Administrative Assistant

**Administrative Assistant - Workplace Resources (WPR)**
- **WPR APJC Theatre Director -** You will provide support
- calendaring, travel, expenses, along with management and oversight of special projects, for the WPR APJC Theater Director & extended WPR APJC Team as time permits.
- **Workplace Resources (WPR)** - To perform these tasks efficiently, you will become familiar with the WPR organization, specific to the industry of Corporate Real Estate and Facilities
- **Culture Ambassador/Internal Resource** - Can you be the go-to person for the organizationadvise the flow of information and people, determining when to refer resources, and to whom or what system they should be referred?

**Representative Responsibilities**
- **Calendar Management** - Manages Director’s 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 their place.
- **Meeting Planning and Organizations** - Assists Director in planning and organizing meetings by taking ownership for assembling 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.
- **Strong written and verbal communication** - using your administrative, and organizational skills, you will be able to work independently on projects, from conception to completion, and excel under pressure at times to handle a wide variety of activities and confidential matters with discretion.
- **Correspondence/Approvals** - Support the Director by acting as proxy for communications (both internal and external) and approvals (Review all contracts prior to Director approval’s) as authorized. Answers general questions as necessary and refers (filters) routine matters to appropriate parties and follows up to ensure proper disposition.
- **Travel Planning -** Responsible for making travel arrangements for the principal and team. Carefully consider and decide the optimum travel arrangements and itinerary for calendared meetings while handling Cisco expenses.
- **Special Projects** - Provides analytical support to assist the team on special projects. Research issues, analyze problems, compile data, and utilize PowerPoint to prepare presentations or reports.
- **Admin Customer Resource Manager **- Be the WPR Ambassador across Cisco as a whole, coordinating activities with other EA's and executives in Cisco. Work is generally of a critical, sometimes confidential nature and is the connector that ensures the company flows

**Who You'll Work With**
- Your role in Workplace Resources will be working with members of the APJC Theatre delivery team, and Global Strategy and Planning. You will collaborate with regional teams in all theatres.

**Who You Are**

Based in Bangalore, India

**Minimum Qualifications**
- Bachelors / Masters degree.
- 6+ years’ experience in an administrative environment. A minimum of two years of experience supporting a principal who was at the Director level and above.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills including the ability to communicate with all levels of Executive/Senior staff and clients.
- Collaborative style, with excellent partnership.

**Desired Skills**
- Past work experience in the high-tech industry is desired; prior Cisco experience preferred.
- Champions improvements. Solves problems and makes decisions. Demonstrates leadership.
- Great attention to detail and the maturity to handle confidential information is a requirement.
- Works in an organized and focused manner. Proactive by nature.
- Desktop calendar management program experience.

**Why Cisco?**

WeAreCisco. We are all unique, but collectively we bring our talents to work as a team, to develop innovative technology and power a more inclusive, digital future for everyone. How do we do it? Well, for starters - with people like you

Nearly every internet connection around the world touches Cisco. We’re the Internet’s optimists. Our technology makes sure the data travelling at light speed across connections does so securely, yet it’s not what we make but what we make happen which marks us out. We’re helping those who work in the health service to connect with patients and each other; schools, colleges and universities to teach in even the most challenging of times. We’re helping businesses of all shapes and size to connect with their employees and customers in new ways, providing people with access to the digital skills they need and connecting the most remote parts of the world - whether through 5G, or otherwise.

We tackle whatever challenges come our way. We have each other’s backs, we recognise our accomplishments, and we grow together. We celebrate and support one another - from big and small things in life to big career moments. And giving back is in our DNA (we get 10 days off e