Sr. Administrative Assistant (Global Sales Management)

About the Role

Provides direct support to senior leaders and individual contributors within a global team supporting T. Rowe Price’s Business-to-Business (B2B) sales organization. Exercises sound judgment, discretion, and diplomacy while managing sensitive information, coordinating priorities, and ensuring day-to-day activities run smoothly. The team plays an important role in enabling sales effectiveness globally. While many teams engage directly with clients, GSM builds and supports the processes, tools, data, insights, and capabilities that help sales associates succeed. In this role, the individual helps ensure leaders and team members can operate efficiently, adapt to new processes and policies, and remain focused on key business priorities. The role also collaborates across the team to provide seamless support and coverage, and may coordinate or assign work to less experienced support staff. Overall, the position contributes to making selling easier, more consistent, and more effective across the organization.

Role Summary

Typically provides direct assistance to one or more senior leaders and/or senior individual contributors. Responsible for exercising confidentiality, tact, and diplomacy when completing own work. May direct the work of less experienced support staff and assign tasks. Provides thoughtful and tactful support to managers when new processes and policies are implemented. Effectively works with others to ensure and provide seamless support and coverage when necessary.

• Our team supports sales (B2B) globally across T. Rowe Price
• While many teams work directly with clients, GSM builds the processes, tools, data, insights, and capabilities that help those teams be successful
• Think of us as the team that helps make selling easier, more consistent, and more effective for our sales associates

Responsibilities

• Performs moderately complex and confidential administrative duties that require considerable skill and knowledge of organization policies and procedures. Screens calls and visitors and resolves routine and sometimes complex inquiries. Schedules and maintains calendar of appointments, meetings, and travel arrangements. Exercises moderate level of autonomy in troubleshooting issues as they arise and anticipates the needs of the person they support. Work is generally fast-paced and moderately complex.
• Conducts moderately complex administrative assignments related to meeting, seminar, workshop, and/or conference planning, including material production; prep material packet compilation; scheduling; logistical arrangements; and liaising with participants, speakers, and vendors. Assists with special projects across multiple teams, including workstream participation.
• May conduct research for senior leader(s) or senior individual contributor; compiles, analyzes, and summarizes information for reports and correspondence. Compiles, reviews, and analyzes more complex data and keeps databases and share sites up to date. Provides accurate data and information to others on functional unit processes and procedures as requested.
• Coordinates executive meetings, including logistics (reserving meeting site, catering, security notifications), collection and coordination of meeting materials, agenda creation, and recording meeting minutes for senior leaders and/or senior individual contributors and tracks/manages meeting attendance responses.
• May assist in the preparation correspondences, memoranda, and reports, copying and filing and processing documentation of expenses and vouchers. May prepare and distribute minutes of meetings.

Qualifications

Required:

• Bachelor's degree or the equivalent combination of education and relevant experience AND
• 3+ years of total relevant work experience

Preferred:

• Experience providing administrative or business support to senior leaders in a complex, fast-paced environment
• Strong organizational and prioritization skills, with the ability to manage multiple competing priorities and anticipate needs
• Experience working within a global organization or supporting geographically dispersed teams
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to interact professionally with senior leaders and stakeholders across functions and regions
• Ability to work independently, exercise good judgment, and proactively identify and resolve issues
• Experience coordinating across teams to ensure seamless support, coverage, and execution of priorities
• Strong attention to detail and a track record of delivering accurate, high-quality work
• Ability to navigate changing priorities, processes, and organizational needs with flexibility and professionalism

FINRA Requirements

FINRA licenses are not required and will not be supported for this role.

Work Flexibility 

This role is eligible for hybrid work, with up to one day per week from home. 

Base Salary Ranges

Please review the job posting for the location of this specific opportunity.

Placement within the range provided above is based on the individual’s relevant experience and skills for the role.  Base salary is only one component of our total compensation package.  Employees may be eligible for a discretionary bonus, which is determined upon company and individual performance.

Commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

At T. Rowe Price, our associates are our greatest asset. We thrive because our company culture is built on inclusion and because we sustain a work environment where associates can bring their best selves to work every day. The backgrounds, talents, and experiences of our global associates allow us to embrace new ideas and perspectives that move our business priorities forward and enable us to deliver strong client outcomes. Here, you can expect equal opportunity and fair and consistent treatment for all. 

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