Executive Assistant to the CEO

The company’s last Executive Assistant to the CEO was promoted and is now a director within one of the company’s divisions. You will be responsible for collaboratively supporting our CEO as he drives the company forward. Your responsibilities will be focused in several areas:

• Business administration
• Analysis, Reporting
• Coordination of people, tasks, and events

This position requires tact, diplomacy, discretion, and attention to detail. Business administration responsibilities will lean heavily on Microsoft Office, especially MS Excel. Analysis and reporting responsibilities will require the ability to learn reporting functionality within the company’s accounting system quickly, our proprietary management system and Google Analytics. You will coordinate public and private company events, oversee the staff task management, and convey the CEO’s directives throughout the organization.

Required skills and experience

The ideal candidate possesses the following key characteristics:

• Unquestionable honesty, integrity, and ethics.
• Detail-oriented, discrete, and deadline-oriented.
• Above-average intelligence and the ability to learn quickly.
• Outgoing, positive, supportive, proactive, and always taking the initiative.
• Internally driven to achieve personally and professionally.
• Strong American English (B2 or better) written and verbal communication skills.

Required skills and experience are as follows:

• At least B2/C1 or better English, written, verbal and presentation communication.
• Advanced MS Office knowledge, including Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, Word, SharePoint and Outlook.
• Comfortable communicating with vendors, customers, employees, and other stakeholders at all levels.
• At least 2 years of experience as an executive assistant to the CEO, project manager, or comparable role.