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Executive Assistant (Senior Level)

OutsideCapital · Durban

Senior 🇬🇧 English

Job description

About the role

This senior‑level Executive Assistant position supports a key business owner within a fast‑growing continental group. The role demands absolute trust, autonomy, and the ability to manage both complex business priorities and sensitive personal matters.

Key responsibilities

  • Manage a constantly shifting, multi‑time‑zone diary and prioritize competing business demands.
  • Act as the primary liaison, filtering and directing communications between the executive and internal/external stakeholders.
  • Prepare high‑quality executive materials, including detailed reports, presentations, and meeting packs.
  • Coordinate local and international travel, ensuring seamless itineraries and logistics.
  • Handle all correspondence with professionalism, discretion, and confidentiality.
  • Track critical actions, follow up rigorously, and ensure timely delivery of commitments.
  • Manage highly sensitive personal matters with sound judgment.
  • Anticipate future needs, identify potential roadblocks, and implement effective resolutions independently.

Required profile

  • 8–10+ years supporting a senior executive, business owner, or MD equivalent.
  • Proven success in a demanding, fast‑paced environment with consistently high standards.
  • Exceptional organisational and time‑management skills under pressure.
  • Unwavering reliability, discretion, and mature professional judgment.
  • Clear, confident written and verbal communication.
  • Ability to engage and build rapport with senior stakeholders.
  • Demonstrated independence and proactive problem‑solving.

Required skills

  • Strong proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint).

What we offer

  • Direct exposure to executive decision‑making across a diverse group structure.
  • Opportunity to influence strategic priorities in a dynamic, expanding organization.

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OutsideCapital

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