Job Overview

The Executive Assistant to the SVP/General Manager, Sensors and other members of the Sensors SLT, is a highly visible role that supports the leadership of a complex, global business. Acting as a trusted partner, this position enhances executive effectiveness by managing priorities, anticipating needs, coordinating leadership team operating rhythms, and reducing administrative complexity.

The successful candidate combines exceptional organizational and communication skills with sound judgment, business acumen, and a proactive, continuous-improvement mindset to thrive in a fast-paced, global environment.

Location

This is a remote role supporting leaders across the Americas, Europe, and Asia, with primary partnership aligned to the U.S. Central Time Zone. This role requires flexibility to collaborate across time zones and global business needs. 

Job Requirements

• Manage executive priorities, calendars, and commitments to align with critical business objectives.
• Anticipate needs, scheduling conflicts, travel requirements, and follow-up actions to enable proactive decision-making.
• Protect executive focus by prioritizing high-value activities and optimizing executive time.
• Manage complex global scheduling, domestic and international travel, expenses, and executive administration.
• Coordinate leadership meetings, business reviews, customer engagements, site visits, and executive events.
• Ensure agendas, materials, logistics, and stakeholders are prepared for effective meetings and outcomes.
• Prepare leaders for key discussions and decisions with relevant context, information, and briefing materials.
• Track decisions, commitments, deadlines, and actions to ensure accountability and timely execution.
• Maintain effective information flow across leadership teams and stakeholders, enabling seamless communication and handoffs.
• Leverage Microsoft 365, Copilot, AI, and digital tools to improve productivity, efficiency, and collaboration.
• Simplify, automate, and standardize administrative processes and workflows to drive continuous improvement.
• Build strong relationships and collaborate effectively across functions, geographies, cultures, and organizational levels.
• Foster collaboration, best-practice sharing, and capability building across the Sensors Executive Assistant community and broader TE network.
• Develop a strong understanding of the Sensors business, strategy, customers, and priorities to exercise sound judgment and anticipate leadership needs.

What your background should look like

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Required Qualifications & Capabilities

• 7+ years of proven experience supporting senior executives in complex, fast-paced environments.
• Exceptional organization, prioritization, communication, and time-management skills.
• Strong judgment, discretion, and ability to handle confidential information.
• Proactive mindset with the confidence to anticipate needs, challenge priorities, and navigate change
• Advanced Microsoft 365 skills with demonstrated competency in AI and digital fluency.
• Strong relationship-building skills and effectiveness across cultures, geographies, and organizational levels.
• Continuous improvement mindset, learning agility, and ability to work independently in a global virtual environment.
• Exceptional attention to detail while understanding when speed and simplicity are more important than perfection.

Preferred Qualifications & Experience

• Experience supporting global business leaders or senior leadership teams.
• Experience in manufacturing, industrial, technology, or similarly complex global business.
• Experience improving business processes and coordinating executive meetings, reviews, and events.
• Business and financial acumen, with experience working across global teams and cultures.

Success in Role

Success in this role is defined by the ability to stay ahead of executive needs, creating capacity, enabling effective decision-making and execution, building strong global partnerships, and continuously improving ways of working so the SVP/General Manager and other assigned SLT members can focus on strategic business priorities.