Administrative Assistant
About the role
Great technology organizations depend on exceptional operational support behind the scenes. As our Administrative Assistant, you'll play a critical role in helping senior technology leaders stay focused on strategic priorities while ensuring teams, meetings, events, and office operations run smoothly and efficiently. This is more than a traditional administrative position. You'll be a trusted advisor, relationship builder, problem solver, and organizer who brings structure to complexity. From coordinating global meetings and executive travel to planning large-scale events and supporting a collaborative office environment, you'll have the opportunity to influence how work gets done across a growing, high-performing technology organization.
Responsibilities
- Responsible for providing comprehensive administrative support to the Vice President and Chief Technology Officer and Enterprise Architect.
- Manage calendars and coordinate full-cycle meeting logistics (scheduling, materials, follow-ups).
- Coordinate domestic and international travel, including itineraries and visa processing.
- Manage expense reports in a timely manner and reconcile P-card activity using Concur.
- Interact with internal and external customers, responding timely and appropriately to meeting and/or information requests.
- Coordinate end-to-end meeting logistics, including scheduling, agendas, materials, conference collaboration setup (virtual/hybrid), and follow-up action items.
- Provide general administrative and meeting logistics support for the larger Durham office EDT team including meeting meals (placing orders, receiving deliveries, food set up and clean up).
- Assist the VP team members to determine and prioritize business strategies based on their schedule.
- Assist in the preparation of reports, presentations and spreadsheets using software applications (e.g. Excel, Power Point, etc.).
- Handle details of highly confidential and critical nature with discretion.
- Serve as information source, workspace coordinator and fulfill reasonable requests for EDT teammates globally.
- Plan and execute major events that are hosted by EDT or require large meeting coordination, either as the lead or part of the execution team.
- Handle conference room set-up including teleconference meeting set-up for virtual and hybrid team members; coordinating with Enterprise Data & Tech (EDT) team.
- Coordinate functional town halls and large meeting formats across global locations and time zones including calendar invitations, conference rooms reservations, and support events.
- Coordinate with onsite facilities receptionist and American Tobacco Campus (ATC) representatives.
- Work closely with and assist the Executive Admin to the Chief Information and Data Officer.
- Additional duties and responsibilities as needed.
Requirements
- 3 plus years of administrative assistant experience supporting executives.
- Intermediate to advanced Microsoft Teams, SharePoint and Word, beginner to intermediate Microsoft Excel skills and Power Point skills.
- Experience with Concur software for travel arrangements and expense reports submission (Concur is HIGHLY PREFERRED).
- Advanced experience with Outlook email and calendaring program.
- Experience in understanding complex business problems and articulating challenges, proposing solutions and working cross-functionally to achieve goals.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills.
- Exceptional interpersonal skills with positive, can-do attitude.
- Demonstrated ability to handle confidential information.
- Ability to handle complex assignments using considerable judgment and initiative.
- Results and detail orientation.
- Follow through on projects and commitments with speed and efficiency.
- Forward‑thinking; plan effectively against future needs with a process‑minded orientation.
- Demonstrated ability to achieve results and meet deadlines with minimal direction.
- Effective time management and ability to multitask.
Benefits
- Comprehensive, competitive benefits that prioritize all aspects of wellbeing.
- Robust health plans.
- Market‑leading 401(k) program with a company match.
- Flexible time off benefits (including half‑day summer Fridays depending on location).
- Inclusive fertility/adoption benefits.
- Eligibility for participation in Clorox’s incentive plans.
Pay
The applicable salary range for this role is based on work location and aligned to one of three