Sr. Administrative Assistant - Manufacturing Americas; Onsite Chaska, MN

Position: Sr. Administrative Assistant - Manufacturing Americas (Onsite Chaska, MN)

Bring more to life.

Are you ready to accelerate your potential and make a real difference within life sciences, diagnostics and biotechnology?

At Beckman Coulter Diagnostics, one of Danaher’s 15+ operating companies, our work saves lives—and we’re all united by a shared commitment to innovate for tangible impact.

You’ll thrive in a culture of belonging where you and your unique viewpoint matter. And by harnessing Danaher’s system of continuous improvement, you help turn ideas into impact – innovating at the speed of life.

As a global leader in clinical diagnostics, Beckman Coulter Diagnostics has challenged convention to elevate the diagnostic laboratory’s role in improving patient health for more than 90 years. Our diagnostic solutions are used in routine and complex clinical testing, and are used in hospitals, reference and research laboratories, and physician offices around the world. Every hour around the world, more than one million tests are run on Beckman Coulter Diagnostics systems, impacting 1.2 billion patients and more than three million clinicians per year.

From uncovering the next clinical breakthrough, to rapid and reliable sample analysis, to more rigorous decision making—we are enabling clinicians to deliver the best possible care to their patients with improved efficiency, clinical confidence, adaptive collaboration, and accelerated intelligence.

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The Sr. Administrative Assistant

The Sr. Administrative Assistant is responsible for providing administrative support to North American Manufacturing.

This position reports to the VP of Manufacturing Americas and is part of the leadership team located in Chaska, MN and will be an on-site role.

In this role, you will have the opportunity to:

• Complete a variety of administrative tasks, including managing active calendars; completing expense reports and purchase orders; composing and preparing confidential correspondence; arranging complex and detailed travel domestically and internationally, itineraries, and agendas; and compiling documents for meetings.
• Provide a bridge for smooth communication between leaders and internal departments, demonstrating leadership to maintain credibility, trust and support with senior management staff and communicate directly and as needed on behalf of the leaders.
• Manage and coordinate events and leadership meetings, from recurring staff meetings, internal/external meetings and other meetings as needed. Provide project management, budget management, logistics, IT coordination, and all other support required for these various events and meetings.

The essential requirements of the job include:

• High School degree or equivalent with 5+ years senior executive level administrative experience.

Travel, Motor Vehicle Record & Physical/Environment Requirements:

• Ability to lift, move or carry equipment up to 10lb.
• Ability to travel domestically up to 20% as required.

It would be a plus if you also possess previous experience in:

• Associates degree or higher.
• Demonstrated experience exercising good judgement with high levels of confidential information.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office suite of applications including PowerPoint, Word, Microsoft Teams and Excel including the ability to build pivot tables and other useful reporting analytics upon request.

Benefits

Beckman Coulter Life Sciences, a Danaher operating company, offers a broad array of comprehensive, competitive benefit programs that add value to our lives. Whether it’s a health care program or paid time off, our programs contribute to life beyond the job. Check out our benefits at Danaher Benefits Info.

Compensation & Benefits

The salary range for this role is $55,000 – $75,000 annually. This is the range that we in good faith believe is the range of possible compensation for this role at the time of this posting. This range may be modified in the future.

This job is also eligible for bonus/incentive pay.

We offer comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off, medical/dental/vision insurance and 401(k) to eligible employees.

Disclaimer

Note:

No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation…