Executive Assistant

**What You'll Do**

In this role, you will provide support for calendaring, travel, expenses, along with management and oversight of special projects, as needed. To perform these tasks effectively, you will be expected to become familiar with the products, people, and interpersonal dynamics within Cisco's Sales team. You should understand how to handle, with a phenomenal degree of independence, incoming asks for time, meetings, resources and other needs from the Senior Directors. You are responsible for determining when to refer matters to others, and to whom they should be referred. You will also be in charge of following up to ensure proper disposition, and make sure nothing falls through the cracks. You will become a core member of the leaders' team, attending monthly staff meetings and quarterly all team meetings.

Calendar Management: Handles Directors' calendar by prioritizing schedules and meetings. For example, may decide who gets on principal's calendar, which meetings are attended, and who can attend in the Directors place.

Meeting Planning and Organizations: Assists Directors in planning and organizing meetings by taking responsibility for crafting the agenda, location, meeting technology (WebEx, TP) based upon participant needs, and all other meeting logistics. May further prepare meeting briefing documents by taking and disseminating notes and formulating post meeting action item lists.

Correspondence/Approvals: Supports Directors by acting as proxy for communications and approvals as authorized. Answers general questions as necessary and refers (filters) routine matters to appropriate parties and follows up and resolved promptly.

Travel: Responsible for making travel itineraries for the principal. Carefully considers and decides the optimum travel arrangements and itinerary for calendared meetings while handling Cisco expenses.

Special Projects: Provides analytical support to assist Executive on special projects. Researches issues, analyses problems, compiles data, and prepares reports.

You will exercise sound judgment and discretion, maintain a high level of integrity and remain calm under pressure and you will deal authoritatively with sensitive and confidential matters and materials.

In addition to the general administrative duties of an Administrative Assistant, daily tasks are carried out at a higher level of complexity. This includes researching issues, analysing problems, figuring out approaches, compiling data and preparing reports. Due to the frequent engagement of the Directors across Cisco as a whole, you will collaborate with and coordinate activities with other EA's and executives in Cisco. Work is generally of a critical and confidential nature.

**Who You'll Work With**

Cisco is the worldwide leader in internet networking and in Asia Pacific and Japan, we've been changing the way we work, live, play and learn for over 20 years. As we look to the future, our focus is on continuing to help our customers seize the opportunities of tomorrow by connecting the unconnected. Innovative technology will play a ground breaking role in enabling a digital Asia Pacific, and Cisco is committed to partnering with businesses, governments, countries and local communities to ensure the potential benefits are maximized for all.

**Who You Are**

You have 6+ years' experience in an administrative environment. A minimum of two years of experience supporting a principal who was at the Director level and above. You have phenomenal attention to detail and the maturity to handle confidential information is a requirement.

**Desired Skills**

You have past work experience in the high-tech industry is preferred; prior Cisco experience preferred.

You possess excellent verbal and written communication skills including the ability to communicate with all levels of Executive/Senior staff and clients.

Teamwork - you champion Improvements. Doing more with less, pursue problems, make decisions, and demonstrate leadership.

You are able to champions improvements. You are great at solving problems and making decisions. You also demonstrate leadership skills.

You work in an organized and focused manner and have great attention to details. You are also enthusiastic and self-motivated by nature.

Advanced desktop calendar management program experience.

**Why Cisco**

**#WeAreCisco**, where each person is unique, but we bring our talents to work as a team and make a difference powering an inclusive future for all.

We embrace digital, and help our customers implement change in their digital businesses. Some may think we're "old" (36 years strong) and only about hardware, but we're also a software company. And a security company. We even invented an intuitive network that adapts, predicts, learns and protects. No other company can do what we do - you can't put us in a box

But "Digital Transformation" is an empty buzz phrase without a culture that allows for innovation, creativity, an