Administrative Business Partner

Booking Holdings Bangalore is a Center of Excellence based in Bangalore, India and a legal entity of Booking Holdings Inc. The Center was created to support the increasing business demands of the Booking Holdings Brands. The Center of Excellence provides access to specialized and highly skilled talent, leading industry best practices, and collaboration opportunities across all of the Booking Holdings brands and business units.

**Job Overview**:
The core focus of this role is to provide administrative and strategic support to the Bangalore COE office and work closely with the COE Leadership team. To be successful in this role you will need to be able to anticipate and respond to the needs of the leadership team. You will create space for senior leaders to function at the highest level by ensuring their time is used most effectively, and by removing administrative/operational friction. You will be able to pick up tasks/projects at short notice and support with the preparation of meetings, presentations or events. You will also have a strong desire to learn rapidly from within this unique environment, be open-minded, discrete and humble.

We are looking for a driven, service-minded and proactive individual to provide high-level administrative and tactical support to the COE site and leadership team.

You will be a key enabler to make a business impact by delivering high-level administrative, operational and tactical support. You will exhibit a deep understanding of business priorities/needs, as well as the ability to read nuanced situations and influence/anticipate the needs of others. This role is ideal for an experienced individual (EA, coach, business partner, program manager) who is looking for the next step in their career.

This role would report to the Bangalore COE Site Leader.

**B.responsible**:
Enabling the COE

You will be an extension of the COE Leadership team, managing leadership schedules; office/ facility management; travel/ event arrangements. You are a key facilitator for stakeholders, and the main point of contact, for the Bangalore COE after the leadership team.
- Demonstrate a deep understanding of the business priorities/needs of the executive you support, including his goals and business (inter)dependencies.
- Use your knowledge of the business priorities to independently make decisions, prioritise, and communicate tactfully.
- Add value by taking on ad-hoc tasks/projects and implementing improvements to processes, including working with key stakeholders (e.g. Procurement, Internal Communications, HR, among others) to ensure tasks/projects are completed successfully.
- Independently lead time allocation by managing the COE leadership calendar/schedule, balancing competing demands (often under pressure) and working with key stakeholders and business leaders to achieve goals.
- Complete core administrative duties e.g. arranging signatures, expenses, official documents, handling correspondence and requests on behalf of COE Leadership team

Meetings, Events and Travel for the Bangalore COE
- Lead the organization of departmental/team events, offsites, or similar
- Prepare, collect, collate and distribute materials for key meetings and events. This includes follow up and outcome tracking e.g. taking notes, tracking and following up on actions points, as well as ensuring that logistics run seamlessly.
- Manage end-to-end travel needs e.g. logistics and visas, including coordinating itineraries across multiple stakeholders and gathering/developing/collating preparation materials for meetings/presentations.

**B.skilled**:

- 10+ years relevant experience _e.g._ administration/ operational/ business support/executive assistant, preferably in large/multinational organization
- People oriented; strong relationship and stakeholder management skills, and able to engage with people across all levels, and from diverse backgrounds.
- Commercially aware and results-driven with an independent and proactive attitude
- Highly organised with excellent planning skills. You take ownership and proactively solve problems.
- Exhibit a strong attention to detail, ability to adapt to daily schedules and routines, and focus on efficiency without sacrificing quality.
- Excellent communication. Fluent in English, verbal and written.
- Comfortable with ambiguity and able to prioritize and make decisions without having all the information
- Be an active member of the Leadership Support community, both across departments and within your own department
- Available to offer support outside of normal business hours, or travel, as required
- Excellent with Microsoft Office and G suite, including Google Calendar, Google Sheets/Slides (or similar).
- Support with other tasks as may be required.

**B.Offered**:

- An opportunity to contribute to a high scale, complex, world renowned product and seeing real time impact of your work on millions of travelers worldwide.
- Be part of a truly international fast paced environment a