Senior Executive Assistant

Oracle Oracle · Enterprise · Reston, VA +1

Executive Assistant role supporting Data Center Infrastructure leadership at Oracle, focusing on scheduling, travel, event planning, and administrative tasks. Requires strong organizational skills, discretion, and ability to work in a fast-paced environment.

What you'd actually do

  1. scheduling
  2. travel
  3. action item tracking
  4. coordinating with other leadership and their EAs
  5. planning virtual and on-site events that include catering and leadership meetings

Skills

Required

  • Demonstrated strong organizational skills
  • Handles details of a highly confidential and critical nature
  • Fast, resourceful, proactive, and with excellent follow-through
  • Ability to work in a dynamic fast-paced environment with multiple streams of input at the same time (Slack, email, and possibly text), capturing actions and at the same time completing them within an appropriate timeframe
  • Ability to prioritize based on the desires/preferences of the leaders you are supporting and the business
  • Exercises critical judgment within defined procedures and practices to determine appropriate action
  • Able to build a strong network across the organization, useful for getting things done, setting up meetings across multiple executives who have packed schedules
  • Acts with a sense of urgency
  • Resilient and adaptive and not easily flustered
  • Persistent and a problem solver to accomplish the ask
  • Able to respond to requests that require a quick turnaround
  • Works on assignments that can be complex in nature where considerable judgment and initiative is needed in resolving problems and making recommendations
  • Collects and prepares sensitive information for use in discussions and meetings with the organization's staff and external individuals
  • Once established, can work independently, but highly collaborative with Chief of Staff and Business operations, may determine methods and procedures on new assignments
  • Contacts company personnel at all organizational levels to gather information and prepare reports
  • Creates a broad network of colleagues to draw on for information and support
  • Provide specific administrative/clerical support
  • detailed schedule & calendar management
  • expense report and tracking
  • travel itinerary and booking
  • procurement of supplies for new hires and new offices
  • onsite meeting planning including food arrangements
  • office space seating assignment planning
  • Values align with OCI values
  • Anticipating and solving problems proactively is essential
  • Proficient in desktop applications such as MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, email and Slack messaging tools, etc.
  • BA/BS degree or equivalent

What the JD emphasized

  • 10+ years executive and/or office management experience required
  • Outlook calendar management is critical