Executive Assistant

We are looking for an Executive Assistant who has supported a Partner, Managing Director, or

Principal inside a consulting firm. If you have run a partner's office at a Big Four, a strategy house, or a boutique advisory practice, this role was written for you. Why we are specific about consulting Consulting EAs are trained differently, and it shows. You already understand that a Partner's calendar is a commercial instrument, not a diary. You know what happens when a client deck slips by a day. You have chased a manager for a deliverable without damaging the relationship. You have sat on the phone with a client's EVP and held the conversation without needing your Partner in the room. You know which conversations never leave the office.

None of that can be taught in a quarter. We would rather hire someone who has already lived it.

What you will own

Cadence and calendar Design the Senior Partner's week around commercial priority, not request order. Enforce preparation windows, travel logic across time zones, and recovery time.

Say no on his behalf and make it land well.

The week. Design the calendar around commercial priority, not request order. Protect preparation windows. Enforce travel logic across three continents and multiple time zones.

Decline on his behalf, and make the decline land well.

Decision follow-through Attend or review key internal and client meetings. Convert them into

decisions, owners, and dates. Chase them to closure across the Delivery, Acquisition, and

Operations functions until they are done or formally killed.

Follow-through. Sit in on key internal and client meetings. Turn them into decisions, owners, and

dates. Chase those items across Delivery, Acquisition, and Operations until they are closed or

formally killed. Nothing agreed in a room should die on the way out of it.

Briefing and preparation No meeting starts cold. Produce one-page briefs covering the counterpart, the commercial history, the open items, and the outcome being sought.

Preparation. No meeting starts cold. Produce short pre-reads covering who is in the room, the commercial history, the open items, and the outcome we want.

Correspondence Triage and manage inbox flow. Draft in the Senior Partner's voice for routine and semi-routine correspondence. Escalate only what genuinely requires him.

Correspondence. Triage the inbox. Draft in the Senior Partner's voice for routine and semi-routine matters. Escalate only what genuinely needs him.

Client and partner interface Serve as a credible first point of contact for senior client stakeholders and partners. Hold relationships warm between substantive touchpoints.

Client interface. Be a credible first point of contact for senior client stakeholders and partners.

Keep relationships warm between substantive touchpoints.

Office and information discipline Own document hygiene, engagement records, and the flow of information into and out of the office. Maintain absolute confidentiality on commercial, client, and personnel matters.

Records and confidentiality. Own document hygiene, engagement records, and the flow of information into and out of the office. Commercial, client, and personnel matters stay in the office. Always.

Travel and logistics Multi-country travel across Africa, the Caribbean, and North America, including visas, itineraries, and on-ground coordination.

Travel. Multi-country movement across Africa, the Caribbean, and North America. Visas, itineraries, ground coordination, contingency.

What we are looking for

Required

● Three to seven years as an Executive Assistant supporting a Partner, Managing Director,

Principal, or Founder, with at least two of those years inside a consulting or professional services firm

● Direct experience of client-facing environments. You have interacted with client stakeholders, not only internal staff

● Excellent written English. You will write things that people act on

● Evidence that you built something rather than only operating what you inherited. A tracker, a briefing format, a handover system, a follow-up discipline. Tell us about it

● Discretion as a default setting, not a policy you comply with

● Comfort with AI tools and a willingness to automate parts of your own job

Strongly preferred

● Background at a Big Four firm, a strategy house, or a respected boutique advisory

practice

● Exposure to multi-country engagements or cross-border client work

● Familiarity with how engagements are scoped, staffed, and billed

What we are not looking for

Someone who only wants to be told what to do. In a firm of our size you will not have a partner services team, a travel desk, or a template library to fall back on. You will build those things.

We also need someone who will push back. If the Senior Partner is overcommitted, wrong about a date, or about to accept a meeting he should not, we expect you to say so. That expectation is written into this document deliberately.

Where this goes

The Office of the Senior Partner is being built as an institution, not a personal support function.

For the right person, the path runs toward Chief of Staff or a functional leadership seat as the office grows.

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