Administrative Assistant III at Abbott Laboratories

A healthy heart is essential to good health. That's why we're committed to advancing treatments for people with cardiovascular disease. As a global leader in Cardiac Rhythm Technologies, our breakthrough medical technologies help restore people's health so they can get back to living their best lives, faster. We focus on innovative technologies that can improve the way doctors treat people with heart arrhythmias, or irregular heartbeats.

We are recruiting for an Administrative Assistant III to join our team in our Austin, TX location. In this onsite role, you will provide primary administrative and overall support and coordination for an Abbott CRM Divisional Vice President. You will be responsible for completing special assignments and projects as required to enable efficient departmental operations and interacting with key internal and external stakeholders.

What You’ll Work On

• Serves as Administrative Support to Divisional Vice President for Cardiac Rhythm Management in tasks including calendar management, expenses, and travel management, ordering supplies and equipment and meeting preparation

• Supports CRM Commercial Leadership on goals and strategy through deck preparation, communication templates, town hall preparation, job description creation and oversite of cascade of information

• Attend leadership meetings to capture minutes; publish and track all action items

• Maintain a thorough understanding of the daily and future business needs to support Commercial Leadership direction

• Coordinate monthly Global metric slides and serve as meeting facilitator

• Support Austin facilities and leadership and represent site in daily meetings to provide management site updates

• Create Purchase Orders for supplies, services, and IT equipment

• Serve as delegate for expense and purchasing approvals

• Maintain organizational chart

• Supports facility management with new hire needs, seating, equipment, and site access

• Coordinate office events and other on-site meetings

• Execute applicable Quality System processes and monitor the accuracy of service provided

• Other duties as assigned

Required Qualifications

• High School Diploma

• Minimum 5 years’ experience in an Administrative Assistant role supporting multiple executives

• Proven intermediate to advanced proficiency in Microsoft outlook, word, excel and power point

Preferred Qualifications

• Associate or bachelor’s degree

• Organizing: Ability to structure self and others through planning, filing, minutes and action item documentation

• Multi-tasking: Can manage several directors with ad hoc needs while executing daily assigned tasks

• Approachability: Has a professional and approachable demeanor when interacting with all level employees

• Action-Oriented: Can execute on direction given independently and efficiently while following up with updates proactively

• Written Communications: Draft emails, presentations, and other business documents on behalf of directors in a professional and accurate manner

• Functional/Technical Skills: Ability to learn and execute in business systems as required and troubleshoot and escalate issues proactively

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* Participants who complete a short wellness assessment qualify for FREE coverage in our HIP PPO medical plan. Free coverage applies in the next calendar year.

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