What are the responsibilities and job description for the Executive Assistant position at Advance Auto Parts?
Job Description
Key Responsibilities
Responsible for day-to-day support activities, including, but not limited to:
- Calendar Management: Manage the schedule and calendar for two executive leaders, and as needed, department and team meetings. This includes coordinating meetings with internal and external stakeholders, including Advance’s Board of Directors. Work to avoid conflicts on calendar and ensure prioritization of scheduling based on direction from executive leaders and key functional priorities.
- Meeting Management: Prepare meeting agendas and coordinate the distribution of materials to meeting participants. Attend meetings, as needed, to take notes and coordinate follow-ups. Follow up on action items as needed with key stakeholders to ensure progress is made on key deliverables.
- Travel Arrangements: Prepare and make travel arrangements for executive leaders. Ensure all details of travel are arranged, including flight, hotel, car and meals.
- Program Support: Provide administrative support for Advance’s Relocation Program, leadership and development programs and team development, as needed.
- Expense Reporting: Create and process Purchase Orders and ensure timely and accurate vendor payments. Reach out to vendors to provide updates as needed.
- Department Support: Support team by ensuring distribution of functional and/or organizational information. Ensure onboarding of new team members. Provide project support for more significant department projects.
- Payroll Check Printing: Print and arrange distribution of paper checks bi-weekly and as needed.
Qualifications
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- High level of professionalism
- Ability to maintain strict confidentiality at all times
- Strong communication skills
- Problem analysis and assessment; decision making skills
- Excellent planning and organizing skills
- Self-motivated individual who takes initiative
- Attention to detail and high level of accuracy
- Ability to multi-task and work as a member of a team
- Strong computer skills to include proficiency with Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Visio, Outlook and the ability to learn other software programs as required.
- Ability to delegate work to others on team as needed
- Some banking experience, preferred.
Education, Skills and Behavior
- Minimum of three years of administrative support in a fast-paced environment, preferred five years.
- WorkDay experience preferred. Ability to run simple reports from Workday.
- Experience working in Microsoft Office, specifically Outlook and PowerPoint.
- Experience in providing administrative support to an onsite and remote team.
- Ability to work well, both independently and in collaboration with multiple partners.
- Exceptional verbal and written communication skills with an ability to adjust one's style to meet the audience's needs.
- Excellent project management skills, ability to multi-task and work to deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
- Ability to collaborate with other administrative assistants to solve problems and coordinate projects/deliverables.
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