Category: Administrative & Customer Service
Location: West Des Moines, Iowa
Work Type: Direct Hire
Salary: $60,000 - $90,000
Salary: $60,000 - $90,000
Work Model: On-Site
Reference #: 45862
The Executive Assistant/Personal Assistant role is a unique opportunity to serve as a high-trust strategic partner to a driven executive with ambitious business and personal goals. This position goes far beyond traditional administrative support and plays a critical role in maximizing executive effectiveness, driving accountability, and ensuring priorities move forward seamlessly.
The ideal candidate is highly organized, proactive, emotionally intelligent, and thrives in a fast-paced environment while creating order from complexity. If you are motivated by helping leaders achieve exceptional results and enjoy making a meaningful impact, apply now!
Work Model:
- On-site
What You Will Do:
- Manage a complex and dynamic executive calendar while protecting focus time and prioritizing requests
- Coordinate internal and external meetings and proactively resolve scheduling conflicts
- Prepare agendas, supporting materials, meeting notes, action items, and accountability trackers
- Manage executive communications and draft professional emails, letters, and other correspondence
- Maintain project, task, and priority tracking systems and follow up through completion
- Support strategic planning processes, goal tracking, dashboards, scorecards, and progress reporting
- Coordinate EOS logistics, communications, notes, priorities, and accountability activities
- Manage travel arrangements, appointments, personal commitments, and special projects
- Conduct research and prepare executive briefings, summaries, recommendations, and decision-support materials
- Create presentations, organize documentation, improve workflows, and develop training resources
What You Will Need to Be Successful:
- 5+ years of experience supporting senior leaders, executives, entrepreneurs, or business owners
- Exceptional organizational and project management skills
- Strong written and verbal communication abilities
- Handle confidential information with absolute discretion
- Advanced proficiency with Microsoft Office and productivity tools
- Strong problem-solving and critical-thinking skills
- Ability to manage multiple priorities simultaneously in a fast-paced environment
- Follows through consistently on commitments and responsibilities
- Experience coordinating projects across multiple teams
Benefits Overview:
- Health, dental, and vision insurance
- 401K
- PTO
Interested and qualified candidates can contact Kyle Broshar at (515) 225-7000 or email kbroshar@thepalmergroup.com.
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About Palmer Group
At Palmer Group, making lives better is at the core of everything we do. For nearly three decades, we have partnered with organizations and individuals to provide thoughtful talent and business solutions that empower careers and drive growth.
As an employee-owned company grounded in strong ethics and values, we are committed to building lasting relationships and delivering results. Contractors working through Palmer Group are eligible to become employee-owners, giving them a stake in our shared success, and enjoy benefits including health insurance, PTO, and 401(k) options.
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