Senior Executive Assistant

Senior Executive Assistant

CenterPoint Energy and its predecessor companies have been in business for more than 150 years. Our vision is to become the most admired utility in the United States through the execution of our long-term growth strategy. We have an unwavering commitment to safely and reliably deliver electricity and natural gas to millions of people. CenterPoint Energy is committed to creating an inclusive work environment where business results are achieved through the skills, abilities, and talents of our diverse workforce.

Job Summary

The Executive Assistant (EA) is a trusted, high-judgment partner to the Executive leader, orchestrating time, information, and priorities to maximize business impact. This role blends world-class executive support with analytical rigor and project management discipline—building dashboards, tracking Objective and Key Results, managing cross-functional workplans, and ensuring decisions, communications, and meetings drive measurable outcomes.

Essential Functions

• Serve as a trusted partner to the Executive, anticipating needs and proactively managing priorities.
• Triage inbound requests, ensure proper delegation, and safeguard confidentiality.
• Own a dynamic, complex calendar; plan long-horizon priorities and travel with proactive risk-spotting.
• Coordinate complex domestic and international travel itineraries, including planning itineraries, catering, booking flight reservations, and making hotel and transportation arrangements for Executive and identified department personnel.
• Prepare Executive for meetings with agendas, pre-read materials, decision logs, and follow-ups documenting decisions and actions tracking to closure.
• Draft and edit Executive communications, talking points, and updates.
• Synthesize complex information into concise executive summaries and insights.
• Coordinate preparation of Board, Investor, and Executive materials with high quality and accuracy.
• Stand up and run project management routines for executive initiatives including tracking risks, interdependencies, and critical items across teams.
• Prepares, verifies, documents, enters and reconciles such items as invoices, expense accounts, purchase cards (OnePay), etc. in accordance with corporate procedures, established budgets, and deadlines and acting as custodian of purchase card(s).
• Creates and modifies presentations, graphics, reports, spreadsheets, graphs, tables, charts, manuals, guides and flow charts, updating data as necessary and entering variance explanations.
• Conduct ad-hoc analyses supporting headcount, budget, vendor performance, and initiative health.
• Serve as a liaison across leaders and external partners with high professionalism.

Education Description

Requires a minimum of a high school diploma or equivalent. Bachelor's degree preferred.

Experience

Requires at least five years of related work experience; C-suite experience strongly preferred. Proven experience with data analysis, reporting, and executive-level presentations preferred. Experience preparing Board and Investor materials and coordinating preparations for and leading executive off sites preferred.

We want you to know

Being a part of the CenterPoint Energy team is more than a career alone. It's an opportunity to make a positive impact. You will be an integral part of enabling everyday life and the pursuit of possibilities for the customers we serve and the communities we share. The vital services we provide are at the core of making our world work, and by sharing your energy with us, we'll create a better tomorrow together.

What we bring to you

Competitive pay, paid training, benefits eligibility begins on your first day, transit subsidies, flexible work schedule, paid holidays and paid time off, access to discounts at fitness clubs and an on-site wellness center at our headquarters in Houston, professional growth and development programs including tuition reimbursement, 401(k) Savings Plan featuring a company match dollar-for-dollar up to 6% and a company contribution of 3% regardless of your contribution.