# Executive Assistant

**Company**: The Cigna Group
**Location**: St Louis
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Operations
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

The Executive Assistant serves as a trusted strategic partner to senior executives, providing high-level administrative, operational, and organizational support.

This role requires exceptional judgment, discretion, and the ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment. The Executive Assistant is responsible for helping drive operational efficiency, facilitating seamless communication, and supporting the successful execution of critical business activities and leadership priorities.

**Key Responsibilities:**

**Executive Support & Calendar Management**

- Manage complex and dynamic calendars, including scheduling meetings across multiple time zones and balancing competing priorities.

- Coordinate domestic and international travel arrangements, including itineraries, accommodations, transportation, and related logistics.

- Prioritize incoming requests and correspondence, exercising sound judgment in determining urgency and appropriate action.

- Anticipate executive needs and proactively resolve scheduling conflicts and operational challenges.

**Meeting Planning & Preparation**

- Coordinate leadership meetings, town halls, offsites, and other strategic events.

- Develop agendas, compile meeting materials, prepare presentations, and distribute pre-read content.

- Document meeting outcomes, decisions, and action items, ensuring timely follow-up and accountability.

- Manage logistics for board, executive, and senior leadership meetings as needed.

**Business Operations & Coordination**

- Serve as a primary point of contact for internal and external stakeholders.

- Facilitate communication between the executive, leadership teams, and business partners.

- Track key deliverables, deadlines, and commitments on behalf of the executive.

- Support the planning and execution of strategic initiatives and special projects.

**Financial & Administrative Support**

- Manage expense reports, invoices, purchase orders, and budget tracking activities.

- Coordinate vendor relationships and support contract and procurement processes as required.

- Ensure compliance with company policies related to travel, expenses, and records management.

**Stakeholder Partnership**

- Build strong relationships across the organization to facilitate collaboration and effective decision-making.

- Represent the executive professionally and positively in interactions with employees, customers, vendors, and external partners.

- Support leadership team coordination, including communications, meeting cadence, and organizational priorities.

**Confidentiality & Judgement**

- Handle highly sensitive and confidential information with discretion and professionalism.

- Exercise independent judgment in managing requests and escalating issues when appropriate.

- Maintain a high degree of integrity and trust while supporting executive-level decision making.

**Qualifications:**

**Required Qualifications**

- Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience.

- 7+ years of executive administrative support experience, including support of senior executives (Vice President level and above).

- Demonstrated experience managing complex calendars, travel arrangements, and executive communications.

- Strong proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite, including Outlook, Teams, PowerPoint, Word, and Excel.

- Exceptional organizational, prioritization, and time management skills.

- Outstanding written and verbal communication abilities.

- Proven ability to work independently with minimal supervision while managing multiple priorities.

- This role will be located in the St Louis - Hybrid, 3 days a week.

## Skills

### Required
- Microsoft Office Suite
- Outlook
- Teams
- PowerPoint
- Word
- Excel
- organizational skills
- prioritization skills
- time management skills
- written communication skills
- verbal communication skills

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