We are TecAlliance — founded by more than 30 automotive aftermarket companies as a neutral Data‑as‑a‑Service market connector, serving as the neutral data terrain that interconnects them. With over 1,000 employees worldwide and customers in 140 countries, we enable the market — we never compete with it.

This role serves as the Personal Assistant (m/f/d) to TecAlliance CEO Peter van der Galiën, working in close collaboration with the Investor Relations Manager, the Executive Assistant and the Leadership Team.

This role is for you, if you are a seasoned Personal Assistant (m/f/d) who thrives in a fast-paced, executive environment, enjoys structuring complexity, and brings absolute reliability, discretion, and clarity to the Peter's day-to-day work. You are the backbone of the organization, keeping things running seamlessly behind the scenes and enabling our CEO to operate at full impact. The role can be started from June 2026 onwards and is based in our office in Cologne.

Your role:

Task & Project Coordination:

• You support the CEO on his tasks, projects, and strategic initiatives, ensuring priorities, deadlines are met, and follow-ups are done.

Document & Information Management:

• You prepare presentations and documents for the CEO and manage confidential files and executive records.

• You maintain structured project documentation across tools such as Teams, Jira, Confluence, and Azure DevOps.

Calendar & Travel Management:

• You manage the CEO’s complex calendar across multiple time zones, including scheduling meetings, conference calls, and end-to-end travel planning and booking.

Communication & Follow-Up Management:

• You screen and manage emails, calls, and other communications, and draft correspondence on behalf of the CEO.

• You proactively work on follow-up actions agreed with the CEO during a weekly alignment call.

Relationship & Stakeholder Management:

• You act as the primary point of contact between the CEO, internal teams, and external stakeholders and ecosystem partners.

Expense Management:

• You track and process the CEO’s expense reports and reimbursements accurately and in a timely manner.

Your profile:

• Proven profound experience as an Executive Assistant or Personal Assistant to senior executives.

• Ideally a Bachelor’s degree preferred but not required.

• Proficiency in Microsoft Office (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint) and collaboration tools such as Microsoft Teams, SharePoint, Confluence, and Jira.

• Language Proficiency: English B2 level or higher and German B2 level.

Contracts, Salary, and non-monetary benefits

💪 All our contracts are by default unlimited (probation period is six months).

🎁 Compensation package: 97% fixed base salary paid monthly, with a 3% performance-based bonus paid annually, dependent on company performance.

🏖 Vacation: 30 days a year.

🌏 Company credit card for travel: whenever you travel a lot you know the struggle. You have to cover travel costs. Never do that again. With your company credit card your cash stays with you as long as you hand in your expense bill promptly.

💪 Company pension plan.

🛡️ Group accident insurance.

🚴‍♀️ Bike leasing.

🛒 Discounts on our corporate benefits program with a broad range of partners.

🍏 in case you work on one of our sites, we offer subsidized meals.

🚀 Structured Onboarding: you receive an individual onboarding plan, have multiple onboarding days in the beginning, and a wealth of e-learning, training, and documentation besides your team at your disposal.

👩‍💻 Set-up: notebook, headset and mouse will be provided, other equipment upon request/need.

❤️‍🔥 Kununu Top Company 2026: we’re proud to state that our score currently sits at 4,1/5 score with an 85%+ recommendation rate.

* Please note

• that TecAlliance can only consider candidates for employment who are legally authorized to work in a country listed in the job posting, where we have an established legal entity and payroll system. Unfortunately, we are currently unable to hire candidates who require relocation, visa support, or are located outside of that country. Of course you can apply, if you hold a work permit and are willing to / or already moved to the country. Thank you for your understanding.

• that it is not possible to work outside of the country you are applying for. Meaning that, if you apply e.g. for Germany, you must work from within Germany. It is not possible to work from abroad. You can work at any location within the borders of the listed country, unless the job posting specifies a certain City.

• Kindly apply with your CV (in English only) via the "apply" button only. Applications outside of our applicant tracking system cannot be considered due to GDPR. We appreciate your consideration.