Chief of Staff

Akeneo Product Cloud is a composable solution for orchestrating, activating, and optimizing product experiences across all owned and unowned channels. With its open platform, leading PIM, add-ons, connectors, and marketplace, the Akeneo Product Cloud improves product data quality and accuracy, simplifies catalog management, and accelerates the sharing of product information across all channels and locales.

At Akeneo, our teammates are the driving force behind who we are and where we want to go as a company. We work every day to shape a first-class work environment and culture, which is rooted in our core values of Humility, Benevolence, Openness, Innovation and Beer (aka. comradery) We want our people to help us grow and to grow with us, and that’s why we do whatever it takes to equip our employees with everything they may need to make a tangible impact on themselves, the business and the company. Let our intrepid three-headed mascot #ZiggyTheHydra welcome you into her world and join us at Akeneo Learn more about who we are as an employer and about our Culture and Values via our Career page.

***Job description**:
Act as a strategic partner to the CEO, ensuring effective management of cross-functional initiatives, corporate development, and executive team coordination, thereby facilitating Akeneo's growth and operational excellence. As the right-hand to the CEO, this role is designed to assist in:
**Strategic Partnership**: Act as an extension of the CEO, understanding their vision and priorities, and translating them into actionable strategies.

**Operational Excellence**: Streamline processes, ensuring that the company's operations run seamlessly. This includes identifying bottlenecks, proposing solutions, and implementing improvements to enhance productivity and effectiveness across the board.

**Executive Liaison**: Foster open communication between the CEO and key stakeholders, including department heads, board members, and external partners.

**Decision Support**: Aid in the decision-making process by providing the CEO with relevant data, insights, and analysis, ensuring that decisions are well-informed and aligned with the company’s long-term vision.

**Organizational Advocate**: Champion the company’s culture and values, ensuring they are consistently upheld and integrated into all initiatives, projects, and decisions.

**Key responsibilities include**:
**Corporate Development**:

- Oversee and identify opportunities for M&A activities.
- Evaluate potential business partnerships and investments to support Akeneo’s expansion.
- Coordinate due diligence processes and liaise with external advisors and consultants.
- Ensure a smooth transition and integration process for new acquisitions.

**Cross-functional Strategic Project**:

- Spearhead the establishment of a Project Management Office (PMO).
- Prioritize, allocate resources, and ensure execution of strategic projects.
- Collaborate with department heads to track project milestones and deliverables.
- Monitor and report on the progress of strategic initiatives to stakeholders.

**Executive Team Coordination**:

- Develop and maintain an internal operational calendar, coordinating key meetings, events, and communication.
- Facilitate decision-making processes by providing relevant data and insights.
- Mentor and support the CEO’s direct reports, ensuring clarity in roles and responsibilities.
- Implement frameworks for tracking and measuring departmental KPIs.

**Qualifications**:

- 5+ years of relevant work experience in a similar role, ideally in a B2B SaaS environment
- Proven track record in corporate strategy, M&A, and operational excellence.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, both written and verbal.
- Ability to multitask, prioritize, and manage time efficiently.
- Proficiency in data analysis and performance metrics.
- Strong analytical and critical thinking skills.
- Aptitude for fostering collaboration and building relationships at all organizational levels.
- High level of discretion and integrity.
- Proactive approach with a focus on problem-solving and innovation.
- Fluency in English; knowledge of French is an advantage.

**Life at Akeneo**:
**Culture**

Diverse, cross-cultural team.

Annual All Staff gathering week, office parties, team offsites

Top-notch 8-week onboarding programme for new teammates, including live presentations, online courses you can take at your own pace, and an exhaustive checklist with all the resources, calls-to-action and support contacts for a smooth integration into the company.

The position is open in the lovely city of Nantes: Enjoy a 19th-century historical building, tour our private garden and stop by the pond while doing your team catch-up. We also do great barbecues when the sun is out.

**General**

Competitive package and complementary health insurance

**Time off**

Flexible working hours, hybrid home/office policy

33 days paid leave if you are the second parent (ins