If you were an Executive Assistant now, here are some of the core activities you would be doing:
- Providing exceptional and proactive administrative support with scheduling, calendar, and expense management
- Organizing international and domestic travel arrangements
- Developing agendas, meeting minutes, and presentation materials; attending meetings as required to stay on top of follow-up actions and next steps
- Drafting email correspondence on behalf of your leader and maintaining an organized inbox
- Ensuring clear communication and alignment across multiple teams and office locations
- Providing general administrative support to the broader Process Operations team as required
Here are some of the things you could be working on in the future:
- Working towards your own professional development goals based on your areas of interest in the business
- Working cross functionally and collaborating to ensure both physical and digital meetings run smoothly
- Spearheading the Live It culture by setting up activities and outings for the community
Are you our next Executive Assistant?
- You have 3 + years of Executive Assistant experience and you are looking to grow your career as an EA
- 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 know how to prioritize and effectively manage the logistics of an Executive’s schedule: pre-reads, agendas and following up on action items are second nature to you
- You have excellent verbal and written communication skills
- 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.
