Administrative Assistant

Administrative Assistant

Headquartered in Southern California, Skechers—the Comfort Technology Company®—has spent over 30 years helping men, women, and kids everywhere look and feel good. Comfort innovation is at the core of everything we do, driving the development of stylish, high-quality products at a great value. From our diverse footwear collections to our expanding range of apparel and accessories, Skechers is a complete lifestyle brand.

About The Role

As an Administrative Assistant, your primary focus is to support the Office Director by effectively managing administrative tasks and maintaining accurate bookkeeping and other records. Your role involves handling administrative duties, general office administration, personal assistance to the executive and his household.

What You'll Do

Assisting the Office Director and the Senior Administrative Assistant in a wide variety of administrative, bookkeeping, and clerical duties.

• Creating spreadsheets, maintaining files for ongoing projects, continuing vendors, etc.
• Assist in real estate and property management tasks.
• Ability to cover for and perform the responsibilities of the Senior Administrative Assistant when they are out of the office.
• Assisting with various research, special projects, other corporate and personal business topics as needed.
• Drafting correspondence, documents and reports with attention to detail and quality. Writing, editing and proofreading with accuracy. Responding to inquiries made to CEO's office. Making phone calls to inquire into various things as required.
• Maintaining subscription system, renewing and/or canceling as needed.
• Responsible for preparing large amounts for consumer and trade magazines for CEO.
• Clerical duties such as filing, archiving, faxing, copying, scanning, shipping, running errands, and willing to commute between sites. Maintaining and ordering supplies from mailroom for the CEO and for our offices. Getting lunch, coffee and/or other miscellaneous general office duties. Arranging for various errands done by other staff.
• Undergoing continual training and ability to follow directions by Senior Administrative Assistant.
• Attending to CEO's needs while he is attending on-site meetings.

What You'll Bring

This individual must have excellent verbal and written communication skills.

• Must always maintain strict confidentiality and exercise discretion (confidentiality agreement required).
• This position requires the individual to be detail-oriented, organized, reliable, punctual and to have a high level of responsibility. Timeliness and reliability are expected.
• Flexibility and strong time management skills are essential in this fast-paced environment.
• Must be able to multitask and be a self-starter.
• Occasional overtime. Flexibility in hours is required.
• This individual must demonstrate a high level of professionalism in both conduct and attire while working in the office of the Chairman/CEO.
• Must have excellent attendance.
• Must be willing to work on-site in a full-time, in-office capacity
• Pick up/drop-off paperwork at CEO's residence daily.
• Must be able to perform under pressure with tight deadlines.
• Must demonstrate a "no task is too small" attitude.

Requirements

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.

• At least 2 years of experience providing executive-level support.
• Bachelor's degree is preferred.
• Experience working in a creative, high-energy, fast-moving environment.
• A strong knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite programs (Outlook, Word, Excel and PowerPoint) is required as well as a general knowledge of computer program updates.
• Ability to communicate clearly with the IT department.
• Basic Bookkeeping experience is preferred.

The pay range for this position is $27-$30/hr USD.

Skechers, a global Fortune 500® company, develops and markets a diverse range of lifestyle and performance footwear, apparel, and accessories. Serving over 180 countries and territories, Skechers connects customers to products through department and specialty stores, e-commerce and digital stores, and through our more than 5,300 Skechers retail locations.

Skechers is committed to providing a safe, inclusive, and respectful work environment. Skechers provides equal employment opportunities for all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identification and expression, national origin, marital status, age, disability, genetic information, military status, sexual orientation, or any other protected characteristic established by local, state or federal law.

Applicants for employment who require a reasonable accommodation to apply for a job should request appropriate accommodation by emailing View email address on click.appcast.io. To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each job responsibility satisfactorily. The skills, abilities and physical demands described are representative of those duties that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities, who are otherwise qualified for the job position, to perform the essential functions.