Executive Assistant- L&H Americas

Are you a masterful coordinator and highly organized professional who thrives in a dynamic environment while balancing multiple priorities and supporting diverse leadership needs? Join our team as an Executive Assistant and become the strategic partner who keeps our leadership operating at peak efficiency while making meaningful contributions to our success!

About The Role

As Executive Assistant supporting our senior leadership team, you'll be the indispensable force behind our executives, combining exceptional organizational talents with strategic thinking to ensure seamless operations. This role goes far beyond traditional administrative support—you'll serve as a trusted advisor, problem-solver, and communication hub across interconnected business areas, demonstrating the ability to seamlessly transition between different leadership styles, priorities, and functions while maintaining impeccable service standards.

Key Responsibilities

• Strategic Support: Exhibit strategic foresight in anticipating evolving needs of executives and their teams, demonstrating a proactive approach to managing priorities
• Multi-Executive Calendar Management: Masterfully coordinate and manage complex calendars for senior leaders, ensuring optimal scheduling, minimal conflicts, and maximum efficiency
• Cross-Functional Coordination: Serve as the central coordination point between interconnected business areas, facilitating alignment and communication
• Efficient Inbox Oversight: Skillfully manage email communications, ensuring executives remain focused on high-impact tasks and essential priorities
• Comprehensive Travel Coordination: Organize complex travel arrangements including flights, accommodations, visas, and client meetings for executives with potentially overlapping commitments
• Communication Management: Prepare professional reports, presentations, and correspondence with meticulous attention to detail for diverse business purposes
• Meeting Facilitation: Coordinate conference schedules for leadership speaking engagements and support executive visits with seamless logistics
• System Administration: Administer tools and manage access to platforms such as MS Dynamics and Events Portal
• Client Engagement: Support client-facing activities, update profiles in CRM systems, and assist with preparation for key client interactions
• Information Management: Create and maintain internal SharePoint sites, draft communications, and update organizational charts and team lists
• Administrative Leadership: Serve as the first point of contact, handle confidential information with discretion, and provide administrative guidance across teams
• Crisis Support: Assist with the Incident Management Team during critical situations
• Relationship Builder: Build and nurture strong relationships across teams and stakeholders.
• Change Champion: Guide colleagues through times of transformation, helping them understand, embrace, and succeed during change.

About The Team

The DOO & Assistants L&H Americas team is part of the global L&H Business Advisory team, tasked with supporting & enabling both the Market Units and the Central Units while coordinating with Risk Management and the Group Functions. We connect, enable, and execute to ensure the overall success of L&H Reinsurance.

About You

You're an exceptionally adaptable professional with outstanding organizational abilities and a talent for building strong relationships across multiple teams. You excel in complex environments with diverse stakeholders and competing priorities, maintaining composure and precision even during periods of high demand. Your discretion, judgment, and communication skills make you a trusted partner to leadership, and your ability to anticipate needs before they arise sets you apart as a truly strategic executive assistant.

We are looking for candidates who meet these requirements:

• 15+ years of experience as an executive assistant, with demonstrated success supporting C-suite executives in complex organizations or supporting multiple senior leaders simultaneously
• Proven success in strategic contributions beyond administrative duties, including special projects and initiatives
• Exceptional organizational and time management skills, able to prioritize effectively across multiple business functions and workstreams in high-pressure environments
• Outstanding written and verbal English communication skills with the ability to draft executive-level correspondence and interact professionally with stakeholders at all levels
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft applications (Outlook, Teams, SharePoint, Word, PowerPoint, and Excel) and the ability to optimize these tools for executive efficiency
• Demonstrated project management skills and cross-functional coordination skills
• Proficiency with CRM systems, SharePoint site management, and other business intelligence tools
• Background working in a global, matrix organization at the executive level or in the insurance/financial services industry
• Experience managing complex executive schedules across international time zones and coordinating high-stakes global travel
• Strong event coordination experience for high-profile executive meetings and corporate functions
• Ability to facilitate effective communication between executive leadership and various organizational levels
• Forward-thinking mindset with willingness to take on strategic responsibilities that extend beyond traditional EA duties
• Superior business acumen with understanding of corporate governance and executive office protocols
• Agile, positive, and solutions-focused mindset

This position will be located in our Armonk or New York City offices. Our company has a hybrid work model where the expectation is that you will be in the office three days per week. 

The estimated base salary range for this position is $86,000 to $142,000.  The specific salary offered for this or any given role will take into account a number of factors including but not limited to job location, scope of role, qualifications, complexity/specialization/scarcity of talent, experience, education, and employer budget.  

At Swiss Re, we take a "total compensation approach" when making compensation decisions. This means that we consider all components of compensation in their totality (such as base pay, short-and long-term incentives, and benefits offered), in setting individual compensation.

About Swiss Re

Swiss Re is one of the world’s leading providers of reinsurance, insurance and other forms of insurance-based risk transfer, working to make the world more resilient. We anticipate and manage a wide variety of risks, from natural catastrophes and climate change to cybercrime. We cover both Property & Casualty and Life & Health. Combining experience with creative thinking and cutting-edge expertise, we create new opportunities and solutions for our clients. This is possible thanks to the collaboration of more than 14,000 employees across the world.

Our success depends on our ability to build an inclusive culture encouraging fresh perspectives and innovative thinking. We embrace a workplace where everyone has equal opportunities to thrive and develop professionally regardless of their age, gender, race, ethnicity, gender identity and/or expression, sexual orientation, physical or mental ability, skillset, thought or other characteristics. In our inclusive and flexible environment everyone can bring their authentic selves to work and their passion for sustainability.

If you are an experienced professional returning to the workforce after a career break, we encourage you to apply for open positions that match your skills and experience.

Swiss Re is an equal opportunity employer. It is our practice to recruit, hire and promote without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, disability, age, pregnancy, sexual orientations, marital status, military status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Decisions on employment are solely based on an individual's qualifications for the position being filled.

During the recruitment process, reasonable accommodations for disabilities are available upon request. If contacted for an interview, please inform the Recruiter/HR Professional of the accommodation needed.
 

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