Executive Assistant
Egon Zehnder•Montréal, Québec
Full-time
👁️ 0 views•📝 0 applications•Posted 9/1/2026•Expires 10/3/2026
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Job Description
The Executive Assistant provides high-level, quality support to our external facing team of Consultants, primarily in North America. This role provides administrative assistance in all aspects of our engagements which requires comfort with ever-changing tasks. The right candidate must possess a high level of flexibility and reliability, as well as the ability to organize and prioritize tasks according to strict deadlines- these skills are critical to the role. The successful candidate will also be able to multi-task on many levels and relish the variety and unpredictability of juggling multiple tasks and changing priorities.
What You’ll Do
• Arrange all scheduling, including but not limited to, candidate meetings and interviews, client meetings and interviews, business development meetings, assignment related meetings, internal meetings, video conferencing, etc.
• Manage complex calendars and prioritize meetings/calls as needed.
• Arrange and coordinate complex and detailed travel plans, itineraries, and agendas for both consultants and candidates. Compile documents for travel-related meetings.
• Process expense reimbursements for consultants and candidates.
• Prioritize conflicting needs; handle matters expeditiously, proactively, and follow-through on time-sensitive projects to successful completion.
• Provide a bridge for smooth communication between the consultant and external/internal team members.
• Produce high quality client and candidate deliverables, ensuring completion within designated timeframes. Successfully completes critical aspects of deliverables with a hands-on approach.
• Compose, prepare, and edit confidential correspondence.
• Work closely and effectively with consultant and research stakeholders to ensure deadlines are met and client needs are served.
• Perform additional administrative support activities, including but not limited to, fielding telephone calls, receiving and directing visitors, event planning, and other ad-hoc projects as requested.
• Assist accounting department with billing, client invoicing, and receivables.
• Build positive relationships and interface regularly with high-level executives involved in highly confidential projects.
Administrative Support
Database Management
• Ensure that global database is up-to-date and accurate; including but not limited to all client/internal documents, client/candidate information, notes, emails, and appointments.
• Diary booking management: phone calls/in-person meetings, interviews, and presentations.
• Record entry and record updating.
• Upload documents/content to Person Records, Assignment/Project Records, Event Records.
• Generate various Client and Candidate documents.
• Manage Candidate education verification.
Travel and Expenses
• Utilize global travel tool to book complex and detailed travel plans, itineraries, and agendas for both the Consultant and Candidate.
• Assist with compiling documents for travel-related meetings.
• Manage expense reports for assigned Consultants from start to submission.
• Assist with Candidate reimbursement.
Ad-hoc Administrative Assistance
• Printing/Binding
• Administrative support for various virtual and/or in-person events (holiday parties, staff offsites, client events, business development events, etc.)
• Other administrative projects assigned by the Executive Assistant(s)
About Egon Zehnder
Egon Zehnder is the world’s preeminent leadership advisory firm, inspiring leaders to navigate complex questions with human answers. We help organizations get to the heart of their leadership challenges and offer honest feedback and insights to help leaders realize their true being and purpose.
We are built on a foundation that supports partnership in the truest sense of the word and aligns our interests with the interests of our clients. Our 560 consultants across 64 offices and 36 countries are former industry and functional leaders who collaborate seamlessly across geographies, industries and functions to deliver the full power of the Firm to every client, every time.
We partner closely with public and private corporations, family-owned enterprises, and non-profit and government agencies to provide executive search, leadership solutions, CEO search and succession, and board advisory.
We believe that together we can transform people, organizations and the world through leadership.
Due to high volume, we will only be contacting applicants who meet all of the minimum requirements listed in the job description. Only those applicants who align most closely with our minimum and preferred qualifications will be contacted for an interview. The Recruiting team at Egon Zehnder will retain your application materials and may contact you regarding future opportunities.
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L’adjoint(e) de direction apporte un soutien de haut niveau et de qualité à notre équipe de consultants, orientée vers la clientèle externe, principalement en Amérique du Nord. Ce poste consiste à fournir une assistance administrative dans tous les aspects de nos mandats, ce qui exige une grande aisance face à des tâches en constante évolution. Le candidat idéal doit faire preuve d’une grande flexibilité et d’une grande fiabilité, ainsi que d’une capacité à organiser et à hiérarchiser les tâches en respectant des échéances strictes; ces compétences sont essentielles pour ce poste. La personne retenue devra également être capable d’effectuer plusieurs tâches simultanément à différents niveaux et apprécier la variété et l’imprévisibilité liées à la gestion de multiples tâches et à l’évolution des priorités.
Vos responsabilités
Rôle de l’adjoint de direction
• Organiser tous les horaires, y compris, sans s’y limiter, ceux des réunions et des entrevues avec les candidats, des rencontres et des entrevues avec les clients, des réunions de prospection de clientèle, des réunions liées à des affectations, des réunions internes, des vidéoconférences, etc.
• Gérer des calendriers complexes et établir l’ordre de priorité des réunions et des appels, au besoin.
• Organiser des plans de voyage, des itinéraires et des ordres du jour complexes et détaillés pour les consultants et les candidats. Compiler les documents pour les réunions liées aux voyages.
• Traiter le remboursement des dépenses des consultants et des candidats.
• Établir l’ordre de priorité de besoins inconciliables, traiter les questions rapidement et de façon proactive, et mener à bien les projets urgents.
• Assurer une communication harmonieuse entre l’expert-conseil et les membres de l’équipe externe et interne.
• Produire des livrables de grande qualité pour les clients et les candidats, en veillant à ce qu’ils soient achevés dans les délais prescrits. Exécuter avec succès les aspects essentiels des livrables en adoptant une approche pratique.
• Rédiger, préparer et réviser la correspondance confidentielle.
• Travailler en étroite collaboration avec les experts-conseils et les intervenants en recherche pour s’assurer que les échéances sont respectées et que les besoins des clients sont satisfaits.
• Effectuer d’autres activités de soutien administratif, y compris, sans s’y limiter, répondre aux appels téléphoniques, accueillir et diriger les visiteurs, planifier des événements et d’autres projets ponctuels, au besoin.
• Soutenir le service de la comptabilité dans la facturation, la facturation client et les comptes clients.
• Établir des relations positives et interagir régulièrement avec les hauts dirigeants participant à des projets hautement confidentiels.
Soutien administratif
Gestion des bases de données
• Tenir la base de données mondiale à jour, y compris, sans s’y limiter, tous les documents internes et ceux des clients, les renseignements sur les clients et les candidats, les notes, les courriels et les rendez-vous.
• Gestion des réservations
Required Skills
Executive Assistance
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