Sr. Executive Assistant - Spend Management

Excited to grow your career?\n\nWe value our talented employees and instill an environment where you feel engaged, satisfied and able to contribute your unique skills and talents while living and working as your authentic self. We provide extensive opportunities for personal and professional development, building employee competence and organizational capability to fuel exceptional performance through an inclusive environment both now and in the future.\n\nOur people make all the difference in our success.\n\nDo you operate as a true strategic partner to senior executives? Are you known for independent judgment, anticipating needs before they surface, and driving initiatives forward with minimal direction?\n\nDo you bring strong business acumen, systems thinking, and the confidence to represent leaders in high-impact settings?\n\nIf so, we invite you to consider joining Vizient as a Senior Executive Assistant supporting the Spend Management Sales Team.\n\nAt Vizient, our administrative professionals are valued as integral business partners. We invest in their success through professional development, leadership growth, and career progression. Our administrative professionals are part of an enterprise support team known as Administrative Services.\n\nSummary:\n\nIn this role, you will serve as a strategic partner to the Spend Management Sales, Senior Vice President/General Manager, and two Senior Principals. You will operate as an extension of your executives, translating priorities into action and ensuring seamless execution across initiatives.\n\nYou will manage complex, confidential, and highly visible responsibilities that require advanced strategic thinking, sound judgment, and ownership. This role is designed for a professional who thrives in ambiguity, anticipates risks, solves problems proactively, and builds trusted relationships across senior leaders and stakeholders.\n\nResponsibilities:\n\nExecutive Time \u0026 Meeting Strategy: \nStrategically manage complex and dynamic calendars while aligning executive time to enterprise priorities. Design and coordinate in-person, hybrid, and virtual meetings with clear objectives. Assess trade-offs, protect high-impact priorities, ensure readiness, capture key decisions, and drive follow-through.\n\nExecutive Preparation \u0026 Communications: \nConduct background research and develop briefing materials to prepare executives for high-visibility discussions. Draft, edit, and manage executive-level correspondence, presentations, and reports with clarity and precision. Represent the executive professionally in internal and external interactions.\n\nTravel \u0026 Expense Management: \nManage domestic travel logistics. Ensure timely and accurate expense reporting in compliance with policy.\n\nOperational \u0026 Initiative Management: \nDesign and maintain systems to track initiatives, commitments, and key deliverables. Lead special projects and confidential initiatives, coordinate cross-functional efforts, resolve workflow challenges, and implement sustainable process improvements aligned with business priorities.\n\nStakeholder \u0026 Relationship Management: \nServe as a trusted liaison across the enterprise and with external partners. Navigate sensitive or complex situations with discretion while building strong, productive relationships that support strategic objectives.\n\nTeam \u0026 Culture Contribution: \nSupport engagement initiatives, onboarding efforts, and peer collaboration. Provide backup support and contribute to a high-performing administrative community focused on excellence and continuous improvement.\n\nQualifications:\n\n * Relevant degree preferred.\n * 5 or more years of experience supporting senior executives in a complex environment required.\n * Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Teams required.\n * Demonstrated ability to operate independently with strong strategic thinking and judgment.\n * Exceptional written and verbal communication skills.\n * Strong organizational and project management skills with a proactive, solutions-oriented mindset.\n * Experience supporting multiple senior leaders and managing cross-functional coordination.\n * Ability to maintain discretion and professionalism in highly confidential matters.\n * Willingness to travel as needed.\n\n\n\nThis is an office-based role with an expectation of three days per week on-site in Irving, TX with occasional extended hours as needed.\n\nEstimated Hiring Range:\n\nAt Vizient, we consider skills, experience, and organizational needs in our compensation approach. Geographic factors may adjust the range estimate and hires typically fall below the top range. Compensation decisions are tailored to individual circumstances. The current salary range for this role is $77,400.00 to $135,400.00.\n\nThis position is also incentive eligible.\n\nVizient has a comprehensive benefits plan! Please view our benefits here:\n\nhttp://www.vizientinc.com/about-us/careers\n