Executive Business Assistant Specialist

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You'll find a place where you can be yourself, prioritize your wellbeing, and truly belong. What's in it for you? Constant learning, skill growth, great benefits, and a team that wants you to grow and succeed.

This role requires the ability to work independently, manage diverse projects, and handle sensitive and confidential matters with discretion and professionalism.

Key areas of focus:

• Provide executive administrative support to the APAC CMO (50% capacity), with the remaining 50% of support allocated across the APAC Marketing Leadership Team.
• Administrative support includes calendar management, travel coordination, and meeting logistics, ensuring executive and leadership team are well prepared for all engagements.
• Lead and manage events and projects as assigned from planning through execution, including executive visits, All Hands, Town Halls, team offsites in Singapore and other locations, and other internal or external events.
• Provide a bridge for smooth communication between the APAC CMO and internal stakeholders in Market Units, Regional and Global.
• Demonstrate ability to prioritize and handle multiple assignments while maintaining a commitment to deadlines and understanding mid-term and long-term goals.
• Managing diary/calendar and e-mails for the APAC CMO and Leadership Team, potentially also including calls and voicemails.
• Monitoring actions and manage reminders
• Managing internal and potentially external correspondence
• Arranging meetings including facilitating ordering of food and refreshments, and co-ordination of Team Meetings and larger external events.
• Manage end-to-end travel coordination, from booking and logistical coordination to post-travel follow-up and expense management.
• Booking meeting rooms / venues for the team.
• Managing Workflows and monitoring items like vacation requests, purchase orders, internal orders, distribution lists, Inventory etc.
• Perform and monitor purchase activities (e.g. office material, business cards, 3rd Party purchasing), including master data creation and administration, creation of shopping carts, reporting and tracking on purchase orders Updating materials including PowerPoint and excel spreadsheets for meetings and presentations
• Preparation and follow up of meetings including taking meeting minutes.
• Manage shared drives, distribution lists, and communities
• Admin support for new starters into the team to include ordering of equipment and monitoring induction.
• Central contact and all other ad-hoc support as needed by Manager and his/her team.
• Resolving issues with some complexity with limited guidance
• Developing collaborative work relationships within own team and cross-functional, including representation of team towards senior management
• Supporting internal projects, including decision taking within clearly defined framework of departmental guidelines and practices
• Supporting knowledge sharing within the team and prepares decision taking
• Community Building & Best Practice Sharing between different offices
• Proactive and able to identify and solve problems

What are we Looking for:

• 5+ years of experience as secretary, executive assistant or comparable experience, preferably in the technology sector.
• Ability to understand business priorities, proactively anticipate needs, and drive improvements to build capacity for the leadership team.
• Possesses a high level of integrity in handling confidential information in a responsible and discrete manner.
• Trustworthy and reliable individual who is highly responsible and accountable for meeting commitments and deadlines
• Anticipate problems and forward-thinking solutions to ensure the smooth running of the Office.
• Flexibility and agility to learn, work across different time zones, and be open to new ways of working.
• Strong organizational skills that reflect an ability to perform and prioritize multiple tasks seamlessly with excellent attention to detail.
• Very strong interpersonal skills and the ability to build relationships.
• Responsible, team-player, problem solver, detail-oriented with the ability to also be effective independently.
• Technology savvy, proficient in Microsoft Office (Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint).
• Basic understanding of share point and document management to easily organize key resources for access.
• Innovative approach to drive efficiency and optimization in day to day running of APAC CMO’s office
• Displays professionalism in dealing with senior executives internally and externally

Working Arrangement:

• Location: Singapore

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Requisition ID: 444769 | Work Area: Administration | Expected Travel: 0 - 10% | Career Status: Professional | Employment Type: Regular Full Time | Additional Locations: #LI-Hybrid

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