Administrative Assistant, Director, Sales (Remote)

About the Role

This role supports two Directors within the Americas SP - Technology, Media, and Communications (ASP TMC) team, which supports service provider customers across the US, Canada, and Latin America. The position can be performed from any location within the United States, with a strong preference for Pacific or Mountain time locations.

Your Impact

In this role, you will provide support for calendaring, travel, expense reporting, and oversight of special projects, as needed. To perform these tasks successfully, you will learn the products, people, and organizational dynamics within Cisco. You will understand how to handle, with a great degree of independence, incoming asks for time, meetings, resources and other needs from the Director. You will be responsible for determining when to refer matters to others, and to whom they should be referred to. You will be responsible for following up to ensure accurate disposition, and make sure nothing falls through the cracks. You will become a core member of the Director’s team, attending monthly staff meetings and quarterly all team meetings.

Key Responsibilities

• Calendar Management: Handles Director’s calendar by prioritizing schedules and meetings. You may decide who gets on the principal’s calendar, which meetings are attended, and who can attend in their place.
• Meeting Planning and Organization: Assists Director in planning and coordinating meetings by being responsible for the assembling of the agenda, location, meeting technology (WebEx, TP) based upon participant needs, and all other meeting logistics. May further prepare meeting briefing documents by taking and disseminating notes and formulating post meeting action item lists.
• Correspondence/Approvals: Supports Director by acting as proxy for communications and approvals as authorized. Answers general questions as needed and refers routine matters to appropriate parties, following up to ensure accurate completion.
• Travel: Responsible for making travel arrangements for the Director. Carefully considers and decides the optimum travel arrangements and itinerary for calendared meetings while handling Cisco expenses.
• Special Projects: Provides analytical support to assist Director on special projects. Research issues, analyzes problems, compiles data, and prepares reports.
• Confidentiality: Candidate will deal professionally with sensitive and confidential matters and materials.

Minimum Qualifications

• 3+ years experience in an administrative environment.
• A minimum of one year of experience supporting a principal who was at the Sr Manager level or above.
• Sophisticated knowledge of Mac/Windows desktop computer applications: Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint.
• Experience in calendar management, planning meetings and coordinating travel.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills including the ability to connect with all levels of Executive/Senior staff and clients.

Preferred Qualifications

• Past work experience in the high-tech industry is desired, prior Cisco experience preferred.
• Associates degree.

Pay

The starting salary range for this position is $86,700.00 to $109,700.00, not including incentive compensation, equity, or benefits. Individual pay is determined by the candidate's hiring location, market conditions, job-related skillset, experience, qualifications, education, certifications, and/or training.

Location-specific ranges:

• New York City Metro Area: $86,700.00 - $126,200.00
• Non-Metro New York State & Washington State: $76,700.00 - $111,700.00

Employees may be eligible to receive grants of Cisco restricted stock units, which vest following continued employment with Cisco for defined periods of time. For non-sales roles, employees are also eligible to earn annual bonuses subject to Cisco’s policies.

Benefits

• Medical, dental and vision insurance
• 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution
• Paid parental leave
• Short and long-term disability coverage
• Basic life insurance
• 10 paid holidays per full calendar year, plus 1 floating holiday for non-exempt employees
• 1 paid day off for employee’s birthday
• Paid year-end holiday shutdown
• 4 paid days off for personal wellness determined by Cisco
• Non-exempt employees: 16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year, accrued at rate of 4.92 hours per pay period for full-time employees
• Exempt employees: flexible vacation time off program with no defined limit on how much vacation time eligible employees may use (subject to availability and some business limitations)
• 80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date and each January 1st thereafter, with up to 80 hours of unused sick time carried forward from one calendar year to the next
• Additional paid time away may be requested to deal with critical or emergency issues for family members
• Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer

Schedule

This role can be performed from any location within the United States, with a strong preference for Pacific or Mountain time locations.