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.
• Ensure financial discipline across workforce-related investments by managing planning, forecasting, and in-year execution in close partnership with Business Management peers + FP&A, connecting hiring and organizational decisions to budget outcomes and surfacing risks and trade-offs early.
• Build strong partnerships across business, engineering, product, and COO teams to understand priorities, challenge assumptions where appropriate, and drive alignment on key operational and organizational decisions.
• Drive process improvements, introduce automation, and enhance transparency for stakeholders, focusing on achieving desired outcomes efficiently and being a student of AI.
   

Who You Are:

• 7+ years of relevant experience across COO, business management, HR, talent acquisition, or financial planning & analysis roles, with demonstrated ownership of workforce planning, hiring strategy or operational execution in a complex org.
• Undergraduate degree required, with an MBA or advanced degree desirable.
• Strong business acumen, with the ability to connect workforce decisions to budget outcomes, understand cost drivers, and manage trade-offs across growth, efficiency, and capacity.
• Demonstrated interest in shaping modern talent models and building high-quality, scalable people processes that enable better workforce outcomes
• Proven ability to operate in complex, distributed environments—driving alignment across teams, navigating ambiguity, and ensuring consistent execution without direct ownership of all stakeholders.
• Clear and effective communicator, able to distill complex topics into actionable insights and influence senior stakeholders; skilled in professional presentations and business proposals while clearly articulated future deliverables and goals.
• Strong judgment and problem-solving ability, with a track record of identifying inefficiencies, simplifying processes, and improving operational outcomes at scale.
• Analytical by nature, with experience working across large, imperfect datasets to generate clear insights and drive decisions
• High ownership mindset with a focus on follow-through—able to move from problem identification to implemented solutions in a multi-stakeholder environment.

Nice to Have:

• Experience working in or supporting large-scale technology or platform organizations, particularly within engineering or product environments.
• Familiarity with workforce systems (e.g., Workday) and data visualization tools (e.g., Power BI), with a focus on improving data quality, reporting, and transparency.
• Experience with financial systems or enterprise planning tools (e.g., TM1, SAP, Cognos), and a working understanding of how financial processes connect to operational decision-making.
• Exposure to location strategy work, including evaluating trade-offs across cost, capability, and scale.
• Experience driving process automation or tooling improvements, including leveraging AI or workflow tools to reduce manual effort and improve consistency.

For New York, NY Only the salary range for this position is USD$137,500.00 - USD$194,000.00 . Additionally, employees are eligible for an annual discretionary bonus, and benefits including healthcare, leave benefits, and retirement benefits. BlackRock operates a pay-for-performance compensation philosophy and your total compensation may vary based on role, location, and firm, department and individual performance.

Our benefits

To help you stay energized, engaged and inspired, we offer a wide range of benefits including a strong retirement plan, tuition reimbursement, comprehensive healthcare, support for working parents and Flexible Time Off (FTO) so you can relax, recharge and be there for the people you care about.

Our hybrid work model

BlackRock’s hybrid work model is designed to enable a culture of collaboration and apprenticeship that enriches the experience of our employees, while supporting flexibility for all. Employees are currently required to work at least 4 days in the office per week, with the flexibility to work from home 1 day a week. Some business groups may require more time in the office due to their roles and responsibilities. We remain focused on increasing the impactful moments that arise when we work together in person – aligned with our commitment to performance and innovation. As a new joiner, you can count on this hybrid model to accelerate your learning and onboarding experience here at BlackRock.

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Guidance on AI use for candidates**

At BlackRock, AI has long been part of how we work – enhancing decision-making, improving operations, and helping us deliver better outcomes for clients. We encourage candidates to use AI thoughtfully to learn, prepare, and work more effectively; but during our interview process, we want to focus on getting to know you through your own experiences, thinking, and judgment. To support you, we’ve provided guidance on when and how to use AI during our hiring process so you can approach each step with confidence and showcase your best self.

About BlackRock

At BlackRock, we are all connected by one mission: to help more and more people experience financial well-being.  Our clients, and the people they serve, are saving for retirement, paying for their children’s educations, buying homes and starting businesses. Their investments also help to strengthen the global economy: support businesses small and large; finance infrastructure projects that connect and power cities; and facilitate innovations that drive progress.

This mission would not be possible without our smartest investment – the one we make in our employees. It’s why we’re dedicated to creating an environment where our colleagues feel welcomed, valued and supported with networks, benefits and development opportunities to help them thrive.

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