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About us
Damen Song Cam Shipyard is a joint venture between Damen Shipyards Group in the Netherlands and Song Cam Shipyard, based in Haiphong, Vietnam. The shipyard is a strategic and preferred production location within the Damen Shipyards Group, producing tugboats and workboats. Currently, the shipyard
outfits, commissions, and delivers approximately 40 vessels per year to clients worldwide. In the future, Damen Song Cam will increase its production facilities to deliver approximately 80 vessels a year and will start to produce some of the hulls that are currently sub-contracted to other yards.
The role
The purpose of this role is to provide high-level secretarial, administrative, and executive support to the General Director, while also assisting in monitoring, coordinating, and following up on selected management and operational matters as assigned. The General Director Assistant (GD assistant) acts as a trusted partner to the General Director, helping to enhance effectiveness, organization, communication, and execution of day-to-day managerial activities.
Key accountabilities
Your tasks are the following:
• Prepare, edit, and manage executive correspondence, reports, presentations, and official documents.
• Draft letters, emails, and internal communications on behalf of the General Director as assigned.
• Translate documents and communications between English and Vietnamese with accuracy and professionalism.
• Screen, prioritize, and manage incoming and outgoing correspondence for the General Director.
• Maintain systematic and confidential filing of documents, contracts, reports, and correspondence (hard copy and electronic).
• Making minutes of meetings as per requirement of GD.
• Manage the General Director’s calendar, appointments, meetings, and business activities.
• Proactively coordinate schedules to ensure efficient use of executive time.
• Prepare meeting agendas and coordinate collection and distribution of materials in advance.
• Attend meetings when required; record clear minutes, key decisions, and action items.
• Organize meeting logistics including meeting rooms, equipment, refreshments, and materials.
• Business trip arrangement for GD and receiving VIP guests.
• Handle and screen phone calls professionally; respond or redirect appropriately.
• Coordinate information exchange across departments to support effective execution.
• Ensure timely follow-up on communications, requests, and instructions issued by the General Director.
• Assist in tracking progress of selected assignments, projects, and action plans across departments.
• Follow up on deadlines and task implementation; identify delays or issues and report status to the General Director.
• Support preparation of management reports, summaries, dashboards, and presentations.
• Collect, consolidate, and analyze basic data and information for managerial review.
• Handle sensitive and confidential information with integrity and discretion.
Qualifications & Requirements
To be successful in this role you bring:
• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Economics, International Trade, English, or related fields.
• Excellent command of English and Vietnamese, both written and spoken
• Proficient in Microsoft Office
• Strong document preparation, formatting, and presentation skills
• Proactiveness in handling and attention to details
• Know how to handle the sensitive information and confidential aspects
• Minimum 3–5 years of experience in executive assistant, management secretary, or similar support role for senior management.
• Experience working in a professional, international, or manufacturing environment is an advantage.
What we offer
Here at Damen, we realize supporting and managing many talented individuals is of great essence. We understand that the key to success is to find the right person for the right job. That’s why we continually invest in your development. Damen offers you:
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Damen Song Cam does not approve of a commercial, contractor and/or agency acquisition or commercial use of this advertisement. Proposing candidates without invitation is not appreciated and will not be considered.
Recruiter:
Tran Duc Vuong (Trần Đức Vượng)
Email:
vuong.tran.duc@damen.com
Please apply through the Apply Button. Due to GDPR reasons we cannot accept applications by email.
Oceans, seas, lakes and rivers offer growing possibilities in the areas of trade, food, energy and recreation. To ensure global prosperity for next generations and keep the earth habitable with an ever-increasing population, it is essential to utilise and protect these possibilities as efficiently and responsibly as possible.
Damen provides unprecedented maritime solutions for this, through design, shipbuilding, ship repair and related services. We offer versatile platforms that enable our customers to be successful and that raise the standard in terms of safety, reliability, efficiency and sustainability. We want to become the most sustainable shipbuilders in the world.
In the previous century, we revolutionized shipbuilding. Thanks to standardisation, we were able to supply our customers with better ships, faster. More than 90 years and 6,500 ships later, the importance of standardisation is only increasing in the light of zero-emissions and digitalisation.
We do not build our ships alone, but together with an extensive network from the international maritime cluster. We firmly believe in the power of sharing. It means that we also use our craftsmanship to build platforms on production facilities that are not ours. In this way, through knowledge transfer, we not only contribute to better, safer and more eco-friendly ships, but also to sustainable local development and prosperity.
We are a family owned business and stand for fellowship, craftsmanship, entrepreneurship and stewardship. Our playing field is the world. Our horizon is the long term. We firmly believe in our team, but also in the strength of the individual. Each colleague is an entrepreneur, focused on ensuring truly satisfied clients and making our contribution to a better world. In every aspect of our business the next generation is our starting point.
