Chief of Staff - Grid Technologies

Siemens Gas and Power GmbH & Co. KG; Amadora; On-site; EUR 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

Siemens Energy seeks an experienced Executive Assistant to support the Head of Grid Technologies Services, Europe & Africa. You will manage complex calendars across European and African time zones, coordinate meetings, travel, visas, and expenses, and prepare leadership materials and briefs.

With a focus on clear communication and discretion, you’ll help track actions, drive timely execution, and support development toward a Chief of Staff role within a multinational, multicultural environment.

Qualifications

• Experience in Executive Assistance or similar roles.
• Fluent written and spoken English; other languages a plus.
• Proficient with MS 365 applications and confidential information handling.

Responsibilities

• Manage complex calendars across European and African time zones.
• Coordinate internal and external meetings, travel, visas, and expenses.
• Prepare briefs, pre-reads agendas, and leadership documentation.
• Draft communications, meeting summaries, and stakeholder updates.

Skills

Executive support

Calendar management

Travel coordination

Microsoft 365

Stakeholder management

Communication skills

Discretion

Tools

Microsoft 365

PowerPoint

Outlook

Job description

Siemens Energy and Siemens Gamesa are becoming Omterra. \"We energize society\" by supporting our customers to make the transition to a more sustainable world, based on innovative technologies and our ability to turn ideas into reality. With nearly 100,000 employees around the world, we shape the energy systems of today and tomorrow.

You’ll work in a fast-paced, multicultural, and geographically diverse business environ ment, providing high-level executive support to the Head of Grid Technologies Services, Europe & Africa, and the Regional Finance Head.

Your day will involve managing complex calendars across European and African time zones, coordinating internal and external meetings, leadership sessions, business reviews, workshops, and customer visits. You’ll organise international travel, including itineraries, visa processes, logistics, and expenses.

You’ll prepare briefs, pre-reads agendas, and leadership documentation, ensuring clear follow-up on actions. You’ll also support the preparation of high-quality presentations, communication packages, and meeting materials, while tracking action plans, deadlines, and progress to help drive timely execution across multiple countries and functional teams.

Your aim to professionally develop in to a Chief of Staff role, fully supported by your leaders, is on track.

How You’ll Make an Impact

By enabling senior leaders to operate effectively across regions, functions, and cultures, you’ll play a critical role in maintaining clarity, alignment, and momentum within the organisation.

Your impact will include:

• Supporting operational and strategic coordination across European and African teams
• Ensuring structured communication and prioritisation within a matrixed organisation
• Acting as a trusted liaison between leadership, teams, and key stakeholders
• Drafting communications, meeting summaries, and stakeholder updates
• Helping maintain leadership rhythm, governance frameworks, and organisation planning

As part of a clearly defined development pathway toward a future Chief of Staff role, your responsibilities will expand based on readiness and performance. This includes supporting strategic initiatives, operational improvements, and cross-regional programmes; contributing to the preparation of business insights, dashboards, and reports (in collaboration with Finance and other functions); and gradually representing leaders in selected forums, meetings, and working groups.

What You Bring

You bring experience in Executive Assistance, Business Support, Team Coordination, or similar roles, along with the motivation and adaptability needed to thrive in a complex, fast-moving environment.

You’ll be comfortable supporting senior leaders in a multinational context, working across multiple cultures, countries, and time zones, and handling confidential and sensitive information with discretion and professionalism.

Essential qualifications and skills include:

• Exceptional organisational and multitasking ability
• Strong written and verbal communication skills in English (additional languages beneficial)
• High proficiency with Microsoft 365 (Teams, PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook, SharePoint)
• Strong stakeholder management skills — confident, proactive, and adaptable
• Excellent attention to detail and follow-through

Personal attributes that will set you apart:

• Ambitious, curious, and motivated to grow into broader responsibilities
• Independent yet collaborative, able to connect across teams and cultures
• Calm under pressure and comfortable navigating ambiguity
• Structured, reliable, solution-oriented, and professional
• Positive, culturally aware presence

This role is intentionally designed to evolve into a more strategic capacity, offering development opportunities in strategic thinking, business insight, cross-functional leadership, programme coordination, and executive-level communication.

About the team

OurGrid Technologiesdivision enables a reliable, sustainable, and digital grid. The power grid is the backbone of the energy transition. Siemens Energy offers a leading portfolio and solutions in HVDC transmission, grid stabilization and storage, high voltage switchgears and transformers, and digital grid technology.

Who is Siemens Energy?

At Siemens Energy, we are more than just an energy technology company. With ~100,000 dedicated employees in more than 90 countries, we develop energy systems of the future, ensuring that the growing energy demand of the global community is met reliably and sustainably. The technologies created in our research departments and factories drive the energy transition and provide the base for one sixth of the world's electricity generation.

Our global team is committed to making sustainable, reliable, and affordable energy a reality by pushing the boundaries of what is possible. We uphold a 150-year legacy of innovation that encourages our search for people who will support our focus on decarbonization, new technologies, and energy transformation.

Lucky for us, we are not all the same. Through diversity we generate power. We run on inclusion and our combined creative energy is fu lled by over 130 nationalities. Siemens Energy celebrates character – no matter what ethnic background, gender, age, religion, identity, or disability. We energize society, all of society, and we do not discriminate based on our differences.