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Senior Executive Assistant

HybridSydney, New South Wales, Australia

Full TimeSenior LevelLarge

Job Summary

Run the executive's calendar, inbox, and travel logistics, exercising judgment to protect their time and prioritize critical attention. Own the prep for leadership meeting cadences and coordinate major organizational moments like global events and offsites. Build scalable workflows for recurring processes, diagnose friction points, and redesign underlying operations to improve org efficiency. Manage sensitive people matters with discretion while handling personal touches and team recognition events. Navigate a dense web of relationships across senior leader support teams to ensure timelines and deliverables stay on track.

Required Qualifications

  • 5+ years' experience partnering 1:1 with a senior leader
  • ability to point to specific examples of protecting their time or capacity at real scale
  • ability to own a defined project or process end-to-end
  • comfort holding a lot of moving pieces at once
  • ability to prioritise under pressure without dropping the details that matter
  • ability to build trust quickly across a wide network
  • ability to know when to lean on that network rather than solving everything on your own
  • ability to operate with real autonomy
  • ability to make judgment calls before checking in

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