Executive Assistant to CEO - Jobs in Maidstone, ON

Job Description

Crop Defenders is the fastest-growing bio-control company in North America. We are located in Windsor, near Leamington (Ontario), the tomato capital of Canada, where the largest concentration of greenhouse industries in North America exists. We provide eco-saving, integrated pest management, for horticulture, agriculture, and landscape industries.We specialize in Beneficial Insects, Predatory Mites, Beneficial Nematodes, and a number of bio-pesticides are in registration progress. We have a team of professional entomologists who provide technical services to our clients. We also provide scouting services in addition to crop advising. We have an in-house research and development facility. We also have a repackaging and quality control facility at our main base of operations.The mission for this role is to create a communications focal point between the CEO and other department heads and managers, clients, prospects, vendors, suppliers, industry professionals, and government officials by facilitating and streamlining the activities of the CEO through communication management, information and database management, meeting management, and automating decision-making for non-critical, day-to-day, repetitive, and generic tasks.Main Duties/Responsibilities:

• Maximize the CEO’s impact on the organization, by streamlining his time and effort on critical, high value, and high priority items
• Thoroughly understand the desired end values (outcomes, priorities, and objectives) and the purpose/reason for them from the CEO, and organizing, prioritizing, assigning, and measuring the progress of all tasks, activities, and actionable items leading to these end values.
• Quickly evaluate, modify, re-evaluate, re-assign and remove any initiative (task and activity) that is not feeding the achievement of the end-values.
• Be a positive, respected leader that can quickly learn and understand the different departments within the company, their main functions, key personnel, and strategic goals.
• Display a very high level of emotional intelligence and precise tenacity to hold department heads accountable on behalf of the CEO, without offending them.
• Must have exceptional organization skills and can maintain a calm, collected, and composed demeaner in a fast-paced, high-pressure environment.
• Must be capable of sitting and conducting long hours of office work, and able to work on-demand outside of regular office hours including very early and late start and end times when required.

Requirements:

• Minimum 5 years of experience as an Executive Assistant to a C-suite position or company president in a large company with over 50 employees, preferably within the agrochemical, biocontrol, agriculture services, or related industry.
• Bachelor’s education in Business, or agriculture related fields (biology, horticulture, etc.) Any experience in the biocontrol or greenhouse industry is an asset
• Demonstrated ability to work independently with minimal supervision

• Demonstrated ability to quickly develop high-value, strategic relationships and leverage such relationships for high-value and high-impact outcomes.

Job Type: Full-timeSalary: $45,000.00-$55,000.00 per yearSchedule:

• Monday to Friday

Application deadline: 2022-05-04Quick Apply

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