Senior Executive Assistant

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Karo is at an exciting stage in its journey to become a €1 billion European leader in consumer healthcare.

Our purpose is to deliver better everyday health through smart choices and after a series of exciting acquisitions, we now own a strong portfolio of consumer healthcare brands, including Lamisil, E45, Decubal, Nailner, CCS, Multi-Gyn, Flux, Paracet, Alpha Foods, Remescar and Nutravita across Global markets.

Alongside a continued active M&A agenda, our target is to accelerate the growth of our current brand portfolio, growing 7-10% CAGR over the next 3 years. For our priority brands, this means double-digit growth, equating to growth well ahead of the category. To achieve this, we must serve consumers better than the competition and for Karo, this requires a transformation in how we build our brands, innovate and go to market.

Currently we are looking for an Senior Executive Assistant to support our Chief Marketing Officer and Chief Commercial Officer, both based in the UK, in their daily business operations. Are you passionate about healthcare and driven to help on an Executive level? Then we have the right challenge for you!

Responsibilities

• Organise CCO/CMO's time and focus, prioritised against a deep understanding of Karo's business and growth strategy, and the commercial annual, quarterly, monthly and weekly needs. Re-evaluate and reset priorities, working with calendar on a live, highly dynamic basis. Master-minding calendar/global, European and UK travel scheduling
• Organise key commercial meetings, including annual budget reviews, quarterly market visits, monthly leadership team meetings, liaising with teams to set agendas, circulate pre-reads and organise logistics
• Drive follow ups/delivery from CCO/CMO's direct reports, ensuring high quality materials and content are in place on time in full, for key board meetings and key working sessions in the business calendar
• Help CCO/CMO 'knit' together their priorities, organisations and business rhythm, identifying opportunities for efficiency and support in highly sensitive work, e.g due diligence for future M&As and potential integrations and synergy projects
• Help the CCO/CMO to build strong external networks and working relationships with key commercial and marketing partners. Proactively identify these and act as the interface
• Support CCO/CMO in the development of their direct reporting teams (Commercial Leadership Team and Brand Growth Leadership team,) creating and orchestrating regular high performing & inspirational remote and face to face team building and connection sessions

Requirements

• Extensive senior executive admin experience in a fast moving, consumer-focused environment, ideally within commercial teams
• Exceptional organisational and administration skills with the ability to prioritise workload, working with tight deadlines whilst maintaining an excellent eye for detail
• Experience of interacting with C-Suite executives, internal and external executives, and senior managers
• Confident in analysing facts and data and KPI measurement and strong ability to manage defined departmental budgets, including T&E budget
• Skilled at collaborating with all levels of the organisation, with high level of awareness of interdepartmental relationships
• Motivated by Karo's mission to improve people's everyday health
• Highly proactive, problem-solving attitude, combined with a clear responsibility for delivery and results

Benefits

• Opportunity to create, grow, and encourage
• Apart from a competitive salary pack, there are lots of growth opportunities to meet your personal ambitions
• Flexible schedule and life work balance
• Responsibility for exciting and challenging projects that have a direct, visible impact on our customers and the industry
• Very positive, growth-orientated work environment, as part of a diverse, international and motivated team
• Start-up spirit while being a part of the large international organization with strong values

Karo Healthcare has a Diverse & Inclusive environment. We are looking for qualified candidates irrespective of gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, ethnicity, race, religion, national origin, disability or age.