Support and Communications Executive

Reporting directly to the CEO, the Support and Communication Executive’s role is a pivotal contributor to the company's success, serving as a support to our CEO whilst leading on several strategic projects and overseeing key aspects of our company's framework

**About The Role**

**Responsibilities**:
**Executive Support**
- **To support the CEO in scheduling including setting up travel, meetings, speaking engagements and other appointments for the CEO.**:

- **To liaise daily with internal and external meeting organisers.**:

- **To organise room bookings, refreshments, required documents & reports for leadership meetings.**:

- **Act as the first point of contact and a representative of the CEO during customer interactions.**:

- **Compile travel claims for senior Board Members**:

- **Request and collate briefing papers and minutes in relation to MAP, Steer and Board meetings.**:

- **Following meetings, distribute minutes and/or the actions to attendees (and a wider audience if appropriate) and ensure any actions arising from meetings are followed up.**:

- **Conduct research as required by CEO and Board to enable the preparation of papers, reports for meetings, presentations.**:

- **Maintain the confidentiality of the Board at all times and handle confidential information with sensitivity and discretion.**

**Framework Governance**
- **Take ownership and accountability for the development, execution, and governance of the Strategic, Success and Evaluation Frameworks the initiatives and overarching structure that guide the company's activities and growth.**:

- **Work closely with the CEO to develop and communicate the company’s strategic plan.**:

- **Coordinate and monitor the activities and projects that contribute to the achievement of the frameworks.**:

- **Ensure the framework remains aligned with the company’s purpose and values.**:

- **Manage and facilitate meetings to include MAP, Steer and Board.**

**Communications**
- **Responsible for planning, implementing, and overseeing CDE’s communication strategy and activities to ensure effective internal communications.**

**Required Criteria**
- 3 years’ experience in a role responsible for the delivery of strategically aligned plans
- Experience working closely with and supporting a senior team
- Experience or preparing documentation including reports and presentations.
- Knowledge of Microsoft Office products - particularly Word, Excel and Outlook and able to learn to use other IT systems.
- Experience planning, implementing, and overseeing communication plans.
- Driving License
- Willing to travel when required to customer sites.

**Desired Criteria**
- Experience supporting at executive/board level.

**Skills Needed**

Providing Feedback, Communication, Verbal and Written Skills

**About The Company**

WE ARE CDE. ENGINEERED FOR YOU

We empower our customers to transform waste into valuable resources through innovative co-creation, laying the foundations for the circular economy.

We help our customers maximise their natural resources in the most sustainable way possible - with greater efficiency and less waste than ever before. Our unparalleled speed and scale are down to our proximity to our customers and our deep understanding of their challenges. Our track record of proven solutions consistently meets our customers’ needs precisely, operating in challenging environments from the Arctic to the Equator.

Wet processing is our sole focus -our experience and expertise is unmatched in this field.

Every day, in everything we do, we strive to do it right. We want to be the best at what we do and deliver the maximum benefit for our customers. We pull together, as a team, in pursuit of this common cause. Our “Customer for Life” mentality fortifies each of our projects, with CDE engineers delivering continuous, limitless support.

**Company Culture**

We recognise that it is our people that have established CDE as market leader in developing solutions for the wet processing industry both within natural materials processing and waste recycling sectors.

OUR PURPOSE IS TO CREATE OUR BEST WORLD, A TON AT A TIME.

To do that, we must continue to build our global team by adding the most ambitious, driven and talented people. We will challenge you, elevate you and broaden your horizons. We will help you to be the best you can be both personally and professionally.

We are renowned for our energy and can do attitude. and at times seemingly delivering the impossible. We also know that all the will in the world won’t take us anywhere unless we work together. And we like to have fun together - life’s too short and we spend most of it at work. If we lose the power to laugh, we lose the power to think.

We will continue to add the most dynamic, ambitious and talented individuals to the CDE team.

**Company Benefits**

Health insurance, Vacation, Paid time off, Retirement plan and/or pension, Employee development programs, A diversity progr