Permanent Vancouver Employment Listings

This organization offers an innovative work environment with emphasis on both professional and personal growth!  If you are super-organized and would enjoy working one-on-one with a dynamic Managing Partner, then this might be for you. 

Responsibilities include:

• Extensive scheduling and calendar management
• Travel arrangements
• Coordination of client meetings
• Meeting minutes and documentation
• General office administration as needed
  

Qualifications:

• Executive assistant experience in a professional services firm, or in a
  role supporting an executive with intensive client interaction
• Highly organized and the ability to calmly manage juggling priorities
• Experience with calendar management
• General administration experience and good MS Office skills
• A warm, kind, proactive personality who likes to help
• Willingness to pitch in with general administrative duties in the office

Are you interested in working with a top Executive Recruiter in the field of executive search?  This international executive search firm is currently seeking a polished Administrative Assistant to assist one of their busy Search Professionals.   You will handle confidential correspondence including references, schedule client meetings and interviews, liaise with candidates, conduct internet research and manage Outlook calendars.

A university degree is required, as well as 2 - 4 years of solid project-oriented work experience. Excellent work environment!

Are you an experienced CSR with good selling skills and fluency in both French and English? If you are looking for a warm, productive environment in a stable company, then this position might interest you. This company has been in business for more than 40 years and they like to hire friendly, supportive and team-oriented people.

Duties:
- acting as the primary contact to clients and brokers
- proactively selling products to new and renewing clients
- responding to inquiries and maintaining positive relations with customers

This company is in a convenient location in Richmond, close to transit, shopping and restaurants. Some of the benefits of working here include: 35 hour work week, 3 weeks vacation to start, training and professional development, advancement opportunities (30% of roles are filled internally with promotions), a solid employee benefits plan, corporate profit sharing, very comfortable and bright office, casual dress on Fridays and during the summer months, and lots of social events!

Office Assistant position, commencing the 1st of March with a religious Ministry office in Surrey.  This could be a good position for an experienced Assistant who is currently not employed and would enjoy working with a wide range of people.  You need to have good multi-tasking skills, intermediate proficiency in Word and Excel and the ability to handle a lot of changes.

EA with at least five years of current experience and a lot of initiative is required to provide high level administrative support to the Chief Revenue Officer.  You must have experience supporting senior management, dealing with confidential details and issues, and be able to multi-task effectively in a very fast-paced position.  Strong MS Office skills essential.  Richmond location.

Very busy, demanding role requiring excellent multi-tasking, organizational and administrative abilities.  The successful applicant will have real estate experience, preferably focused on the brokerage aspect.  In this position you will provide admin support to a group of commercial property brokers including researching of property details, liaising with municipalities, reviewing leases and title documents, creating property descriptions to be used in listings, preparing marketing materials and documents, maintaining client lists, etc. 

Qualifications:

• Marketing or Real Estate graduate
• Previous work experience with real estate transactional documentation
• Experience working with legal documentation
• Good knowledge of Vancouver neighbourhoods and geographic locations
• Excellent computer and communication skills
• Valid driver's license and must have own car

Head office in Surrey has experienced good growth and they have two new openings in their very busy accounting department for experienced clerks with excellent attention to detail and working experience with with either Inventory Control or Accounts Payable. 

Working within a team, you will be responsible for coding invoices, data entry, creating and populating spreadsheets, performing reconciliations, processing incoming and branch mail and keeping detailed records. 

You must have strong computer skills and an excellent phone manner / customer service skills to handle vendor phone calls and answer questions in a professional manner. This is a busy office with lots of deadlines that will suit individuals who like a fast paced environment.

Corporate finance arm of a major, worldwide retailer has a full-time opening for an individual with several years of retail credit analyst experience.

Key responsibilities:

• Analyze retail credit applications
• Make quality credit decisions within established turnaround times
• Provide recommendations to senior credit officers on credit applications in excess of lending limits
• Provide guidance and instruction to credit investigator
• Communicate with dealership personnel on rejected or conditional applications

Qualifications:

• Ability to meet deadlines and perform successfully in a challenging, fast-paced environment
• Must be decisive with solid analytical skills and a problem solving orientation
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills; excellent team-player; strong customer focus

• Experience with the Canadian retail credit
• Good computer knowledge
• Post secondary education required, University degree preferred

Senior Legal Assistant

Senior Legal Assistant working on labour and employment matters with two lawyers.

As a Legal Assistant, you will provide assistance in the preparation and conduct of litigation before all levels of provincial and superior courts in British Columbia, the Supreme Court of Canada and before administrative tribunals.

You have a solid grounding in labour and employment law and are familiar with relevant legislation, policies and procedures.  Knowledge of Supreme Court Civil Rules is essential.  You are highly organized with the ability to prioritize and handle a substantial case load.  Your excellent interpersonal skills will be beneficial in dealing with all levels of officials, with outside members of the legal profession and with the general public.  As a significant portion of the tasks are of a confidential and sensitive nature, you will act with diplomacy and tact.  The applicant must be enthusiastic, flexible with overtime and has the ability to work on his/her own initiative. 

Applications are invited from qualified legal assistants who have a bachelor's degree in law or who have completed an undergraduate diploma from a recognized Legal Assistant Program or equivalent credential combined with five years of legal experience.  Strong working knowledge of MS Office, legal office and legal research software is required together with proven experience of legal terminology and legal library procedures.  

Senior Corporate Commercial Paralegal

A leading law firm has an exciting, newly created position as a multi-jurisdictional Corporate Commercial Paralegal.  Must have five years of recent paralegal work, including work with extra-provincial filing.  A great opportunity.

Insolvency Paralegal  

Well-respected law firm has an opportunity for a senior insolvency and bankruptcy paralegal.  Looking for a dedicated applicant with solid experience.

Word Processing - Two Positions

We are currently recruiting for 1 or 2 part-time W/P Operators for evening shift(s), between Monday to Thursday. The evening shift would start at 6-7pm and end at midnight. These are special project term positions expected to last 12- 14 months. You must have strong MS Office applications experience and understand various areas of practice within corporate and litigation, in addition to what formats and forms are appropriate for each. Excellent communication skills, a "can-do" attitude and strong attention to detail are critical. Downtown location.

Junior Legal

Fabulous opportunity to join a major firm in the Audit area.  Great spot for a bright, capable junior legal administrative assistant with excellent computer skills and positive attitude!

Litigation.  Senior LAA spot with mid-sized firm.  Interesting practice.

Corporate Records - Paralegal skills and experience needed.  Must be tech savvy and have good leadership skills.

General Legal - Must have at least 2 years of current LAA experience and top-notch skills!  Downtown mid-sized firm. This is a full-time "float" position.

A fast-growing building material supply company is looking for a Health and Safety Specialist to join their team.

Job Description:

• Provide expert knowledge and skills to generate and promote a positive health and safety culture. This represents a key role in helping control occupational risk.
• Ensuring that all safety legislation is adhered to and policies and practices are adopted.
• Plan, implement, monitor and review the protective and preventative measures that the company is required to follow, and work to minimize operational losses, occupational health problems, accidents and injuries.
• Support and comply with the Safety Programs set out by the company and the Province(s) of BC, AB, SASK and MB.

Candidates need to have strong leadership and communication skills, combined with knowledge of H & S regulations, standards industrial practice, loss prevention and control.  Preference given to those with certification in Occupational Health & Safety and WCB Level 2 or 3 Occupational First Aid.

This worldwide, publicly-traded company is a strong leader in global transportation and logistics solutions for thousands of corporate customers.  They currently have an excellent opportunity in their Western Canada office for an experienced Sales Executive with current background and experience in freight forwarding.

Reporting to the Branch Manager, this position will be responsible for the development of international sales and increasing market share.

Specific responsibilities:

• Target new customers, with emphasis on international sales development in Asia and Europe
• Communicate with overseas agents and worldwide offices on sales & marketing level
• Negotiate rates with clients, agents and carriers
• Actively promote total logistics package
• Set-up accounts for new clients
• Provide quotes to overseas agents and customers
• Prepare various activity and sales reports
• Ensure new client information is forwarded to operations department
• Carry out freight forwarding and other related functions as required

Candidates should have 5-6 years direct sales experience, excellent interpersonal and written/verbal communication skills and be able to work well independently.