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Ref: KP877-146
Job description / Role
Purpose: To provide efficient and effective organizational support to GCFO, helping him develop, prioritize and manage his agenda of critical business priorities. This will be a temporary position for 5 months, starting in November 2015.
Principal Accountabilities
Agenda Prioritizing
- Define an agenda of priorities for the direct reports, identifying, detailing and obtaining buy-in for key initiatives that should be of focus
- Prepare briefings on meetings to ensure that GCFO is fully prepared for all engagements
- Accompany GCFO to all meetings to document meeting minutes and action items, ensuring ownership and accountability for execution
- Pro-actively review GCFO's agenda and ensure it reflects critical priorities and changing business dynamics
Agenda Management
- Schedule progress update meetings between GCFO and his direct reports and the committees and groups to which he is a member
- Develop and agree effective meeting agendas in advance to ensure urgent matters are prioritized and given appropriate attention
- Demonstrate the highest levels of professionalism, integrity and diplomacy to follow up progress and resolution of action items as assigned in the meetings
- Pro-actively track and report progress of outstanding action items, troubleshooting issues where necessary and escalating for GCFO's attention when appropriate
- Validate that action items have been implemented and his agenda is on track
Ad-hoc Projects & Support
- Project manage ad-hoc assignments as directed
- Identify, propose and implement improvements to the way the his office is managed
- Prepare power point presentation as required by the GCFO
Requirements
- People skills including decision making and collaborating with internal and external parties.
- Good oral and written English communication.
- Proficient in Office application with sound knowledge in Oracle application.
- Bachelors degree or relevant qualifications
- Minimum 5 years industry experience
About the Company
Al Ghurair is a diversified industrial group based in Dubai with operations spanning more than 50 countries globally. With a rich history of pioneering businesses and technologies, this heritage of innovative success is built upon values of excellence in the products developed and the processes followed. Our Core Areas of Expertise are Foods, Commodities, Construction and Properties. And furthermore, our additional areas of focus include Energy, Printing, Retail and Education.