Executive Assistant to CEO – Abu Dhabi

🏢 Irwin & Dow
📍 Abu Dhabi, United Arab EmiratesFull-timeOn-site
📅 Posted: 3mo ago🔄 Updated: 3mo ago
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This full-time Executive Assistant role in Abu Dhabi supports a highly influential CEO of a company with nearly 100 years of history. The position requires significant C-suite support experience, complex matrix structure navigation, and excellent organizational skills. Key responsibilities include extensive travel and diary management, reporting, stakeholder engagement with C-suite members, CFO, and Legal Counsel, as well as external engagement with government and business leaders. The role also involves managing board logistics and offering strategic insights. Ideal candidates are career Executive Assistants with international experience, adept at prioritizing, critical thinking, emotional intelligence, and maintaining professionalism and confidentiality. Fluent English communication is essential. This is a demanding but rewarding role.
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PrioritizationCritical ThinkingEmotional IntelligenceProfessionalism
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🎁 Benefits & Perks
superb stability, structure and opportunity
Requirements
Candidates must have fluent spoken and written English, an international working focus, be adept at prioritizing tasks, pivoting quickly, displaying critical thinking and emotional intelligence, and managing pressure with maturity. They should be able to represent the CEO with professionalism and discretion, maintaining the highest levels of confidentiality.
Description
Job description / Role Job Type Full Time Job Location Abu Dhabi, UAE Nationality France, Italy, New Zealand, United Kingdom, Australia Salary Not Specified Gender Female Arabic Fluency Not Specified Job Function Administration & Secretarial Company Industry Business Support Services A legacy that endures, our client has almost 100 years of history in the region and operates on a truly global platform. As they continue to push expansion and growth, with strong international ideology and vision internationally, they offer superb stability, structure and opportunity. To support this highly influential and extremely busy CEO, we are seeking the very best of the best! We are seeking candidates who are ‘career’ Executive Assistants, demonstrating significant C-Suite support experience within multinational organisations. Candidates who have worked within complex matrix structures and can manage across many different verticals. Juggling priorities will take on a new meaning in this position; it is essential that candidates are superbly organised and can work collaboratively across the business. Working one on one with this traditional CEO, core EA responsibilities, including significant travel and dairy management will be a day to day component, plus reporting across the group with extensive internal stakeholder engagement with other members of the C-Suite, liaising with CFO over budgets and operational oversight and with Legal Counsel, reviewing legal documentation and contracts on behalf of the CEO, requiring exceptional diligence. Considerable external stakeholder engagement will also be required, with members of government both local and globally, trade officials and further business leaders globally. Importantly, the role also engages with the Senior Advisor to the Board and manages all the complex Board logistics as well as offering insight on strategy. The CEO has a highly demanding schedule, and the successful applicant will be adept at prioritizing tasks and pivoting quickly with the minimum of fuss and disruption. The successful candidates will display high levels of critical thinking and emotional intelligence; managing pressure and deadlines with maturity and focus. The EA will be able to represent the CEO with absolute professionalism and discretion and maintain the highest levels of confidentiality. To be considered for the role, candidates must have fluent spoken communication and written capabilities in English and have an international working focus. This is a very busy and demanding role; however dedication and commitment will be highly rewarded. Requirements: The CEO has a highly demanding schedule, and the successful applicant will be adept at prioritizing tasks and pivoting quickly with the minimum of fuss and disruption. The successful candidates will display high levels of critical thinking and emotional intelligence; managing pressure and deadlines with maturity and focus. The EA will be able to represent the CEO with absolute professionalism and discretion and maintain the highest levels of confidentiality. To be considered for the role, candidates must have fluent spoken communication and written capabilities in English and have an international working focus. This is a very busy and demanding role; however dedication and commitment will be highly rewarded. About the Company Irwin & Dow was established in 2013 to provide clients with a unique and highly personalised recruitment service, providing the very top calibre of candidates across the business support and secretarial function. We provide a refreshing approach, working in close partnership with clients and candidates across diverse industry sectors; large MNC’s, government & semi -government entities, SME’s, local businesses and in the start-up and UHNWI support framework. Great people equal great success: all our candidates are interviewed personally by a member of the team, and we develop longstanding and in-depth relationships with our clients, understanding their corporate culture and goals to ensure a successful outcome for both parties. Our values of discretion and diplomacy are paramount, and we are pleased to be a partner of choice for clients and candidates. Easy Apply
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