Executive Assistant
BCD Travel
Executive Assistant
Sun Life
full-time
Posted on:
Location: Massachusetts • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $81,900 - $110,600 per year
Job Level
Mid-LevelSenior
About the role
- Professional problem solver
- Dogged resourcefulness and a resolve to get things done
- Stays calm under pressure and is able to deliver when needed in time sensitive situations
- Tenacious prioritization that limits distractions and ensures the Senior Vice President’s (SVP) focus is on the most pressing and highest priority items
- Willing to push back and uses sound judgement to figure out what warrants attention, what should be delegated and what requests should be deferred
- Impeccable organization capabilities
- Practices strategic multi-tasking, ensuring various priorities are moving forward without sacrificing quality
- Communications Ninja
- Top-notch verbal and writing skills with the ability to draft communications on behalf of the SVP
- Knack for understanding and influencing others through written and verbal communications
- Serves as a spokesperson for the SVP through polished emails, dynamic presentations, and effective interpersonal interactions
- Technical savvy with strong proficiency in presentation technology and software
- Analytical mindset that quickly sums up the situation, gathers the necessary info, asks the right questions and acts decisively
- Networking prowess to build relationships at all levels across the company to understand the ins and outs of the business and bring that perspective to bear in making decisions
- Trusted confidant
- Ironclad discretion in handling confidential information, navigates sensitive situations with professionalism, diplomacy and tact
- Supernatural ability to anticipate needs, seeing in advance what is needed and planning accordingly
- Self-confident with a sense of humor
- Practices optimism - keeps things in perspective and understands the balance of being candid but kind
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in an executive level support role
- Strong consultation, communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to interact with a wide range of individuals in different situations requiring tact, diplomacy, judgment, discretion and relationship building
- Strong organizational and time management skills with the ability to multitask and work in a fast-paced and constantly changing environment
- Strong collaboration skills and ability to partner with others get to work done
- Takes personal responsibility for delivering quality service
- Energetic self-starter who is able to take initiative, work with limited supervision and has strong attention to detail
- Identifies improvement ideas and readily implements new work processes and practices
- Resourceful at problem solving
- Ability to work well under pressure
- High level of proficiency across the Microsoft Office Suite (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams), and the ability to quickly learn enterprise applications.
- Knowledge of Service Now, Workday, Ariba and Concur is a plus
