VA Profile -- Mary Lourdes Membrebe
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"I have a background as an Executive Assistant and I also have experience as an Account Coordinator for a real estate marketing company based in Australia. I also work in roles for Social Media Management, Customer Support and Events Manager. My skills are associated strongly with planning, coordinating, communicating, problem solving and you can expect that this is what I do best. I am highly organized and I value time very seriously.
I have been an Executive Assistant to the CEO and COO of a Marketing Company based in Metro Manila with satellite offices in Hongkong and Singapore that offers training services to other companies. I make sure that no time is wasted, seeing to it that everything is flawless. The nature of the role allowed me to find answers on my own for different tasks assigned to me and to be on my feet at all times. Since the CEO and COO of the company are busy most of the time, I am used to doing my job without supervision and still able to deliver high quality results.
From preparation and management of payables, schedule coordination, setting up meetings, reminding and preparing requirements needed for projects, to file management and even being the go to person of different departments with different projects and concerns. I make sure that everything is on track, on time and done.
Some of the projects include a National Conference we planned to hold prior to the pandemic, arrangement of new training programs and creating extension of the business. I have prepared legal requirements, collected target market contact information so we can invite the right audience to the event and coordinated alongside the sales team for sponsorships. I am also tasked to complete applications for copyright of different programs needed for our training. I also experienced preparing and managing files for government applications to other business ventures the CEO wanted to pursue. Whenever the CEO or COO would venture into a big idea, I am the person who makes sure that the big idea turns into reality by attending to the small details needed to make it happen on time or mostly even ahead of the schedule.
Aside from being the Executive Assistant, I also have the role of Training Deployment Administrator in the same company. I am the one preparing the offer sheets for the talents coordinating with the finance team. I am also assisting the Talent Admin Head in disseminating contract agreements and making sure that all information of talents are updated in the system.
I have been with the company running 8 months now and I work for them from Mondays to Fridays, 8am to 5pm. Due to the pandemic, the business has been badly affected and so they had to cut our work hours and pay into half and we still don't know when the business will recover. The uncertainty of the situation pushed me to find another job as I carry a big chunk of our expenses at home. I also spoke with my managers that I am actively seeking for a new opportunity and will resign once I am hired somewhere else.
For over 2 yrs as an Account Coordinator, I was working under an Australian company that provides real estate marketing materials. I handled over 15 company owned offices as clients, I am their go to person for all their concerns, requests and even inquiries for their orders from our company. I make sure that all of these things are aligned with their process, and at the same time, are all done and sent on time. I am a part of the team that checks their branding, manages their accounts using back end software and oversees their ongoing ads and other materials for the agency and the agent.
From this role, I have learned to switch tasks fast without sacrificing the quality of the output. I am skilled to resolve issues fast if there is any since we would encounter urgent requests across different client offices, concerning different things, sometimes all at the same time especially during busy season.
I only give my best in everything I do because I strongly value the trust given to me as much as I value my integrity. It is very important for me to be able to adapt quickly since I understand that businesses move on a very fast pace environment and I have to always go ten steps ahead and provide above and beyond work at all times. I hope you see me as a good fit to the role."
