Executive Assistant

Primary Purpose: The Executive Assistant will provide administrative support to the VP of Ready-to-Wear Design and the Senior Director of Footwear Design by leading day-to-day activities, calendar scheduling, expenses and special projects.

The successful individual will leverage their proficiency in Administration to...
- Lead the effective and efficient management of the office of the VP RTW Design and the Senior Director FTW Design, in addition to their team
- Provide administrative support to the VP and Senior Director, including heavy calendar management, phone, travel, arrangements and expenses
- Manage all logistics of meetings for these leaders and/or team members and cross-functional partners including: organizing agendas, booking meeting rooms, ordering supplies, preparing materials, managing catering, etc.
- Ensure effective flow of meetings and keep team on time by communicating daily agenda, changes and issues in a timely fashion
- Develop relationships with internal administrative staff to facilitate meeting planning and scheduling
- Manage and execute department events
- Act as a liaison to handle requests from key executives, internal and external partners
- Maintain Time & Attendance for both Executives, and track department's attendance schedule
- Prepare Travel & Expense reports, reconcile corporate card expenses and uphold Company T&E policies
- Code and process all invoices; partner with budget team and finance to manage all monthly projections and accruals
- Own all discussions with regards to submitting requests for facilities or new hires and track the process to completion
- Participate in special projects as requested
The accomplished individual will possess...
- 5+ years of Executive Assistant experience preferred
- Bachelor's Degree required
- Experience interacting with executives at all levels
- Must be highly organized with the ability to handle multiple priorities at once
- Must have strong verbal and written communication skills
- Must be a collaborative, team player with great initiative and ability to lead a team
- Superior judgment, professionalism, poise, ability to maintain the highest level of confidentiality, and assertiveness
- Excellent ability to maintain composure and effectiveness in a fast paced environment
- Superior follow through skills, detail and customer service oriented
- Must be intuitive, able to anticipate needs and develop options
- Proficient in Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook

Our Competencies for All Employees
- Courage: Doesn't hold back anything that needs to be said; provides current, direct, complete, and "actionable" positive and corrective feedback to others; lets people know where they stand; faces up to people problems on any person or situation (not including direct reports) quickly and directly; is not afraid to take negative action when necessary.
- Creativity: Comes up with a lot of new and unique ideas; easily makes connections among previously unrelated notions; tends to be seen as original and value-added in brainstorming settings.
- Customer Focus: Is dedicated to meeting the expectations and requirements of internal and external customers; gets first-hand customer information and uses it for improvements in products and services; acts with customers in mind; establishes and maintains effective relationships with customers and gains their trust and respect.
- Dealing with Ambiguity: Can effectively cope with change; can shift gears comfortably; can decide and act without having the total picture; isn't upset when things are up in the air; doesn't have to finish things before moving on; can comfortably handle risk and uncertainty.
- Drive for Results: Can be counted on to exceed goals successfully; is constantly and consistently one of the top performers; very bottom-line oriented; steadfastly pushes self and others for results.
- Interpersonal Savvy: Relates well to all kinds of people, up, down, and sideways, inside and outside the organization; builds appropriate rapport; builds constructive and effective relationships; uses diplomacy and tact; can diffuse even high-tension situations comfortably.
- Learning on the Fly: Learns quickly when facing new problems; a relentless and versatile learner; open to change; analyzes both successes and failures for clues to improvement; experiments and will try anything to find solutions; enjoys the challenge of unfamiliar tasks; quickly grasps the essence and the underlying structure of anything.
Our Competencies for All People Managers
- Strategic Agility: Sees ahead clearly; can anticipate future consequences and trends accurately; has broad knowledge and perspective; is future oriented; can articulately paint credible pictures and visions of possibilities and likelihoods; can create competitive and breakthrough strategies and plans.
- Developing Direct Reports and Others:Provides challenging and stretching tasks and assignments; holds frequent development discussions; is aware of each person's career goals; constructs compelling development plans and executes them; pushes people to accept developmental moves; will take on those who need help and further development; cooperates with the developmental system in the organization; is a people builder.
- Building Effective Teams: Blends people into teams when needed; creates strong moraleand spirit in theirteam; shares wins and successes; fosters open dialogue; lets people finish and be responsible for their work; defines success in terms of the whole team; creates a feeling of belonging in the team.
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