Federations & Governing Bodies
Executive Assistant
Mid Level
New York, United States
hybrid
Full time
Job description
About the Role
The Executive Assistant provides high-level administrative and operational support to two senior executives in a fast-paced, highly visible environment. The role manages complex calendars, meeting preparation, travel, expenses, communications, and projects while anticipating priorities and helping the executives remain organised and focused. The Executive Assistant serves as a key liaison with internal and external stakeholders and regularly handles highly confidential information.
Key Responsibilities
- Manage complex, frequently changing executive calendars, coordinating meetings across multiple time zones, resolving scheduling conflicts, and proactively protecting time for critical priorities.
- Anticipate the executives' day-to-day needs and priorities, proactively identifying scheduling issues, meeting requirements, emerging developments, and matters requiring timely attention or follow-up.
- Coordinate and prepare executives for meetings and appointments, including agendas, briefing and presentation materials, conference rooms, audio/visual requirements, conference calls, external guests, and related logistics.
- Plan and coordinate complex domestic and international travel, developing detailed itineraries that integrate transportation, accommodations, meetings, agendas, and other logistical requirements.
- Serve as a trusted liaison and point of contact among the executives, their direct reports, other Executive Assistants, and internal and external stakeholders, exercising professionalism, diplomacy, tact, and discretion.
- Manage executive communications and information flow, including reviewing and prioritizing correspondence, drafting and editing communications, memos, reports, and presentations, and ensuring time-sensitive matters receive appropriate attention and follow-through.
- Exercise sound independent judgment when executives are unavailable, assessing urgency, making appropriate administrative decisions, escalating critical matters, and maintaining confidentiality.
- Coordinate large and complex meetings and executive activities, ensuring materials, participants, technology, facilities, security, and other logistical requirements are organized and executed effectively.
- Manage executive and departmental administrative processes, including preparing, reconciling, and submitting invoices and credit card expenses in Concur and maintaining accurate internal and external contact information.
- Maintain awareness of relevant sports business developments, organizational initiatives, and department priorities, identifying information, deadlines, or developments requiring executive awareness or action.
- Build strong working partnerships with Executive Assistants, direct reports, facilities, travel, IT, security, and other key stakeholders to facilitate effective executive operations.
- Provide additional administrative and project support as needed, including document and records management, shipping and mail coordination, and other assignments that support executive and department priorities.
Required Experience & Qualifications
- At least 4+ years of administrative or executive assistant experience supporting a senior-level executive.
- Significant proficiency with Microsoft Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
- Strong technology skills, including experience working across PC and Mac environments and mobile devices.
- Demonstrated experience handling sensitive and confidential information with discretion and professionalism.
- Demonstrated ability to manage complex calendars, meetings, travel, communications, and competing priorities in a fast-paced environment.
- Strong written, verbal, interpersonal, organisational, and time-management skills.
- Demonstrated ability to exercise sound judgment, solve problems independently, and follow through on commitments with limited supervision.
- Strong attention to detail and demonstrated project-management capabilities.
- Proactive and anticipatory: consistently thinks ahead, identifies needs and potential issues early, and takes appropriate action.
- Judgment and discretion: handles confidential and sensitive information appropriately and makes thoughtful decisions in high-pressure situations.
- Executive presence and diplomacy: communicates effectively and professionally with senior executives, high-profile individuals, colleagues, and external partners.
- Organisation and execution: effectively manages multiple priorities, deadlines, details, and changing requirements while maintaining accuracy and follow-through.
- Composure and adaptability: remains calm, solution-oriented, and effective in a fluid, fast-paced environment.
- Resourcefulness and problem-solving: approaches challenges with curiosity, sound judgment, resilience, and a continuous-improvement mindset.
- Collaboration: builds trusted relationships across functions and works effectively with a broad range of internal and external stakeholders.
Preferred Skills
- Bachelor's degree.
- Experience in the digital, entertainment, or sports industry.
- Fast and accurate typing skills.
Workplace
- In-person work at NFL offices is a top priority because it allows for more effective collaboration, stronger connections, and maintenance of the culture that drives success.
- This role requires onsite presence at an NFL office or stadium location; remote and/or hybrid working options are not offered.
- NFL employees are required to work 40 hours per week in office.
- Travel to main NFL events with the Executives as needed.
- No relocation assistance will be provided.
- FLSA Exempt.
Benefits & Perks
- Comprehensive benefits offerings are available.
About the Company
The NFL is committed to building an inclusive work environment that reflects its incredible fan base and provides an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all employees and applicants without regard to status as protected by applicable federal, state, and local laws. Its core values are respect, integrity, team responsibility, and resiliency. Its leadership attributes include building talent, executing, inspiring, living our values, knowing the business, and thinking big.
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