Global Entertainment Division
The mission of this role is simple: help the President Global Entertainment Division and the Global Entertainment Leadership Team spend their time on the right things, in the right sequence, with the right people, at the right moment.
Onsite role in Erlanger, KY, must be onsite 2-3 days a week. Must have international experience.
Role
Executive Support & Prioritization
- Manage complex calendars, travel, logistics and sensitive administrative processes for the President Global Entertainment Division and selected members of the Global Entertainment Leadership Team.
- Anticipate upcoming priorities, stakeholder needs, key decisions and potential conflicts, taking proactive action before issues become urgent.
- Sequence meetings, activities and commitments to maximize preparation, focus and effective decision-making.
- Provide thoughtful recommendations and constructive challenge when priorities compete or schedules become overloaded.
Leadership Team Effectiveness
- Coordinate leadership meetings, business reviews, workshops and offsites from preparation through follow-up.
- Track actions, decisions and commitments, ensuring key priorities continue to move forward.
- Support alignment and information flow across regions, functions and leadership teams.
Stakeholder Management & Communication
- Build effective partnerships with the Group CEO's office, executive assistants, chiefs of staff and regional leadership support teams.
- Coordinate across multiple executives, teams, functions and selected external partners to ensure alignment, collaboration and smooth execution.
- Prepare high-quality presentations, executive communications and leadership materials.
- Act as a connector who brings people together, encourages constructive dialogue and helps avoid unnecessary organizational friction.
Continuous Improvement
- Challenge existing ways of working and identify opportunities to simplify processes, improve coordination and increase leadership team effectiveness.
- Help establish more effective ways of working across a global leadership team.
- Bring structure and discipline while remaining pragmatic, flexible and solutions-oriented.
Administration
- Process expense reports, purchase orders, invoices, contracts and other confidential administrative documents with accuracy and discretion.
- Ensure executive support processes are handled professionally, efficiently and reliably.
Profile
- Relevant education or equivalent experience, plus at least 8 years supporting senior executives in an international business environment.
- Strong anticipation skills and the ability to identify emerging needs, risks and opportunities.
- Excellent planning skills, with the ability to organize complex priorities, sequence activities and bring structure to a dynamic environment.
- Strong execution and follow-through, ensuring commitments, actions and decisions are completed on time and to a high standard.
- Comfortable working across cultures, functions and geographical regions, including close collaboration with the Group CEO's office and executive support teams globally.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to prepare engaging presentations, executive communications and leadership materials.
- Exercises sound judgement, tact and discretion when handling sensitive information, navigating stakeholder dynamics and separating signal from noise.
- Comfortable providing constructive challenge and helping leaders navigate competing priorities and difficult trade-offs.
- High level of professionalism and integrity.
- Proficient with Microsoft 365 and comfortable leveraging modern digital and AI-enabled tools.
Skills Required
- At least 8 years supporting senior executives in an international business environment
- Relevant education or equivalent experience
- Strong anticipation skills to identify emerging needs, risks and opportunities
- Excellent planning skills to organize complex priorities and sequence activities
- Strong execution and follow-through to ensure commitments and decisions are completed on time
- Comfortable working across cultures, functions and geographical regions
- Strong written and verbal communication skills and ability to prepare presentations and executive materials
- Exercises sound judgement, tact and discretion when handling sensitive information
- Proficient with Microsoft 365 and comfortable leveraging modern digital and AI-enabled tools
- High level of professionalism and integrity
What We Do
Cartamundi is the worldwide leader in “play” solutions, such as playing cards, card & board games, and collectibles & trading card games. Its team of approx. 3,400 people is united in providing every person the possibility to “Live Different, Play Different.” To achieve this, the family-owned company, now in its 8th generation, and headquartered in Belgium, operates a global network of three design, 15 sales offices and 12 manufacturing facilities, stretching from the United States and Latin America across to Europe and Japan. This worldwide presence reflects its name, Cartamundi, meaning ‘cards for the world.’ The company houses a global brand portfolio that includes a suite of heritage brands such as Bicycle®, Bee®, Copag®, and many other locally loved brands. Simultaneously, Cartamundi is a trusted manufacturing and distribution solutions partner for leading toy and entertainment companies. Given the Cartamundi printing presses have been running since 1796, the company draws on a rich tradition, whilst at the same time stimulating innovation in digital experiences to stay relevant today and tomorrow. Cartamundi pursues a strategy of sustainable and profitable growth whilst still preserving our planet and keeping the company in excellent condition for generations to come. Learn more about what we do at https://www.cartamundi.com
