Executive Administrator
Role Overview
Provides executive, operational, and administrative support to senior leaders based in Dubai.
Helps leaders manage priorities, maintain operating rhythms, and coordinate across CEMEA markets and global teams.
Requires sound judgment, discretion, organization, and confidence in a fast-paced, multicultural, matrixed environment.
Key Skills for This Role
Full Job Posting
Role overview
Provides executive, operational, and administrative support to senior leaders based in Dubai.
Helps leaders manage priorities, maintain operating rhythms, and coordinate across CEMEA markets and global teams.
Requires sound judgment, discretion, organization, and confidence in a fast-paced, multicultural, matrixed environment.
Executive and operational support
- Manage complex calendars, travel, meeting priorities, leadership commitments, deadlines, and follow-up actions.
- Coordinate meetings, reviews, planning sessions, client engagements, offsites, conferences, hospitality, and team events.
- Prepare presentations, reports, briefings, correspondence, and executive communications.
- Coordinate stakeholder communications, onboarding, cross-functional projects, and business initiatives.
- Use approved AI and digital productivity tools; identify opportunities to simplify, standardize, and automate processes.
- Manage travel arrangements and documentation, support UAE immigration-related activities, and coordinate vendors and compliance.
- Manage expenses, purchase orders, invoices, supplier onboarding, contracts, budget tracking, records, and governance requirements.
- Conduct research, prepare summaries and recommendations, support special projects, and coordinate administrative coverage.
Experience and qualifications
- Minimum 7 years in an Executive Assistant, Administrative Assistant, Business Operations, or similar support role, preferably in a multinational or matrixed organization.
- Proven experience supporting Vice President-level or other senior leaders and managing complex calendars, international travel, and competing deadlines.
- Strong organization, prioritization, stakeholder management, communication, judgment, discretion, and relationship-building skills.
- Experience coordinating across countries, cultures, functions, and time zones.
- Excellent written and verbal English; advanced Microsoft 365 proficiency, including Outlook, Teams, PowerPoint, Excel, Word, and SharePoint.
- Experience using AI-enabled productivity tools is required; familiarity with travel, expense, procurement, budgeting, and supplier systems is noted.
- A bachelor's degree or equivalent professional experience is preferred; CEMEA team experience is an advantage.
Tools and capabilities
- The role uses Microsoft 365 and AI-enabled tools for research, drafting, meeting preparation, workflow improvement, and collaboration.
- Relevant systems may include travel, expense, procurement, budgeting, and supplier management platforms.
About Visa
Visa is a payments technology company facilitating transactions among consumers, merchants, financial institutions, and government entities in more than 200 countries and territories.
Apply for this job in 1 click
Skip the repetitive application forms
Install the Base Career Chrome Extension and autofill job applications across major job boards with your profile.
Trusted by over 500,000 job seekers on Base Career
More from this employer
More jobs at Visa
Director, Consumer Payments Strategic Analytics
Foster City, USA
Director, Consumer Payments Strategic Analytics
Foster City, USA
Director, People Business Partner
San Francisco, USA
Staff SW Engineer
Austin, USA
Sr. Director
New York City, USA
Senior Manager Risk
Ashburn, USA
Strategy & Commercial Internship
, GBR
Sr. M&A Manager
New York City, USA
Director, Europe Sales Planning
, GBR