The Role
Provide high-quality executive and personal assistant support to senior leaders, managing calendars, travel and visas, meetings and logistics, correspondence, filings, and stakeholder communications. Prepare presentations, maintain office systems, and act as a confidential point of contact across an international organization during a 4-month maternity cover.
Summary Generated by Built In
VEON is a Nasdaq-listed global digital operator that serves more than 150 million customers with connectivity and about 120 million monthly active users with digital services in some of the world’s most exciting frontier markets. Operating across 5 countries that are home to nearly 520 million people, in other words more than 6% of the world’s population, VEON transforms lives through technology-driven services that empower individuals and drive economic growth.
With VEON’s Digital Operator 1440 vision and strategy, VEON Group companies redefine the engagement that telecom operators have with their customers, providing the best digital experience to customers up to 1440 minutes in a day. We transform not only the daily experience of the final users, but also support the growth of enterprises and industries as a whole, using cutting-edge technologies in AI, big-data and cloud services to serve our business customers.
This is all underpinned by a commitment to sustainability, ensuring VEON’s operations are run safely and ethically while fostering digital entrepreneurship and greater digital skills and literacy in the communities in which VEON operates. VEON’s values-based approach works to strengthen trust by building a responsible and sustainable business that benefits customers, employees, communities, and shareholders.
VEON’s international leadership team is drawn from experienced executives from around the world and has been led by CEO Kaan Terzioğlu since July 2021.
Position Summary
VEON is seeking a highly organized, proactive, and experienced Executive Assistant to be based in Dubai. This is a hands-on, fast-paced role for someone who thrives in dynamic, international environments and excels at managing competing priorities with discretion and precision. The ideal candidate will have a strong track record of supporting senior executives in complex, global organizations, demonstrating exceptional organizational, communication, and stakeholder management skills. They will possess the judgment and professionalism to act as a trusted partner to leadership, the agility to anticipate needs before they arise, and the drive to ensure seamless execution across calendars, travel, meetings, and strategic priorities.
This is a 4-month fixed-term contract role providing maternity cover.
Key Responsibilities
- Providing high quality personal assistant support to the Chief Corporate Development Officer as well as Group Chief People team
- Acting as the point of contact among executives across VEON footprint, employees, clients and other external partners
- Managing information flow in a timely and accurate manner
- Managing/maintaining diaries and arranging meetings
- Organizing travel schedules and preparing itineraries, arranging visas if applicable
- Filtering messages, incoming telephone calls and all other forms of correspondence as appropriate
- Organizing conference calls, meetings and all logistics involved (hotel, transport etc.)
- Establishing and maintaining efficient office systems, e.g. correspondence management, filing etc.
- Making draft correspondence/presentations (PowerPoint) as required
- Managing of several overviews relevant for the VEON
Critical Skills & Experience
- Proven experience as an Executive Assistant to the management team or a Board level executive
- Experience with working in an international environment
- Excellent knowledge of MS Office (Word, PowerPoint, Excel)
- Fluency in English is a must
- Ability to prioritize and work under pressure
- Flexible in approach and being prepared to work outside normal working hours
- Bachelor’s degree
- Highly confidential with a superb high attention to detail
VEON Manifesto Principles
- At VEON we are motivated by our purpose: “Better Life for All”.
- We define it in terms of the freedom to access opportunity, anywhere, anytime, regardless of background or circumstance.
- “Better Life for All” begins with clarity, knowing what matters most to our customers and all stakeholders.
- We cut through noise and master complexity to deliver clear, tangible value for all.
- VEON is a company of bold, creative pioneers who turn challenges into opportunities and bring innovation that leapfrogs barriers.
- We believe that progress is not discovered, it is created.
- Excellence is not a goal post; it is a mindset. We set bold standards in product quality, service, value and communication.
- We seek constant improvement, never settling on past achievements or the comfort of routines.
- We focus on action over theory, purpose and clarity over bureaucracy and rituals.
- Our processes are designed with clarity and simplicity to enable a fast-paced, lean, ambitious organization that delivers progress, never compromising on integrity.
- We hire for potential, drive, curiosity, diversity, and growth mindset, not just past credentials.
- We develop talent who take bold bets and drive growth for our stakeholders.
- We take risks and do not fear making mistakes, because we learn from them and grow with them.
- We speak the truth candidly and respectfully, while leading with empathy.
- We aim for bold impact at scale. We seek game-changing innovations that can potentially reach hundreds of millions of people and fundamentally change the ways we do business.
- We measure ourselves by the positive changes we create for our stakeholders.
- We reward outcomes, impact, and results that drive shareholder value without compromising on integrity.
- We reward exceptional performance delivered through an unwavering commitment to ethical standards.
- We unite through collaboration, unity, trust, and a shared purpose.
- We channel our collaborative resilience into long-term growth for our people, customers and shareholders, we stay strong and keep moving.
- We rise to every challenge, learn from adversity, and grow stronger. We embrace grit and perseverance as drivers of progress.
- We turn setbacks into lessons that make us stronger.
Our Purpose is “Better Life for All”
Clarity is Our Superpower
Our Pioneering Spirit Defines Us
We Fight Against Mediocrity
We Put Results Above Rituals
We Hire for Potential and Drive
Courage Fuels Our Leadership
We Aim for Audacious Impact
We Incentivize with Integrity
We Stand Strong Together
We Never Give Up
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Do you want to be part of a team that serves over 150 million customers across 5 dynamic markets? Do you want to pioneer new experiences for hundreds of millions in emerging economies? Do you feel at home working in a truly diverse and inclusive environment? We are VEON, a global digital operator and we scale new heights never thought possible.
Our DE&I Vision is:
Creating an Inclusive World for All – Inside and Beyond VEON
We aspire to create an Inclusive world for all by providing Equal voice and representation, driving growth with diverse and inclusive teams, that create products that serve Diverse needs of our customers across all dimensions of life from connectivity to digital financial inclusion, education, health and entertainment, and creating value for our people, our partners, and communities.
Skills Required
- Proven experience as an Executive Assistant to senior management or Board-level executives
- Experience working in an international environment
- Excellent knowledge of MS Office (Word, PowerPoint, Excel)
- Fluency in English
- Bachelor's degree
- Ability to prioritize and work under pressure
- Flexible approach and willingness to work outside normal working hours
- Highly confidential with superb attention to detail
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The Company
What We Do
VEON is a global digital operator headquartered in Dubai, providing connectivity and digital services across dynamic frontier markets that are home to more than 7% of the world’s population. With our digital operators, we transform lives through technology-driven services that empower millions and drive economic growth. Social media guidelines: We want everybody to have a positive and welcoming experience across the social media channels we use - and so we ask that everyone keeps their comments and discussions on VEON's page, or posts tagging the company, respectful to other members and our teams. Content which is abusive or harassing, obscene, deceptive or misleading, contains false or defamatory information, is discriminatory against any individual or group, or is considered spam may be removed - including reporting and blocking users responsible from our social media channels.
