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Executive Assistant

Employer
Nest Commerce
Location
Homeworking
Salary
Up to £35,000 plus benefits
Closing date
30 Aug 2022

Job Details

Executive Assistant

Location: Camden

 

What We Do

We’re a fast-growing Performance Marketing Agency, set up by former Google and Facebook executives, that’s perfectly positioned to benefit from the explosion of the ecommerce sector. That’s because we’re 100% focused on cutting-edge ecommerce clients like Huel, Depop, Ted Baker, Finisterre and JustHype. Although we’re just four years old, our team’s creative and technical approach is redefining what’s possible for online brands’ paid social campaigns.

Nest has built up an unrivalled reputation in Paid Social and we pride ourselves on the fact that we are not order takers – together with our clients we curate a proactive approach to strategy, including an experimentation roadmap to ensure long-term growth. 

This is a great opportunity to fast-track your career as you will be exposed to our proprietary approaches to running global Paid Social campaigns and develop your own skills by working alongside some of the best in the industry. 

We are driven by the belief that it is possible to build an agency with work-life balance at its core, where employees work reasonable hours and where our people can develop and flourish. Rather than accelerate growth in order to exit, our ambition is to build a company which can grow in a sustainable way and can thrive in the long term.

The founders are incredibly focused on creating an exciting, sociable and enjoyable place to work. We firmly believe that our employees are our most important asset. Through benefits such as an employee profit share scheme, flexible hours and working, monthly wellness allowance, monthly charity donations and individual development budget, we endeavour to create a workplace where people feel trusted and empowered, and where they can also learn from experts in the industry and develop their careers.


How We See Ourselves

We are fiercely ambitious but at the same time we are interested in building a company to last. We value sustainable growth over chaotic hyper-expansion, place an emphasis on high quality services over doing as much as possible and we pride ourselves on providing a working environment built around our people and their development. The question for us is what will we look like in 10 years, not can we sell in 2.

Our channel and vertical focus has been a key part of our success to date and in a market where most agencies try to do a bit of everything for pretty much everyone, we are differentiated. eCommerce in our opinion is only just beginning and we find ourselves in a great position to become genuine leaders and innovators in this space. From a very solid grounding of best-in-class paid social, we have an opportunity to evolve our offering in step with the needs of our clients.

We are consistently praised by our clients for our front-foot approach to strategy; we are pioneers rather than order takers and we're extremely excited to see where we can take our business over the next 5 to 10 years and beyond.

 

The Role

We have an exciting new opportunity for an experienced, highly organised and proactive Executive Assistant to join the agency and make a real impact with this role. Working with a small but dynamic Commercial team, the Executive Assistant will have the chance to deepen their sales, marketing and commercial knowledge and experience by working directly with leaders in our fast-growing business.   

The Executive Assistant role will be varied and busy; and will involve diary management, email support and project management of sales pitches.

The ideal candidate will have at least 3 years of administrative experience, working as an Executive Assistant at board level. You will have plenty of experience in supporting a team with administrative duties, multitasking, using your initiative and having a can-do positive approach to work. The role will suit an enthusiastic and driven individual, looking for a position with real responsibility and scope for development. Executive Assistant reports into the CCO and will be part of the wider Commercial team (Sales & Marketing).

 

Responsibilities

  • Project management of pitches: You will own the management of the pitch process, including booking internal and external meetings and ensuring a smooth-running from start to finish
  • Email support: You will support the CCO in email comms with clients in the sales process
  • Diary management: You will support the CCO, Head of Marketing & Sales team with diary management
  • Pitch deck build: You will support the sales team in building and evolving pitch decks using Google Slides, ensuring to follow company Brand Guidelines
  • Pipeline management: You will manage the company CRM (Hubspot) to ensure the sales pipeline is kept up to date
  • Commercial reporting: You will provide accurate and timely weekly, monthly, quarterly & yearly reports for team and board meetings
  • Contract Management: Being the go-to for building client contracts
  • Research: You will support the CCO with research tasks including pitch prep and new business
  • Administrative support: You will support the Commercial team with all admin requests and duties 

     

What makes you perfect for this role?

 

Fundamental

  • 3+ years admin experience, ideally within a sales or Commercial team
  • 3+ years Diary management experience
  • Highly organised
  • Excellent attention to detail
  • Reliable  
  • Creative problem solver
  • Easy to work with and a fun team mate to have around
  • Can function confidently as an individual contributor and as a team player

     


Skills and Attributes

  • Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to build effective working relationships with internal and external stakeholders at all levels
  • Highly organised with excellent attention to detail
  • Demonstrates initiative with a proactive approach
  • Evidence of creativity, idea generation and problem solving skills

     


Nice to have

  • Creative with Google Slides
  • Experience using Google Suite
  • Experience using Hubspot

Company

Nest is a fast-growing agency which is 100% focused on working with ecommerce brands. This is an exciting time to join us as we evolve our services to better support the needs of the ecommerce market.

That makes Nest a unique place to learn, grow and develop your career.

Join an agency that sees performance differently. Where creatives, strategists and data scientists work hand in hand to shift perspective and get results.

If you’re not afraid to have an opinion, if you want to work with ambitious brands, if you have ideas beyond your job description, we want to hear from you.

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