Althea Group Holdings Looking for Executive Assistant at London, Greater London Full Time

At Althea Group Holdings, our mission is to improve the lives of people across the globe by providing them with access to high-quality cannabis products.Our core focus is supplying high-quality pharmaceutical and recreational cannabis products. This is delivered by two distinct businesses: Althea and Peak Processing Solutions. 

Althea is a licensed producer, supplier and exporter of pharmaceutical-grade medicinal cannabis. Althea products improve the lives of patients suffering from debilitating conditions. We supply a range of cannabis-based products for medicinal use in Australia, the United Kingdom, Germany and South Africa. But we aren’t just a pharmaceutical company. We also believe that cannabis has a place in a regulated consumer goods market.

Our cannabis manufacturing business, Peak Processing Solutions, produces a wide range of recreational cannabis products for sale and distribution into legalised adult-use cannabis markets. Peak’s products include cannabis-infused beverages, edibles, topicals, and concentrates.We embrace an agile and responsive culture as an emerging industry going through growth and change. We believe in progress through forward-thinking.The Opportunity 

We have the opportunity for an Executive Assistant to join our dynamic and close-knit team. Providing secretarial support to the CEO, the successful person will be proactive, well organised and have a strong attention to detail.

In addition to providing generalist support, you will – 

• Provide high-level executive and administrative support to the CEO.
• Coordinate requests for information from internal and external stakeholders and act as the first point of contact for all enquiries.
• Manage the CEO’s diary, including scheduling internal and external appointments, while organising associated documentation.
• Schedule travel and accommodation requests, including coordinating visas, booking flights, hotel accommodation, car transfers and taxis, and producing travel packs and itineraries as required.
• Coordinate effective meetings by organising and collating meeting agendas, providing confidential minute taking and distributing any follow-up actions.
• Coordinate all catering and events management for internal and external meetings.
• Manage all relevant systems to record and update any relevant information.
• Prepare correspondence and briefing packs, reports and papers as requested by the CEO.
• Handle all aspects of CEO expense processing.
• Produce, design, format and collate documents across Microsoft Office Suite, and/or liaise with the Marketing Team to ensure all documents are formatted correctly in line with branding requirements.
• Produce correspondence such as emails, letters and liaise with clients over the phone, by email and in person, in a professional and efficient manner.
• Provide assistance to other administrators and provide cover for any absences (holiday/sickness).
• Completing any ad hoc tasks and projects, as required.
• Some travel may be required.

About You

We are looking for a special person – someone flexible, solutions-focused and willing to roll up their sleeves to get the job done. 

The successful person to join our team will have:

• High level of accuracy and attention to detail.
• Excellent organisational skills, including the ability to manage time, prioritise conflicting demands, multi-task and work to tight and structured deadlines.
• Demonstrated experience planning international events and meetings across multiple time zones (flexible working provided).
• Ability to learn new systems and processes quickly, with the desire to pick up new skills.
• Proactive, self-motivated and able to work on own initiative as well as with a team.
• Outstanding communication skills (verbal and written)
• Discreet and able to handle sensitive information in confidence.

Why Althea Group Holdings? At Althea Group Holdings we offer staff excellent benefits, including: 

• Competitive salary commensurate with experience.
• 22 days annual leave plus Bank Holidays
• Central London location, within walking distance from Paddington Station and Elizabeth Line.
• Year-round team events.
• Casual business dress, every day.
• Birthday leave.

How to Apply Please apply and address your Cover Letter to Joshua (Josh) Fegan and Kylie Zimanyi, including dot points outlining your skills and professional achievements. 

We are not accepting applications from recruitment agencies at this time.

Summary of role requirements:

• Looking for candidates available to work on weekdays
• 1 year of relevant work experience required for this role

This job was originally posted on Jora UK