We are seeking a highly skilled Executive Administrative Assistant to join our Human Resources team at our Cummins facility in Indiana, working in an onsite with flexibility work environment based out of our DBU Headquarters in Indianapolis.
This role serves as a trusted partner to the Vice President of Global DEIC, playing a critical part in optimizing priorities, enhancing operational efficiency, and supporting the overall business cadence. The position provides significant exposure to senior leadership and cross-functional global teams.
In this role, you will make an impact in the following ways:
- Staff Cadence & Executive Engagement Management
Partner with the Chief of Staff to manage staff meeting agendas, materials, and logistics, ensuring disciplined execution, clear outcomes, and follow-through across leadership discussions. - Enterprise Event & High-Visibility Engagement Leadership
Lead planning and execution of global onsite conferences and other high-impact events, coordinating cross-functional contributors to ensure seamless delivery - Executive-Level Preparation & Stakeholder Orchestration
Coordinate preparation for internal and external speaking engagements and key leadership interactions, synthesizing inputs and aligning stakeholders to ensure readiness, clarity, and consistency of messaging.
To be successful in this role you will need the following:
- Strategic Executive Support & Prioritization: Proactively anticipates leadership needs, manages complex calendars, and aligns priorities to support organizational goals with a strong sense of urgency, accountability, and action orientation.
- Communication & Stakeholder Engagement: Delivers clear, tailored communications across multiple channels and serves as a trusted liaison, building strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders while ensuring effective collaboration.
- Operational Planning & Execution: Coordinates travel, meetings, and executive workflows while maintaining confidentiality, overseeing budgets, and ensuring activities are executed efficiently and within established guidelines.
- Data Analysis & Business Insight: Compiles, analyzes, and translates qualitative and quantitative data into executive-ready reports, presentations, and visualizations that support informed, data-driven decision-making.
- Collaboration, Inclusion & Continuous Improvement: Partners across functions to diagnose needs and implement solutions, values diverse perspectives, and fosters accountability.
Qualifications
Education/Experience
- High school diploma or certificate of completion of secondary education or equivalent experience to the extent such experience meets applicable regulations.
- Significant work experience and in-depth knowledge obtained through specialized training and relevant experience.
- Demonstrated ability to operate as a trusted partner to senior leaders, exercising sound judgment in prioritization, ambiguity, and sensitive situations
- Proven ability to navigate complex organizational dynamics and align stakeholders across levels and functions without direct authority.
- Strong understanding of business context, with the ability to synthesize information into decision-ready insights, identify risks, and highlight implications.
- Demonstrated ability to use AI and digital tools to enhance workflow efficiency, synthesize information, and improve executive deliverables, with sound judgment in evaluating outputs.
- Experience supporting or leading large-scale, global or multi-day events involving senior executive audiences preferred.
- Demonstrated ability to engage with senior executives and external stakeholders with a high degree of professionalism, discretion, and composure preferred.
Compensation (for United States)
Please note that the salary range provided is a good faith estimate on the applicable range. The
final salary offer will be determined after considering relevant factors, including a candidate’s
qualifications and experience, where appropriate.
About UsCummins is an equal opportunity employer. Our policy is to provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified persons without regard to race, sex, color, disability, national origin, age, religion, union affiliation, sexual orientation, veteran status, citizenship, gender identity, or other status protected by law.Skills Required
- High school diploma or equivalent experience
- Significant work experience and knowledge through specialized training
- Ability to operate as a trusted partner to senior leaders
- Experience supporting or leading large-scale events is preferred
Cummins Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Cummins and has not been reviewed or approved by Cummins.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) with company contribution/match and both defined contribution and defined benefit pension plans are offered, alongside profit sharing and an employee stock purchase plan. This mix supports long-term savings and financial security.
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Healthcare Strength — Multiple medical plan options (HSA, HSA Plus, PPO) with dental, vision, life and long-term disability coverage are provided, along with telehealth, mental-health support, and wellness tools. In-network protections and HSA/HSA Plus structures are described to help manage costs.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid maternity and paternity leave, family medical leave, and adoption assistance are offered. Reduced or flexible hours and unpaid extended leave options further support caregiving needs.
Cummins Insights
What We Do
At Cummins, we empower everyone to grow their careers through meaningful work, building inclusive and equitable teams, coaching, development and opportunities to make a difference. Across our entire organization, you'll find engineers, developers, and technicians who are innovating, designing, testing, and building. You'll also find accountants, marketers, as well as manufacturing, quality and supply chain specialists who are working with technology that's just as innovative and advanced.
