Administrative Assistant

CooperVision, a division of CooperCompanies (NASDAQ:COO), is one of the world's leading manufacturers of soft contact lenses. The Company produces a full array of daily disposable, two-week and monthly contact lenses, all featuring advanced materials and optics. CooperVision has a strong heritage of solving the toughest vision challenges such as astigmatism, presbyopia and childhood myopia; and offers the most complete collection of spherical, toric and multifocal products available. Through a combination of innovative products and focused practitioner support, the company brings a refreshing perspective to the marketplace, creating real advantages for customers and wearers. For more information, visit www.coopervision.com

Scope:

Responsible for helping with the organization and running of the daily office administration and operations tasks for the company, interacting with individuals at all levels within the organization, and with external partners. Additionally, develop formal announcements, presentations, and other material on behalf of West Henrietta senior leadership, including but not limited to site-wide media, formal presentations for executives of Cooper, or other material directed to outside business partners, while partnering with global communications.

Job Summary:

Administrative Assistant provides high level support to and partnership with site senior leadership across multiple functional groups. Acts as an extension to the leadership in all aspect of communication, planning and coordination inside and outside the company. Responsibilities include planning and executing on areas such as global travel, calendar management, event management, special projects and administrative tasks, on behalf of their site senior leadership. This role requires a strong capacity for autonomy, good judgement, decision making and personal accountability. This position will be the main point of contact for internal communications while determining content topics, coordinating with others to obtain information, writes, edits, designs and sends to employees, business partners and vendors. The Assistant role requires extensive detail orientation and solid organizational and project management skills, to meet tight deadlines while juggling multiple critical requests and projects across our global teams.

Essential Functions & Accountabilities:

* Provide assistance to multiple departmental leadership within the facility to include HR, Finance, Facilities, but mostly Distribution.
* Excellent phone skills and an ability to communicate and interact professionally with internal and external contacts
* Responsibilities include planning and executing on areas such as travel, calendar management, event management, special projects and administrative tasks, on behalf of site senior leadership
* Extensive detail orientation and solid organizational and project management skills, to meet tight deadlines while juggling multiple critical requests and projects across our Americas Distribution Teams
* Plan and arrange all business travel and itineraries for executive (global and domestic)
* Maintain department meeting minutes and ensure follow-up on action items as requested by leadership the role supports
* Assist in managing and prioritizing daily workflow, including preparing materials and clear, well-written, communication for a wide range of audiences.
* High levels of confidentiality
* Manage expense report coordination and submission
* Manage calendars including conflicts, conference rooms, priorities, recurring meetings, management of daily and weekly schedules and manage yearly key site meetings
* Proofreads and edits email/word document communications
* Drafts and edits letters, reports, and other documents
* Liaise with corporate communications department to ensure key communications are presented and shared in compliance with corporate
* Prepare content for presentation to all levels of the organization, as well as outside vendors and business partners.
* Provides support, or creates, presentations, word documents and emails in support of site leadership
* Consolidations of multiple reports into a single report for submissions to executives
* Main point of contact for other locations to help coordinate meetings, tours for customers and executives within the organization
* Leading, managing, or supporting other ad-hoc projects as needed
* Research, write and manage content for the facility message board, facility-wide email, infographics, and other such media in support of leadership and West Henrietta employees.
* Acquire and maintain a detailed knowledge of the company's policies, principles, and strategies, and keep up-to-date with relevant developments to ensure communications align with business and regulatory needs.
* Collaborate with key internal resources and stakeholders on content and ideas, in line with the company's strategy and in support of facility and organizational initiatives.
* Develop facility communication content in collaboration with senior management including emails and presentations.
* Think critically and uses creative ways to solve problems.
* Prepare content for presentation to all levels of the organization, as well as outside vendors and business partners.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

* Experience with Concur a plus
* Excellent verbal and written communications skills.
* Strong organizational skills and attention to detail.
* Ability to maintain confidentiality.
* Flexible to changing priorities and able to adjust to them quickly.
* Advanced skills in Microsoft Office software, including Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint, and Teams.
* Ability to multi-task and establish priorities
* Experience in a global, multi-national corporation is preferred.
* Content writing experience for varied media platforms and software required; with experience producing polished, professional products to represent executive-level standards.
* Demonstrated success in a fast-paced, dynamic environment. Must have experience meeting deadlines, applying strategic thinking, creativity and meticulous attention to detail.
* Experience working with social media and other communications technology.
* Experience partnering with legal, human resources, marketing, and public relations when appropriate.

Work Environment:

* Normal office environment
* Prolonged sitting and using a computer.
* Able to work in a global/multi-time zone environment.

Experience:

* Minimum 5 years of general office/clerical experience.

Education:

* Associate's or Bachelor's Degree preferred with minor/major in communications

Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer. Minority/Female/Disability/Veteran

For U.S. locations that require disclosure of compensation, the starting base pay for this role is between $53,394.00 and $64,938.00 per year and may include cost of living adjustments. The actual base pay includes many factors and is subject to change and modification in the future. This position may also be eligible for other types of compensation and benefits.

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