Mandarin Speaking Executive Assistant

**PLEASE NOTE CANDIDATE MUST SPEAK AND WRITE MANDARIN.**

**Sector: Office**

**Schedule: Full Time**

**Hours Of Work: Flexible**

**Location: Rayleigh, Essex**

**Salary: £25- 28K pa**:
**Permanent Post : 3 - 6 Month’s Probation**

**Core Responsibilities**
- Manage a busy and complex diary
- Provide confidential and sensitive administration support
- Compilation of reports and presentations for customers
- Responsible for corporate documents and records, maintaining high levels of confidentiality and archive system
- Ability to operate and communicate to a high degree of professionalism
- Making travel arrangements (flights, hotels, rail, taxis)
- Organise or provide support for Customer/Staff events
- Meeting and greeting visitors
- Experience in a trading company would be useful but not essential
- Samples & Showroom organisation and management
- General housekeeping duties & Personal tasks
- Management of Contract renewals, and policies.
- Financial budgeting & accounting
- Have some sales knowledge
- Attending customer meetings in UK and abroad
- Strong knowledge of e-commerce
- Be able to travel abroad if required

**Knowledge and Experience** **Proven record of accomplishment for senior management - including high levels of integrity and confidentiality**
- Strong organisational skills, with a proven ability and confidence to respond to tight deadlines and juggle conflicting priorities
- Demonstrable record of accomplishment in secretarial/business administration
- Ability to organise, prioritise and multi-task - and escalate key items as appropriate
- High level of computer knowledge, efficiency, and excellence, in Microsoft Office, Excel, Word, PowerPoint and Outlook and One Note at advanced level
- Excellent spoken and written communication skills in Mandarin and English
- Able to communicate effectively with all levels
- At least Intermediary level of Microsoft Powerpoint, Excel and Word.
- Excellent numerical skills.
- Photography skills would be useful

**Job Type**: Permanent

**Salary**: £25 - £28k pa dependent on experience

Qualification Questions
- Do you have any merchandising experience?
- Ever travelled to China and speak and write Chinese?
- How many years of Personal Assistant experience do you have?
- How many years of Secretarial experience do you have?
- Do you have a Driving License?

**Salary**: £25,000.00-£28,000.00 per year

**Language**:

- Mandarin (required)

Licence/Certification:

- Driving License (preferred)

Work authorisation:

- United Kingdom (required)

Willingness to travel:

- 25% (required)