Sr. Human Resources Assistant
LyondellBasellAbout the role
LyondellBasell
Basic Function
The Sr Human Resources Assistant position is located at our Operational Headquarters in the Galleria area of Houston. The position offers a competitive base salary, bonus, 401K matching, generous benefits package, pension plan, parking subsidy, and employee discounts. The ideal candidate for this position will be energetic, highly motivated, an excellent team player, able to manage multiple priorities simultaneously with attention to detail, and strong accountability for their actions.
The successful candidate in this position will have excellent organizational skills, show initiative to improve current processes and workstreams, possess an outstanding attitude and customer service focus, and will have excellent written and verbal communication skills. Due to the sensitivity of our work, a critical aspect of this role will be to maintain confidentiality with all daily activities.
Roles & Responsibilities
- Provide executive-level administrative support to HR leaders, including managing multiple calendars, scheduling meetings, and coordinating domestic and international travel arrangements
- Prepare high-quality documents, presentations, and reports, ensuring accuracy and attention to detail
- Manage multiple inboxes, Team Share sites, and project libraries.
- Maintain confidentiality of sensitive HR information and exercise discretion in handling all communications and data.
- Serve as a primary point of contact for internal and external communications on behalf of HR leadership.
- Maintain decorum, discretion, confidentiality and poise that are appropriate for the office of the executives & keep the executives informed of upcoming commitments.
- Proactively prepare and deliver daily briefings on key events, meetings, travel and other calendar items
- Prepare travel itineraries and prepare/submit expense reports.
- Coordinate internal and external meetings (including travel and catering set-up and reservations, hotel contracts, prepare agendas, meeting rooms, registration, meeting equipment, recreation, promotional items, billing, and managing outside vendors) both domestically & internationally and exercise judgment in taking initiative on pending action items.
- Develop communications to internal and external stakeholder groups. Initiate phone calls to a variety of internal and external stakeholders on behalf of the executives. Screen, prioritize and direct phone calls to the appropriate persons in the Company.
- Support the planning and coordination of major process, programs, and/or projects to ensure departmental goals are completed on time, and with optimum quality; processes/projects may include performance calibration, talent management, merit process, employee engagement, etc.
- Be available outside regular business hours to provide support as needed.
- Proactively identify opportunities to streamline administrative processes and improve efficiency.
- Other duties as assigned.
Min. Qualifications
- A bachelor's degree or a minimum of 10+ years of prior, relevant experience is acceptable in lieu of a degree. Experience supporting executives in large, matrixed, multinational companies is preferred.
- A minimum of five (5) years working effectively in high-pressure situations while managing multiple tasks and handling confidential and sensitive information (such as financial and employee data) with tact, diplomacy, and sensitivity.
- Requires a degree of independence in completing job responsibilities prior to issue escalation; able to initiate administrative improvements.
- Excellent interpersonal skills; able to communicate and coordinate workflow assertively and diplomatically at all levels in the organization, especially at the senior management level.
- Well-honed organization skills-manage workflow & projects effectively and timely
- Able to manage & prioritize multiple projects at the same time.
- Comfortable working independently and making decisions; able to deal with ambiguity.
- Advanced Microsoft Office skills, including Excel (macros, pivot tables, XV-lookup), Word, PowerPoint.
- Excellent planning, problem-solving, interpersonal, and communication skills required.
- Strong organization skills, an ability to multi-task, work under pressure, establish priorities and meet deadlines in a fast paced, changing environment.
- The ability to work in high stress situations and to work with people with driven personalities while maintaining focus.
- The ability to develop and maintain constructive and cooperative working relationships with a wide variety of people internally and externally.
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