Executive Assistant, GREF

Executive Assistant

Global Real Estate and Facilities (GREF) organization is looking for an Executive Assistant to work in a fast-paced, high-impact, exciting, and growing organization. This role, located in Seattle, WA, supports the GREF Vice President. This role requires attention to detail, high organizational skills, and the ability to understand business priorities. A good sense of humor is critical, as is flexibility and reliability. It's a busy work environment, and you'll need to possess the skills to complete complex tasks and projects quickly, have the business acumen to react with appropriate urgency to emerging situations, and be comfortable enough with ambiguity to be able to take effective action without having to know the complete picture. You will be self-driven, able to work with minimal oversight and guidance. This is a demanding but highly rewarding role, allowing you exposure to broad and diverse areas of the Amazon business and to work with senior leadership teams on a multitude of exciting tasks. This can be a great career move for an experienced and ambitious Executive Assistant looking to develop fast in an organization offering fantastic long-term career opportunities. This role requires five (5) days a week in office.

Key job responsibilities:

• Work in partnership with senior leaders, functional business partners, and other EAs to provide seamless support to the organization.
• Proactively manage executive calendars with accuracy, attention to detail, and proper allocation of time to promote productivity and recognize the need to reprioritize as appropriate.
• Understand business priorities and identify process improvements to create efficiency and scale for the leadership team.
• Organize and manage meetings, events, offsites, and team-based programmatic events.
• Coordinate domestic and international travel in compliance with existing policies and procedures, ensuring effective use of time and resources, for the leadership team.
• Support the annual operational planning process, business planning, and performance review cycles.
• Track and help drive completion of key deliverables and follow up on outstanding items.

About the team:

*Team Culture*: Here at Amazon, we embrace our differences. We are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. We have ten employee-led affinity groups in over 190 chapters globally. We have innovative benefit offerings, and we host annual and ongoing learning experiences.

*Work/Life Balance*: Our team also puts a high value on work-life balance. Striking a healthy balance between your personal and professional life is crucial to your happiness and success here, which is why we aren't focused on how many hours you spend at work or online. Instead, we're happy to offer a flexible schedule so you can have a more productive and well-balanced lifeboth in and outside of work.

*Mentorship and Career Growth*: Our team is dedicated to supporting new members. We have a broad mix of experience levels and tenures, and we're building an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing and mentorship. We care about your career growth and strive to assign projects based on what will help each team member develop into a better-rounded professional and enable them to take on more complex tasks in the future.