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Job Summary:
The Executive Assistant will support the Head of Customer First, APJ, with a wide range of administrative, logistical, and project-related duties. As an Executive Assistant, you will work in partnership with our APJ Leadership Team and play a crucial role in the business's success. This role has high visibility and works cross-functionally throughout the company.
The impact you will have:
- Develop a clear understanding of the priorities of the APJ Customer First business and manage daily, weekly and monthly calendars to maximise time effectiveness, being proactive about conflicts.
- Coordinate domestic and international travel, process expense reports and assist with budget management for travel and events.
- Own and help manage the rhythm of the business in close partnership with the leadership team. This includes ensuring meeting agendas match business priorities, taking notes and following up on action items.
- Schedule and coordinate logistics for conferences, customer webinars and special events (both onsite & virtual).
- Lead, drive and execute on various team events, socials, offsite meetings, etc.
- Meet deadlines by maintaining an organised approach and knowing how to prioritise and coordinate multiple work activities in a fast-paced environment.
- Provide program management services to the APJ Customer First Leadership team for key programs around initiatives such as enablement and fun.
- Assist with building slides for presentations, team All Hand meetings and other activities based on inputs from leaders.
- Run reports and prepare data for weekly review. (Support and training will be provided).
Your qualifications and experience:
- A minimum of 4+ years work experience as an Executive Assistant supporting multiple remote leaders
- Ability to actively manage projects in a fast-moving, high-pressure environment.
- Flexibility working independently or partnering with a variety of teams with flexibility to travel as needed (up to 10%).
- Proven ability to interact senior team members, vendors and leaders
- Ability to be flexible in response to changing priorities and needs.
- Extensive experience with an arrangement of schedules and logistics, at times, across multiple time zones with expertise in productivity and collaboration tools such as Google Workspace, Slack and Zoom
- Ability to work on multiple projects, lead priorities and accurately set expectations
- Extraordinary time management skills and attention to detail
- Strong communication, planning, organizational and analytical skills
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Willing to learn or experience in the following areas is a bonus
- Experience in running reports and exporting data into gSheets
- Experience in organising Customer Webinars
What you’ll need to be successful :
- Adaptable – has demonstrated flexibility in the face of change.
- Organized - has good time, space and task management skills.
- Proactive - has the ability to foresee problems and prevent them by taking action.
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