Impress employers and recruiters.
Choose from hundreds of resume examples.

Impress employers and recruiters.
Choose from hundreds of resume examples.

Target Resume Now

About the Role

This role offers a unique opportunity to partner directly with the President, North America, supporting a key leader in a critical market. You will act as a trusted advisor, enabling leadership effectiveness, managing priorities, and driving business outcomes with exposure to senior leaders, customers, and industry stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Manage a complex executive calendar, ensuring effective prioritization of meetings, business commitments, travel, and stakeholder engagement.
• Serve as a proactive partner to the President, anticipating needs, identifying scheduling conflicts, and ensuring preparedness for key meetings.
• Coordinate domestic and international travel arrangements, including detailed itineraries, briefing materials, logistics, and expense management.
• Organize and support leadership meetings, town halls, business reviews, and other strategic forums, including agenda development, document preparation, and action tracking.
• Facilitate effective communication between the President's office and internal/external stakeholders, fostering collaboration.
• Prepare, draft, edit, and coordinate high-quality correspondence, presentations, reports, and other materials, often involving confidential information.
• Support key business initiatives and special projects by coordinating activities, tracking deliverables, and ensuring deadlines are met.
• Maintain the highest standards of confidentiality, professionalism, resilience, and discretion while managing sensitive business information.
• Anticipate, assess, and respond effectively to unexpected business challenges, scheduling disruptions, and urgent executive priorities.
• Support employee engagement activities, leadership visits, customer meetings, and other events that strengthen business performance and organizational culture.
• Partner across the North America leadership team to navigate organizational priorities, influence outcomes, and drive alignment on key initiatives.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent professional experience.
• 8+ years of experience supporting senior executives, preferably within a global, matrixed organization.
• Demonstrated ability to manage complex calendars, competing priorities, and high-volume executive demands with exceptional attention to detail.
• Proven ability to handle confidential information with discretion, professionalism, and sound judgment.
• Experience supporting a C-suite executive, business unit president, or senior commercial leader.
• Experience coordinating executive-level meetings or leadership team operations.
• Project management experience, including tracking deliverables across multiple stakeholders and workstreams.
• Familiarity with CRM, expense management, or collaboration platforms used in large global organizations.
• Experience working within publishing, media, education, information services, or professional services organizations is preferred.

Skills

• Outstanding organizational, communication, and relationship-building skills.
• Ability to work effectively with stakeholders at all levels, including executive leadership.
• Advanced proficiency with Microsoft 365 applications, including Outlook, PowerPoint, Word, Teams, CoPilot, and Excel.
• Highly proactive, resourceful, and adaptable.
• Ability to anticipate needs and solve problems independently.
• Thrive in a fast-paced environment.
• Crisis management, sound decision-making, and flexibility.

Location

• New York

Work Type

• Hybrid Working

Experience Level

• 8+ years of experience supporting senior executives

Education Level

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent professional experience

Salary/Compensations

• $70,000 - $95,000

Benefits

• Medical, Dental and Vision
• 401(k) with company match and contribution
• Hybrid office working policy, Summer Hours, and paid time off
• Flexible Spending and Commuter programs
• Multiple Life insurance options
• Disability coverage
• Tuition Assistance
• Voluntary benefits: Identity Theft Protection, Pet Insurance, and Legal Assistance Insurance
• Employee Assistance Program
• Family friendly benefits and a variety of employee discounts
• An array of Employee Social Networks

About the Company

• Springer Nature is one of the leading publishers of research in the world, publishing the largest number of journals and books and pioneering open research.
• Through leading brands, trusted for over 180 years, they provide technology-enabled products, platforms, and services to researchers, health professionals, and educators.
• The company is proud to be part of progress, working with communities to share knowledge and bring greater understanding to the world.
• Springer Nature recognizes that great talent develops through many paths and encourages applications from individuals with strong transferable skills supported by relevant experience.
• Their hiring approach balances skills, experience, and potential for short-term effectiveness and long-term growth.

Equal Opportunity

• Springer Nature is an Equal Opportunity Employer that complies with the laws and regulations set forth in the EEOC Know Your Rights poster.
• At Springer Nature, our mission is to be part of progress – and that begins with inclusion: of people, perspectives, and ideas.
• They believe that diverse perspectives drive progress and are committed to creating an environment where people and ideas can flourish.
• If you have any access needs related to disability, neurodivergence or a chronic condition, please contact us so we can make all necessary accommodation.