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Executive Assistant
Compensation: $50,500-65,000/year + tri-annual performance-based bonuses
Location: In-office position in Minneapolis, KS.

Huyett is a progressive and growing master distributor and manufacturer of industrial fasteners. We are seeking an Executive Assistant to support senior leadership through exceptional organization, communication, scheduling and travel coordination, data analysis, presentation development, corporate planning system management, and other administrative functions that maximize executive efficiency and effectiveness.

This is a highly visible support role requiring discretion, sound judgment, business acumen, emotional intelligence, and an ability to anticipate needs while managing competing priorities. The successful candidate will be highly organized, technologically capable, attentive to detail, comfortable handling confidential information, and able to communicate proactively and professionally. The role requires someone who can balance responsiveness with good judgment, adapt as priorities change, and consistently deliver accurate, complete, and timely work. We offer these benefits and more:

• Triannual gainsharing bonuses on top of salary.
• 401(k), with a generous employer match and a year-one full vestment.
• Full benefits, including discounted health insurance options for non-tobacco users.
• Best-in-class Company Health Club.
• Generous paid-time-off policies, including paid holidays, bereavement, and parental leave.
• Comprehensive on-boarding training program.
• Great culture with supportive teammates.
• Supportive managerial feedback.

For more than a century, we’ve built our reputation on quality, innovation, reliability, and a people-first Culture of Excellence that values growth, professionalism, and teamwork.

This culture is guided by seven Core Values:

• Effective We Deliver Results That Matter
• Learner We Grow Through Curiosity
• Attentive We Notice What Others Overlook
• Accountable We Own It
• Humble We Check Our Egos at the Door
• Transparent We Communicate with Clarity and Honesty
• Love and Respect We Treat People Like People

Key Responsibilities:

• Executive Scheduling & Coordination Schedule meetings and events while accounting for participant availability, competing priorities, and stakeholder needs. Communicate schedules proactively and thoroughly to create a user-friendly experience, support adaptability, and minimize ambiguity.
• Executive Communications Monitor inbound emails, requests, and inquiries on behalf of senior management as assigned. Apply sound judgment and effective consultation to determine the nature and urgency of matters, elevate issues appropriately, and prepare or share responses as directed. Prepare routine executive communications, including greetings, congratulations, sympathy messages, and other correspondence when assigned.
• Corporate Planning System Management Manage the corporate planning software in alignment with the Entrepreneurial Operating System (EOS), including maintaining user profiles and roles in consultation with Human Resources and Senior Management; updating the Vision/Traction Organizer; maintaining corporate Rocks, Scorecards, and Milestones; scheduling Level 10 (L10) meetings; and retrieving reports as requested.
• Data Analysis & Decision Support Support senior management with data analysis that facilitates effective and accurate executive decision-making. Use Microsoft Excel to develop formulas, perform basic statistical and logic functions, create and manipulate advanced pivot tables, manage and manipulate data, and develop appropriately styled charts and other analytical outputs.
• Travel Management Coordinate travel arrangements as assigned, including flights, rental cars, hotels, and other accommodations. Balance participant availability, competing priorities, individual preferences, conservative pricing, and experience quality while ensuring travel details are communicated proactively and thoroughly.
• Presentation Development Develop presentation content on behalf of senior management using Microsoft PowerPoint. Apply sound judgment, business acumen, concise communication, emotional intelligence, creativity, and visual design principles to produce captivating, visually pleasant, and appropriately informative presentations tailored to the audience and purpose. Incorporate executive feedback to perfect the final product.

Ideal Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in business, marketing, or communications related field preferred.
• Experience providing senior management support, professional and timely communication, while working with complex travel and scheduling arrangements.
• Evidence of personal organization, discipline, and effective administrative competency, including maintaining information in confidence.
• Strong Microsoft Excel proficiency, including formulas, basic statistical and logic functions, advanced pivot tables, string manipulation, chart creation and styling, and basic data management.
• Strong Microsoft PowerPoint proficiency with the ability to create polished, audience-appropriate executive presentations.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to communicate professionally, concisely, proactively, and appropriately.
• Sound judgment, business acumen, emotional intelligence, and the ability to recognize when issues require consultation or escalation.
• Ability to organize competing priorities and maintain accuracy and attention to detail in a fast-paced environment.
• Comfort with technology, computers, corporate planning systems, and learning new processes and bodies of knowledge.

Work Environment: Office setting with friendly, outgoing, team-oriented staff. Candidates should anticipate a very fast-paced, productive work environment. Occasionally, the candidate will work in our manufacturing plant environment to interface with operations teammates.

EEOE: Huyett is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or genetic information.

Huyett is a manufacturer and master distributor of industrial fasteners that leverages superior customer service, data analytics, e-commerce, and a direct sales force to realize significant competitive advantage. The firm currently has five locations in North America primarily serving the production fastener distribution market. With private ownership, this 110-year-old company bears leadership that is transparent and resourceful with open book management and profit sharing to team members. The firm has a rock-solid balance sheet and while fast-paced, is stable and will be here for the long run, absent of sell-out or market risks.