Administrative Coordinator, Late Development Oncology
AstraZeneca
- Gaithersburg, MD
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Provide 1:1 administrative support at a senior level; to include sophisticated and complex calendar management, domestic and international travel bookings, expenses management.
- Independently and pro-actively resolve issues and challenges relating to administrative requests and calendar conflicts.
- Facilitates smooth communications between executive and other internal and external collaborators.
- Lead the practical arrangements and contribute to the preparations of internal and external meetings and team engagements.
- Manage logistics (project team calendar, scheduling, room bookings, meeting minutes, agendas, action logs, forward agendas, distribution lists)
- Lead and coordinate logistics relating to virtual and face to face meetings.
- Information management for team access (SharePoint management, storing of minutes, presentations, file structure) training teams on usage and making process improvements.
- Provide specialist project administrative support to leaders and department, as required.
- Effectively lead special projects and other duties as assigned.
- Work collaboratively with our BPO to deliver initiatives that create engagement & wellbeing for the team.
- Participate in and contribute to knowledge sharing and training.
- Participate in and contribute to administrative continuous improvement activities.
- Provide guidance/coaching and mentoring to colleagues where required.
- Support and contribute to creating an impactful team, facilitating good cross-team collaboration.
- 5+ years of experience in an administrative role supporting complex projects
- High School Diploma or equivalent required, Bachelor’s degree preferred
- Extensive calendar management using Microsoft Outlook
- Prior experience supporting multiple functional leaders
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Impeccable professionalism with strong business sense and organizationally savvy with sensitivity to highly confidential information
- Proactive approach with the ability to manage and prioritize multiple requests simultaneously and effectively
- Demonstrate attention to detail, working to consistently deliver to a high standard
- Strong organizational, forward-planning and customer management skills
- Solid relationship-building skills to develop networks both within the company and externally
- Track record of handling and resolving challenges quickly and efficiently, with flexibility to adapt to changing situations
- Demonstrated ability to effectively work in a global environment balancing competing priorities.
- Able to prioritize time sensitive assignments.
- Should be able to work autonomously, and at the same time, collaborate effectively with other members of the administrative support team.
- Able to demonstrate tact, persuasion and/or negotiation and maintain confidentiality with executives and employees at all levels.
- Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite, including extensive calendar management in Outlook and data management in Excel.
- Demonstrated proficiency with a variety of virtual meeting technologies, information management software, and Microsoft products.
- Customer Focus: Dedicated to meeting the expectations and requirements of internal and external customers.
- Process Management: Refining processes vital to delivering strategic priorities; knows how to organize people and activities; understands how to separate and combine tasks into efficient workflow; can see opportunities for harmony and integration; can simplify complex processes; and efficiently uses available resources.
- Time Management: Uses their time effectively; values time; independently prioritizes competing deadlines to focus energies on business-critical tasks; can attend to a broader range of activities.
- Written Communications: Able to write clearly and succinctly in a variety of communication settings and styles.