Executive Assistant Full Time

Looking for Executive Assistant Jobs in Dubai? Boston Consulting Group is seeking highly organized and proactive professionals to provide executive-level support in a fast-paced consulting environment. This opportunity is ideal for candidates searching for Executive Assistant Jobs UAE with experience in calendar management, travel coordination, executive communications, business administration, document preparation, stakeholder management, and office operations. If you excel at multitasking and supporting senior leadership, this role offers exceptional career growth with one of the world’s leading management consulting firms.

What You’ll Do

As a dynamic, driven Executive Assistant (EA), you will provide executive administrative support for a team of Managing Director & Partner(s), and/or Partner(s) taking full responsibility for the maintenance of a demanding schedule. Represent BCG to all internal and external contacts in a manner consistent with BCG’s value statement.

While consultants spend most of their time at the client site, back here at home office, the Operations Team that consists of a group of really smart, team-oriented people will surround you. EAs actively participate in office life, are flexible and willing to help fellow team members, and collaborate across functions.

YOU’RE GOOD AT

• Managing and maintaining busy outlook calendars highlighting potential conflicts, managing end-to-end travel logistics (bookings & amendments of flights, hotels, cars etc), conference calls, meetings etc.
• Utilizing efficiency tools such as ShareCal and Loop to improve scheduling effectiveness
• Developing working relationships with external clients and their assistants to facilitate the information flow and scheduling process
• Embracing and utilizing AI-powered tools to enhance productivity and administrative efficiency; proactively seeking opportunities to upskill and integrate emerging technologies into daily workflows
• Maintaining and developing working relationships with various BCG support staff members to maintain information flow and scheduling process
• Organizing and scheduling client and internal meetings and events; prepare logistics/equipment arrangements
• Providing vacation cover to other Executive Assistants
• Coordinating meetings, arranging conference bridges, reserving conference rooms, organizing catering
• Where appropriate preparing and circulating meeting agendas and materials, attend meetings, take and distribute meeting notes, follow up on action items
• Providing administrative support to PA events: prepare invitation mailings, manage responses, arrange catering, venues and on the ground support
• Organizing and maintaining online systems for PA
• Managing client contacts for CRM/Contact Management
• Organizing and maintaining electronic filing system
• Preparing weekly timesheets and expense reports
• Maintain highest level of internal and external confidentiality

Please note that this role is maternity cover for 12 months.

What You’ll Bring

• A minimum of 4-5 years’ experience in a fast-paced environment supporting senior executives is strongly preferred.
• Strong service orientation:
  • Maturity and flexibility to work both independently and in cooperation with others
  • High level of self-motivation and initiative
  • Willingness to exercise good judgment and make decisions based on logic and common sense
• Excellent organizational skills
  • Ability to anticipate alternate solutions and be prepared with contingency plans as needed in a calm and efficient manner
  • Superior attention to detail and accuracy
  • Follow through/ownership of tasks to completion
  • Willingness to consistently check and double-check all aspects of Partner/Principals schedule (including travel, client meeting preparations and materials)
• Ability to multi-task and complete a variety of projects in a fast-paced environment
• Ability and willingness to work overtime on projects and tasks as required
• Knowledge and experience of the Middle East and local practices
• Proficient computer skills: Windows, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook
• Organizational skills: ability to handle competing priorities and to work effectively in a Challenging, fast-paced environment
• Service oriented, flexible, attentive to detail team player
• Ability to respect all BCG information as personal and confidential