Executive Administrative Assistant, Global Finance - Minneapolis, MN
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A Day in the Life
Medtronic is seeking a highly organized, proactive, and professional Executive Administrative Assistant to support the Vice President Global Commercial Office Finance and Vice President Commercial Excellence. This role is critical to helping the leader operate effectively across a fast-paced, global environment by managing priorities, coordinating logistics, and ensuring a high level of responsiveness, accuracy, and discretion.This role enables executive effectiveness by ensuring day-to-day operations run smoothly and important priorities stay on track. The Executive Administrative Assistant will play a key role in supporting leadership effectiveness, team coordination, and operational excellence within a high-impact finance organization.
The ideal candidate is a trusted partner who can anticipate needs, manage competing demands, and bring structure to a broad range of executive support responsibilities including calendar management, travel coordination, meeting logistics, expense administration, and cross-functional team coordination.
At Medtronic, we bring bold ideas forward with speed and decisiveness to put patients first in everything we do. In-person exchanges are invaluable to our work. We’re working a minimum of 4 days a week onsite as part of our commitment to fostering a culture of professional growth and cross-functional collaboration as we work together to engineer the extraordinary.
Key responsibilities
Serve as a partner to the VP, ensuring priorities are advanced with discretion, speed, and precision.
Proactively manage VP’s dynamic calendar by scheduling, prioritizing, and adjusting meetings, with a focus on urgent and sensitive matters to maximize executive’s time anticipating conflicts and solving problems before they arise.
Coordinate domestic and international travel arrangements, including itineraries, agendas, logistics, and related documentation
Plan and support meetings across leadership, finance, and cross-functional teams, including scheduling, room coordination, materials preparation, agenda support, and follow-up on action items
Prepare and process expense reports, purchase requests, and other administrative documentation accurately and on time
Assist VP with internal software applications which need regular attention including, but not limited to: GTAT, Cornerstone, Ariba, ReadSoft, Recognize and IT Portal.
Maintain distribution lists and organizational charts for the organization
Serve as a point of coordination for internal and external communications, helping ensure timely responses and professional follow-through
Organize and maintain files, meeting materials, and other business documents with strong attention to confidentiality and detail
Assist VP with reviewing and editing org emails, both general and sensitive communications, and disseminating per guidance appropriately and timely.
Assist VP with creation and formatting of presentations and other communications for both internal and external audiences.
Provide end to end meeting and business activities support, including scheduling, agenda coordination, material preparation, logistics, capture of key decisions, and follow up on action items.
Track deadlines, deliverables, and recurring administrative needs to help the executive and team stay organized and on schedule
Build effective working relationships across functions and levels of the organization to facilitate coordination and execution
Anticipate administrative needs, identify process improvements, and recommend more efficient ways of working
Required Qualifications
High school diploma or equivalent required
6+ years of administrative support experience, including experience supporting senior leaders or executives in a complex corporate environment
Demonstrated experience managing calendars, travel, meetings, and expenses with a high degree of accuracy and professionalism
Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications including Outlook, PowerPoint, Word, and Excel
Preferred qualifications
- Associate’s or Bachelor’s degree preferred
- Experience supporting finance, commercial, or other business leadership teams in a matrixed global organization
- Comfort working across time zones and coordinating activities with geographically dispersed teams
- Ability to work independently while also collaborating effectively across teams
- Strong judgment, discretion, and ability to handle highly confidential information
- Flexible team player, willing to adapt to changes and is unafraid of challenges
- Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities, meet deadlines, and adapt quickly to changing needs
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Strong meeting coordination skills, including preparation of presentations, agendas, and executive-ready materials
- Proven ability to anticipate needs and proactively solve problems before they escalate
- Self-motivated with strong time management skills; able to prioritize tasks, manage multiple projects, and perform well under pressure in a fast-paced environment.
- Highly organized and detail-oriented; consistently ensures accuracy in spelling, grammar, formatting, and overall document presentation.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills with the ability to interact professionally and diplomatically across all levels of the organization.
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Physical Job Requirements
The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees assigned to this position, but they are not an exhaustive list of all the required responsibilities and skills of this position.
The physical demands described within the Responsibilities section of this job description are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. For Office Roles: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to be independently mobile. The employee is also required to interact with a computer, and communicate with peers and co-workers. Contact your manager or local HR to understand the Work Conditions and Physical requirements that may be specific to each role.
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Benefits & Compensation
Medtronic offers a competitive Salary and flexible Benefits Package
A commitment to our employees lives at the core of our values. We recognize their contributions. They share in the success they help to create. We offer a wide range of benefits, resources, and competitive compensation plans designed to support you at every career and life stage.
This position is eligible for a short-term incentive called the Medtronic Incentive Plan (MIP).The base salary range is applicable across the United States, excluding Puerto Rico and specific locations in California. The offered rate complies with federal and local regulations and may vary based on factors such as experience, certification/education, market conditions, and location. Compensation and benefits information pertains solely to candidates hired within the United States (local market compensation and benefits will apply for others).
The following benefits and additional compensation are available to those regular employees who work 20+ hours per week: Health, Dental and vision insurance, Health Savings Account, Healthcare Flexible Spending Account, Life insurance, Long-term disability leave, Dependent daycare spending account, Tuition assistance/reimbursement, and Simple Steps (global well-being program).
The following benefits and additional compensation are available to all regular employees: Incentive plans, 401(k) plan plus employer contribution and match, Short-term disability, Paid time off, Paid holidays, Employee Stock Purchase Plan, Employee Assistance Program, Non-qualified Retirement Plan Supplement (subject to IRS earning minimums), and Capital Accumulation Plan (available to Vice Presidents and above, or subject to IRS earning minimums).
Regular employees are those who are not temporary, such as interns. Temporary employees are eligible for paid sick time, as required under applicable state law, and the Employee Stock Purchase Plan. Please note some of the above benefits may not apply to workers in Puerto Rico.
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