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Summary:
We are seeking a highly organized and proactive Executive Associate to support at least three Senior-Level Executives within our organization. The ideal candidate will possess excellent skills in managing busy calendars, coordinating cross-functional teams, and ensuring smooth day-to-day operations. This role requires a detail-oriented individual with the ability to manage the complexity of multiple calendars and projects.
Key Responsibilities:
Calendar Management: Efficiently manage and coordinate the complex and busy calendars of multiple VPs, including scheduling meetings, appointments, travel arrangements, and holistic calendar coordination.
Budget Management: Open and manage POs for the team and ensure compliance with financial regulations and policies, track spending.
Meeting Coordination: Organize and facilitate meetings, including preparing agendas, distributing materials, and ensuring all logistical details are handled.
Communication: Serve as a primary point of contact for internal and external stakeholders, ensuring clear and timely communication on behalf of the VPs.
Document Preparation: Prepare, edit, and distribute documents, reports, and presentations as needed.
Cross-functional coordination: Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure alignment and support for various projects and initiatives.
Travel Arrangements: Arrange and manage travel itineraries, accommodations, and logistics for the VPs.
Expense Management: Track and process expense reports, ensuring compliance with company policies and timely reimbursement.
Confidentiality: Handle sensitive and confidential information with the utmost discretion and professionalism.
Administrative Support: Provide general administrative support, including managing correspondence and maintaining office supplies.
Key Qualifications and Experience:
High school diploma required, associate or bachelor's degree preferred
Minimum of 5 to 10 years of experience as an administrative assistant, preferably supporting senior executives
Proactively managing and prioritizing multiple calendar conflicts, coordinating with key stakeholders, and influencing peers to ensure smooth scheduling.
Exceptional organizational and time management skills.
Strong proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook).
Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Demonstrated ability to multitask and prioritize effectively in a fast-paced environment.
Strong attention to detail and problem-solving abilities.
Budget management and tracking
Proven ability to build and maintain positive relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
High level of professionalism, integrity, and discretion in handling confidential information.
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On-site Protocol
BMS has a diverse occupancy structure that determines where an employee is required to conduct their work. This structure includes site-essential, site-by-design, field-based and remote-by-design jobs. The occupancy type that you are assigned is determined by the nature and responsibilities of your role:
Site-essential roles require 100% of shifts onsite at your assigned facility. Site-by-design roles may be eligible for a hybrid work model with at least 50% onsite at your assigned facility. For these roles, onsite presence is considered an essential job function and is critical to collaboration, innovation, productivity, and a positive Company culture. For field-based and remote-by-design roles the ability to physically travel to visit customers, patients or business partners and to attend meetings on behalf of BMS as directed is an essential job function.
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