Executive and Commercial Assistant at Edves Digital Education
Confidential
Lagos, Nigeria
Permanent
Published 1 month ago · Expires 4 weeks from now
Job description
## Title: Executive and Commercial Assistant
About the Role
We invite applications from suitably qualified candidates for the position of Executive and Commercial Assistant.
Key Responsibilities
- Research and identify opportunities, potential clients, and partners globally
- Manage appointments with prospective clients and partners and follow up with status updates and next steps
- Conduct industry, customer, product, and competitive research as needed
- Analyze sales, customer, and other relevant data to generate insights for decision-making
- Develop and propose strategic initiatives
- Liaise with senior management and team leads
- Write content for blog posts, social media, and customer, partner, and prospect engagement
- Plan and manage the COO's activities, schedule, and calendar
- Conserve the COO's time by reading, researching, collecting, and analyzing information in advance
- Prepare presentation slides, meeting notes, and other relevant documents
- Handle presentations where necessary
- Attend meetings and document discussions
- Perform a wide variety of executive support duties as needed
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree
- Multilingual abilities (French is an added advantage)
- Tech savvy with knowledge of productivity tools, cloud storage, and meeting platforms
- Strong business sense and sound judgment
- Strategic thinking ability and capacity to add value to existing processes
- Excellent time-management skills
- Strong problem-solving and decision-making capabilities
- Ability to multitask efficiently and work independently
- Excellent listening and phone skills
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Attention to detail and strong organizational skills
- Good negotiation skills
- High emotional intelligence
- Strong interpersonal skills and ability to build long-lasting relationships
- Passionate, driven, self-confident, and focused approach to work
- Strong interest in education and educational technology