Administrative Assistant to the President, NA

Location: New York

## Administrative Assistant to the President, NAApplylocations:
New Yorktime type:
Full time posted on:
Posted Todayjob requisition :
JR106706
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* Title:

Administrative Assistant to the President, North America
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* Location:

New York – Hybrid Working
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** About the Role
** This is an exceptional opportunity to partner directly with the President, North America, supporting a key leader responsible for one of Springer Nature's most important markets. As a trusted advisor and strategic partner, you will play a critical role in enabling leadership effectiveness, managing priorities across a complex global organization, and helping drive business outcomes.

The role offers unique exposure to senior leaders across Springer Nature, customers, partners, and industry stakeholders. You will operate at the heart of decision-making, gaining insights into commercial strategy, organizational leadership, and business operations. Ideal for a highly organized, proactive professional who thrives in a fast-paced environment, this position provides opportunities for professional growth, relationship-building, and broad business exposure.
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* Role Responsibilities:

*** Manage a complex executive calendar, ensuring effective prioritization of meetings, business commitments, travel, and stakeholder engagement activities while demonstrating strong
** organizational savvy**, sound judgment, and the ability to manage competing priorities in a dynamic environment.
* Serve as a trusted partner to the President, North America, proactively anticipating needs, identifying scheduling conflicts, navigating organizational dynamics, and ensuring preparedness for key meetings, presentations, and events through strong
** interpersonal awareness**,
** adaptability**, and
** manages complexity
** capabilities.
* Coordinate domestic and international travel arrangements, including detailed itineraries, briefing materials, logistics, and expense management, applying strong
** financial acumen
** and problem-solving skills to ensure cost-effective and seamless execution.
* Organize and support leadership meetings, town halls, business reviews, and other strategic forums, including agenda development, document preparation, meeting logistics, action tracking, and follow-up, ensuring alignment to business objectives through effective
** goal alignment
** and execution excellence.
* Facilitate effective communication between the President's office and internal and external stakeholders, including senior executives, customers, partners, and cross-functional teams, leveraging exceptional
** interpersonal awareness
** and relationship-building skills to foster collaboration and influence outcomes.
* Prepare, draft, edit, and coordinate high-quality correspondence, presentations, reports, and other materials, often involving confidential or sensitive information, while exercising professionalism, discretion, and sound business judgment.
* Support key business initiatives and special projects by coordinating activities, tracking deliverables, following up with stakeholders, and ensuring deadlines are met, demonstrating
** adaptability**, strong organizational skills, and the ability to
** manage complexity
** across multiple work streams.
* Maintain the highest standards of confidentiality, professionalism, resilience, and discretion while managing sensitive business information and executive interactions, remaining calm and effective under pressure through strong
** being resilient
** capabilities.
* Anticipate, assess, and respond effectively to unexpected business challenges, scheduling disruptions, travel issues, and urgent executive priorities, utilizing
** crisis management**, sound decision-making, and flexibility to minimize impact and maintain business continuity.
* Support employee engagement activities, leadership visits, customer meetings, and…