Administrative Assistant

Company: Sysco St. Louis

This position provides professional administrative support to the assigned leader(s) at Sysco St. Louis.

• High School diploma or equivalent.
• Associates degree or equivalent with some related specialized coursework preferred.

• At least 4 years of professional administrative support experience in a professional office environment.

• Certified Professional Secretary (CPS) certification preferred, but not required.

• Creates, edits and proofreads communications, documents, spreadsheets, and presentation slides from rough drafts, notes, or a variety of letters, memos, documents, reports, or technical forms (includes handling of confidential information).
• Establishes and maintains positive working relationships with contacts both within SBS and Corporate, and at Sysco operating companies, suppliers, and customers.
• Assists supported leader in staff capacity by coordinating office services such as personnel, budget preparation and control, housekeeping, records control, and special management studies.
• Schedules conferences, appointments, meetings and travel arrangements for senior staff.
• Records minutes of meetings or other sessions and composes summaries to ensure that proper and accurate records of discussions and information are available.
• Reads and screens correspondence, daily.
• Identifies critical issues within identified parameters and prioritizes correspondence.
• Uses MS Outlook to create and maintain calendars, schedule and organize activities such as meetings and department activities.
• Utilize MS Visio to create and maintain org charts, process flows, etc.
• Assists team with copying, filing, communications, internet research requests, etc.
• Processes invoices and expense reports for payment.
• Generates and maintains tracking and/or filing systems as required ensuring information is always organized, up-to-date and available when requested.
• Anticipates needs and completes special projects as assigned.
• Performs other support duties as assigned.

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