Senior Executive Assistant Job in Flipkart

Senior Executive Assistant

Location: Bangalore

About Flipkart

In 2007, we started the Flipkart journey by selling books online. But now, over a decade later, our story is quite different. Today, Flipkart is India s largest online marketplace and one of India s leading technology powerhouse that is disrupting the way India shops online. What has got us here? The dynamic, passionate and talented folks we call Flipsters!

Our core values define our identity and form the basis of our actions and reflect in everything that we do at Flipkart. Values enable us to shape the desired organizational culture in which each Flipster can thrive and be at their best.

We believe in taking bold bets and changing the paradigm, having a sense of urgency to solve problems strategically and putting great ideas into action. We look at the world from our customer s point of view and keep customers at the heart of everything we do. We strive to do the right thing always and be committed to our customers and stakeholders.

About the team

Around a year ago, , a new chapter began in Flipkart's history when we started a new business initiative called Flipkart Wholesale. An attempt to take Flipkart beyond B2C, aiming to tap new growth opportunities. Even before its first launch, Flipkart Wholesale set itself up for success by acquiring Walmart India s wholesale footprint, making it an omnichannel business.

We are a startup within a large tech-driven company

Flipkart Wholesale today operates like a startup that has just launched its MVP version.

Take a moment to think about how it would have felt, working at Flipkart during its early years in 2007-2008? The excitement to be a part of a team that literally built the

e-commerce ecosystem, the challenges, the workaround, the learning - its a feeling that cannot be compared.

Responsibilities:

• Support the leader(s) at Flipkart to make him/her 10-100x more effective and efficient in all aspects of his job.

• Handle communications, calendar, support with organizational key leadership team members, and serve as a primary interface with the rest of the Flipkart organization (primarily leadership). Ensure conflicts are resolved timely and keep the leader on time between commitments.

• Help plan and organize a variety of events for leadership to the entire organization, this would include diversity and inclusion events and strategy, supporting women s leadership initiatives, speaking engagements for the leader, team development strategy and activities, team engagement activities and communications, and leadership communication preparation (prepare leaders ppt slides, newsletter, etc).

• Arrange, take notes, summarize all follow up actions, and attend direct report meetings and organizational All Hand meeting for the team. Keep a regular tracker of all key actions items to ensure accountability, tacking and effectiveness of meeting sessions.

• Support global visitors and support the leader(s) global commitment requirements given the connection of the team with a larger Walmart organization. This will include logistic requirements, scheduling of meetings, organizing sessions within and outside of the department, working with Walmart team members on details, etc.

• Support and coordinate external sessions for the leader(s) as it relates to community activities, seminars, speaking engagements, trainings, etc. to support the external exposure and community relations/networking across the industry.

• Put out fires, no matter what they are, when they come up.

• Stay cool under the pressure of a rapidly growing technology company.

• Be proactive, assess requirements and needs ahead of time by looking ahead and planning for upcoming needs.

Requirements

• Graduate / Post Graduate in any discipline with minimum 5+ years of relevant experience as an EA to senior leader with large reputed corporates. MBA will be an added advantage.

• Expert user in Outlook / Google Apps, including Gmail, Calendar, Sites, Sheets, Slides, and Docs. Advanced settings and options will be used and relied upon heavily.

• Excellent note taker, able to understand varied business and technical talks while taking effective minutes and capturing action items.

• Superb follow through and organization skills. Your tasks will be varied and rearranged constantly in priority. Being detail oriented is key to handling the pace.

• Resilience; tasks that may seem simple can become complex to navigate.

• Fun nature! We re likely to make billion dollar decisions as we are likely to take the team out for their hard efforts. Putting together events at variety levels of scales and themes is critical.

• Cool customer. Our style is casual with heavy focus on outcomes, not hours or effort.

• Worldly. You'll be working with people from all over the world who may be unaware or unaccustomed to local culture and will need help learning and bridging the gap.

Why Take This Role

• Help create one of the most modern Indian technology companies, in any and all ways you can.

• Be exposed to an extreme level of leadership and be involved in the challenges of helping a company scale enormously and go global

• Be challenged by dynamic and elite peers who don't expect you to do what they say but actively think like them and get one, or five, steps ahead

• Have fun by helping us find ways to make Flipkart the most exciting place to work in India.

• Access to exceptional opportunities in the organization for personal and career growth