About the Role
The Real Pet Food Company is seeking an exceptional Executive Assistant to the CEO & Executive Leadership Team to operate at the centre of a growing, ambitious, and purpose-led business. This role is for an experienced executive partner who understands commercial context, anticipates needs, and manages strategic assets like the CEO's diary and Board meetings.
Responsibilities
- Own and optimise the CEO's complex and dynamic executive cadence
- Coordinate high-quality Executive Leadership Team and Board governance processes
- Prepare and coordinate agendas, papers, minutes, decisions and action registers
- Track commitments through to completion and confidently follow up senior stakeholders
- Anticipate executive needs and proactively remove friction before it becomes a problem
- Support the CEO and ELT through competing priorities, rapid change and high-stakes moments
- Coordinate complex travel, events, expenses and confidential business matters
- Lead the Office Administrator/Receptionist and contribute to a highly professional office environment
Requirements
- Must have operated at a senior EA level with experience supporting a C-Suite of Executives
- Understand the pace, expectations, and discretion required
- Commercially curious
- Politically astute without being political
- Confident around senior leaders and Board members
- Able to respectfully challenge, influence, and follow up without formal authority
- Highly organised, but flexible
- Detail-oriented, but commercially minded
- Calm under pressure and capable of making sound decisions
- Comfortable working independently, but enjoys being part of a team
- Have full work rights in Australia
Skills
- Executive support
- Diary management
- Board governance coordination
- Agenda preparation
- Minute taking
- Action tracking
- Stakeholder follow-up
- Proactive problem-solving
- Travel coordination
- Event coordination
- Expense management
- Confidentiality
- Office administration leadership
- Communication
- Influence
- Flexibility
- Attention to detail
- Commercial acumen
- Decision-making
Location
- Crows Nest
Work Type
- Onsite
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior level
- Experience supporting C-Suite Executives
About the Company
- The Real Pet Food Company has an ambition to change the game in pet food.
- They work as a pack, make their mark, lead with passion, and challenge themselves to change the game.
Equal Opportunity
- Proudly an Equal Opportunity Employer.
- Diversity is in their DNA; diverse perspectives shape their culture and make their work better.
- Committed to building inclusive teams that represent a variety of backgrounds and skills.
- Provide reasonable adjustments and accessibility assistance.
- Allow candidates to note pronouns at any stage of the hiring process.
