Country Manager Assistant

Country Manager Assistant International Business Operations

We are looking for an ambitious, highly driven Country Manager Assistant who wants significantly more than a traditional assistant role.

You will work closely with the Country Manager and support the end-to-end operation of the business, gaining hands-on exposure to Sales, Marketing, Finance, Customer Management, Administration, Recruitment, Travel, Meetings, and Business Development.

This is a high-trust, high-responsibility position designed for someone who wants to learn quickly, take ownership, and develop toward a future management and leadership role within an international company headquartered in Sweden.

Role & Responsibilities

• Work directly with the Country Manager and support day-to-day business operations and strategic initiatives.
• Coordinate and follow up on sales activities, opportunities, customer meetings, proposals, and business development initiatives.
• Support marketing activities, campaigns, events, partnerships, presentations, and market-development initiatives.
• Assist with finance and administration, including invoice coordination, expense follow-up, reporting, documentation, and communication with finance teams.
• Manage the Country Managers meeting coordination, calendar, customer appointments, and follow-up activities.
• Coordinate domestic and international travel arrangements, including flights, hotels, transportation, itineraries, and meeting schedules.
• Prepare presentations, reports, meeting materials, business documents, and management summaries.
• Participate in internal management meetings and external meetings with customers, partners, and other stakeholders.
• Track decisions, action items, deadlines, and commitments and ensure that agreed activities are followed through.
• Support recruitment, onboarding, employee coordination, and other people-related activities when required.
• Coordinate across departments and international teams to ensure information, decisions, and activities move quickly.
• Conduct market, customer, competitor, and business research to support management decisions.
• Identify opportunities to improve internal processes, workflows, reporting, and operational efficiency.
• Take ownership of special projects and management assignments from planning through execution.
• Act as an extension of the Country Manager when coordinating activities across customers, employees, partners, and internal teams.
• Gradually take responsibility for independent business and management assignments as experience and capability grow.

Preferred Candidate Profile

• Interested in working in a fast-paced, agile, and high-performance environment where things move quickly.
• Willing to invest the extra time and effort required to build an exceptional international career.
• Ambitious and motivated to grow into a future management and leadership role.
• Interested in a position combining internal management responsibilities with external customer and business assignments.
• Excited about working directly with top management and senior decision-makers in an international company.
• Comfortable taking ownership, responsibility, and initiative beyond what is normally expected.
• Highly organized and capable of managing several priorities, meetings, deadlines, and stakeholders simultaneously.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills with confidence interacting with customers, executives, employees, and partners.
• Commercially minded with an interest in sales, marketing, finance, operations, and business development.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to turn information into actions.
• Professional, reliable, discreet, and comfortable handling confidential business and management information.
• Strong English communication skills, both written and spoken.
• Comfortable working with modern digital tools, presentations, spreadsheets, CRM systems, and AI-based productivity tools.
• International mindset and willingness to travel when business requires it.
• Looking for more than a traditional assistant position an opportunity to learn fast, perform, make an impact, and grow with an international company headquartered in Sweden.

This position is particularly suitable for a high-potential, ambitious professional at the beginning of their career who wants unusually broad exposure to how an international business is built, managed, and scaled.

This is not a traditional administrative assistant role. It is a career-development opportunity for someone who wants to work close to management, take responsibility early, and grow into a future business leader.