Senior Administrative Assistant

As the Senior Administrative Assistant, you will be a trusted partner to senior leaders, providing high-level executive support while helping drive operational excellence across the business. Working as part of a collaborative Business Support team, you will play a key role in ensuring seamless executive operations and delivering an exceptional stakeholder experience.

About the Role

Your key responsibilities will include, but not be limited to:

• Provide proactive, high-level support to senior executives, including complex calendar management, travel coordination, meeting organisation, and expense management.
• Act as a key liaison between executives, internal teams, and external stakeholders, ensuring professional and effective communication.
• Coordinate meetings, events, governance activities, and executive briefings, ensuring all logistics and materials are delivered to a high standard.
• Support key business initiatives and projects by tracking priorities, managing timelines, and assisting with reporting and delivery.
• Identify opportunities to improve processes, enhance executive effectiveness, and contribute to continuous improvement initiatives.
• Provide leadership, mentoring, and support to members of the Business Support team, helping build capability and share best practice.
• Maintain the highest levels of professionalism, discretion, and confidentiality when handling sensitive information.

About You

You are an experienced executive support professional who thrives in a fast-paced corporate environment and enjoys building strong relationships across all levels of an organisation. You are highly organised, proactive, and solutions-focused, with a commitment to delivering exceptional service and support.

• Significant experience supporting senior executives, ideally within a corporate or professional services environment.
• Demonstrated leadership experience, including mentoring, developing, or managing administrative professionals.
• Advanced Microsoft Office and Microsoft 365 skills, with strong proficiency across Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Copilot.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to engage confidently with a broad range of stakeholders.
• Outstanding organisational, prioritisation, and time management capabilities.
• Strong problem-solving skills, sound judgement, and the ability to anticipate and resolve challenges proactively.
• Excellent attention to detail and a commitment to producing high-quality work.
• Proven ability to manage confidential information with discretion and integrity.
• Experience coordinating complex domestic and international travel arrangements.

Why work for Morrison

• We pride ourselves on our values and our culture of working as whānau and supporting each other.
• The impact of what we do is important to us. We invest in environmentally sustainable companies and have a strong commitment to ESG.
• We offer flexibility and hybrid work so you can bring your best self to work each day.
• We offer competitive salary + incentives to reward your contribution to our success.
• We have a learning and development program with a focus on building internal capability and supporting your professional and personal development.
• Attractive paid parental leave and flexible leave options.

Morrison is an equal opportunity employer, and we encourage people of all backgrounds to apply. Please let us know if you require any support or adjustments during the recruitment process.

Morrison works with selected recruitment partners under formal agreements. We do not accept unsolicited resumes, and any such submissions will not be considered or give rise to any fee.