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🇿🇦 South Africa – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

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Remote Choice

1 - 10 employees

Founded 2022

💼 Consulting

📦 Logistics

📣 Marketing

Consulting • Logistics • Marketing

Remote Choice is a UK-founded recruitment and staffing firm that helps UK businesses hire skilled, remote professionals from South Africa. The company sources, screens, shortlists and manages hiring logistics — including interviews, assessments, payroll and local IT infrastructure — to deliver cost-effective remote staffing solutions without up-front fees. Remote Choice emphasizes a large South African talent pool, dual-location support (UK and South Africa), and savings of up to 50% compared with traditional UK recruitment.

📋 Description

• Own and manage a busy diary, coordinating internal and external meetings • Schedule appointments and manage changes or conflicts efficiently • Prioritise meetings and ensure time is used effectively • Prepare schedules and ensure all relevant information is available ahead of meetings • Coordinate across multiple stakeholders and time zones where required • Arrange UK and international travel, including flights, trains, accommodation, and transfers • Build clear travel itineraries and ensure all arrangements run smoothly • Manage last-minute changes and resolve travel issues when required • Coordinate reservations, bookings, and other logistics • Proactively arrange sales meetings with prospective and existing clients • Liaise with prospects and external contacts to coordinate availability • Manage scheduling and follow-ups to ensure meetings are confirmed • Keep track of upcoming sales meetings and help maintain an organised pipeline of appointments • Work closely with the wider team to coordinate diaries around commercial priorities • Handle day-to-day administrative tasks and correspondence • Manage emails, documents, bookings, and other ad hoc requests • Help organise meetings, events, and team activities where required • Maintain confidentiality when dealing with sensitive information • Anticipate requirements and proactively resolve issues before they become problems • Provide flexible support across the business as priorities evolve

🎯 Requirements

• Previous experience as a Personal Assistant, Executive Assistant, or in a similar organisational role • Excellent diary and calendar management skills • Experience arranging travel and coordinating detailed itineraries • Highly organised with strong attention to detail • Confident and professional when communicating with clients, prospects, and senior stakeholders • Proactive and comfortable taking ownership rather than waiting for instruction • Able to manage competing priorities in a fast-moving environment • Strong written and verbal communication skills • Comfortable using common productivity, calendar, and communication tools • Reliable, discreet, and trustworthy • Experience supporting a founder, CEO, or senior executive preferred as a nice-to-have • Experience within a fast-growing or entrepreneurial business preferred as a nice-to-have • Previous involvement in sales administration, meeting booking, or commercial support preferred as a nice-to-have • Experience working across multiple time zones and arranging international travel preferred as a nice-to-have

🏖️ Benefits

• Remote work arrangement • Full-time employment

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