Executive Assistant

**Who we are**

Yuppiechef is South Africa's premier kitchen and homeware store. Based in Westlake, Cape Town with retail stores in Cape Town, Johannesburg and Durban. We see ourselves as helping people find more moments of joy in their homes — through products that make daily life more comfortable, more innovative and more beautiful. And we do it through our omni-channel shopping experience, providing our world-class service to our customers both in our stores and online.

**Who we’re looking for**

**We’re looking for a full-time Executive Assistant.** Your key responsibility will be to support our Managing Director as he leads our growing and multi-regional team.

**What your role looks like**

Reporting into our Managing Director, this role will be responsible for managing travel, administrative and calendar tasks. You will be an integral part of the team and highly competent resource for the MD and will assist in making each work day run smoothly.
From time to time, you may be involved in key projects that will require you to collaborate across multiple departments in both the Yuppiechef Group and Mr Price Group of companies. You will be effective if you actively maintain and develop relationships built on trust with both internal and external stakeholders

You will be responsible for daily administration, calendar management, travel coordination as well as ad hoc event and project management.

**Who you are**

You are an experienced Executive Assistant with a proven track record in working in fast paced and fast changing organisations. You are dynamic and love connecting with others to make processes and systems work. You have a love for a coordinated and clear event/ as well as a stickler for accurate and detailed work.

People would also describe you as:

- Authentic
- Highly confidential
- Passionate
- Committed
- Disciplined
- Calm and confident
- Conscientious
- Observant

**What experience and skills you need for the role**

**You would describe yourself as**
- High proficiency in written and verbal communication.
- Experience with communications and drafting of suitable executive communications.
- High attention to detail
- Highly organised and ability to multitask
- Deadline-driven and able to work under pressure and mitigate such deadlines.
- Proficient at report compilation
- Strong interpersonal skills
- Active listening and good communication skills
- Proactive approach to problem-solving
- Strong time-management and organisation skills

**You will have had**
- 4-8 years experience in a similar, highly confidential role
- Events management, project management and general office management experience
- Worked in a tech based environment
- Must be able to meet deadlines in a fast-paced quickly changing environment
- A proactive approach to problem-solving with strong decision-making skills
- Professional level verbal and written communications skills
- Ability to proactively solve problems and think quickly on your feet
- Willingness to pitch in with diverse tasks

**Environment, gear, pay and benefits**

**Gear you’ll use**:

- A Macbook
- Various online packages, reporting tools and dashboards

**Environment**:
We are based at our Westlake Headquarters and are primarily an in-office and in person team. We value the connections made in person and believe you can’t beat a face to face catch over a good cup of coffee.
In our office you will find,
- An equipped, communal kitchen where you can use some of the tools we sell
- A fully-stocked coffee stations where you can hone your barista skills
- Monthly pizza Fridays
- Parking available

**Pay and Benefits**:

- We pay competitive, market-related salaries based on skills and experience, and profit share based on the company's performance
- Your salary is based on a “Total Cost To Company” model and includes:

- Medical Aid (Discovery) contributions
- Group Life Cover
- Retirement Annuity
- Employee Assistance programme
- 17 Days Paid Annual Leave increasing to 20 days with length of service