Reference ID: 25-08617
Location: Boston, MA
Duration: 12 months
Job Type: Contract (Candidates must be able to work on W2 without VISA sponsorship)Role
- Boston-based Administrative Assistant to support VPs. In-office job M-Th located at Client HQ (downtown Boston); remote Fridays.
- Seeking seasoned candidates with admin assistant experience support senior executives.
- Key responsibilities include calendar and travel management, expense management, cross-function business efficiency support.
- The nature of the work is focused on providing services which help ensure a safe, healthy, and effective or efficient work environment or providing personal amenities to employees.
- General Support: Performs normal office functions such as setting up and maintaining files; interviewing callers and making proper referrals; arranging meetings and conferences; and receiving, referring, or answering mail.
- Reviews drafts and finished documents for appropriate grammatical usage; answers questions relating to office operations and established policies and procedures.
- Gathers, compiles and reports on information relevant to supervisor's assignment.
- Prepares expense reports and purchase orders and maintains office supplies; updates organizational charts; coordinates department or equipment moves
- Reception: Responds tactfully and promptly to inquiries and problems within scope of established authority. Handles confidential information.
- May serve as the central contact for general department information.
- Logistics: Coordinates a full range of meeting, event, and travel arrangements; manages calendars.
- Works with internal/external contacts Logistics: Coordinates a full range of meeting, event, and travel arrangements; manages calendars.
- Works with internal/external contacts for venue requirements and selection, room set-up, catering, and materials delivery.
- Utilizes Client's on-line reservation system to ensure that Client travel policy is followed in order to provide cost-effective and convenient travel arrangements.
- Works with travel agents, airlines, and others regarding planning and customer service issues.
- Presentations: Utilizes computer skills to create high quality graphic and text presentations often under tight timeframes. Interprets needs, determines and produces effective presentation layout, and organizes final documents.
- Reports; Prepares special reports requiring the selection of relevant information from a variety of sources.
- Typically requires a Bachelors Degree and minimum of 5 years directly relevant work experience Note: One of the following alternatives may be accepted: PhD or Law + 3 yrs; Masters + 4 yrs; Associates degree + 6 yrs; High School + 7 yrs.
- Client, Inc. is in perpetual motion. Administrative employees help Client teams around the world keep up with the company's rapid pace. They act as liaisons embedded in business functions and geographies.
- Their talents — problem solving, organization, time management and more — help fuel the success of their leaders and their teams.
- Client's community of administrative assistants embody professionalism, resilience, agility, emotional intelligence and exemplify the best of Client's culture modeling Client's core values to leaders, teammates, and guests.
- We're looking for a Senior Administrative Assistant who has a proven ability to work in a fast-paced, results-oriented environment.
- You have a high learning agility, strong organization skills and high attention to detail.
- Having strong communication and time management skills, you are able to prioritize across multiple tasks, set expectations across a variety of stakeholders and take initiative to follow-through on requests through completion.
- You can work independently or as part of a team and know how to adapt your style to most efficiently and effectively support the leaders and businesses you are lined up against.
- Bachelor's degree in business or related field. Will accept any suitable combination of education, experience and training
- Minimum of 3 years of administrative work experience required
- Ability to work and communicate effectively with a variety of personalities including senior level executives
- Proven ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, results-oriented, team environment with times of high ambiguity
- Proven ability to organize, prioritize and appropriately handle highly confidential and sensitive information
- Ability to work independently and take initiative to follow-through on requests until completion with a high attention to detail
- Previous experience working with and tracking budgets is strongly preferred
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite (MS Outlook, PowerPoint, Word and Excel) and virtual meeting tools (Zoom / MS Teams). Experience with Keynote a plus, not required. Experience with AI tools like Chat GPT or Microsoft Copilot a plus, not required.
- Previous Client work experience is a plus
- Ability to occasionally work outside of core business hours
- Complex Calendar Management: Scheduling appointments, meetings, and conferences for the leaders you support, managing conflicts and coordinating with other teammates and leaders as required
- Booking Travel Arrangements: Booking flights, accommodations, and transportation for leaders you support, including managing itineraries and necessary documentation.
- Planning Meetings and Events: Securing event space as necessary and handling any budgeting, catering, agenda planning, scheduling, reminders, and working with external parties as needed.
- Preparing Expense Reports, tracking budgets and purchase orders: Preparing expense reports, tracking budgets, and processing invoices or purchase orders for vendors as required.
- Document Preparation & Organization: Producing, editing and reformatting documents and email correspondence. This could include but will not be limited to updating organizational charts, creating high quality graphic and text PowerPoint or Keynote presentations, and/or team session agendas/work session run of shows.
- Communications – Under the leader's direction, write, contribute and/or edit draft communications, involve appropriate stakeholders and gain final approval. May manage distribution lists and send communications on the leader's behalf.
- Coordinate Team Space Planning, Workspace and/or Equipment Moves: Partner with the appropriate stakeholders to organize individual or departmental moves
- Budget Tracking: may assist leader with tracking of expenses
- POs: create purchase orders
- Special Projects: Assisting with project planning, tracking progress, and ensuring deadlines are met as needed by the team and/or leader you support
- Team & Culture Building: You will have the opportunity to work with the leader you support to help the team build connections to each other, their leader, the environment and Client through a variety of ways – staff meetings, team building activities, offsites and the physical workspace they come to day-in and day-out.
- Support team plans, projects, activations or other deliverables as needed
- Serve as the main point of contact for administrative questions from the team
- Provide coverage for other leaders where temporary administrative needs exists
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