Senior Executive Assistant

At Bayer

We're visionaries, driven to solve the world's toughest challenges and strive for a world where 'Health for all, Hunger for none' is no longer a dream, but a reality. Join us to make a real difference.

Your Tasks and Responsibilities

• Provides comprehensive administrative support to executives with confidentiality, professionalism, and sound judgment.
• Manages calendars, coordinates travel arrangements, plans and supports meetings, coordinates projects, processes invoices and expenses, creates purchase orders, and facilitates vendor payments in SAP.
• Aid in team communications, including projects, events, activities, announcements, personal interactions, and points of contact.
• Utilizes software and systems to generate reports, timelines, distribution lists, correspondence, and presentations with a high level of proficiency using Microsoft programs.
• Serves as a technology-savvy point of contact for learning and adopting new technologies that help the team communicate and execute work more efficiently and effectively.
• Learn new technologies and help guide and train team members on new systems and tools.
• Execute and manage special projects autonomously, including assessing spreadsheet data and statistics, identifying gaps, and creating tools to measure team feedback and opinions.
• Interact professionally with internal and external stakeholders and manage calls, messages, and requests in a timely manner with minimal supervision.
• Maintain files and records, coordinate office moves, maintenance, and IT support, and ensure efficient organization of business information.
• Handle confidential business, personnel, and caller information with a high level of discretion.
• Support other senior leaders as needed, collaborate extensively with colleagues, and shift responsibilities as required to meet business goals.
• Actively pursue learning and self-development, utilize feedback to enhance performance, and help develop secretarial standards and practices for the organization.
• Multi-task effectively, prioritize workload, and meet critical deadlines while managing multiple competing priorities.

Who You Are

• Bayer seeks an incumbent who possesses the following:
• Required Qualifications:
• Associate's degree or equivalent
• Executive Assistant experience
• Experience making domestic and international travel arrangements
• Strong skills using Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, travel expense reporting, online travel booking, SharePoint administration and management, and SAP
• Experience managing multiple Outlook calendars and contacts simultaneously
• Strong project management skills with the ability to think quickly, take action where needed, work independently, and develop creative solutions for the team
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Superior attitude toward colleagues and the ability to maintain positive working relationships
• Ability to shift and expand responsibilities as needed to ensure business goals are met
• Demonstrated attention to detail, results orientation, productivity, initiative, foresight, and strong critical thinking skills
• Ability to manage multiple competing priorities, respond to stakeholder requests in a timely manner, and meet deadlines with minimal supervision
• Preferred Qualifications:
• Experience coordinating large events and meetings
• Strong interpersonal skills and a high level of organization
• Comfort working with employees at all levels of the organization
• Early adopter mindset with the ability to learn, champion, and train others on new technologies and systems

Employees can expect to be paid a salary between $68,800.00 - $103,200.00. Additional compensation may include a bonus or incentive compensation (if relevant).

Additional benefits include health care, vision, dental, retirement, PTO, sick leave, etc. This salary range is merely an estimate and may vary based on an applicant's location, market data/ranges, an applicant's skills and prior relevant experience, certain degrees and certifications, and other relevant factors.

This posting will be available for application until at least 7/30/26.

YOUR APPLICATION

Bayer offers a wide variety of competitive compensation and benefits programs. If you meet the requirements of this unique opportunity, and want to impact our mission 'Health for all, Hunger for none', we encourage you to apply now. Be part of something bigger. Be you. Be Bayer.

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Location: United States : Missouri : Creve Coeur

Division: Crop Science

Reference Code: 877219

Contact Us: Email: hrop_usa@bayer.com