Assistant Email Management Jobs in Spring Hill, KS

To express your genuine interest in this opportunity, kindly forward your resume and cover letter to hiring@millerco.com, ensuring that ‘Pepper Potts’ is the subject line. Applications without this subject line will not be considered.

The Executive Assistant position entails overseeing the CEO's calendar and inbox, providing administrative assistance, managing attorney billing time, and enhancing the organization's efficiency. The role necessitates independent judgment to prioritize tasks effectively.

Key requirements for this role include outstanding organizational skills, multitasking abilities, a proactive problem-solving approach, meticulous attention to detail, and proficiency in managing schedules and confidential information. The ideal candidate should excel in coordinating schedules, handling intricate travel arrangements, and ensuring timely project completion while upholding reliability and dependability.

Preferred qualifications include a background in HR, Accounting, Marketing, and familiarity with law firm operations. This position requires on-site presence.

• Calendar Management: In addition to scheduling, the Assistant is responsible for managing and organizing calendars, including meeting preparation and ensuring appointments and meetings run smoothly

• Email Management: Handling and prioritizing incoming emails, drafting responses, and maintaining an organized email inbox

• Travel Planning and Itinerary Optimization: Besides making travel arrangements, the Executive Assistant proactively optimizes travel itineraries to minimize downtime and ensure efficient use of time during trips

• Expense Tracking and Budget Management: Beyond expense reporting, actively managing and tracking expenses against a budget, and providing regular financial reports

• HR and Financial Assistance: The EA will assist the law team with varying high-level initiatives within these departments; therefore, strict confidentiality will need to be observed

• Confidentiality and Data Security: Ensuring the confidentiality and security of sensitive information, including company and personal data, by implementing appropriate protocols and safeguards

• Technology and Software Proficiency: Staying updated on relevant office software and technology tools to streamline processes and improve efficiency in the office

• Information Management: Organizing and maintaining documents, files, and information, making sure that the executive has easy access to necessary resources

• Gatekeeping: Serve as gatekeepers, filtering and prioritizing communications and inquiries directed to the executive, allowing the executive to focus on critical matters

• Develop and implement legal project plans, including the defining of scope, goals, deliverables, required resources, budget, and timing

• Coordinate with legal teams to ensure all parties are on track with project requirements, deadlines, and schedules

• Project Management: Maintain a list of strategic priorities and work closely with leadership to ensure progress against goals, surface issues or risks, and support the executive team’s communications on those priorities

• Conduct project reviews and create detailed reports for executive staff

Skills and Requirements:

• Ability to maintain strict confidentiality

• Very strong attention to detail – accuracy is a must

• Excellent problem-solving abilities “Figure It Out” skills

• Strengths as a connector, proactive, empathetic

• Manages the process of idea to execution

• Risk tolerance and ability to deal with ambiguity

• Bias for execution

• Highly skilled communicator and relationship-builder

• Scheduling proficiency

• Strong communication skills: Quality, Brevity, Clarity

• A balance between critical review and a positive mindset

• Strong organizational skills

• Ability to effectively handle multiple tasks/projects simultaneously, and occasionally conflicting priorities

• Role requires being on-site at our offices in Kansas City, Missouri

Job Qualifications:

• 2+ years’ experience as an Executive Assistant to C-Suite

• 2+ years of professional management experience preferred

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Administration or management, finance, human resources, or related field preferred

• Experience/background in Legal is a must.

• 2+ years' experience in Marketing preferred

• Strong orientation to team culture and cross-functionality

• Advanced Microsoft Office skills, with an ability to become familiar with specific programs or software

Miller & Company P.C. is a law firm serving a diverse clientele in import, export, and foreign-trade zone law. The firm has a broad client base in fifty states, Puerto Rico, and major trading centers throughout the world. Clients range from large multinational enterprises to corporations, partnerships, associations, governmental entities, and individuals. Most business clients involved in international trade rely on us for a comprehensive range of innovative trade-related representation. Within these specialized areas of practice, we have received global recognition for our involvement in the development of the U.S. Foreign-Trade Zones Program.