If you were the Executive Assistant now, here are some of the core activities you would be doing:
- Providing exceptional administrative support with scheduling and calendar management
- Supporting with meeting and special event logistics (e.g., meeting space booking, ordering catering, transportation arrangements, and document preparation)
- Organizing international and domestic travel arrangements
- Organizing and submitting expense reports in a timely manner
- Performing tasks such as running errands and picking up/delivering items
- Ensuring clear communication and alignment across multiple departments
- Maintaining an organized office of the CEO (e.g., ordering stationery and supplies
- Supporting general administration for the Senior EA as required
Here are some of the things you could be working on in the future:
- Developing and implementing process improvements to enable effective operations within the office of the CEO
- Working towards your own professional development goals based on your areas of interest in the business
- Collaborating with other EAs to strengthen support across the organization
Are you our next Executive Assistant?
- You have 5-7 years of executive assistant experience, and you are looking to grow your career as an EA
- You have strong emotional intelligence, discretion, and the ability to maintain confidentiality.
- You are comfortable in a high growth, fast paced environment
- You’re a whiz with the Microsoft Office suite and have excellent business acumen
- You have great time management skills, and naturally utilize sound judgement and prioritization when multi-tasking and juggling competing priorities
- You have strong emotional intelligence, discretion, and the ability to maintain confidentiality
- You’re not afraid of meeting new people, building relationships and creating partnerships across the organization.
- You have a not-so-secret skill as a travel agent and are able to manage complex international multi-leg travel, often requiring continuous changes and rescheduling
- You are able to work flexible hours, weekends and holidays occasionally as needed to support our global business
- You are proactive in identifying the root cause of issues, seeking the best (sometimes not the easiest) solutions with an unwavering commitment to do what is right
- You remain highly flexible and adaptable when faced with ambiguity
- You effectively balance autonomy and collaboration
- You inspire breakthrough thinking and continuous improvement
- Your passion for your work is paralleled by your passion for getting outside and living it
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What We Do
Arc’teryx is a global design company based in North Vancouver, B.C. that specializes in technical high-performance outerwear and equipment. We design and manufacture a wide range of mountain sports outdoor apparel and equipment for all conditions and experiences, including mountaineering, ice and rock climbing, skiing, snowboarding, and trail running.
Our company is built on a passionate and relentless commitment to design, craftsmanship and performance. We have a unique construction process that enables us to create technical products that can be trusted to perform at the point of extreme need. We are uniquely positioned in our industry as we have our own factory located in New Westminster, BC, which enables us to build products with a meticulous focus on detail and performance. We leverage this manufacturing knowledge and share it with our global partner factories.
In the Coast Mountain Range behind our headquarters and design centre in North Vancouver, we field test our products in real world conditions allowing us to create the best-fitting, longest-lasting, highest-performing technical products available. We distribute our outerwear and equipment through more than 3,000 retail locations worldwide, in over 40 countries globally, including 38 branded and outlet stores in Europe, North America and Asia. The company started with six employees in 1989 and now has more than 1000 employees in Canada.






