Vice President, Client Center Operations

About the role

We're seeking someone to join our team as a Vice President, Client Center Operations. In the Corporate Services division, we empower our businesses by creating collaborative workplace solutions and commercial services that enhance the employee and client experience, while optimizing the value of our sourcing and third-party lifecycle to enable the Firm to do-and-win business. Since 1935, Morgan Stanley is known as a global leader in financial services, always evolving and innovating to better serve our clients and our communities in more than 40 countries around the world. What you'll do in the role: - Own the day to day and long term operational performance of the Client Center, ensuring consistency, readiness, and control across all services, spaces, and experiences. - Establish and enforce standard operating procedures, service standards, and quality controls aligned with Firm policies, including confidentiality and security protocols. - Ensure the Client Center operates as a disciplined, well governed environment, balancing premium hospitality with institutional rigor. - Monitor operational KPIs, service performance, and utilization trends; proactively identify and mitigate gaps and risks. - Serve as the Firm's operational steward for the Client Center, representing Corporate Services with senior business leaders, executive hosts, and key stakeholders. - Oversee an integrated service delivery model across front of house operations, culinary services, technology enablement, facilities coordination, and external partners. - Drive strong vendor governance and performance management in partnership with approved providers. - Establish clear service standards and foster a culture of ownership, accountability, and continuous improvement. - Ensure appropriate staffing models, training, and coverage to support a high volume, executive level environment. - Identify opportunities to enhance workflows, improve efficiency, and ensure the Client Center remains future ready and scalable. - This role requires working on site five days a week. What you'll bring to the role: - Bachelor's degree required; advanced degree preferred. - 10+ years of progressive experience in operations leadership, hospitality operations, corporate services, or complex service environments. - Demonstrated success managing high visibility, high expectation environments supporting senior executives and external clients. - Strong operational and risk mindset, with experience operating within regulated or highly controlled organizations. - Proven people leader with experience managing managers and cross functional teams. - Exceptional judgment, executive presence, and communication skills. - Ability to balance premium service delivery with institutional discipline and efficiency. WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT FROM MORGAN STANLEY: At Morgan Stanley, we raise, manage and allocate capital for our clients - helping them reach their goals. We do it in a way that's differentiated - and we've done that for 90 years. Our values - putting clients first, doing the right thing, leading with exceptional ideas, committing to diversity and inclusion, and giving back - aren't just beliefs, they guide the decisions we make every day to do what's best for our clients, communities and more than 80,000 employees in 1,200 offices across 42 countries. At Morgan Stanley, you'll find an opportunity to work alongside the best and the brightest, in an environment where you are supported and empowered. Our teams are relentless collaborators and creative thinkers, fueled by their diverse backgrounds and experiences. We are proud to support our employees and their families at every point along their work-life journey, offering some of the most attractive and comprehensive employee benefits and perks in the industry. There's also ample opportunity to move about the business for those who show passion and grit in their work. To learn more about our offices across the globe, please copy and paste https://www.morganstanley.com/about-us/global-offices into your browser. Expected base pay rates for the role will be between $130,000 and $183,000 per year at the commencement of employment. However, base pay if hired will be determined on an individualized basis and is only part of the total compensation package, which, depending on the position, may also include commission earnings, incentive compensation, discretionary bonuses, other short and long-term incentive packages, and other Morgan Stanley sponsored benefit programs. Morgan Stanley is an equal opportunity employer committed to building and maintaining a workforce that is diverse in experience and background. Our recruiting efforts reflect our strong commitment to a culture of inclusion, where individuals are hired, developed, and advanced based on their skills and talents. Our workforce reflects a broad cross-section of the global communities in which we operate, bringing a variety of backgrounds, talents, perspectives,