Senior Executive Assistant

At Liberty, you’ll thrive in a hybrid setting that fosters in-person collaboration, innovation and growth. This approach optimizes both remote and in-person interactions, enabling you to connect and ideate with your team and deepen valuable relationships across the company, while still enjoying the flexibility of remote work for focused tasks and projects.

Provides administrative support for executives while exercising confidentiality, tact, and diplomacy. Manages executive calendars, prepares materials for meetings, triages communications, coordinates and optimizes executive travel plans, and helps to keep executives focused and on schedule. Essence of the role is to enable executives supported to be more productive with their time and to work as efficiently and effectively as possible. This level makes decisions with minimal direction; recommendations are typically accepted by executives and is able to quickly adapt to changing priorities. In addition, there is a high degree of usage for executive assistant specific support.

This role follows a hybrid schedule. Candidates must live within 50 miles of our Boston, MA office and will be expected to work onsite at least twice per week, with additional in-office time needed based on team priorities.

Responsibilities:

• Identifies the preferred method of support for assigned executives and appropriately accommodates working style. Partners with executives to help them be more efficient and effective with their time, consistently maintaining strong communication.
• Manage executive calendars. Acts as a gatekeeper to include prioritization of meetings and resolving scheduling conflicts. Keeps executives informed of changes and helps to keep them on schedule.
• Triages and responds to various forms of communication based on executive needs and preferences. Coordinates responses to requests for information, surveys, etc.
• Assist executives with preparing for meetings, including preparing materials, setting up agendas, obtaining materials in advance, and distributing materials. May attend meetings on the executive’s behalf and liaise with external partners.
• Prepares, updates, and organizes information (using PowerPoint, Excel, Word, etc.) for inclusion in huddle boards, reports, correspondence, presentations, budgets, etc. Edits documents for accuracy, format, and arrangement of material.
• Optimizes travel arrangements (transportation, accommodations, agenda) based on executive travel needs and preferences.
• Manage complex itineraries, to include any changes.Process-related expenses.
• Coordinates/assists with managing team meetings (staff meetings, town halls, quarterly on-sites/off-sites, team gatherings, etc.) whether virtual or in-person. Assists with event planning.
• Assists in keeping executives and their teams well organized, to include online retrieval and archiving on collaboration platforms such as MS Teams and SharePoint, as well as supporting the Company’s records retention schedule.
• Learn and keep informed of new tools and technologies to further executive productivity. Identifies and communicates useful functionality and assists with troubleshooting.
• Assists with process and/or program management such as maintaining distribution lists, coordinating nominations, distributing updates, administering surveys, conducting research, obtaining resources, preparing documents, etc.

• Solid knowledge of administrative procedures, software applications (such as Microsoft Office Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams, Adobe Acrobat, etc.) records management systems, and other business procedures and terminology.
• Excellent organizational skills, time management skills and attention to detail, to include anticipating needs, being resourceful and proactive.
• Displays high degree of professionalism in order to maintain confidential information with discretion, deal with people tactfully, and help establish strong relationships and positive communication.
• Strong ability to read complex settings and respond to challenging people and/or circumstances with diplomacy and tact.
• Competencies typically acquired through an associate degree (or equivalent) and 6 to 8 years of relevant and progressively more responsible administrative experience, to include prior experience providing support at the management level.