About the Role
We are seeking a proactive and highly organized Administrative Assistant to support the Senior Vice President, Group Solutions, Corporate Direct. This role is ideal for someone who is detail-oriented, professional, and confident managing priorities in a fast-paced environment. This role offers variety, visibility, and the opportunity to make a meaningful impact by helping a busy team stay organized, prepared, and focused.
Responsibilities
- Manage the Senior Vice President’s calendar, including scheduling, prioritizing requests, resolving conflicts, and protecting preparation time
- Coordinate meetings, including room or virtual bookings, agendas, materials, attendance tracking, and follow-up items
- Prepare, format, and proofread presentations, reports, briefing materials, agendas, and correspondence using Microsoft Office and AI-enabled tools
- Process expenses accurately and on time, including receipts, approvals, coding, and follow-up
- Support travel, offsite meetings, and team events, including logistics, communications, materials, and budget tracking
- Provide general administrative support, including document management, file organization, correspondence, data entry, invoices, and team communications
- Proactively identify opportunities to use AI, automation, and new tools to simplify administrative processes and improve quality, speed, and consistency
- Handle confidential information with discretion and professionalism
Requirements
- Strong organizational, time management, and prioritization skills
- Excellent calendar management, scheduling, and coordination capabilities
- Clear written and verbal communication with strong attention to detail
- Proficiency with Microsoft Outlook, PowerPoint, Word, Excel, and Teams
- Curiosity and willingness to embrace AI, automation, and new tools that improve efficiency and quality of work
- Professionalism, discretion, resourcefulness, and sound judgment
- Experience in a coordinator, administrative assistant or executive assistant role
- Experience coordinating calendars, meetings, agendas, travel, expenses, and offsite logistics
- Strong skills in preparing and proofreading presentations, reports, and correspondence
- Experience in professional services, benefits, insurance, financial services, or a corporate environment is an asset
Skills
- Microsoft Outlook
- Microsoft PowerPoint
- Microsoft Word
- Microsoft Excel
- Microsoft Teams
- AI
- Automation
Experience Level
- Experience in a coordinator, administrative assistant or executive assistant role
Salary/Compensations
- $55,000 - $65,000 per annum
About the Company
- People Corporation is a national provider of benefits, retirement, wealth, wellness, and human resource solutions.
- Our experts and solutions serve over 20,000 clients representing nearly 3 million Canadians.
- We offer customized solutions designed to fit the unique needs of businesses and their employees, members and stakeholders.
Equal Opportunity
- Providing an inclusive, accessible environment, where all employees and clients feel valued, respected and supported is something we're committed to.
- We are dedicated to building a workforce that reflects the diversity of the communities in which we live, and to creating an environment where every employee has the opportunity to reach their potential.
- If you require an accommodation or an alternative format of any posting please reach out to careers@peoplecorporation.com
