• Responsible for heavy calendar and meeting planning, purchase order creation and processing, time/expense reporting and complex international and domestic travel. Handled details of highly confidential nature.• Supported VP – Innovation R&D Americas and her teams of Directors and Managers in Norwalk, Miami, Plainfield and the U.K.• Organized and facilitated team building events, quarterly and year-end offsite meetings, and annual holiday celebrations resulting in positive feedback and improved morale. • Project work included: Development and management of competitor closet and coolers, coordination of San Francisco Spirits Competition, maintained training budget for Sensory team, managed Stakeholder and Executive meetings (lab tours), coordination of Packaging Workshop. • Administered monthly analysis of departmental budget, processing of departmental invoices.• Complete compliance review of all T&E reports and purchase orders achieving 100% compliance year over year. • Worked closely with team members to coordinate and create project presentations and consumer research projects, meeting materials, organizational charts and conferences. • Worked jointly with HR to assist in scheduling interviews for prospective candidates. Assisted in induction process for new employees.

• Managed all administrative responsibilities for 3 Vice Presidents of Innovation along with team of Directors and Managers in a new and growing function within North America• Managed calendar and email, ensuring confidential and seamless flow of communication to internal and external clients• Coordinated team celebrations and offsite meetings.

• Provided general assistance to the VP of Information Technologies and his team of 12.• Solely responsible for maintaining company website utilizing HTML. • Developed and maintained monthly reports.• Provided support and information gathering for major ORACLE implementation.• Member of database design team.• Administered monthly analysis of departmental budget, processing of departmental invoices, development and administration of corporate intranet information.

• Provided general assistance to the VP of Customer Service.• Responsible for maintenance and enhancement of company sales databases.• Prepared Customer Service reports. • Heavy and extensive calendar management, both business and personal.• Provided extensive travel arrangements, both business and personal.• Extensive spreadsheet creation using Excel.• Heavy presentation preparation using PowerPoint, including graphs and charts imported from Excel.