Ratings Chief of Staff

About this role

About the Role:

Grade Level (for internal use): 14 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.

Our Ratings Operating Committee (OpCo) is led by our President of Ratings, and this group collectively plays a critical role in executing the organisation’s credit ratings strategy.

The Impact:

The primary focus of the role is to amplify the impact of both the President of S&P Global Ratings and the wider OpCo. This role will report into   the   President of S&P Global Ratings.

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 President’s time, and of the wider OpCo: Manage and prioritise the President’s focus by triaging requests and aligning time allocation to the highest-value decisions and strategic priorities.

• Impact coordination: Proactively collaborate with multiple stakeholders to ensure complete briefing documents for highest impact meetings. Coordinate and optimise the President’s travel alongside EA to maximise impact (including clear objectives, stakeholder prioritisation, etc.).

• OpCo operating cadence: Own the end-to-end operating rhythm for OpCo, including agenda setting, pre-read alignment, and disciplined facilitation to ensure focused discussions and clear outcomes.

• 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, especially for QBRs.

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

• Town halls & internal communications: Partner with Communications to deliver high-quality town halls and ensure consistent, clear cascades of strategy, priorities, and decisions across the division.

• Executive offsites & critical forums: Plan and deliver offsites and key meetings end-to-end, ensuring clear objectives, effective facilitation, and actionable outputs.

• Operational effectiveness & process improvement: Identify and address inefficiencies in operating processes, implementing streamlined approaches that improve speed, clarity, and reliability.

• 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.

• Performance visibility & reporting: Develop and maintain dashboards and reporting that provide clear visibility on execution health, enabling faster, data-driven decisions.

• 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.

Location: New York (USA), London (UK) or Paris (FRA)

Compensation/Benefits Information:

The anticipated base salary range for this position is $150,000 - $300,000 depending on location, experience, and skills. This role is eligible for an annual cash incentive plan, a long-term incentive plan, and additional S&P Global benefits. For more information on the benefits we provide to our employees, please visit S&P Global Benefits.  

What We’re Looking For: • 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 (e.g., OpCo, QBRs), 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 narr

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