Personal Assistant to the CEO

Black Pearl

Abu Dhabi, UAE

Ref: RP174-387

Job description / Role

Employment: Full Time

Our client, a leading Investment company, is currently looking for Personal Assistant to the CEO for their Abu Dhabi office. The candidate we are looking for has most likely come from a Real Estate Development or other project related industry / PMO office environment, and will be highly skilled with coordinating, tracking and reporting on broader operational tasks, and managing multiple stakeholders with professionalism, tact and diplomacy. In this role, you will be responsible for:

• Acting as the gatekeeper’ for the CEO, and point of contact amongst multiple stakeholders (internal/external) vying for his time, requires strong coordination and prioritisation skills, as well as the ability to think calmly, decisively and problem solve effectively
• Ensuring accurate management of the CEO office function, his schedule, and commitments (meetings and travel management)
• Management of agenda’s, accurate centralised recording and archiving of meeting minutes and actions plans.
• Tracking and reporting of actions against completion timelines and ‘red-flagging’ items that look likely to become risks or issues. The candidate we seek is likely to have a strong exposure to project environments and project management methodologies.
• Actively seeking to remedy low-level administrative / coordination issues, but escalates appropriately to CEO when an issues is outside of own sphere of control.
• Will (in time) have broader responsibilities for overseeing the internal office standards, ensuring visitor experience is in alignment with the branding or other standards, and may have supervisory responsibility for some office support teams

Requirements

The ideal candidate should have:
• Strong working experience with Senior level Management– eligible candidates will have previous experience reporting to and supporting a C-Suite Executive e.g. Chairman, CEO / Group CEO, CFO etc.
• Willing to travel as and when required.
• Holistic Thinker with Excellent Judgment
• Excellent Communicator – adjusts communication appropriately for the situation and audience. Uses diplomacy skills when required, but is equally adept at pushing-back when necessary

About the Company

Black Pearl is a human resources and recruitment agency that provides a holistic business and talent solution in a progressive, dynamic, and efficient way.

We pride ourselves as a unique black pearl and strive to delight our clients with a personalized partnership that helps them propel towards success.

Whether you need to find top talent, your next great job opportunity, or a consulting solution for managing your business, engaging employees, evolving your work culture, planning your people strategy, or resourcing challenges, we can help.

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Personal Assistant salaries in UAE

Average monthly compensation
AED 10,000

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