Business Manager

About this role

BlackRock is a global leader in investment management, risk management, and advisory services. Aladdin is the firm’s technology platform, powering investment and operational workflows for both BlackRock and external clients.

Within the Aladdin COO office, the Business Management team is responsible for driving operational discipline, financial rigor, and aligned transparency across our global footprint. The team ensures effective execution of core processes—including workforce planning, budget oversight, and governance—while also partnering with leadership to operationalize and scale strategic business priorities. We are seeking a Vice President, Business Manager, who will report directly to the head of Financial and Operational Excellence for Aladdin.

This individual will drive a range of workforce-centric processes, including for headcount planning, recruiting strategy, internal mobility, and resource allocation. This role focuses on bringing greater coherence to how Aladdin designs and deploys its workforce—helping shape team structures, reporting lines, talent allocation, and location strategy based on data, operational insight, and long-term business needs.  This role provides significant exposure to Aladdin’s global operations and senior leadership.

The ideal candidate combines strong analytical thinking with sound judgment, translating data into recommendations and driving decisions through to execution. They operate as a trusted partner to diverse stakeholders—helping shape direction, challenging assumptions where needed, and driving alignment across teams at scale. Success requires managing competing priorities, influencing across functions, and delivering outcomes that support organizational effectiveness and workforce alignment.

Key Responsibilities

• Support workforce planning, talent acquisition and day-to-day talent management across Aladdin, translating business priorities into hiring, mobility, and resource allocation operations while maintaining accurate, real-time visibility into headcount, location, and organizational shape.
• Partner with cross-functional leaders to improve long-term organizational design and operating coherence, including team structures, role/functional evolution, and domain clarity, while reinforcing consistent approaches across a highly distributed environment.
• Serve as Aladdin COO’s subject matter expert and primary conduit to Talent Acquisition to shape and execute hiring strategies, ensuring alignment on priorities, timelines, and candidate profiles while improving outcomes across the hiring lifecycle.
• Oversee and continuously improve core people processes—including within early careers, immigration, internal mobility, and workforce data management—ensuring strong controls, high data integrity, and consistent adoption of systems and standards across teams.
• Translate workforce, financial and resource data into clear, decision-oriented insights, and drive those answers through to execution by aligning stakeholders, tracking progress, and ensuring follow-through in a complex, multi-stakeholder environment.