Personal Assistant, Early ID

Personal Assistant, Early ID Location: Gaithersburg/Kendall Square Here at AstraZeneca you’ll have the opportunity to make a difference in people’s lives every day. As one of the world’s premier biotechnology companies, our mission is centered on delivering life-changing products that advance world health and help fight and cure disease. As a Business Support Coordinator in Early Infectios Disease, you’ll play an important role in executing our scientific strategy to make a positive impact on changing patients’ lives. The Early Infectioud Disease group at AstraZeneca is constantly pushing the boundaries of science to deliver life-changing medicines to patients, with a passion for discovery and a pipeline to show for it. We’re utilizing our expertise in microbiology and vaccines to enable novel approaches to prevent and treat infectious disease. We’re industry-leading in immunology, protein engineering and translational science. We offer a unique and strong collaborative network as part of the AstraZeneca family, as together we explore synergies between small and large molecules and novel biologics platforms. Main Duties and Responsibilities: As a Business Support Coordinator, you will provide support to Early Infectious Disease leaders. This includes exercising judgment in determining priorities related to handling calendars, meeting and travel schedules, routine reporting, projects and correspondence. This position may also provide assistance to members of the Infectious Disease Therapies unit including recruitment and onboarding of new staff, tracking of projects, budgets, timelines, and metrics, generating reports and correspondence as assigned as well as support for project governance activities. Responsibilities/Duties: · Manage complex calendars for our Early Infectious Disease VP to schedule meetings, interviews, conference calls, video conferences and special events; prioritize calendar conflicts · Handle multi-location domestic and international travel arrangements as well as live and virtual meetings/conferences · Lead departmental seminars and external subject matter visits and seminars · File expense reports and supply orders with accuracy and efficiency for team members, including follow-through to ensure that appropriate and timely actions are taken · Track and support assigned internal projects and processes, such as employee recognition program and recruitment tracking; generate reports from various internal systems under tight time constraints · Track FTE hiring / departure, temp hiring / departure against approved budget targets · Manage team meeting logistics (e.g. team calendars, scheduling, room bookings, logistics, slide sharing etc.) · Produce accurate and properly formatted documents using Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) · Provide support and administration to cross-functional teams · Lead and coordinate logistics relating to face-to-face/virtual meetings · Manage information (e.g. SharePoint management, storing of documents, presentations etc.) according to best practices as defined by specific teams · Create and maintain department distribution lists and organizational charts · Support and contribute to creating a high performing team, facilitating good cross-team collaboration · Manage team website to update content on a regular basis · Manage & track PO submissions · Effectively lead special projects and other duties as assigned Essential Requirements · High School Diploma or GED required, Bachelor’s Degree preferred · 5+ years of experience in a senior administrative role supporting complex projects · Prior experience supporting multiple functional leaders Desirable Requirements · Experience managing executive calendars, travel, and teams · Relevant training, multitasking, certificat