Executive Support Specialist

Seaboard Overseas and Trading Group (SOTG), a division of the Fortune 500 Seaboard Corporation, is a globally integrated leader in agricultural commodity trading, processing, and logistics. With milling facilities in 14 locations across 10 countries and 10 trading officesin 9 countries, we produce approximately two million metric tons of grain-based productsannually.

Our vertically integrated approach—spanning procurement, transportation, and processing—ensures quality, consistency, and supply chain efficiency. We manage bulk freight and charteredvessels, overseeing logistics for both in-house and third-party customers. Every year, we source,transport, and market around 14 million metric tons of diverse commodities, supporting food security and economic growth in the regions we serve.

At SOTG, we are driven by innovation, collaboration, and sustainability. Our business modelfosters an entrepreneurial mindset, empowering our teams to take ownership, find creative solutions, and drive impact.

The Executive Support Specialist is an administrative professional who supports members of thesenior leadership team. While the role is administrative in nature, it operates at a higher levelthan traditional support positions, requiring sound judgment, strong initiative, and the ability towork independently in a fast-paced, global environment. Executives may occasionally need assistance with scheduling, document preparation, or other day-to-day tasks, and this role provides that support reliably and with a high degree of professionalism.

• Manage complex logistics for executive-level meetings, leadership offsites, board presentations, and high-stakes events, including venue selection, attendee coordination,meeting materials, agendas, and pre-read distribution.
• Coordinate and maintain executive calendars, prioritizing competing demands, resolving scheduling conflicts, and ensuring leaders are focused on the highest-value activities.
• Partner with our travel providers to coordinate complex domestic and international travel arrangements, including multi-country itineraries, visas, accommodations,transportation, and contingency planning.
• Ensure executives are fully prepared for meetings and engagements through proactive briefing support, including agendas, background materials, participant information, and key logistical details.
• Track action items, commitments, and follow-ups arising from executive meetings and proactively drive accountability by surfacing outstanding items to appropriate stakeholders.
• Coordinate recurring leadership meetings, annual planning sessions, strategy reviews, and business review processes to ensure deadlines, materials, and participants are aligned.
• Manage expense reporting, vendor invoices, purchase requests, and budget tracking on behalf of the leadership team
• Monitor and support workflow management for executive priorities, helping ensure deadlines, deliverables, and key milestones remain on track.
• Anticipate administrative and operational needs before they arise, proactively identifying solutions that improve efficiency and reduce administrative burden.

• Serve as a professional point of contact for internal and external stakeholders engaging with the executive team, exercising judgment in routing, responding to, or escalating inquiries.
• Manage high-volume executive communications, helping prioritize requests and ensuring timely responses to critical matters
• Compile, organize, and distribute materials for executive meetings, including agendas, presentations, pre-reads, and post-meeting summaries.
• Maintain organized records of executive correspondence, contracts, presentations, reports, and key business documents across shared systems.
• Support preparation of presentations, reports, and executive communications by gathering information, conducting research, coordinating inputs, and formatting content.
• Establish and maintain effective document management processes that ensure information is easily accessible, current, and appropriately secured.
• Coordinate collection of inputs from multiple stakeholders to support executive decision-making and business reviews
• Assist in preparing materials for board meetings, leadership updates, investor interactions, and strategic business discussions as required.

• Build trusted relationships across our affiliate network, regional offices, and external partners on behalf of the leadership team.
• Coordinate across functions, including Finance, HR, Legal, Operations, and Commercial teams, to gather information, manage workflows, and resolve issues efficiently.
• Represent the executive team in internal communications and cross-functional coordination with professionalism, responsiveness, and sound judgment.
• Support onboarding of new leadership team members by coordinating access, introductions, travel, technology setup, and operational readiness.
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