
Executive Assistant to Managing Director
- Kuala Lumpur
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Active involvement and participation in business discussions and projects
- Supporting coordination of the projects in terms of timeline, breakdown of tasks and resources required
- Proactive follow up with the team members and key stakeholders on the progress of various projects and proposing next steps to be taken
- Updating project charters based on follow ups with the team
- Support in market and business research activities
- Assist in leads generation and qualification for sales team
- Maintain Salesforce system database and reporting
- Analyze relevant market & customer information and present findings and recommendations proactively to Country Manager and respective Head of Sales
- Preparation of presentations for internal and external meetings
- Preparation of Internal reports
- Reading & understanding the sales & business reports and proactively ask for explanation of the deviations/ corrective actions
- Supporting yearly target and key priorities cascading for the direct reports of the supervisor.
- Tracking target achievement status of Industrial and Automotive sales team
- Full secretarial support to Country Manager (incl. travel arrangements),
- Handle and take care of specific correspondence such as incoming Emails, mail addressed to the Country Manager and documents, if instructed by the Country Manager
- Communicate Country Manager's direction to Country Manager's direct reports and respective functional heads as and when needed
- Arranging and managing the meetings in terms of participants involved, meeting rooms/ external venue, draft agenda for all business meetings (including Town Halls, Head of Department Meetings), minutes taking and action points follow-up.
- Organizing and maintaining calendars in Outlook and making appointments.
- Preparation for customer meetings
- Act as deputy for Country Manager in meetings where Country Manager is absent
- All personnel support topics at site
- Prepare related HR reports
- Attend to SEA marketing meeting, strategy and corporate communication
- To support corporate events and marketing related topics and activities as and when required
- Travel arrangements such as accommodation/flight/taxi/visas/car rental reservation for Manager and visitors
- Travel expense claims settlement
- Responsible for office management, such as office maintenance, CREM management and process, and liaise with building management officer.
- Tracking changes of the Organization charts and Job descriptions for the direct reports of the supervisor
- Maintaining office systems, including data management and filing
- Bachelor's Degree (preferably in business-related field), Min. 3 years relevant work experience
- High proficiency in oral and written communication on all levels (English is a must; one other Asian language is preferred)
- Can work accurately with sophisticated tools such as MS Office, video and web cast equipment, netmeeting, etc.
- Good communication and presentation skills
- Well organized and equipped with a “can-do-attitude”
- Capable of demonstrating a “down-to-earth attitude” at all times
- Good team player
- Independent, self-motivated and loyal working style
- Can treat information with the highest degree of confidentiality
- Friendly and service oriented to employees, customers, suppliers and visitors
- Capable of working under high pressure at certain times
- Great project management and follow-up skills, with the ability to communicate and manage the expectations of different stakeholders, departments and senior management