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SAP • Auckland, NZ

Executive Assistant

Employment type:  Full time
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Job Description

We help the world run better
At SAP, we keep it simple: you bring your best to us, and we'll bring out the best in you. We're builders touching over 20 industries and 80% of global commerce, and we need your unique talents to help shape what's next. The work is challenging – but it matters. You'll find a place where you can be yourself, prioritize your wellbeing, and truly belong. What's in it for you? Constant learning, skill growth, great benefits, and a team that wants you to grow and succeed.

Working arrangements: Onsite at least 3 days a week and mandatory

Why you'll love SAP

We change the World, you will become passionate about your employer and the brand you represent. Everything is converging on the Internet, making networked connections more meaningful than ever before in our lives. Our employees' groundbreaking ideas impact everything imaginable, from entertainment, healthcare, and education, to public and private sectors, smart-cities, and everyday devices in our homes. Here, that means we will take creative ideas from the drawing board to dynamic solutions that have real world impact. We believe SAP is evolving a rich solution portfolio of next generation software, hardware, and services to meet customers' changing business requirements in the digital economy.

Become an integral part of the incredible New Zealand team and help us drive a winning culture!

What you'll do

  • In this role, you will provide support for calendaring, travel, expenses, along with management and oversight of special projects, as needed.
  • You will handle, with a great degree of independence, incoming asks for time, meetings, resources and other needs.
  • You will be responsible for figuring out when to refer matters to others, and to whom they should be referred.
  • Form great connection across a wide customer and partner network to facilitate essential top to top and global executive connects as and when needed. The difference between this role being achieved or being exceptional is this aspect.
  • Calendar Management: Manage calendar by prioritizing schedules and meetings for Managing Director for SAP New Zealand and one other Senior Manager in the ANZ Market.
  • Travel: Responsible for making travel itineraries and follow on expense management for responsible managers. Carefully considers and decides the optimum travel arrangements and itinerary for calendared meetings while managing SAP expenses.
  • Become an integral member of the Auckland and New Zealand business, assisting Great Place to Work teams, Marketing, and other initiatives to drive a fabulous workplace culture.

Who You’ll Work With

SAP is the worldwide leader in internet networking and in Asia Pacific, Japan and China, we’ve been changing the way we work, live, play and learn for over 20 years. As we look to the future, our focus is on continuing to help our customers seize the opportunities of tomorrow by connecting the unconnected. Innovative technology will play a transformational role in enabling a digital Asia Pacific, and SAP is committed to partnering with businesses, governments, countries and local communities to ensure the potential benefits are maximized for all.

Who You Are

Minimum Qualifications for this role:

  • 10+ years' experience in an administrative environment. A minimum of five years of experience supporting an executive who was at the VP / Director level or above.
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills including the ability to communicate with all levels of Executive/Senior staff and clients.
  • Strong stakeholder management, negotiation, and rapport building across diverse functions
  • You are detail oriented and have the maturity to handle confidential information.
  • Advanced knowledge of Mac/Windows desktop computer applications: Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint.

Desired Skills

  • Past work experience in the high-tech industry is desired but not essential.
  • A strong network within NZ across Public Sector and Private Sector,
  • Champions improvements. Solves problems and makes decisions. Demonstrates leadership.
  • Works in an organized and focused manner, great attention to detail and you are dedicated by nature.
  • Advanced desktop calendar management program experience.
  • A desire to be part of a leadership team and drive cultural improvement.
  • Calm under pressure and can do attitude.

Bring out your best
SAP innovations help more than four hundred thousand customers worldwide work together more efficiently and use business insight more effectively. Originally known for leadership in enterprise resource planning (ERP) software, SAP has evolved to become a market leader in end-to-end business application software and related services for database, analytics, intelligent technologies, and experience management. As a cloud company with two hundred million users and more than one hundred thousand employees worldwide, we are purpose-driven and future-focused, with a highly collaborative team ethic and commitment to personal development. Whether connecting global industries, people, or platforms, we help ensure every challenge gets the solution it deserves. At SAP, you can bring out your best.

We win with inclusion
SAP’s culture of inclusion, focus on health and well-being, and flexible working models help ensure that everyone – regardless of background – feels included and can run at their best. At SAP, we believe we are made stronger by the unique capabilities and qualities that each person brings to our company, and we invest in our employees to inspire confidence and help everyone realize their full potential. We ultimately believe in unleashing all talent and creating a better world.

SAP is committed to the values of Equal Employment Opportunity and provides accessibility accommodations to applicants with physical and/or mental disabilities. If you are interested in applying for employment with SAP and are in need of accommodation or special assistance to navigate our website or to complete your application, please send an e-mail with your request to Recruiting Operations Team: Careers@sap.com.

For SAP employees: Only permanent roles are eligible for the SAP Employee Referral Program, according to the eligibility rules set in the SAP Referral Policy. Specific conditions may apply for roles in Vocational Training.

Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their age, race, religion, national origin, ethnicity, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, et al), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, protected veteran status, or disability, in compliance with applicable federal, state, and local legal requirements.

Successful candidates might be required to undergo a background verification with an external vendor.

AI Usage in the Recruitment Process

For information on the responsible use of AI in our recruitment process, please refer to our Guidelines for Ethical Usage of AI in the Recruiting Process.

Please note that any violation of these guidelines may result in disqualification from the hiring process.

Requisition ID: 451828 | Work Area: Administration | Expected Travel: 0 - 10% | Career Status: Professional | Employment Type: Regular Full Time | Additional Locations: #LI-Hybrid


Company benefits

25 (UK) 30 (Germany) 21 (India) days annual leave + bank holidays
Accrued annual leave – 1 day/year up to 30 days (UK)
Open to job sharing
Sabbaticals
Adoption leave – Up to 52 weeks (UK)
Open to part time work for some roles
Returnship
Equity packages
Shared parental leave
Enhanced maternity leave
Fertility benefits
Pregnancy support
On-site childcare
Share options
Electric Car Salary Sacrifice
Gym membership
Dental coverage
Health insurance
Private GP service
Mental health platform access
Life assurance
Life insurance
Enhanced pension match/contribution
Enhanced paternity leave
Travel insurance
Cycle to work scheme
On-site gym
Bike parking
Enhanced sick pay
Emergency leave
Enhanced sick days
Company car
Open to part-time employees
Work from anywhere scheme
Childcare credits
Fertility treatment leave
Pregnancy loss leave
Carer’s leave
Nursery salary sacrifice scheme
Family health insurance
Women’s health leave
Annual bonus
401K
Referral bonus
Joining bonus
Employee discounts
Loyalty programme
Non-contributory pension
Personal development days
Personal development budgets
L&D budget
Language lessons
Learning license
Study support
Studying sabbaticals
Lunch and learns
In house training
Hackathons
Professional subscriptions
Further education support

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