Travelling Executive Assistant To Unique Entrepreneur

Unique, incredible and market-leading are expressions that are far overused in the world of recruitment advertising. Just because you call a role unique doesn’t mean it actually is.

This leaves me in a quandary because if you’re reading this and you see a role described as amazing and unique, you’re probably thinking… “Here we go again”, but what if it is a role that ACTUALLY is amazing?

What if it is truly unique?

This role is working as an Executive Assistant to support a human dynamo, in the old days they’d be called a workaholic but in today's world they’re a hustler – they get deals done, they move quickly, they travel an amount of time that doctors would probably advise against, they’re building, they’re growing their business, their life and their influence in their space.

It’s exciting…but supporting this person is more than a job, it must, in order to be successful, become a way of life.

You’ll travel with the Principal – we’re talking United States, Europe, Asia, Middle East and this will take up approximately 40% of the role and 60% based in their HQ in New York.

You are the keeper of everything – nothing changes in schedules, commitments or itineraries without your say-so, and although the Principal has a dedicated Private PA who travels 100% of the time with them, every change is approved by you.

You’ll build and create the most complex travel itineraries and at times I promise in advance it will seem almost impossible, but if there’s a way to make it happen you’ll be the in-house magician that makes it so.

You’ll ensure the Principal is ready for anything and everything – every meeting, every possible outcome you’ll know who they’re meeting, when and what they need to discuss, you’ll run multiple email accounts – this is no small part of the job, receiving hundreds of actionable emails every single day involving multiple step communication to ensure the right reply is sent.

You’ll become the eyes and ears of the Principal who travels in total around 80% of the year, often for sustained periods and you’ll be the link, the lynchpin between them and their wider team.

As you would expect in a role as important as this, the Client has some specific requirements, and you will have to be a proven EA within a fast-paced environment with a slant on supporting an Entrepreneur who moves at speed.

You’re going to be super smart – street-wise, and as good at finding solutions – these solutions are complex, challenging and will require agile thinking and methods. You won’t be an ‘office hours’ type of person but instead, focus on the work required to get the answer.

Given the Principals international presence, your role will require an always-on approach and whilst not always 24/7 there are going to be large trips where this is more prominent to support across multiple timezones.

You’re going to have the wherefore and personality to understand your role; why you’re here, what you’re helping achieve and where it can go.

There are high-paid EA roles all over the internet; very wealthy people outsource parts of their lives to EAs but this job is more than that.

It’s about understanding.

It’s about growing.

It’s about becoming.

It's about becoming part of an inner circle that could take your career to a whole new level.

And for those reasons I am proud to call this one, truly ‘unique’.