Denise Addis Email & Phone Number

Morristown, Nj

Office manager and executive assistant, providing administrative support for executive leadership of a leading global reinsurance brokerage, as well as a senior leadership team of Managing Directors, EVPs and SVPS. Responsibilities include booking national and international travel across U.S. and Bermuda, London, Switzerland, Spain, Germany, Tokyo, Dubai, Singapore, both for business and pleasure, for Guy Carpenter brokers; preparing and maintaining confidential documents, spreadsheets, reports, presentations; managing calendars, schedules, expenses and reimbursement for team members; organizing companywide events including dinners, parties, golf tournaments and other special events; IT support liaison; business continuity; and office manager duties. Additional qualifications and technical skills: Ability to multitask and manage multiple assignments while meeting strict deadlines; excellent written and verbal communication skills; proficient in Microsoft Office applications, including Outlook, PowerPoint, Excel, Word, Teams, Adobe Acrobat, Concur, Zoom and Workday.Accomplishments include:• Office manager for New Jersey headquarters branch of Guy Carpenter, a reinsurance subsidiary of Marsh & McLennan Inc.• Provided high-level, confidential executive support to senior leadership team of Guy Carpenter’s New Jersey headquarters; during COVID-19 pandemic, executive support responsibilities quadrupled from supporting 11 executives in March 2020 to a total of 43 by mid-2022.• Project management for a memorial event commemorating the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks for a company whose global HQ were located in the World Trade Center’s South Tower on Sept. 11, 2001.

Parsippany, Nj

Assisting the Circulation Director in increasing daily newspaper circulation through sales and promotions. Primary responsibilities included:• Managing full-time staff of 7 people to distribute 10,000 newspapers per day• Managing 20+ independent contractors• Managing all facets of single copy readership which required knowledge and awareness of trends and meeting daily goals• Monitoring of daily budgets and prior year’s numbers in a daily effort to increase circulation over prior year• Maintaining close relationships through daily interaction with any number of the 500 business owners who sold our newspaper, to include all levels of business management from store managers to corporate home offices for large chains• Working with store owners to create promotions designed to improve sales and increase readership• Working closely with all newspaper departments to include marketing, advertising, editorial and production• Twice honored with Daily Record Employee Recognition Awards

Supporting the marketing group at a computer peripherals company whose focus was prevention of repetitive stress injuries. Primary responsibilities included:• Coordinating travel and meetings for VP of sales and his staff domestically and internationally• Assisting in the coordination of and attending all nationwide tradeshows, on-site meetings, customer festivities• Creating all PowerPoint presentations• Managing all trade advertising, writing copy and designing ad layouts• Managing all government contracts• Managing customer database including extensive data entry of prospects post tradeshows• Coordinating yearly sales meetings for all sales reps on east and west coast• Processing and distributing literature requests(I also worked for this company from 1994-1997 as my resume will show. I returned after they contacted me for rehire)

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba), Communication And Media Studies

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