Executive Operations Partner

Job Summary:

The Executive Operations Partner provides strategic and operational leverage to the Chief Executive Officer by strengthening executive focus, discipline, and follow-through across the leadership team. This role ensures the CEO is consistently well-prepared, well-informed, and positioned to drive clear priorities, timely decisions, and measurable outcomes across the enterprise.Reporting to the Chief Strategy and Transformation Officer, the Executive Operations Partner serves as a trusted extension of the Office of the CEO. The role orchestrates executive cadence, drives rigorous preparation for leadership forums, synthesizes critical insights, and ensures commitments made by the CEO and his direct reports translate into action and results. By improving clarity, accountability, and decision quality at the top of the organization, this role directly enhances enterprise execution.This is not an administrative coordination role. It is an executive operations position designed to elevate leadership effectiveness, reinforce performance discipline, and strengthen organizational follow-through on the company’s most important strategic and operational priorities. This position is based in Waltham, MA and requires a minimum of 4 days a week in the office.

At Global Partners, business starts with people. Since 1933, we’ve believed in taking care of our customers, our guests, our communities, and each other—and that belief continues to guide us.  

The Global Spirit is how we work to fuel that long term commitment to success. As a Fortune 500 company with 90+ years of experience, we’re proud to fuel communities—responsibly and sustainably. We show up every day with grit, passion, and purpose—anticipating needs, building lasting relationships, and creating shared value. 

Job Description:

Executive Operating Rhythm & Leadership Governance

• Establish and continuously optimize the operating cadence of the Office of the CEO, including leadership forums, executive reviews, and strategic discussions.
• Ensure leadership engagements are structured to drive alignment, clear decision-making, and forward momentum on enterprise priorities.
• Partner with the CEO and CSO to shape agendas, elevate critical issues, and ensure leadership time is focused on the most impactful topics.

Enterprise Accountability & Execution Oversight

• Drive enterprise-level accountability across leadership commitments, strategic initiatives, and cross-functional priorities.
• Implement structured tracking and governance mechanisms that ensure commitments are clearly defined, progress is transparent, and execution risks are surfaced early.
• Partner with leaders to resolve blockers and escalate issues with recommended paths to resolution when necessary.

Executive Meeting Effectiveness & Decision Support

• Strengthen the effectiveness of CEO and senior leadership forums by ensuring discussions are well-prepared, outcome-driven, and aligned to strategic priorities.
• Capture and synthesize key decisions, risks, and actions, translating leadership discussions into clear execution plans and ensuring appropriate follow-through across the organization.
• Strategic Partner & Stakeholder Coordination
• Support the CEO’s engagement with key external partners and strategic stakeholders by ensuring internal alignment, strong preparation, and disciplined follow-through.
• Coordinate cross-functional inputs to maximize the effectiveness and outcomes of CEO-level engagements and ensure commitments are executed across the organization.

Executive Insight & Leadership Briefing

• Provide the CEO with concise, high-quality insights by reviewing leadership and divisional materials to identify performance trends, risks, opportunities, and decision points.
• Develop executive-ready briefs that distill complex information into clear narratives and highlight areas requiring leadership attention.
• Monitor and engage in market intel and provide reporting the CEO.

CEO Business Review Governance

• Lead the preparation and execution of enterprise business reviews with the CEO, ensuring inputs from business units and leadership teams are decision-ready and aligned with strategic priorities.
• Produce consolidated executive summaries and oversee follow-through on key actions and outcomes.

Executive Decision Governance

• Strengthen decision discipline across the leadership team by maintaining clear documentation of major decisions, ownership, and evolving context.
• Promote consistency in executive communication, decision transparency, and expectation-setting across leadership forums.
• Explore AI tools to improve workflow and outputs

Additional Job Description:

Qualifications

• Experience supporting senior executives or working closely with C-suite leadership.
• Strong organizational and operational leadership skills with the ability to manage multiple enterprise priorities.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, including executive-level presentation development.
• Ability to synthesize complex information and drive clarity in ambiguous environments.
• High degree of discretion, judgment, and professionalism.
• Service-oriented mindset with the maturity to push when needed
• Financial fluency and strong business curiosity
• Experience in the oil and gas industry a plus.
• Exposure to and basic understanding of energy futures markets
• Understanding of policy impacts to business
• Asks smart questions, spots gaps in logic, and helps prep leaders for productive CEO conversations
• Highly curious and quick to learn; proactive, dependable and results driven. Brings humility and accountability, thrives in ambiguity, adapts under pressure, and is motivated by impact
• Bachelor's Degree

Pay Range:

$136,200.00 - $204,200.00

The pay range for this position is outlined above. The final amount offered at the start of employment is determined based on factors including, but not limited to, experience level, knowledge, skills, abilities and geographic location, and the Company reserves the right to modify base salary at any time, including for reasons related to individual performance, Company or individual department/team performance and market factors.

Our Commitments to You

• Coins! We offer competitive salaries and opportunities for growth. We have an amazing Talent Development Team who create trainings for growth and job development.

• Health & Wellness - Medical, Dental, Visions and Life Insurance. Along with additional wellness support.

• The Road Ahead – We offer 401k and a match component!

• Professional Development - We provide tuition reimbursement; this benefit is offered after 6 months of service.

What to Expect From the Hiring Process

We value passion and potential. Please apply if you’re qualified and interested—we’d love to hear from you. 

A member of our Talent Acquisition team will review your application and may connect you with the hiring manager if your experience is a strong match. 

Interviews are conducted virtually and in person, depending on the role. We’ll provide more details about next steps if selected to move forward.  

Global Partners LP is an equal opportunity employer. We foster a company culture where ideas from all people help us grow, move and thrive. We embrace the diversity of all applicants and do not discriminate against race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, protected veteran status or any other basis prohibited by federal, state or local law. If you have a disability and need an accommodation to apply, please contact our recruiting department at 781-747-9675 or 781-7GP-WORK.

*Disclaimer: At Global Partners, we don't use lie detector tests for any employment decisions. We follow all the rules and regulations, so we need to let you know: In Massachusetts, it's illegal to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment of continued employment. An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability.