Executive Assistant

Provide executive support and coordinate global P&C operations

Are you an experienced Executive Assistant looking to support senior leadership in a global organisation contributing to the green transition? As Executive Assistant within the People & Culture function at NKT, you will provide comprehensive administrative and process support to the CHRO, ensuring efficient coordination of executive activities, leadership meetings, global processes, and stakeholder collaboration. Do you enjoy managing multiple priorities while ensuring smooth day-to-day operations? 

Coordinate executive activities across a global organisation

As Executive Assistant, you will provide comprehensive support to the CHRO and the wider P&C function. You will coordinate executive calendars, meetings, travel arrangements, and key business processes while ensuring documentation, governance requirements, and stakeholder communication are handled efficiently. The position offers broad exposure to senior leadership, international collaboration, and organisational initiatives, including transformation activities and people processes. Your responsibility will be to:

• Manage executive calendars, agendas, and key meetings.
• Organise domestic and international travel, including expenses and itineraries.
• Prepare and coordinate leadership and steering committee meetings and follow-up actions.
• Support for the P&C team includes PMO work on global processes, such as team development, off-sites, team events, onboarding activities, performance cases, , and organisational development. The role also involves supporting and coordinating our transformation and restructuring processes.
• Organize annual events for the European Workers’ Council.
• Manage budgets, vendors, documentation, invoice administration, and digital collaboration environments.
• Ad hoc administrative tasks including travel booking and completing expense reports for the Chief Legal Officer (20%).

The role is based in Kaunas, Lithuania, reporting to the CHRO. You will work closely with the global P&C team, leadership stakeholders, and the wider Executive Assistant community. Limited international travel may occur as required. You will also become part of NKT’s global Executive Assistant community, where colleagues share best practices, support one another, and meet regularly to exchange experiences, work more closely together, and support professional development.

Organised and resourceful professional supporting senior leaders

You are a self-motivated and professional person who enjoys creating structure, coordinating activities, and building positive working relationships across different cultures and organisational levels. You stay organized in a demanding environment, handle changing priorities, and approach challenges with a practical and solution-focused mindset. You value accuracy, collaboration, and delivering high-quality support while maintaining confidentiality and professionalism. You also have:

• 3+ years of experience as an Executive Assistant in an international environment.
• Fluent English, written and spoken.
• Advanced skills in Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, and Word.
• Experience with executive administration, coordination, and documentation management.
• Degree in office administration, international business communication, or equivalent.
• Interest in AI and its application to process optimization.

Contribute to NKT's growth and green future

We aim to create a workplace where people of all backgrounds are valued, supported, and able to do their best work. We are dedicated to increasing gender diversity at NKT and welcome applications from a wide range of candidates. We welcome varied backgrounds and career paths—even if you don’t meet every single requirement. We believe inclusive teams contribute to positive results and create a better everyday work environment.
In this role, you will have the opportunity to develop your career within an international organisation while working closely with senior leadership and global teams. You will be part of a collaborative environment where you can broaden your skills in executive support, project coordination, process management, and organisational development while contributing to NKT's ongoing growth and green transition.

Benefits and opportunities we provide

We offer you a modern office at Kauno Dokas with workplace where your knowledge and experience matter and also one full of growth opportunities, opportunities, and potential. In addition, we are offering:

• Opportunity to be a part of the global team.
• Interesting challenges and tasks, learning opportunities.
• Private health insurance.
• Additional 4 days of paid holidays.
• Flexible working hours.
• Tai chi classes on a regular basis.
• Company-funded access to Linkedin Learning platform.
• Free parking next to the office.

Salary range for this position is from 2500 Eur to 2900 Eur Gross.

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Aware that personality and cognitive tests might be included in the recruitment process. We will review applications continuously and close the process when we find the right match. We collect confidential candidate experience feedback to improve our recruitment process. Your responses are for quality development only and do not affect hiring decisions.  If you have any questions, please reach out to Ugnė Šidlauskė, HR Partner at Ugne.Sidlauske@nkt.com. Please note that due to the GDPR regulations we cannot accept any applications via e-mail.

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