Are you looking for an exciting new career opportunity? Winnebago Industries is seeking an Executive Assistant to join our team based in Eden Prairie, MN. The Executive Assistant will support the CFO role by providing a variety of administrative tasks and communicating on behalf of the executive leader. This role will also be responsible for supporting communication with investors, analysts, and key financial stakeholders. This role prepares investor‑facing materials, tracks market activity, and helps ensure consistent, transparent messaging regarding company performance and strategy.
Day to Day of the Role:
Executive Assistant
- Complete a broad variety of administrative tasks for the CFO, including planning and coordinating schedules and meetings; managing calendar appointments; arranging complex and detailed travel plans, itineraries, and agendas; completing expense reports; and preparing correspondence and presentations that are sometimes confidential.
- Communicate directly, and on behalf of the executive leaders with other senior leaders.
- Provide a bridge for smooth communication and interactions between the Senior Vice Presidents’ offices and internal departments; partner effectively with other Executive Assistants.
- Maintain in-depth knowledge of company operations, policies, and procedures, and handles details of a highly confidential and critical nature. Solve problems of diverse scope and exercise judgment within generally defined practices and policies in order to provide solutions.
- Use Microsoft Office Suite tools including Microsoft Teams, PowerPoint, MS Word, and Excel in preparation of correspondence, documents, and/or presentations; efficiently creates charts, graphs, tables, and text slides; ensure formatting consistency and accuracy of time-sensitive, high-profile documents.
- Collaborates with Executive Assistant team as needed, regarding prioritization of projects, special needs, sensitivity/confidentiality of projects, resources, and timeframes.
Investor Relations
Assist the Vice President of Investor Relations with the following primary deliverables:
- Industry Intelligence & Research Synthesis: Monitor RV, Marine and Outdoor recreation trade publications, dealer surveys and sell-side research; distill findings into concise briefings for the IR and FP&A teams
- IR Conference and Event Coordination: Handle logistics and external & internal communications for investor conferences, and trade shows including meeting scheduling, and presentation materials
- Board Material & Diligent Administration: Support the preparation of IR materials for Board Distribution; manage uploads of required BoD update materials to the Diligent platform on time and compliance with internal review requirements.
- Consensus & Earnings Intelligence: Track and distribute monthly, sell side consensus updates; flag meaningful shifts in outlook estimates; prepare pre- and post-earnings consensus summaries for the management team
- Share price monitoring: Leverage S&P reporting to build recurring equity performance reports, benchmarking WGO against peers and indices; track short interest, rating changes and notable trading activities for the CFO and VP of IR
- IR Inbox Management: Monitor the WGO IR email inbox, ensure timely responses to incoming investor and analyst requests and provide interaction data to SMA for logging into our contact database.
- Other special projects and duties as assigned based on business need
Education & Experience
- Bachelor's degree in business or related field OR four (4) years of experience in a directly related field, preferably in a fast-paced and/or growing office environment
- Strong work tenure with previous experience supporting Executive Officers, preferably in a medium-to-large public company.
- Strong proficiency in Microsoft Office (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint), Adobe Acrobat, others as identified.
- This position may require travel to other Winnebago locations or to investor events.
This posting includes a range of the salary across a geographical market. The base pay for this position ranges from $90,000/year in our lowest geographic market up to $110,000/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location, internal equity, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Dependent on the position other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.winnebagoind.com/careers/total-rewards.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in business or a related field, or four years of directly related experience
- Previous experience supporting executive officers
- Strong work tenure
- Strong proficiency in Microsoft Office, including Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
- Proficiency with Adobe Acrobat and other identified software
- Ability to travel to other company locations or investor events
- Experience in a fast-paced or growing office environment
- Experience supporting executives in a medium-to-large public company
What We Do
At Winnebago Industries we help our customers explore the outdoor lifestyle, enabling extraordinary mobile experiences as they travel, live, work and play. Winnebago Industries, Inc. is a leading manufacturer of outdoor lifestyle products under the Winnebago, Grand Design, Chris-Craft, and Newmar brands, which are used primarily in leisure travel and outdoor recreation activities. Our 5,700 team members across Iowa, Indiana, Minnesota and Florida deliver on our vision to be the trusted leader in outdoor lifestyle solutions by providing unmatched innovation, quality and service. We’re looking for people who are as passionate about their work as they are about the outdoors. We seek fresh minds and skilled hands that can bring new perspectives, ways of working and technology to deliver exceptional experiences. We do this best when we allow ourselves the time to enjoy the environment — so we seek to keep a healthy balance between work and play. Be part of a team that treats each other with the respect, trust and humility needed to create extraordinary outdoor experiences for our customers.
