EM3 Agri Services - Executive Assistant/Senior Manager - Strategy - CEO's Office

Prepare for, and facilitate CEO meetings - Custodian of Governance Process

- Help CEO prioritize things between - Vitals, Essentials, and Desirables

- Create groundwork for CEO for each of the projects/ meetings

- Help CEO meet his schedules - be the policemen at times

- Set objectives and - deliverable- out of each CEO interaction with stakeholders

- Take - To Be Actioned- point from each meeting, create MOMs, assign responsibility and circulate to respective role-holders

- Monitor progress/achievement and discuss & deploy next steps with the CEO

- Work with CEO's Personal Assistant to ensure appropriate and timely communication to participants

Helping CEO manage - current projects

- Develop and maintain critical path for projects

- Be the PMO for all critical projects as assigned by CEO

- Regularly communicate and work with HOD's to align their actions in support of agreed goals.

- Track all projects and ensure that progress is being made in a timely way

- Flag-off non-compliance - let the system know when things are falling through the cracks

Independent leadership of - special projects :

- Incubate ideas / special projects that can add value to business

- Scope, plan and execute multiple, often quick-turnaround projects, with minimal outside assistance

- Be independently productive on - assigned projects- and deliver desired results

- Oversee transfer of projects to other stakeholders, when incubated

Research on related and non-related topics. Develop draft communications

- Research for CEO so as to reach from - random to specific information that can translate into tangible business direction and data-point for making decisions

- Deliver approach-notes, white-papers, quick notes, one-pagers, to CEO so as to help him understand unrelated topics in the shortest time possible.

- Remain sounding-board to CEO - provide pros and cons to the CEO

- Create intelligent communication drafts for all occasions, be it media or internal communication

- Help CEO create a strong brand value for the organization by communicating effectively

- Conduct fact checking-in support of all communications.

- Represent the CEO at outside forums that the CEO cannot attend. Often, this will mean accompanying another EM3 executive to a meeting.

Maximiser of CEOs efficiency :

- Give quick facts to CEO on business performance - MIS, Revenues, Shortfalls, and keep adding-deleting what CEO should see on a daily basis

- On day-to-day basis, independently take-up, problems that are dragging the business and helps CEO unleash an aggressive business agenda

- Help CEO in root cause analysis- often without prompting

- Confirm hypotheses through tactful and discrete engagement with the relevant parties

- Develop alternative approaches to addressing the problem or opportunity

- Update the CEO on the issues, supported with facts and recommendations

- Build consensus around contentious issues that can potentially arise to halt a business direction

- Remain CEOs ears on the ground to pick-up murmurs and informal feedback on a variety of business issues