Executive Assistant & Strategy Associate to EBDD, Oslo

Executive Assistant & Strategy Associate
Oslo
Full-time Regular

Do you want to join a company where the green transition is taking the front seat in a highly progressive business? And are you an engaged, detail-oriented professional with solid administrative and stakeholder management skills? Then, don’t miss your chance to be part of something great.

Create solutions that enable a better tomorrow
As an Executive Assistant & Strategy Associate, you will support senior leadership by ensuring seamless coordination, effective communication, and effective execution of key priorities. This unique role combines executive support with strategic project work, giving you the opportunity to drive initiatives related to business development, digitalisation, and AI while contributing to the continuous improvement of how we work.

Working closely with the Executive Business Development Director for Infrastructure, you will gain direct exposure to strategic decision-making, leadership priorities, and global business development activities across COWI's Infrastructure sector. Your ability to create structure, drive progress, and connect stakeholders will make you a key contributor to both operational excellence and long-term business success.

Your key responsibilities will include:

• managing calendars, meetings, and leadership priorities while ensuring effective preparation and follow-up


• coordinating presentations, documentation, and key deliverables to support leadership activities


• acting as a trusted partner, ensuring alignment, progress, and execution across priorities and stakeholders


• driving selected business development, operational, and strategic initiatives from planning through implementation


• improving structure, coordination, and efficiency across workflows and processes


• supporting market analysis and activities that contribute to business growth and development


• driving digitalisation and AI initiatives while facilitating collaboration across teams and functions

Your skills. Our team. Together we design the future.
The first step to success in this role is that you are eager to collaborate with the people around you, whether they are colleagues, partners or customers. Developing ties with others is something you do by acting respectfully and delivering on your promises. And you never get set in your ways, but keep exploring new insights and ways to improve.

To thrive in this role, you are detail-oriented, analytical, and highly structured. You enjoy creating clarity in complex environments and can balance operational support with project ownership.

On top of that, you will:

• hold a bachelor’s degree with 5 years of experience in executive support, coordination, project support, or a similar role


• possess the ability to effectively manage multiple priorities, stakeholders, and projects simultaneously


• have strong digital and systems skills, with an interest in AI, automation, or digitalisation


• be self-motivated, structured, and solution-oriented in your approach


• demonstrate well-developed skills in analysis, organization, and solving problems


• have the ability to communicate effectively and build strong relationships across different stakeholder groups


• demonstrate a high level of integrity and confidentiality and are fluent in Danish or Norwegian and English

A place to work and so much more
At COWI, we work together with our customers to shape a sustainable and liveable world. We do it by applying our knowledge and curiosity – and sometimes even our courage – to create the solutions the world needs today to enable a better tomorrow. We support our customers’ transition towards increased sustainability. We strive to lead by example by embedding environmental management, social responsibility and good governance into our business practices and the options we provide to our customers.

We value differences and development and cultivate an environment of belonging and having fun. Because that is what brings out the best in you, at work and at home.

With offices primarily located in the Nordic region, the UK, North America and India, we are currently more than 7,500 people who bring their expertise in engineering, architecture, energy and environment into play.

Got more questions?
If you have any unanswered questions about the role or what we have to offer, please reach out to our Global Talent Acquisition Specialist, Priyanka, at [email protected].

Get to know us even better at our website, www.cowi.com, where you can learn more about our projects, our strategy, what we want to achieve and what life is like at COWI.

Before you apply
All you need to include in your application is your CV – no photo or application letter. At an interview, you can tell us everything we need to know about why you’re interested in joining COWI. As for the photo, we prefer to form our first impression in person rather than from a picture.

Diversity is fundamental to COWI, inclusion is key.
We are committed to creating a respectful and fair work environment where all employees have a sense of belonging and equitable opportunities to thrive and grow. We ensure that our leaders are role models for inclusive leadership by cultivating a culture where diverse perspectives and thoughts are seen as strengths. And we take diversity and inclusion into account in all relevant decisions and processes and when setting teams and fora. We do it because it is part of our values and because it is simply the right thing to do.