Senior Executive Assistant Ii

The typical starting salary range for this role is determined by a number of factors including skills, experience, education, certifications and location. The full salary range for this role reflects the competitive labor market value for all employees in these positions across the national market and provides an opportunity to progress as employees grow and develop within the role. Some roles at Liberty Mutual have a corresponding compensation plan which may include commission and/or bonus earnings at rates that vary based on multiple factors set forth in the compensation plan for the role.

Global Risks Solutions (GRS), Liberty Mutual’s global business which operates in nearly thirty countries, seeks a Senior Executive Assistant to support the President, Global Risk Solutions. As part of the Office of the President team, this role operates in a fast-paced, highly matrixed, exciting and complex environment with co-accountability to the Senior Vice President (SVP), Business Alignment.

This is an exciting and high-profile opportunity that requires extraordinary tact and diplomacy, agility, strategic thinking, resourcefulness, problem solving, meticulous attention to detail, consistent reprioritization, and clear, timely communication. You will partner closely with the alignment team for special projects on behalf of the GRS President. Flexibility and willingness to pivot are cornerstones to success in this role.

Specifically, the Executive Assistant is responsible for developing and executing highly effective methods around managing and resolving conflicts with the GRS President’s calendar, coordinating, and optimizing travel plans, preparing materials for meetings, triaging phone calls, supporting email management and keeping her on schedule.

This is a Boston based position, with a hybrid working schedule that aligns with the President and alignment team. The individual should have flexibility for in-office support and offsite support where needed, that may include travel.

Responsibilities:

• Calendar Management: Accountable for calendar planning and execution. Prioritization meetings and managing scheduling conflicts, seeking alignment team input where needed. Develop, maintain and continuously improve processes for calendar alignment cadence. Communicate daily updates, proactively problem solving and making recommendations around new requests and potential conflicts. Proactively plan for time away from work and external commitments. Clear communication will be essential with the Office of the President in order to coordinate weekly planning meetings, including but not limited to the following:
  • Prioritize the President’s schedule using high level understanding of the President’s objectives and goals; proactively looking ahead to adjust the President’s schedule as needed for time-sensitive and priority issues
  • Just-in-time and annual calendar planning, including standard calendar
  • Conflict management
  • Maintain one-source-of-truth for key inputs into calendar management
  • Enable appropriate transparency with the GRS leadership team so they can plan accordingly
• Travel Management: Arrange and optimize travel arrangements (transportation, accommodations, agenda) based on travel needs and preferences. Manages complex itineraries, to include any changes. Enables remote decision-making. Processes related expenses. Coordination of travel logistics and plans with the Office of the President, management team and other EA’s
• Meeting Effectiveness: Assist the GRS President with preparing for meetings, to include preparing materials in partnership with the Office of the President, obtaining materials in advance (targeting 24-48 hours prior), distributing materials, and keeping her on schedule. Obtain appropriate support for virtual attendees as well as various media needs and other logistics. While scheduling, clear communication is needed to the appropriate partners and alignment team to ensure the GRS President is prepared.
• Phone Coverage: Provide phone coverage and screen/triage calls and voice mail. Greet and assist planned guests.
• Team meetings/event: Partner with the GRS Alignment Office around coordinating and/or assisting with team meetings (staff meetings, all-hands meetings, on-sites/off-sites, team gatherings, etc.) May assist with event planning. Accountable for being up to speed on these meetings and events and flagging issues/conflicts that surface. Ready to engage as a team player and support as needed.
• Administrative Support: prepare, update, and organize information for reports, correspondence, presentations, budgets, etc. (including PowerPoint presentations). Edit documents for accuracy, format, and arrangement of material. May conduct research. Opportunity to help build/implement new organizational tools to track workflow and projects for the President
• Mail Management: Sort, screen, and distribute incoming and outgoing mail for the GRS President. Should highlight information of interest and/or curate reading material.
• Email Management: Assist in keeping the executive highly organized, to include online retrieval and archiving of documents as well as supporting the Company’s records and retention schedule.

• Advanced knowledge of administrative procedures, software applications (such as Microsoft Office Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc. – advanced PowerPoint skills required for this role) records management systems, and other business procedures and terminology.
• Excellent organizational skills, time management skills and attention to detail, to include regularly anticipating needs and being proactive
• Displays high degree of professionalism in order to maintain confidential information, deal with people tactfully, and help establish strong relationships and positive communication
• Excellent ability to read and respond to subtle clues and react with situational appropriateness
• Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) and 7+ years of relevant administrative experience, to include prior experience providing support at the executive level.
• Prior experience supporting c-level executives in a financial services organization is strongly preferred.

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