The Business Operations Assistant provides operational, administrative, and project coordination support to the organization and leadership team. This role helps ensure efficient business operations, effective stakeholder collaboration, and successful execution of organizational priorities. The position also supports the ERP implementation program through coordination, communication, reporting, and documentation activities.
In This Role, Your Responsibilities Will Be:
- Provide operational, administrative, and coordination support to the organization and leadership team.
- Coordinate and facilitate leadership meetings, business reviews, workshops, governance sessions, and strategic planning activities, including agendas, minutes, action tracking, and follow-up communication.
- Act as a central point of contact between employees, leadership, global stakeholders, external partners, and project teams.
- Support business planning activities, including budgeting, headcount planning, cost center administration, reporting, and organizational initiatives.
- Coordinate travel arrangements, site visits, meetings, events, training sessions, and related logistics.
- Support onboarding activities and maintain organizational records, documentation, distribution lists, and stakeholder directories.
- Drive effective communication by supporting leadership announcements, presentations, engagement activities, and change management initiatives.
- Maintain project and organizational documentation, ensuring accurate filing, archiving, and information management within SharePoint and other collaboration platforms.
- Provide administrative and coordination support for the ERP implementation program, including meeting management, stakeholder coordination, training support, project documentation, and governance activities.
- Track project actions, participation, expenditures, purchase requisitions, invoices, and reporting activities while supporting continuous improvement and operational efficiency initiatives.
You build and deliver solutions that meet customer expectations. You identify and seize new opportunities. You provide timely and helpful information to individuals across the organization.
- Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Economics, Engineering, Project Management, or a related field.
- Minimum 2 years of experience in Executive Administration, Project Administration, Program Coordination, or similar roles.
- Strong organizational, planning, and coordination skills.
- Advanced Microsoft Office knowledge, particularly Excel, PowerPoint, and Word.
- Strong Microsoft Teams and SharePoint skills.
- Experience with project management and collaboration tools such as Microsoft Project, Planner, Smartsheet, Jira, or similar platforms.
- Ability to prepare professional presentations, reports, and business documentation.
- Strong analytical, reporting, and problem-solving abilities.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities and work independently when required.
- Strong stakeholder management and interpersonal skills.
- Experience within a multinational manufacturing or industrial environment.
- Experience supporting cross-functional teams, projects, or organizational initiatives.
- Experience supporting ERP implementation projects such as SAP, Oracle, Microsoft Dynamics, Infor LN, or equivalent platforms.
- Familiarity with project governance, reporting, and change management activities.
- Knowledge of budgeting, cost-center administration, procurement, or financial tracking processes.
- German language skills.
- Experience supporting leadership teams or business operations functions.
At Emerson, we prioritize a workplace where every employee is valued, respected, and empowered to grow. We foster an environment that encourages innovation, collaboration, and diverse perspectives, because we know that great ideas come from great teams. Our commitment to ongoing career development and growing an inclusive culture ensures you have the support to thrive. Whether through mentorship, training, or leadership opportunities, we invest in your success so you can make a lasting impact. We believe diverse teams, working together are key to driving growth and delivering business results.
WHY EMERSON
Our Commitment to Our People
At Emerson, we are motivated by a spirit of collaboration that helps our diverse, multicultural teams across the world drive innovation that makes the world healthier, safer, smarter, and more sustainable. And we want you to join us in our bold aspiration.
We have built an engaged community of inquisitive, dedicated people who thrive knowing they are welcomed, trusted, celebrated, and empowered to solve the world’s most complex problems — for our customers, our communities, and the planet. You’ll contribute to this vital work while further developing your skills through our award-winning employee development programs. We are a proud corporate citizen in every city where we operate and are committed to our people, our communities, and the world at large. We take this responsibility seriously and strive to make a positive impact through every endeavor.
At Emerson, you’ll see firsthand that our people are at the center of everything we do. So, let’s go. Let’s think differently. Learn, collaborate, and grow. Seek opportunity. Push boundaries. Be empowered to make things better. Speed up to break through. Let’s go, together.
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ABOUT EMERSON
Emerson is a global leader in automation technology and software. Through our deep domain expertise and legacy of flawless execution, Emerson helps customers in critical industries like life sciences, energy, power and renewables, chemical and advanced factory automation operate more sustainably while improving productivity, energy security and reliability.
With global operations and a comprehensive portfolio of software and technology, we are helping companies implement digital transformation to measurably improve their operations, conserve valuable resources and enhance their safety.
We offer equitable opportunities, celebrate diversity, and embrace challenges with confidence that, together, we can make an impact across a broad spectrum of countries and industries. Whether you’re an established professional looking for a career change, an undergraduate student exploring possibilities, or a recent graduate with an advanced degree, you’ll find your chance to make a difference with Emerson. Join our team – let’s go!
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Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Economics, Engineering, Project Management, or a related field.
- At least 2 years of experience in Executive Administration, Project Administration, Program Coordination, or similar roles.
- Strong organizational, planning, and coordination skills.
- Advanced Microsoft Office knowledge, particularly Excel, PowerPoint, and Word.
- Strong Microsoft Teams and SharePoint skills.
- Experience with project management and collaboration tools such as Microsoft Project, Planner, Smartsheet, Jira, or similar platforms.
- Ability to prepare professional presentations, reports, and business documentation.
- Strong analytical, reporting, and problem-solving abilities.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities and work independently when required.
- Strong stakeholder management and interpersonal skills.
- Experience within a multinational manufacturing or industrial environment.
- Experience supporting cross-functional teams, projects, or organizational initiatives.
- Experience supporting ERP implementation projects such as SAP, Oracle, Microsoft Dynamics, Infor LN, or equivalent platforms.
- Familiarity with project governance, reporting, and change management activities.
- Knowledge of budgeting, cost-center administration, procurement, or financial tracking processes.
- German language skills.
- Experience supporting leadership teams or business operations functions.
Emerson Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Emerson and has not been reviewed or approved by Emerson.
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Retirement Support — Retirement programs have been strengthened with a 401(k) plus company-supported contributions such as profit sharing and a recent cash-balance transition for certain participants. These features are positioned as differentiators among large industrial peers.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — An employee stock purchase plan introduced in 2026 enables discounted share purchases via payroll deductions. This adds an accessible ownership element to the total rewards mix.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — The package includes PTO, holidays, sick leave, and parental leave within a broad benefits suite. Coverage breadth aligns with large-employer norms across locations, though specifics vary.
Emerson Insights
What We Do
At Emerson, we’re passionate about what we do. By fusing decades of technology and engineering expertise, Emerson continues to solve some of the world’s most complex challenges with innovative solutions for customers in industrial, commercial, and residential markets. We recruit the greatest talent and apply the best technologies to benefit our customers worldwide. Automation Solutions is a leader in helping process and discrete manufacturers automate and optimize production processes through our best-in-class technologies and industry expertise. Commercial & Residential Solutions develops technologies and services that improve human comfort, safeguard food, protect the environment, enable sustainable food waste disposal, and support efficient construction and maintenance of buildings and municipal infrastructure. Emerson has a wide range of industry knowledge, manufacturing expertise, and technological innovation around the world. Join our next generation of leaders today.
