Job Description

Join Land O’Lakes, Inc., and help us bring food from farmer to fork, building vibrant communities along the way. We’re a global, Fortune 250 company and a farmer-owned cooperative, which means we work for one another—not Wall Street. We’re proud to rank a Top Workplace. We offer:

Competitive compensation and rewards
Best-in-class healthcare for you and your family
Powerful savings programs
Training and career progression

Senior Administrative Assistant

About Truterra

This Land O’Lakes role supports the company’s sustainability and innovation business called Truterra. As the only farmer-owned, farmer-driven food and ag sustainability program in the U.S., Truterra believes farmers have the greatest potential to protect and restore the environment. As a member of the Truterra team, you will be helping bring agronomic insights and industry connections to farmers, so they can protect and restore their land, and unlock its deeper value.

Who are we looking for?

As a rapidly growing business, Truterra is seeking individuals that are genuine, supportive team-players, hungry to collaborate cross-functionally to build better solutions to hard problems and have a meaningful impact in agriculture. The most successful candidates must be comfortable with ambiguity, demonstrate an owner’s mindset by being action-oriented, staying solution-focused, adapting to evolving strategies, and repeatedly going the extra mile.

Truterra Administrative Assistant

As the Truterra Administrative Assistant, you will provide a range of critical support by performing a range of diversified and time-sensitive duties. In this role you will be a critical partner to key leaders in executing the day-to-day business activities both within the organization and with external partners. In this role you’ll have the opportunity to think quickly on your feet and proactively manage and prioritize work in an ever-changing business environment. If you strive to provide exceptional support and enjoy problem solving, thinking outside the box, and are excited by change this is the role for you!

Essential Duties:

Strategically manages interactions and prioritizes people and situations in need of attention. Understands the Truterra business and organizational priorities to proactively, route, research, respond to requests / correspondences and make scheduling decisions
Coordinates preparation of meeting briefings for key meetings including agenda, meeting materials, key talking points, and research as requested
Creates meeting agendas, proactively works with attendees to ensure content and presenters are prepared
Coordinates and prepares drafts of routine and complex presentations for both internal and external audiences; prepares draft letters and memos; proofreads correspondences and presentations
Arranges complex domestic and international travel coordinating pre-departure through arrival details
Ensures proper documentation and timely submission of all expenses and invoices using Concur
Collaborates and partners across other administrative coordinators to aid and provide backup support as needed
Coordinates events ranging from small to complex in person, virtual, and hybrid events, understands meeting technology and has the technical savvy to support events
Manages small projects, processes, and workflows across multiple parties; can bring the pieces back together to create a finished product
Ensures contract execution, adds contract to SharePoint site for maintenance, coordinates with finance and accounting for their awareness (for revenue recognition)
Sets up new customers in Toscana by working with credit and master data; coordinates credit application with the customer; prepares customer data updates in the system; communicates with sales and customer service
Creates sales order and contract tracking, ensure the contract is renewed on time
Sets up and pays vendors by requesting W9 from vendor, sets up vendor in Toscana
Requests payments through a check request or through Ariba to include grower payments, carbon certifications, and sales orders
Remains agile and willing to be pulled into projects outside the immediate job description, where administrative participation is of importance to the Truterra team
Meet business deadlines which may require occasional working after business hours and/or weekends

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

Professional verbal and written communication; understands nuance and adapts communication style based on audience and situation
Possess composure under pressure and demonstrates good decision-making skills
Detail oriented and driven to deliver work with the highest degree of accuracy
Proactively identifies problems and works to resolve them before they escalate
Ability to multi-task with many interruptions while remaining efficient, prompt, and professional; flexibility in changing work priorities at a moment’s notice
Strong planning, organizational, time and project management skills to prioritize and coordinate workflow across multiple projects
Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Suite of products (Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, Teams, etc.)
Ability to maintain confidentiality

Experience/Education required

High school diploma or GED
Up to 10 years of previous experience supporting administrative needs of high-level executives and their teams