Executive Assistant

We change the World, you will become passionate about your employer and the brand you represent. Everything is converging on the Internet, making networked connections more meaningful than ever before in our lives. Our employees' groundbreaking ideas impact everything imaginable, from entertainment, healthcare, and education, to public and private sectors, smart-cities, and everyday devices in our homes. Here, that means we will take creative ideas from the drawing board to dynamic solutions that have real world impact. We believe Cisco is evolving a rich solution portfolio of next generation software, hardware, and services to meet customers' changing business requirements in the digital economy.

What you'll do

• In this role, you will provide support for calendaring, travel, expenses, along with management and oversight of special projects, as needed. To perform these tasks effectively, become familiar with the products, people, and organizational dynamics within Cisco's Sales team.
• You will handle, with a great degree of independence, incoming asks for time, meetings, resources and other needs.
• You will be responsible for figuring out when to refer matters to others, and to whom they should be referred.
• You'll be following up to ensure proper disposition, and make sure nothing falls through the cracks.
• Become a core member of the Directors’ team, attending monthly staff meetings and quarterly all team meetings.
• Calendar Management: Manages Directors’ calendar by prioritizing schedules and meetings. For example, may decide who gets on principal's calendar, which meetings are attended, and who can attend in his place.
• Meeting Planning and Organizations: Assists Directors in planning and organizing meetings by taking responsibility for crafting the agenda, location, meeting technology (WebEx, TP) based upon participant needs, and all other meeting logistics. May further prepare meeting briefing documents by taking and disseminating notes and formulating post meeting action item lists.
• Correspondence/Approvals: Supports Directors by acting as proxy for communications and approvals as authorized. Answers general questions as necessary and refers (filters) routine matters to appropriate parties and follows up to confirm the matter is resolved.
• Travel: Responsible for making travel itineraries for the principal. Carefully considers and decides the optimum travel arrangements and itinerary for calendared meetings while managing Cisco expenses.
• Special Projects: Provides analytical support to assist Executive on special projects. Researches issues, analyzes problems, compiles data, and prepares reports.
• In addition to the general administrative duties of an Administrative Assistant, daily tasks are carried out at a higher level of complexity. This includes researching issues, analyzing problems, determining approaches, compiling data and preparing reports.
• Due to the frequent engagement of the Directors across Cisco as a whole, You will collaborate with and coordinate activities with other EA's and executives in Cisco. Work is generally of a critical and confidential nature.

Who You’ll Work With

Cisco is the worldwide leader in internet networking and in Asia Pacific, Japan and China, we’ve been changing the way we work, live, play and learn for over 20 years. As we look to the future, our focus is on continuing to help our customers seize the opportunities of tomorrow by connecting the unconnected. Innovative technology will play a transformational role in enabling a digital Asia Pacific, and Cisco is committed to partnering with businesses, governments, countries and local communities to ensure the potential benefits are maximized for all.

Who You Are

Minimum Qualifications for this role:

• 8+ years' experience in an administrative environment. A minimum of 6 years of experience supporting a principal who was at the Director level and above.
• You are able to work at the India office.
• You are detail oriented and have the maturity to handle confidential information.
• Advanced knowledge of Mac/Windows desktop computer applications: Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint.

Desired Skills

• Past work experience in the high-tech industry is desired; prior Cisco experience preferred.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills including the ability to communicate with all levels of Executive/Senior staff and clients.
• You love working with others, and enjoy teamwork.
• Champions improvements. Solves problems and makes decisions. Demonstrates leadership.
• Works in an organized and focused manner, great attention to detail and you are dedicated by nature.
• Advanced desktop calendar management program experience.

Why Cisco

At Cisco, each person brings their unique talents to work as a team and make a difference.

Yes, our technology changes the way the world works, lives, plays and learns, but our edge comes from our people.

We connect everything – people, process, data and things – and we use those connections to change our world for the better.

We innovate everywhere - From launching a new era of networking that adapts, learns and protects, to building Cisco Services that accelerate businesses and business results. Our technology powers entertainment, retail, healthcare, education and more – from Smart Cities to your everyday devices.

We benefit everyone - We do all of this while striving for a culture that empowers every person to be the difference, at work and in our communities.

Colorful hair? Don’t care. Tattoos? Show off your ink. Like polka dots? That’s cool. Pop culture geek? Many of us are. Be you, with us. #WeAreCisco

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

U.S. employees have access to quality medical, dental and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution, short and long-term disability coverage, basic life insurance and numerous wellbeing offerings.

Employees receive up to twelve paid holidays per calendar year, which includes one floating holiday (for non-exempt employees), plus a day off for their birthday. Non-Exempt new hires accrue up to 16 days of vacation time off each year, at a rate of 4.92 hours per pay period. Exempt new hires participate in Cisco’s flexible Vacation Time Off policy, which does not place a defined limit on how much vacation time eligible employees may use, but is subject to availability and some business limitations. All new hires are eligible for Sick Time Off subject to Cisco’s Sick Time Off Policy and will have eighty (80) hours of sick time off provided on their hire date and on January 1st of each year thereafter. Up to 80 hours of unused sick time will be carried forward from one calendar year to the next such that the maximum number of sick time hours an employee may have available is 160 hours. Employees in Illinois have a unique time off program designed specifically with local requirements in mind. All employees also have access to paid time away to deal with critical or emergency issues. We offer additional paid time to volunteer and give back to the community.

Employees on sales plans earn performance-based incentive pay on top of their base salary, which is split between quota and non-quota components. For quota-based incentive pay, Cisco typically pays as follows:

.75% of incentive target for each 1% of revenue attainment up to 50% of quota;

1.5% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 50% and 75%;

1% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 75% and 100%; and once performance exceeds 100% attainment, incentive rates are at or above 1% for each 1% of attainment with no cap on incentive compensation.

For non-quota-based sales performance elements such as strategic sales objectives, Cisco may pay up to 125% of target. Cisco sales plans do not have a minimum threshold of performance for sales incentive compensation to be paid.