Executive Assistant

Company Overview

Sleep Number is a sleep wellness technology leader. For nearly four decades, we have placed sleep at the center of wellbeing, improving over 15 million lives with our Sleep Number smart beds. We are guided by our purpose – to improve the health and wellbeing of society through higher quality sleep. This is exemplified through our 4,000+ mission-driven team members who passionately innovate to drive value creation through our vertically integrated business model, owning the process from start to finish, including selling in our over 650 stores nationwide.

Our team members are encouraged to bring their whole selves to work, sharing their unique perspectives, backgrounds and skills with Sleep Number every day. Whether you are entering, returning or experienced in the workforce, we have a place for you. We hope you join us in creating the future through higher quality sleep.

Position Purpose 

As an Executive Assistant, you will play an integral role in managing day-to-day leadership support needs contributing to the Executives’ efficiency and effectiveness through insight, intellectual capacity, planning and agility. The Executive Assistant is also responsible for procedure and operational management of the function’s leadership team mechanisms.  

Sleep Number seeks a dynamic Executive Assistant with experience supporting one or multiple C-Suite Executive leaders as well as the Board.  Success in this role requires an administrative professional who thrives in a results-driven, fast-paced environment, who can juggle multiple priorities, and who can leverage their creativity and exercise good judgement in a variety of situations. 

Primary Responsibilities

• Demonstrate foresight to effectively manage upcoming priorities and ensure leadership is prepared to accomplish objectives with materials and business recaps needed.
• Support leadership by preparing for mechanisms, create and collect content to compile PowerPoint presentations, prepare agendas, send pre-reads & recaps as needed, manage logistics, and ensure that everything runs smoothly during the meeting. 
• Navigate complex calendaring through Outlook to ensure efficiency and maximum use of leader's time, effectively navigating changing priorities as they occur.
• Plan and organize travel, proactively anticipating and managing travel-related issues and coordination.  Knowledgeable of individual travel patterns and preferences.
• Ensure all correspondence is accurate, complete and properly handled.
• Demonstrate initiative, discretion and tact to respond quickly to and anticipate needs. 
• Operate as a liaison between leaders, team members, and cross-functional partners. 
• Build cross-functional internal relationships, including partnering closely with other Executive Assistants who support C-level, VP and Director level leaders.
• Pursue opportunities to change or lean out processes or approaches.
• Act as a key partner on special projects as needed.

Position Requirements 

• Progressive administrative assistant experience, with success supporting multiple C-Suite Executives. 
• Project management experience, a plus.  
• Four-year degree preferred or equivalent experience

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

• Expert knowledge and proficiency on Microsoft Suite including Outlook, Word, and Excel. Proficient with Office 365.
• Honed communication skills (clarity, dictation, oral and spelling)
• Skilled at creating professional and visually sophisticated PowerPoint presentations, virtual meeting set up and planning skills.
• Advanced organizational, planning, scheduling and time management – strong program management
• Organized and detail-oriented - creating order out of chaos- know what matters, understand and learn key strategic material, intellectually curious and consistent learner of the world around them.
• Tenacious and driven and highly organized, ability to keep pace of organization
• Ability to establish trust and handle confidential information
• Capacity to be aware of, control, and express your emotions, and to handle interpersonal relationships judiciously and empathetically
• Experience driving the organizing and preparation of events

Working Conditions

• This position is located at Sleep Number’s Minneap