Executive Assistant

As an elite Excess and Surplus Lines market, Nautilus Insurance Group offers commercial property and casualty insurance solutions to appointed wholesale surplus lines producers countrywide.  We have specialized in providing these solutions for more than 35 years.

We have more flexible policy terms and premium rates on a non-admitted basis. Our focus is small to medium Property and Casualty risks on both an admitted and a non-admitted basis.

Our offerings are distributed through partnerships with appointed wholesale surplus lines producers. Our relationships are defined by mutual success, speed to market, customer-centric focus and an expanded appetite. 

Coverage placed by Nautilus Insurance Group is provided by Nautilus Insurance Company and Great Divide Insurance Company, both W. R. Berkley Corporation members with A.M. Best (Superior) A+ XV ratings.

Benefit Highlights: 

• Paid Parental Leave! At Nautilus, we offer Childbirth Recovery Leave as well as Primary Caregiver Leave, for up to a maximum of 12 weeks of paid leave.
• Nautilus offers Medical, Dental, and Vision coverage options, along with Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA) and Health Savings Accounts (HSA) choices
• We help our employees feel secure by providing a 401(k) program, profit sharing, stock purchase plan, life insurance, and travel accident insurance options. 
• One of our core values is “Committed to Serve” and these aren’t idle words. We provide every employee one paid day off per year to volunteer at a local charity. That’s serving with a smile!
• We take risk management excellence and your professional growth seriously by offering Tuition Assistance and Industry-Related Education and Exam programs.
• Can you hear us now?  Employees are eligible for special cell phone service discounts with Verizon and AT&T. We’ve got a plum position for you! We participate in the Plum Benefits program offering employees cost-free access to thousands of exclusive travel and entertainment discounts.
• Flexible work arrangements, including working from home 2 days a week.

This role is located in our Scottsdale office on a hybrid schedule.

To support the Chief Operating Officer by providing executive-level administrative support, clerical support, event planning, project support, receiving clients and visitors, arranging travel and correspondence, and scheduling meetings.

• Coordinate complex scheduling and calendar management, as well as content and flow of information to senior executives.
• Prioritizes and manages multiple projects simultaneously. Follows through on issues in a timely manner.
• Format information for internal and external communication – memos, emails, presentations, and reports.
• Reading and analyzing submissions, letters, agendas, memos and determining significance; routing to appropriate personnel in a timely and efficient manner.
• Prepare executive responses to routine memos, letters, or correspondence.
• Prepare reports, collect, and analyze information; prepare presentations.
• Organize team communications and plan events, both internal and off-site.
• Contributes to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed.
• Prepare and develop a records management system; maintain and recommend changes to the records system when appropriate.
• Develop and utilize historical information; provide retrieval of information. Record meeting discussions and provide minutes.
• Maintain inventory and office supplies. Anticipate office needs.
• Maintain knowledge by attending professional and technical educational seminars and workshops; review publications; establish professional and personal networks within the industry.
• Provide clerical and general office support to other executives as needed. Delegate tasks and responsibilities to other staff members when appropriate.
• Maintains expense account records for assigned executives.
• Meets and greets guests, agents, and vendors.
• Answering and directing calls to appropriate parties, taking messages.
• Communicates instructions to individuals and/or departments from executives.

• Sound judgment and decision-making skills.
• Ability to write routine reports and correspondence.
• Ability to speak effectively before groups of customers or employees of the organization.
• Must be able to meet deadlines in a fast-paced, quickly changing environment.
• Experience in planning and executing conferences and meeting details.
• Ability to organize a daily workload by priorities.
• Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form.
• Must have minimum of 3 years administrative assistant experience in office environment.
• Must be proficient in computer skills to include; Word, Excel, Power Point and Outlook.
• Communication skills which allow interaction with others in a professional manner, both verbal and written.
• Pleasant telephone communication skills.
• Basic to intermediate mathematical skills.
• Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations.
• High school diploma or equivalent.  Some College preferred. 

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