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Executive Assistant - Crop Science - Western Region 

YOUR TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES

As an Executive Assistant, you will work under limited supervision and act on your own initiative to performs various administrative duties in support of 1 Regional Business Lead (RBL) and 3 Area Business Managers (ABM's) throughout the West Coast.  This will be a remote position and assignments generally involve work of a confidential nature and require a thorough knowledge of the practices and procedures of the function, company products, policies and programs. 

• Assembles and analyzes information; prepares reports, manuals, agendas, correspondence and memorandum as guided by general company practice;
• Establishes and maintains departmental databases and develops spreadsheets of importance to department;
• Assists in meeting planning and preparation work needed, i.e., drafting agendas and broader communications;
• Coordinates details of departmental meetings and/or on and off site conferences and events;
• Prepares materials in final form from very rough and involved drafts which may utilize frequent use of technical terminology and which combines materials from several sources;
• Manages business travel arrangements;
• Screens and redirect calls, takes messages, handles mail;
• Coordinates activities across departments and follows up to ensure that requests are carried out;
• Processes expense reports and payment of invoices;
• Interfaces with other assistants to share and coordinate workload;
• May cross train lower level assistants in the departments;
• Performing additional accountabilities as required.

WHO YOU ARE

Your success will be driven by your demonstration of our life values, more specifically related to this position, Bayer seeks an incumbent who possesses the following:

Required Qualifications:

• High school diploma;
• Proficiency in PC applications such as Word, Excel and PowerPoint;
• Ability to manage multiple competing priorities;
• Strong interpersonal skills;
• Highly organized;
• Able to work with employees at all levels of the organization.

Preferred Qualifications:

• High school diploma with a minimum of eight (8+) years of relevant experience or associate's degree+ with six (6+) years relevant experience; 
• Calendar management for others;
• Travel booking;
• Meeting planning; 
• Experience working with BAYER SPECIFIC Systems, processes and organizational structure.