Full Job Description
Our Firm
American Century Investments® is a leading global asset manager focused on delivering investment results and building long-term client relationships while supporting research that can improve human health and save lives. Founded in 1958, the firm’s 1,400 employees serve financial professionals, institutions, corporations and individual investors, offering a wide range of investment strategies across a variety of investment disciplines.
We are committed to providing institutional-quality, actively managed solutions with a performance-centered mindset. Our expertise spans global equity, global value equity, disciplined equity, multi-asset strategies, global fixed income, alternatives and ETFs.
Privately controlled and independent, we focus solely on investment management. This empowers us to align our decisions with client expectations and concentrate on their long-term money management needs.
Our culture of winning behaviors exemplifies our dedication to clients every single day. Delivering investment results enables us to distribute over 40% of our dividends—more than $1.7 billion — to the Stowers Institute for Medical Research, a 500-person, non-profit basic biomedical research organization with a controlling interest in American Century Investments. Our dividend payments provide ongoing financial support for the Institute’s work of uncovering the causes, treatments and prevention of life-threatening diseases, like cancer.
Headquartered in Kansas City, Mo., we also have offices located in New York; London; Hong Kong; Frankfurt; Sydney; Los Angeles; and Mountain View, Calif. (Silicon Valley).
For more information, please visit americancentury.com.
Are you looking for an exciting opportunity to utilize your interpersonal and problem-solving skills with a growing and evolving company?
American Century Investments seeks an Administrative Coordinator - Business Transformation to provide administrative support to the leadership team. Meticulous organizational skills and attention to detail are paramount. In addition, you will provide a positive approach to problem solving and provide intuitive solutions in a multifaceted, fast-paced environment.
Responsibilities
Build and maintain strategic relationships with external and internal business partners to achieve shared objectives by supporting Business Transformation programs, activities and leadership including, but not limited to:
Support administrative needs including creating expense reports, calendar updates, catering arrangements, office supply and business card orders, copies/faxing and shipping as necessary
Coordinate and organize meetings, including preparing meeting materials such as agendas, presentations and taking meeting notes
Maintain appointments, including establishing appointment priorities. This may also include making travel arrangements, completing travel itineraries and expense reports
Build and maintain complex documents using a wide range of software including Microsoft Office
Handle sensitive and confidential information and possess a solid understanding of the organization and business unit
Special projects and additional duties as assigned
Requirements
Outstanding interpersonal and customer relations skills including the ability to communicate with individuals at all levels in both verbal and written form
Project management experience, from inception through execution
Able to make good decisions and design solutions based upon business objectives
Ability to anticipate needs and respond appropriately, and to work independently and as member of the team
Accepts responsibility for work assignments and special projects
Adaptable to changes in a dynamic environment (re-prioritization of assignments, schedule changes, last minute requests, etc.)
Proficiency with Microsoft Office suite of tools (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams, SharePoint, etc.)
High School Diploma/GED
Preferred
Bachelor’s degree or working towards a B.A. preferred
2-4 years administrative experience
Understanding of Agile project management process
We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.
American Century Investments believes all individuals are entitled to equal employment opportunity and advancement opportunities without regard to race, religious creed, color, sex, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age for individuals forty years of age and older, military and veteran status, sexual orientation, and any other basis protected by applicable federal, state and local laws. ACI does not discriminate or adopt any policy that discriminates against an individual or any group of individuals on any of these bases.
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