Executive Personal Assistant - Fixed Term Contract

Westfalia Fruit, is a leading multinational supplier of fresh fruit and related value-added products to global markets. Through our vertically-integrated supply chain we grow, source, ripen, pack, process and market quality avocadoes & fresh produce – 365 days a year & across the globe.

With the largest avocado-growing footprint in the world, we are recognised as the leading #avoexperts and considered as the supplier of choice to both retail & wholesale customers whom we serve from sales offices in the UK, Europe, North America, Latin America & Southern Africa.

Westfalia Fruit Estate, situated in Tzaneen has a vacancy for a suitably qualified and experienced:

Executive Personal Assistant (4 Months Contract)

Purpose of the role:

The main purpose of this position is to provide Secretarial and Administrative support to the Director of Operations Africa based in Westfalia fruit Estates Modjadjiskloof offices.

Key Responsibilities:

• Contribute to making the Executive successful in a high performance and driven environment
• Providing high level proactive administration, office management and secretarial services.
• Ensure timely, effective, efficient and quality service delivery to each department.
• Handle suppliers and customers.
• Manage travel arrangements.
• Organize events.
• Have Basic financial acumen.
• Maintain ability to work with sensitive information.
• Must be able to build and maintain good relationships both internally and externally.

Education:

• Matric
• Three years post matric qualification in Executive/ Personal Assistant / Business Administration/ LLB/ Agricultural Economics
• Other relevant Business Admin Courses or Executive assistant courses

Experience:

• 5 years’ experience in executive assistant, Personal assistant, office management for executive management role
• Must have excellent skills maintaining high standards of professionalism, efficiency, personal communication, discretion and independent judgment.
• Must be able to work in a planned and structure way
• Strong computer literacy – MS Office

Behavioural Competencies:

• Quality and accuracy of work should come naturally
• Attention to detail
• Service oriented individual that can work under pressure
• High level of integrity
• High level of confidentiality
• Must be a team member and provide support to the operations managers
• Able to work without supervision
• Pleasant and energetic with well-developed communication & interpersonal skills.

Closing date for applications will be 17 March 2025

NB: Should you not receive correspondence by 7 March 2025, please regard your application as being unsuccessful.