Executive Assistant (Chief of Staff), A320 VSM

Position Summary

The Chief of Staff to the VP - Head of A320 VSM Mobile is responsible for daily business activities and a wide range of comprehensive operational duties. They will handle large amounts of confidential data/information and must be organized and structured to deliver prepared scenarios for decision making. They will be responsible for communicating in a multicultural environment at all hierarchical levels of the company in order to coordinate cross-functional and transnational interfaces. They must have an awareness of any potential compliance risks and a commitment to act with integrity, as the foundation for the Company's success, reputation and sustainable growth.

Primary Responsibilities

• Support the VP in day to day activities, anticipating pre-work needed such as preparing scenarios, decision-making or presentations, material accordingly
• Support the VP with daily business activities, including but not limited to transnational, confidential, and strategic topics, Airbus wide, studying, filtering and prioritizing working files, providing recommendation to the VP and follow up local implementations of decisions
• Prepare for regular / ad hoc meetings of the VP by gathering and/or creating all relevant materials (scenario, decision-making materials or presentation material)
• Liaise with relevant stakeholders on various topics/events and/or ensure deliverables reports/deadlines are met
• Manage the coordination of cross-functional and transnational interfaces, being able to manage a broad network at all hierarchical levels to collect views from bottom-up approach
• Lead some specific action plans/projects and supporting the N-1 management team of the VP
• Provide guidelines for the prioritization of the calendar for the VP - anticipate and suggest solutions form overlapping issues, optimize day and week workload, inform meetings’ attendants accordingly if needed in coordination with the Administrative Support.
• Manage that the VP time management allows the VP to deal with priorities in a fast paced environment
• Collection & Analysis of information to support or recommend decision making
• Cook up briefings for meeting preparation
• Organize meetings, team events and welcome external guests
• Type, format, distribute, organize and archive official documents using the up-to-date Airbus templates
• Support cascading of managerial administrative tasks.
• Follow-up actions form meetings, information sharing (i.e. mail distribution and management).
• Stakeholder management in support to the VP: liaise regularly and act as an interface with other executive offices including EA/COS, N-1 offices. Influencing key stakeholders and fostering relationships to deliver reliably.

Required Education

• Bachelors Degree or Equivalent Experience

Required Experience

• Minimum 10 years work experience, preferably in an Industrial/Operations environment
• Experienced handling large amounts of data and analysis
• Proven Project or Program management experience (preferred)

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Demonstrated Capabilities

• Ability to work hand in hand with all office team members in a fast paced environment
• Organized, Structured, Methodical Information flow management; engage with multiple stakeholders in order to help the teams delivering on time and quality
• Ability to deal with sensitive and confidential information
• Knowledge of Airbus tools (CnB, myFM, etc.)
• Knowledge of G Suite/MS Office
• Fully fluent English - French would be a plus
• Ability to work in complex/uncertain environments
• Ability to organize and prioritize
• Analytic and digital skills
• Ability to structure, simplify and give meaning to all hierarchical levels
• Problem solving agility
• Leadership and autonomy
• Stakeholder management
• Ability to work flexible hours to accommodate time zone differences as well as other work schedules

Required Communication Skills

• Excellent communication skills required; both verbal and written in English, and French (desirable)
• Ability to work in complex/uncertain environments
• Autonomy
• Ability to organize and prioritize
• Improvement mindset
• Strong communication skills
• Team Spirit

Preferred Communication Skills

• Required Technical Systems Proficiency
• Intermediate to Advanced skills in GSuite platform Skywise