Executive Assistant
Posted
Description
Lush Lawn is a family-owned lawn care company serving southeast Michigan since 2004. We help homeowners and businesses keep their outdoor spaces healthy and beautiful through services like lawn and tree fertilization, weed control, aeration, overseeding, tree and shrub care and pest control.
We are seeking a full-time Executive Assistant to the CEO
Schedule: Standard business hours, with flexibility to support the CEO outside traditional hours when business needs requirements. This position is 100% in office, Waterford headquarters.
Position Summary
We are seeking a highly trusted, energetic and digitally savvy Executive Assistant to serve as a true partner to the CEO. This role anticipates needs, manages competing priorities, maintains strict confidentiality and provides flexible support in a fast-paced environment. The Executive Assistant is often the first point of contact for employees, customers, leaders and external contacts, and represents the CEO and the company with warmth, polish and professionalism. The Executive Assistant also supports Samson’s boxing business and real estate business. This position is 100% in office, Waterford headquarters.
Key Responsibilities
- Manage the CEO's calendar, scheduling and priorities, proactively resolving conflicts and anticipating upcoming needs.
- Screen, prioritize and respond to incoming calls, email and messages, and escalate urgent matters appropriately.
- Prepare for meetings, travel, events and appearances, including agendas, materials and logistics.
- Handle sensitive employee, financial, customer and executive information with complete discretion.
- Serve as a professional point of contact between the CEO and employees, customers, leaders, vendors and community partners.
- Coordinate across departments, following up on action items and influencing outcomes without direct authority.
- Draft, edit and proofread correspondence, presentations, social media posts, and other communications.
- Use Microsoft 365, smartphone apps and digital communication tools to keep the CEO's work organized and efficient.
- Adapt quickly to changing priorities and provide support outside traditional business hours when needed.
- Perform other duties as assigned
Qualifications
- Proven experience in an executive assistant role or a similar support role requiring judgment, discretion and polish.
- Advanced proficiency with Microsoft 365 (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams) and mobile technology.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Strong organizational skills and attention to detail.
- Demonstrated maturity, sound judgment and a record of handling confidential information.
- Willingness to provide flexible support outside traditional business hours as business needs requirements
Lush Lawn offers competitive wages and full-time benefits, such as, medical, dental, vision, PTO, paid holidays, 401k and match, plus more.