Are you an administrative professional who has experience supporting executives?

Sodexo has an exciting opening for an Executive Assistant who will support our CEO.

This position will work a hybrid work schedule reporting to our office in Irvine, CA.

The Executive Assistant to the CEO will be responsible for leading, prioritizing, and executing administrative processes

The successful candidate will:

• Perform varied and diverse secretarial and administrative support functions for the Chief Executive Officer.
• Prepare correspondence, reports, screen telephone calls and visitors.
• Schedule appointments, meetings, and travel itineraries.
• Require comprehensive skill and knowledge of organization policies and practices.
• Regularly exercise independent judgment and discretion in policy interpretation and setting work priorities.
• Use discretion, judgment, tact and poise.
• Supervise or provide work direction to lower level administrative staff.
• Handle confidential and sensitive matters.

Is this the right opportunity for you? We are looking for candidates that have/are:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
• Experience supporting C-Level suite
• Ability to think ahead, anticipate to prioritize and plan activities
• Proactive skills to manage deliverables
• Resilience - strong ability to work with ambiguity and changing set of circumstances and issues
• Ability to quickly assimilate complex information and take independent action where necessary
• Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to work individually and with others
• Strong time management skills and ability to effectively resolve problems
• Experience with Microsoft Office including Outlook, Word, Excel & Power-Point and Smart Sheet

Sodexo offers a full array of benefits including paid time off, holidays, medical, dental, vision, 401K and access to ongoing training and development programs, tuition reimbursement, plus health and wellness programs.

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Sodexo offers fair and equitable compensation, partially determined by a candidate's education level or years of relevant experience. While the budgeted range for the position is posted, Sodexo salary offers are based on a candidate's specific criteria, like experience, skills, education and training.

Performs varied and diverse secretarial and administrative support functions for the Chief Executive Officer. Prepares correspondence, reports, screens telephone calls and visitors. Schedules appointments, meetings, and travel itineraries. Requires comprehensive skill and knowledge of organization policies and practices. Regularly exercises independent judgment and discretion in policy interpretation and setting work priorities. Responsibilities require discretion, judgment, tact and poise. May supervise or provide work direction to lower level administrative staff. Work often involves handling confidential and sensitive matters.

Basic Education Requirement - Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience

Basic Functional Experience - 3 years of experience providing administrative support functions to executive or C-Level staff, or a related position

Sodexo is an EEO/AA/Minority/Female/Disability/Veteran employer.