Executive Assistant to the Managing Director (all humans)

Executive Assistant to the Managing Director (all humans)

Location: Wien

Working hours: Full-time

Occupational Area: IT

Company: Erste Digital

Erste Digital is the technology engine of Erste Group, one of the leading banking groups in Central and Eastern Europe, serving more than 16 million customers. More than 1,800 experts at the locations in Vienna, Bratislava and Prague develop innovative digital products, platforms and infrastructures that shape the banking of tomorrow.

We combine technological excellence with the ambition to create real value for our customers. As an Executive Assistant, you are the Managing Director's closest professional sparring partner and take on a strategic-operational key function with direct influence on central decisions and priorities of the company.

Your Tasks:

• Strategic planning and communication: Supporting management in the formulation, communication and implementation of corporate goals and vision.
• Preparing strategic content for a wide range of internal and external target groups.
• Project management and steering of initiatives: Leading and overseeing company-wide, complex initiatives as a direct staff function to the Managing Director.
• Ensuring that strategic projects are implemented on time and in a targeted manner.
• Interface management: Acting as the link between management and division and department heads.
• Acting as the central point of contact for the holding company, the bank and external partners on strategic topics.
• Decision preparation: Gathering information and conducting data analyses to support well-founded decision-making.
• Preparing decision documents that provide management with clarity and foresight.
• Operational crisis management: Identifying operational friction points and bottlenecks at an early stage.
• Independently stepping in with a solution-oriented approach to get projects back on track.
• Presence at leadership level: Actively participating in leadership rounds, board meetings and strategic alignments.
• Continuously staying up to date on all business-critical topics.

You check these boxes:

• Several years of relevant professional experience in operations, strategic management or management consulting with proven implementation capability.
• Excellent communication and translation skills between business departments, IT and top management.
• Strong analytical and conceptual skills and the ability to structure complex issues quickly and prepare them for decision-making.
• Strong diplomatic skills combined with assertiveness.
• High resilience and ability to work under pressure in a dynamic environment.
• Clear prioritisation skills and decisiveness, including the ability to delegate, critically question and consciously say no.
• High degree of personal responsibility, results orientation and a structured, proactive way of working.
• Strong conflict management skills and willingness to address uncomfortable topics.
• Business-fluent German and English skills.
• Experience in financial services or technology, group or holding structures, data analysis and preparation of decision documents for top management are considered an advantage.

Our Offer

• Possibility to benefit and learn from an international, talented and passionate community at Erste.
• Interest groups and clubs.
• Health Centre at Erste Campus with medical services during working hours.
• Employee benefits for financial services, insurances, supermarkets, clothing stores and more.
• Employee Referral Program for career opportunities in IT.
• A competitive and performance-related salary depending on qualifications. The minimum wage for this position is EUR 70.000 gross per year.

Contact

Mariane Senjak

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