Senior Administrative Specialist

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Senior Administrative Specialist

The Opportunity

The Senior Administrative Specialist serves as a strategic partner and trusted advisor to senior leadership within the Roche Support Network Centralized Services Organization driving overall business effectiveness maintaining communications and optimizing team bandwidth.

This role requires broad comprehensive experience skill and knowledge of organizational policies practices and corporate procedures. The ideal candidate operates with high independence discretion and judgment on complex assignments. Key responsibilities are varied and span strategic calendar and travel management customer visit support cross-functional project planning data analysis and reporting vendor/contract processing internal team onboarding and improvement initiatives across department functions.

Executive & Administrative Operations

• Calendar Travel & Meeting Logistics: Strategically manage senior leadership time looking for opportunities to prioritize and maximize efficiency. Schedule appointments complex meetings and travel itineraries. Oversee preparation logistics presentations agendas and distribution of meeting minutes for internal and external meetings.

• Communications & Stakeholder Liaison: Prepare and initiate routine and non-routine internal/external correspondence announcements and complex communications. Act as primary contact/liaison with internal peers cross-functional partners field-based employees zone leadership and third-party vendors.

• Operational & Department Support: Coordinate daily administrative tasks process contracts/agreements and maintain confidential department records and digital filing systems. Ensure alignment and compliance with local/LSO training requirements.

Business Execution

• Purchasing Support: Serves as the teams procurement specialist managing the full purchase order (PO) lifecycle including SOW preparation contract routing via DocuSign purchase requisitions monthly accruals and tracking blanket PO balances.

• Reporting Analytics & Metrics: Research collect compile and analyze complex data from various sources to generate trends budget reports and project management dashboards. Make data-driven recommendations to management to streamline operations.

• Team Onboarding & Recruitment Support: Steward candidate interviewing recruitment logistics and comprehensive new-hire onboarding to ensure a seamless integration into the department.

• Process Optimization & Quality Systems: Drive improvements to enhance team culture and operational quality systems.

• You hold a High School Diploma or equivalent with at least 7 previous administrative or related experience that includes supporting a senior leader of an organization or an Associates Degree with 5 years administrative or related experience or a Bachelors Degree with 2 years of administrative or related experience.

Preferred:

• Strong multi-tasking time management and organizational skills to adapt rapidly to changing priorities in a fast-paced environment.

• Excellent written oral and interpersonal communication skills with the ability to develop and maintain positive relationships with internal and external stakeholders.

• Advanced computer skills across spreadsheets presentations and enterprise software suites (e.g. Google Workspace MS Office Suite Word Excel PowerPoint Access Concur Workday HR Systems).

• Experience with or willingness to learn and leverage approved AI tools within the Roche ecosystem.

• Ability to exercise independent judgment and employ advanced analytical and reasoning skills including the ability to work with confidential information.

• Ability to make informed decisions in the absence of the executive.

• Ability to actively contribute to a high performing and a thriving culture.

Location:

• This position is based onsite at our Indianapolis campus.

• This role is a campus based role with expected daily on-campus presence with some flexibility dependent on business needs

• Relocation benefits are not available for this position.

The expected salary range for this position based on the primary location of Indiana is $68100 - $126500. Actual pay will be determined based on experience qualifications geographic location and other job-related factors permitted by law. A discretionary annual bonus may be available based on individual and Company performance. This position also qualifies for the benefits detailed at the link provided below.

Benefits

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A healthier future drives us to innovate. Together more than 100000 employees across the globe are dedicated to advance science ensuring everyone has access to healthcare today and for generations to come. Our efforts result in more than 26 million people treated with our medicines and over 30 billion tests conducted using our Diagnostics products. We empower each other to explore new possibilities foster creativity and keep our ambitions high so we can deliver life-changing healthcare solutions that make a global impact.

Lets build a healthier future together.

Roche is an equal opportunity employer. It is our policy and practice to employ promote and otherwise treat any and all employees and applicants on the basis of merit qualifications and competence. The companys policy prohibits unlawful discrimination including but not limited to discrimination on the basis of Protected Veteran status individuals with disabilities status and consistent with all federal state or local laws.

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