Executive Administrative Assistant

9 hours ago


Watford, United Kingdom Medtronic Full time

At Medtronic you can begin a life-long career of exploration and innovation, while helping champion healthcare access and equity for all. You’ll lead with purpose, breaking down barriers to innovation in a more connected, compassionate world.

**A Day in the Life**:
Medtronic employs more than 90,000 people worldwide, serving physicians, hospitals, and patients in approx. 160 countries. At Medtronic, we value what makes you unique. Be part of a company that thinks differently to solve problems, make progress, and deliver meaningful innovations.

In this exciting and challenging position as an Executive Administrative Assistant you will be working closely with senior leadership team and variety stake holders to ensure seamless daily operations.

**Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned**:

- A commercial degree, business administration education, or an Executive Administrative Assistant training background (or equivalent) or proven experience in an administrative support role, ideally working directly with upper management
- Proficiency in business tools such as Microsoft Office Suite (MS Teams, Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint), with a quick aptitude for learning new software and systems
- Fluency in spoken and written English is required; additional language skills (e.g., French, German, Spanish) are a strong advantage
- Exceptional time-management skills with the ability to organize and coordinate multiple projects simultaneously
- A proactive, adaptable, and flexible approach to challenging situations
- Willingness to travel up to approximately 25%

**Required Knowledge and Experience**:

- Efficiently manage the Vice President diary on Outlook, scheduling appointments for the leader and the leadership team
- Arrange and coordinate travel plans, including booking accommodations and transportation
- Proactively anticipate and plan for needs, making spontaneous adjustments to travel, meetings, or other requirements as needed
- Oversee internal communications by collaborating with internal and external stakeholders, such as coordinating Town Halls, Supply Calls, Newsletters, and team updates.
- Foster collaboration by working closely with team members, other operating units, and managing various procedures involving customers and internal stakeholders
- Organize and attend meetings (both virtual and in-person), ensuring the Operating Unit Leader is fully prepared. This includes arranging schedules, preparing agendas, catering menus, and managing room and equipment setup
- Tackle highly complex assignments and take responsibility for leading daily operational tasks and projects

**Physical Job Requirements**

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees assigned to this position, but they are not an exhaustive list of all the required responsibilities and skills of this position.

**Benefits & Compensation**:
**Medtronic offers a competitive Salary and flexible Benefits Package**
A commitment to our employees lives at the core of our values. We recognize their contributions. They share in the success they help to create. We offer a wide range of benefits, resources, and competitive compensation plans designed to support you at every career and life stage.

**About Medtronic**:**We lead global healthcare technology and boldly attack the most challenging health problems facing humanity by searching out and finding solutions.**
**Our Mission — to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life — unites a global team of 90,000+ passionate people.**
**We are engineers at heart— putting ambitious ideas to work to generate real solutions for real people. From the R&D lab, to the factory floor, to the conference room, every one of us experiments, creates, builds, improves and solves. We have the talent, diverse perspectives, and guts to engineer the extraordinary.


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