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About the role
Forterra seeks an experienced Executive Assistant to provide high-level support in a fast-paced, high-growth environment. This role is responsible for managing complex priorities, anticipating needs, and ensuring leaders can operate efficiently and stay focused on the highest-impact work. The Executive Assistant will serve as a trusted partner, managing calendars, travel, meetings, communications, and day-to-day coordination while helping drive follow-through across a wide range of priorities.
What they're looking for
- Provide high-level executive support, serving as a trusted partner and helping manage competing priorities in a fast-moving environment
- Own complex calendar management, proactively prioritizing meetings, resolving conflicts, protecting focus time, and ensuring schedules reflect the most important business priorities
- Anticipate needs and proactively address issues before they become problems, using sound judgment to determine when to act independently and when to escalate
- Plan and coordinate meetings, leadership sessions, offsites, customer engagements, and other events, ensuring logistics and materials are handled from start to finish
- Prepare leaders for meetings and engagements by coordinating agendas, materials, background information, and other relevant context
- Track commitments, decisions, and follow-ups to help ensure priorities continue moving forward
More about this role
About the role
Forterra seeks an experienced Executive Assistant to provide high-level support in a fast-paced, high-growth environment. This role is responsible for managing complex priorities, anticipating needs, and ensuring leaders can operate efficiently and stay focused on the highest-impact work. The Executive Assistant will serve as a trusted partner, managing calendars, travel, meetings, communications, and day-to-day coordination while helping drive follow-through across a wide range of priorities.
Forterra is a fast-growing company operating in a dynamic environment where priorities can shift quickly. Consistent with this growth, our Executive Assistants must be highly organized, resourceful, adaptable, and comfortable exercising independent judgment. Success in this role requires more than strong administrative skills—you should be able to understand the broader context behind requests, anticipate what is needed before being asked, identify and resolve conflicts, and confidently manage competing priorities.
The ideal candidate is proactive, detail-oriented, and comfortable working with senior leaders and teams across the organization. You will handle sensitive and...
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