Executive Assistant
McKinsey & Company
Administration
Zürich, Switzerland
Posted on Oct 21, 2024
Executive Assistant
Job ID: 92495
Do you want to do work that matters, alongside supportive leaders who will help you grow faster than you ever thought possible? Are you a creative problem-solver who is energized by challenges? You’ve come to the right place.
Who You'll Work With
You will work closely with 2 of our senior partners/ partners, providing dedicated support, proactively organizing and managing their complex workday and creating close meaningful external relations. You will be in daily contact with national and international colleagues and clients, as well as planning internal and external events. You will work in a warm, caring, and fun work atmosphere in the center of Zurich with highly motivated professionals as your colleagues.
You will become part of a team of professional and dedicated executive assistants, who on a daily basis help and support each other.
Your impact within our firm
You will proactively manage your partner’s complex calendar and travel arrangements, provide broad administrative support, manage incoming communications, and prioritize emails to help organize and leverage time effectively as well as drive ad hoc tasks of various sizes and complexity. Organizing small events will also be part of your job.
You will work with client assistants, internal colleagues, and other executive assistants worldwide.
As a person, you are proactive, entrepreneurial, and resilient with a professional can-do-attitude and always willing to go the extra mile. You find it exciting, challenging, and rewarding to successfully solve problems as part of your every-day job. You remain service-minded in your approach, exhibit a high level of professionalism and exercise discretion.
Your qualifications and skills
- Experience as an executive assistant or in a similar fast-paced and high-standard environment
- Customer-oriented mindset and approach: focus on how to best support our partners, clients and colleagues
- Entrepreneurial, highly motivated, with great organizational skills, the ability to perform calendar scheduling as well as other administrative tasks
- Enjoys working in a fast-paced and changing environment
- Reliable, detail-oriented and can handle expenses and timesheets with accuracy and care
- Proactive self-starter with a positive can-do attitude
- Excellent written and spoken communication skills in English and Swedish at native level
- Comfortable with Microsoft Office tools
- Ability to work efficiently towards improvements and embrace challenges as opportunities for development
Please review the additional requirements regarding essential job functions of McKinsey colleagues.
FOR U.S. APPLICANTS: McKinsey & Company is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.
FOR NON-U.S. APPLICANTS: McKinsey & Company is an Equal Opportunity employer. For additional details regarding our global EEO policy and diversity initiatives, please visit our McKinsey Careers and Diversity & Inclusion sites.
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Job Skill Group - CSSA
Job Skill Code - EA - Executive Assistant
Function - Firm Administration
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Post to LinkedIn - Yes
Posted to LinkedIn Date - Mon Oct 21 00:00:00 GMT 2024
LinkedIn Posting City - Zurich
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LinkedIn Posting Country - Switzerland
LinkedIn Job Title - Executive Assistant
LinkedIn Function - Administrative;Customer Service;Project Management
LinkedIn Industry - Management Consulting
LinkedIn Seniority Level - Associate
Job Skill Code - EA - Executive Assistant
Function - Firm Administration
Industry -
Post to LinkedIn - Yes
Posted to LinkedIn Date - Mon Oct 21 00:00:00 GMT 2024
LinkedIn Posting City - Zurich
LinkedIn Posting State/Province -
LinkedIn Posting Country - Switzerland
LinkedIn Job Title - Executive Assistant
LinkedIn Function - Administrative;Customer Service;Project Management
LinkedIn Industry - Management Consulting
LinkedIn Seniority Level - Associate