Executive Assistant - Milpitas, United States - Western Digital Corp

Description

Job Description

The Executive Assistant will serve as an essential partner to the Flash leadership team.

You'll support Flash BU VPs, 's for Logistics and Procurement Sourcing, managing everything from email, calendar, spreadsheets, onboarding and travel arrangements to running special projects over time.

This highly organized, endlessly resourceful person will ensure the team operates at its best, ensuring nothing falls through the cracks.

The ideal candidate is proactive and takes initiative, is focused, organized, and innovative. We're seeking someone who's eager to be flexible and available and thrives in a fast-paced environment. Excellent written and verbal communication skills, strong critical thinking and attention to detail are equally meaningful in this role.

This dynamic role will have the ability to work independently on projects and must be able to work under pressure at times to handle a wide variety of activities and confidential matters with discretion.

• Extensive calendar management, including prioritizing and arranging meetings, workshops, appointments, and conferences.
• Coordinate complex logistics for travel by developing itineraries, booking domestic and international flights, arranging transportation and accommodation. Process Passports and Visas
• Provide vacation coverage for other EA's as needed.
• Coordination of staff activities such as regular one-on-ones, staff, and all hands meetings, including capture and tracking of action items and follow-ups. Planning and coordination of offsite events
• Manage a wide range of administrative and executive related tasks, including drafting routine correspondence and organizing/maintaining electronic files, updating distribution lists, onboarding new hires, creating/updating organizational charts, expense approvals, creating PR/PO and coordinate AV and IT requirements for video conference.
• Reconcile expenses in a timely manner adhering to WD's global expense policies.
• Anticipate needs and identify problems proactively, looking around corners for solutions and using existing resources in problem-solving.
• Assist with formatting, editing and consolidation of presentations and other office documents.
• Interact regularly and build relationships with executives and colleagues across various teams.
• Ability to take initiative and work independently but take direction with positive attitude.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree (or equivalent work experience required) and 10+years of experience as an assistant supporting VP-level executives.
• Proficient with PC/Mac and Microsoft Office applications (Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook and Teams).
• Proactive and energetic handling multi-priority complex issues with poise and grace
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Highly organized and detail-oriented
• Ability to multi-task, work independently and as part of a team.
• Excellent time management skills
• Outstanding track record of performance
• Passionate, kind, inclusive, and ethically minded

Additional information:

• Primary work location: WD Milpitas office (Hybrid schedule - 3 days in office 2 remote- may be more on an as needed basis)

Additional Information

Western Digital is committed to providing equal opportunities to all applicants and employees and will not discriminate based on their race, color, ancestry, religion (including religious dress and grooming standards), sex (including pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions, breastfeeding or related medical conditions), gender (including a person's gender identity, gender expression, and gender-related appearance and behavior, whether or not stereotypically associated with the person's assigned sex at birth), age, national origin, sexual orientation, medical condition, marital status (including domestic partnership status), physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, protected medical and family care leave, Civil Air Patrol status, military and veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics.

We also prohibit harassment of any individual on any of the characteristics listed above. Our non-discrimination policy applies to all aspects of employment. We comply with the laws and regulations set forth in the Equal Employment Opportunity is the Law poster.

Western Digital thrives on the power and potential of diversity.

As a global company, we believe the most effective way to embrace the diversity of our customers and communities is to mirror it from within.

We believe the fusion of various perspectives results in the best outcomes for our employees, our company, our customers, and the world around us.

We are committed to an inclusive environment where every individual can thrive through a sense of belonging, respect and contribution.

Western Digital is committed to offering opportunities to applicants with disabilities and ensuring all candidates can successfully navigate our careers website and our hiring process.

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Compensation & Benefits Details

• An employee's pay position within the salary range may be based on several factors including but not limited to (1) relevant education; qualifications; certifications; and experience; (2) skills, ability, knowledge of the job; (3) performance, contribution and results; (4) geographic location; (5) shift; (6) internal and external equity; and (7) business and organizational needs.
• The salary range is what we believe to be the range of possible compensation for this role at the time of this posting. We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range and this range is only applicable for jobs to be performed in California, Colorado, New York or remote jobs that can be performed in California, Colorado and New York. This range may be modified in the future.
• If your position is non-exempt, you are eligible for overtime pay pursuant to company policy and applicable laws. You may also be eligible for shift differential pay, depending on the shift to which you are assigned.
• You will be eligible to participate in Western Digital's Short-Term Incentive (STI) Plan, which provides incentive awards based on Company and individual performance. Depending on your role and your performance, you may be eligible to participate in our annual Long-Term Incentive (LTI) program, which consists of restricted stock units (RSUs) or cash equivalents, pursuant to the terms of the LTI plan. Please note that not all roles are eligible to participate in the LTI program, and not all roles are eligible for equity under the LTI plan. RSU awards are also available to eligible new hires, subject to Western Digital's Standard Terms and Conditions for Restricted Stock Unit Awards.
• We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid vacation time; paid sick leave; medical/dental/vision insurance; life, accident and disability insurance; tax-advantaged flexible spending and health savings accounts; employee assistance program; other voluntary benefit programs such as supplemental life and AD&D, legal plan, pet insurance, critical illness, accident and hospital indemnity; tuition reimbursement; transit; the Applause Program; employee stock purchase plan; and the Western Digital Savings 401(k) Plan.
• Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company's sole discretion, consistent with the law.