Executive Assistant & Project Manager (HT)

Pronghorn

$75K — $95K *
Food & Beverages
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 4+ years in an Executive Assistant, Chief of Staff, Operations, or Events role, ideally in a fast-paced environment.
  • Advanced Excel skills for complex data management.
  • Exceptional organizational skills; adept at creating and maintaining systems.
  • Master of follow-up; ensures nothing is overlooked.
  • Ability to manage multiple tasks and projects simultaneously without compromising quality.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills across various stakeholders.
  • Event planning or trade show experience preferred.

Responsibilities

  • Provide daily support to the CEO and COO, ensuring timely operational task completion.
  • Create and manage systems for multi-project coordination across departments.
  • Maintain promotional inventory for market managers and tasting agencies.
  • Arrange and ensure consistency in training for tasting companies nationwide.
  • Analyze performance metrics for tasting companies monthly.
  • Coordinate sales team logistics for product availability ahead of tastings.
  • Organize and facilitate meetings between departments and executive team.

Benefits

  • Opportunity for professional growth in a dynamic startup environment.
  • Exposure to various functions from marketing to sales and operations.
  • Hands-on experience working closely with C-level executives.
  • Chance to influence company systems and processes.
  • Flexibility to travel for events and occasionally work outside standard hours.
Full Job Description
About the role

Our partner is seeking a highly organized, detail-driven Executive Assistant & Project Manager to serve as the

connective tissue of the company. This role is the right hand to the CEO and COO - and, just as importantly, the glue

between departments. The ideal candidate needs to have strong backgrounds working with spreadsheets and data analysis.

This role will work as bridge between departments and will ensure that every department has the tools needed to perform

their job. Additionally, this person will need to have very strong attention to detail and make sure that all the special

projects from corporate are moving forward in the right direction in a timely matter.

What you'll do

  • Provide day-to-day support to the CEO and COO, ensuring operational tasks are completed across departments in a timely manner.
  • Create systems to manage multiple projects simultaneously and coordinate across departments the progress
  • Maintain inventory of promotional material at corporate storage, and ensure that every market manager and tasting agency has the necessary promotional material
  • Arrange regular training sessions with all the tasting companies across the country and making sure they all have consistency following brand standards
  • Analyze overall performance across tasting companies in a monthly basis
  • Assist to coordinate with sales team that retailers have product before the tastings on a weekly basis
  • Analyze date from master depletion reports to discuss with executive team on a monthly basis
  • Coordinate regular meetings between department managers and executive team
  • Assist to maintain basic HR policies, and coordinate quarterly performance meetings
  • Attend meetings, capture key points, send recaps, and follow up to ensure accountability.
  • Main point of contact for event request and sponsions. Filtrate requests and coordinate with local teams for execution
  • Assist the marketing team as needed to delegate to right person or agency the execution of marketing and PR initiatives
  • Serve as the connective point across sales, marketing, production, and finance - ensuring information, decisions, and deadlines flow between departments ensuring accountability.
  • Build and maintain master Excel trackers that consolidate data from multiple teams (sales, inventory, events, finance) into single sources of truth.
  • Assist the CEO and COO to design and refine the company's systems to improve workflows, and internal processes
  • Own the master follow-up system - track open items across every department and drive them to closure.
  • Serve as the primary point of contact for the sales team regarding design, printing, and collateral needed to perform their job.
  • Organize and maintain sales collateral (sales sheets, pricing tools, etc.) and keep versions current across all markets.
  • Organize files with marketing materials, ensuring the sales team has current, on-brand assets.
  • Assist in the planning and execution of events, tastings, and activations
  • Assist with trade show planning and logistics, including shipping, staffing, and vendor coordination.
  • Manage on-the-ground event readiness - inventory, POS materials, staffing checklists, and day-of troubleshooting.

Qualifications

  • 4+ years in an Executive Assistant, Chief of Staff, Operations, or Events role, ideally in a fast-moving small business or startup environment.
  • Advanced Excel skills - comfortable building and maintaining complex, multi-tab workbooks that multiple teams rely on.
  • Exceptional organizational instincts; a natural system-builder who brings order to moving pieces.
  • A true "master of follow-up" - nothing falls through the cracks on your watch.
  • Strong multitasker who can hold multiple workstreams simultaneously without losing quality.
  • Clear, concise communicator, both written and verbal, across executives, distributors, and vendors.
  • Event planning or trade show experience strongly preferred.
  • Beverage alcohol, CPG, or distribution industry experience a plus.
  • Willingness and ability to travel for events as needed and occasionally work nights and weekends


Salary

Salary: $75,000 - $95,000 per year (based on experience)

Work Authorization

Due to the nature of these positions, we are unable to provide sponsorship for U.S. work authorization now or in the future.

The pay range for this role is:

75,000 - 95,000 USD per year (Austin, TX)

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