Senior Executive Assistant Job Description
Senior Executive Assistant Duties & Responsibilities
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Senior Executive Assistant Job Description
- Supports team in administration and operational matters
- Heavy Calendar, T&E and travel arrangements
- Maintaining calendar, appointments, rooms, and equipment
- Maintaining calendar, scheduling appointments, booking rooms, and arranging equipment
- Maintaining calendar, scheduling appointments, booking rooms, and arranging equipment (multiple meeting requests)
- Interaction with both internal and external contacts
- Prioritizing and managing multiple projects simultaneously and following through on issues in a timely manner
- Answering phones and directing all incoming calls to appropriate party promptly and efficiently
- Communicating and handling incoming and outgoing electronic communications
- Developing and assisting with preparation of high level presentation materials
- Reviewing, analyzing, and summarizing miscellaneous reports and documents
- Preparing background documents and outgoing mail, as necessary
- Arranging travel schedules and reservations and creating itineraries
- Project management support, as needed
- Handling personal tasks, as needed
- Assists with developing and proofreading presentations, reports, letters, for accuracy, format, correct form and content
Senior Executive Assistant Job Description
- Follow standardized tasks according to established rules and procedures, with some interpretation as necessary
- Anticipate the details
- May provide exceptional administrative support to the direct reports of the executive other department staff as needed
- Handle busy and ever changing calendar, coordinating with other senior or client executives
- Manages operation of local office space including assisting with new hires, coordinating events, and maintaining office supplies
- Manages personal calendar for SVP
- Provides leadership and builds teamwork among sectors, division, or groups
- Maintains accurate, complete and current files
- Reviews executive’s mail, business sensitive or strictly private mail using appropriate security measures
- Copies, assembles and collates documents
- Minimum of 4 years of professional administrative/ chief of staff experience required, at the VP level or above
- Media or Consumer business background
- Exceptional telephone protocol and high degree of professionalism
- Energetic, upbeat, outgoing, organized and detail oriented with excellent follow through skills
- Independently initiate correspondence and actions
- Curious, eager to learn and committed to self-improvement
Senior Executive Assistant Job Description
- Checking inbox and responding to emails
- Copying data from master spreadsheet into USPC slides
- Cleaning up MentorScout usage (remove anyone no longer with the company, reminders to those not active, etc)
- Booking calls with multiple people
- Booking rooms and catering for events
- Prioritizes and summarizes contents of incoming materials - , mail, reports, government notifications, articles, competitor packages - requiring knowledge of operations, an understanding of pertinent individuals involved, protocols, actions required, timelines, signature authority required, compliance and regulatory mandates
- Arranges and coordinates travel and meeting schedules, including travel agenda and meeting schedules
- Providing primary and back-up phone coverage, directing calls to appropriate parties
- Coordinating international/domestic travel and hotel arrangements
- Coordinating arrangements for meetings
- Ability to manage department projects and records/ documents
- Must be detail oriented with high level of interpersonal skills to ensure effective, and accurate flow of all information
- Able to work independently and provide services to multiple staff members
- Must work effectively with all levels of the organization
- Requires excellent organizational and interpersonal skills problem solving, negotiation and follow-up skills
- Preparing and processing travel and entertainment expenses promptly and accurately
Senior Executive Assistant Job Description
- Coordinates with internal and external executive-level staff to accomplish moderately complex activities, such as scheduling, identifying outside speakers, and developing agendas or recreational programs for non-local group meetings or events
- Manage Microsoft Outlook calendar, inbox, and address books
- Schedule and coordinate meetings / conference calls
- Perform internet research using licensed tools
- Support marketing reporting efforts
- Work with back-up to ensure full uninterrupted coverage of for local team
- Ensure team compliance with all modules of CRM management
- Processing and coordinating expense reporting
- Scheduling and preparing agenda for regular meetings
- Coordinating and organizing meetings, events and travel plans
- Ability to deal with all levels of staff and management within the organization, the public, under highly stressful conditions
- Excellent composition and grammar verbal communication skills
- You have excellent writing and grammar skills
- Minimum for 5 or more years of experience providing administrative support
- Ability to work under tight deadlines and handle confidential material
- Poise and professionalism in contacts with people both within and external to the company
Senior Executive Assistant Job Description
- Tracking expenses and ensuring all bills are paid on time
- Coordinating with key Financial, Legal, and Property Advisors to coordinate gathering of information keeping Executive apprised of key deadlines
- Coordinating drivers
- Managing ad hoc executive projects
- Communicates (both written and verbal) in a professional manner with all levels of individuals
- Discusses priorities and special appointments with the Senior Executive, and efficiently handles requests for time or meetings as needed to ensure the Senior Executive’s time is effectively managed
- Is accommodating to the Senior Executive's schedule
- Maintain calendar, coordinate and arrange large and/or recurring meetings, luncheons, conferences and seminars
- Perform administrative duties such as coordinating travel arrangements ordering office supplies, preparing monthly expense reports
- Create and maintain status tracking reports
- 10+ years of previous experience supporting a Senior-level professional
- Must have a positive attitude, able to work well with others, and perseverance
- Some business travel might be required
- Must have a strong work ethic and an expectation of working overtime when the workload deems necessary
- Must possess excellent communication skills, both orally and in writing
- Flexibility to work outside of normal business hours when required