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Job Function:
Business Support
Job Sub Function:
Administration & Secretarial
Job Category:
Business Enablement/Support
All Job Posting Locations:
New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States of America
Job Description:
Function: MedTech Supply Chain
Job Family: Administrative / Executive Support
Location: New Brunswick, New Jersey
Reports To: Vice President, MedTech Supply Chain
Position Summary
The Executive Administrative Assistant provides comprehensive executive, administrative, and operational support to senior MedTech Supply Chain leadership. This role serves as a key coordination point across senior leaders, executive assistants, functional teams, business partners, and external stakeholders.
The position is responsible for managing complex executive schedules, coordinating leadership meetings and business events, supporting travel and onsite logistics, facilitating executive communications, and coordinating key business processes and administrative workflows. The Executive Administrative Assistant exercises sound judgment and discretion while managing competing priorities, sensitive information, deadlines, and activities requiring senior leadership attention.
The role requires a proactive, highly organized professional who can anticipate needs, identify and resolve scheduling and logistical challenges, maintain effective stakeholder relationships, and ensure that leadership priorities and commitments are executed efficiently.
Key Responsibilities
Executive Calendar and Priority Management
- Manage complex and frequently changing executive calendars involving senior leaders and cross-functional stakeholders.
- Coordinate meetings across multiple functions, locations, and time zones while considering executive travel and competing business priorities.
- Assess scheduling conflicts, identify alternatives, and facilitate solutions that support leadership priorities.
- Coordinate recurring and long-range executive meetings, including annual business-cycle planning.
- Partner closely with other executive assistants to align schedules across leadership teams.
Executive Meeting and Event Coordination
- Coordinate executive leadership meetings, organizational events, team gatherings, site visits, and special business sessions.
- Partner with business teams and administrative colleagues to coordinate meeting dates, executive participation, venues, attendance, agendas, and related logistics.
- Manage changes to meeting arrangements and develop alternatives when executive availability or business circumstances change.
- Coordinate executive participation in global meetings, including complex time-zone considerations.
Executive and Stakeholder Communications
- Serve as a key administrative point of contact between senior leadership and internal and external stakeholders.
- Facilitate timely communication and follow-up across executives, executive assistants, functional teams, project teams, and business partners.
- Prepare and coordinate leadership communications and supporting materials.
- Ensure appropriate stakeholders are informed of decisions, changes, deadlines, and actions requiring attention.
- Maintain professional relationships across a geographically dispersed and cross-functional organization.
Business Process and Operational Support
- Coordinate administrative activities supporting executive and organizational business priorities.
- Track requests, documentation, approvals, deadlines, and other activities requiring leadership attention.
- Facilitate information flow between executive leadership and business teams.
- Support special projects and cross-functional initiatives requiring executive-level administrative coordination.
- Anticipate administrative and operational requirements and help resolve issues that could affect leadership commitments.
Procurement, Purchase Order and Vendor Coordination
- Provide administrative coordination for procurement-related activities involving Statements of Work, vendor processes, purchase-order requests, and leadership approvals.
- Work with internal stakeholders and external vendors to facilitate required documentation and administrative processes.
- Monitor the status of requests and communicate progress to appropriate business stakeholders.
- Coordinate items requiring executive review or approval.
Leadership and Organizational Process Coordination
- Provide administrative coordination for leadership and organizational processes involving multiple senior stakeholders.
- Manage scheduling, document collection, communications, and deadlines associated with leadership review cycles.
- Coordinate required materials in advance of executive discussions and review meetings.
- Handle sensitive organizational and employee information with appropriate confidentiality and discretion.
Travel, Site Visit and Executive Logistics
- Support executive travel and related business logistics in partnership with appropriate internal teams and administrative colleagues.
- Coordinate administrative details associated with site visits and executive participation in off-site activities.
- Communicate requirements and logistical information needed to support executive visits.
- Respond to changing travel and scheduling requirements and coordinate resulting calendar adjustments.
Administrative Team Collaboration
- Build strong working relationships with executive assistants and administrative colleagues across the organization.
- Collaborate across functions to coordinate executives, meetings, events, and business activities.
- Serve as a resource and coordination point when activities span multiple leadership organizations.
- Promote clear communication, consistency, and timely follow-through across administrative partnerships.
Qualifications
Required
- A minimum of an Associate’s degree
- A minimum of 8 years of administrative or similar experience is required, with significant experience supporting Vice Presidents, senior executives, or executive leadership teams.
- Demonstrated experience providing administrative or executive support in a complex corporate environment.
- Experience managing complex executive calendars and coordinating meetings involving multiple senior stakeholders.
- Strong organizational, prioritization, and follow-through capabilities.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities and adjust quickly to changing business needs.
- Strong attention to detail and demonstrated discretion when handling sensitive information.
- Ability to work effectively with senior executives, business leaders, administrative colleagues, external partners, and cross-functional teams.
- Strong proficiency with Microsoft 365 applications and standard corporate productivity tools.
Johnson & Johnson is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by federal, state or local law. We actively seek qualified candidates who are protected veterans and individuals with disabilities as defined under VEVRAA and Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act.
Johnson & Johnson is committed to providing an interview process that is inclusive of our applicants’ needs. If you are an individual with a disability and would like to request an accommodation, external applicants please contact us via https://www.jnj.com/contact-us/careers . internal employees contact AskGS to be directed to your accommodation resource.
If you are under 18 years of age, you (the candidate) may need to obtain the necessary working papers or other documentation required by state law to start the assignment, as well as get a parent’s consent for the background check.
Required Skills:
Preferred Skills:
Administrative Support, Business Writing, Communication, Customer Centricity, Data Capturing, Diary Management, Document Management, Execution Focus, Microsoft Office, Office Administration, Organizational Knowledge, Organizing, Presentation Development, Problem Solving, Professional Ethics, Travel Planning, Typing
The anticipated base pay range for this position is :
$74,550.00 - $119,542.50
Additional Description for Pay Transparency:
Subject to the terms of their respective plans, employees are eligible to participate in the Company’s consolidated retirement plan (pension) and savings plan (401(k)).
This position is eligible to participate in the Company’s long-term incentive program.
Subject to the terms of their respective policies and date of hire, employees are eligible for the following time off benefits:
Vacation –120 hours per calendar year
Sick time - 40 hours per calendar year; for employees who reside in the State of Colorado –48 hours per calendar year; for employees who reside in the State of Washington –56 hours per calendar year
Holiday pay, including Floating Holidays –13 days per calendar year
Work, Personal and Family Time - up to 40 hours per calendar year
Parental Leave – 480 hours within one year of the birth/adoption/foster care of a child
Bereavement Leave – 240 hours for an immediate family member: 40 hours for an extended family member per calendar year
Caregiver Leave – 80 hours in a 52-week rolling period10 days
Volunteer Leave – 32 hours per calendar year
Military Spouse Time-Off – 80 hours per calendar year
For additional general information on Company benefits, please go to: - https://www.careers.jnj.com/employee-benefits
