Executive Assistant To MD - Chemicals

EA TO MD- Only B.E/B/TECH. Chemicals

Job Profile:

- To perform complex and strategic tasks independently for the President's office in order to support the activities.

- To act as liaison between all important stakeholder's of President's Office on all critical and important matters.

- To steer key functional and organizational meetings instead of President and drive the actions to closure.

Key Accountability:

Major Activities/ Tasks:

Executive Decision-Making Support:

- Support CMD in development of long-range business plans, annual business goals and refinement of business strategy

- Act on behalf of the CMD in key Sectoral and inter departmental meetings

- Act as the gate keeper for key items requiring CMD's attention and decision

- Be a sounding board for the rest of the organization on key matters requiring CMD's attention

- Ensure the Business Scorecard compliance

- Project Management / Program Management

- Overseeing key projects from CMD's office and ensuring closures of critical deliverables with hands on approach

- Development of new proposals, Special Projects as per the business need.

- Responsibility and accountability for meeting the assigned project goals within the timelines.

- Conceptualize programs and coordinate their implementation by working closely with the

Business Units and Corporate Functions:

- Provide ad-hoc support to CFTs

- Data and NFA (Note for Approval) Analysis

- Perform frequent and rigorous research on key business topics to identify organization's fitment to strategic frameworks, establish industry trends, and collect benchmark data.

- Analyse key artefacts like NFA, meeting pre-reads, concept notes, etc. for ease of President's decision making.

- Compiles data for presentations, reports, and other management requirements.

- Carefully evaluates financial data and creates reports that identify areas of concern or opportunity.

- Take leads to create action plans based on the different data analysis and run it independently with respective stakeholders for actions, referral or response.

Meeting Management:

- Facilitate/coordinate/ manage various management forums and follow-up with various executives, stakeholders towards timely closure of action items.

- End to end responsibilities from protocol management to follow-up of action items from management office.

- Highlight areas of concern, risks which may hinder smooth operations of management meetings.

- Amplify weak signals and channelize issues and escalations as and when needed.

- Prioritizing conflicting needs by handling it expeditiously, proactively and follows through on to successful completion.

Executive Support:

- Communicates directly and on behalf of, CMD with all stakeholders as directed.

- Provides a bridge for smooth communication between the CMD's office and internal department, demonstrating leadership to maintain the credibility, trust and support with other senior staff of the business unit.

- Working closely with CMD to keep him well informed of upcoming strategic commitments and responsibilities and following up appropriately.

- Maintain discretion and confidentiality of the critical business interventions/updates.

Education Qualifications / Background:

- Degree in Engineering / Mathematics / Commerce

- MBA (With preferable specialization in Finance / Operations / Strategy)

Relevant and Total Years of Experience:

- Experienced professional with 18-22 years of experience in large corporate setups. Preferrable to have experience working across cross-functional teams

- Experience as Strategic Assistant / Executive Assistant / Chief of Staff to Top management would be an added advantage.

- Experience in operational implementation of systems, processes and policies supporting strategy.

Technical/ Functional Expertise

- Business Acumen and Knowledge

- Presentation

- Business Analysis

- Knowledge of business processes

- Data Analysis