging inputs, and ensuring focus on the highest value decisions and strategic priorities.

• Strong organisational and planning capability, with experience supporting complex executive cadences coordinating inputs, and ensuring well-structured, high-quality materials and discussions.

• Highly effective at executive synthesis and communication, with the ability to translate complex topics into clear, concise, decision-ready narratives and presentations.

• Exceptional execution discipline, with a track record of managing cross-functional initiatives, tracking decisions and actions, and ensuring timely follow-through and delivery against priorities.

• Strong coordination and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to align senior leaders and teams across a global, matrixed organisation and maintain momentum across competing priorities.

• Experience planning and supporting high-impact forums (e.g., offsites, town halls, critical meetings), ensuring clear objectives, strong facilitation, and actionable outcomes.

• Highly analytical and data-driven, with the ability to define KPIs, build performance narratives, and translate insights into clear actions and decisions.

• Strong fluency in AI, automation, and emerging technologies, with hands-on experience applying LLMs and workflow automation to improve operating efficiency, decision-making, and scalability.

• Systems thinker with a product mindset, focused on building repeatable, scalable processes and embedding AI-enabled ways of working into day-to-day operations.

• High level of business judgment, discretion, and emotional intelligence, with the ability to operate effectively in sensitive, high-stakes environments and navigate complex governance structures.

  Additional Information:

• Employees are required to work from the office a minimum of two days per week.

• Candidates who reach the final stage of the interview process will be asked to attend at least one in-person interview at their nearest S&P Global Ratings office before an offer can be extended.

About S&P Global Ratings
At S&P Global Ratings, our analyst-driven credit ratings, research, and sustainable finance opinions provide critical insights that are essential to translating complexity into clarity so market participants can uncover opportunities and make decisions with conviction. By bringing transparency to the market through high-quality independent opinions on creditworthiness, we enable growth across a wide variety of organizations, including businesses, governments, and institutions.

S&P Global Ratings is a division of S&P Global (NYSE: SPGI).  S&P Global is the world’s foremost provider of credit ratings, benchmarks, analytics and workflow solutions in the global capital, commodity and automotive markets. With every one of our offerings, we help many of the world’s leading organizations navigate the economic landscape so they can plan for tomorrow, today.

For more information, visit www.spglobal.com/ratings

What’s In It For You?

Our Mission:

Advancing Essential Intelligence.

Our People:

We're more than 35,000 strong worldwide—so we're able to understand nuances while having a broad perspective. Our team is driven by curiosity and a shared belief that Essential Intelligence can help build a more prosperous future for us all.From finding new ways to measure sustainability to analyzing energy transition across the supply chain to building workflow solutions that make it easy to tap into insight and apply it. We are changing the way people see things and empowering them to make an impact on the world we live in. We’re committed to a more equitable future and to helping our customers find new, sustainable ways of doing business. Join us and help create the critical insights that truly make a difference.

Our Values:

Integrity, Discovery, Partnership

Throughout our history, the world's leading organizations have relied on us for the Essential Intelligence they need to make confident decisions about the road ahead. We start with a foundation of integrity in all we do, bring a spirit of discovery to our work, and collaborate in close partnership with each other and our customers to achieve shared goals.

Benefits:

We take care of you, so you can take care of business. We care about our people. That’s why we provide everything you—and your career—need to thrive at S&P Global.

Our benefits include: 

• Health & Wellness: Health care coverage designed for the mind and body.

• Flexible Downtime: Generous time off helps keep you energized for your time on.

• Continuous Learning: Access a wealth of resources to grow your career and learn valuable new skills.

• Invest in Your Future: Secure your financial future through competitive pay, retirement planning, a continuing education program with a company-matched student loan contribution, and financial wellness programs.

• Family Friendly Perks: It’s not just about you. S&P Global has perks for your partners and little ones, too, with some best-in class benefits for families.

• Beyond the Basics: From retail discounts to referral incentive awards—small perks can make a big difference.

For more information on benefits by country visit: https://spgbenefits.com/benefit-summaries

Global Hiring and Opportunity at S&P Global:

At S&P Global, we are committed to fostering a connected and engaged workplace where all individuals have access to opportunities based on their skills, experience, and contributions. Our hiring practices emphasize fairness, transparency, and merit, ensuring that we attract and retain top talent. By valuing different perspectives and promoting a culture of respect and collaboration, we drive innovation and power global markets.

S&P Global has a Securities Disclosure and Trading Policy (“the Policy”) that seeks to mitigate conflicts of interest by monitoring and placing restrictions on personal securities holding and trading. The Policy is designed to promote compliance with global regulations. In some Divisions, pursuant to the Policy’s requirements, candidates at S&P Global may be asked to disclose securities holdings. Some roles may include a trading prohibition and remediation of positions when there is an effective or potential conflict of interest. Employment at S&P Global is contingent upon compliance with the Policy.

Recruitment Fraud Alert:

If you receive an email from a spglobalind.com domain or any other regionally based domains, it is a scam and should be reported to [email protected]. S&P Global never requires any candidate to pay money for job applications, interviews, offer letters, “pre-employment training” or for equipment/delivery of equipment. Stay informed and protect yourself from recruitment fraud by reviewing our guidelines, fraudulent domains, and how to report suspicious activity here.

-----------------------------------------------------------

Equal Opportunity Employer

S&P Global is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race/ethnicity, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, marital status, military veteran status, unemployment status, or any other status protected by law.  Only electronic job submissions will be considered for employment.  

If you need an accommodation during the application process due to a disability, please send an email to: [email protected] and your request will be forwarded to the appropriate person.  
 
US Candidates Only: Know Your Rights: Workplace discrimination is illegal

-----------------------------------------------------------