Administrative Assistant


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Job Title: Administrative Assistant
Location: Arden Hills, MN, Midwest United States, USA

Company: Land O Lakes
Industry Sector: Agribusiness
Industry Type: Input Retail, Cooperative and Related Crop Services
Job Type: Full Time

Job Description: Administrative Assistant

In this role, you will provide administrative support to the Vice President of Manufacturing and the Manufacturing leadership team including functional support leaders. The position requires handling a wide range of diversified, confidential, complex and time-sensitive responsibilities. As a strategic partner, this role is critical in supporting leaders to execute day-to-day business activities. The role proactively manages and prioritizes the dynamic and ever-changing needs of the team while serving as a primary point of contact on all matters related to manufacturing operations for internal and external stakeholders, including senior leadership, team members, and frontline workers.

Essential Job Duties:
  • Strategically manages interactions, prioritizing people and situations requiring attention.
  • Understands the VP of Manufacturing and direct teams' organizational priorities to proactively route, research, and respond to requests and make scheduling decisions.
  • Provides proactive calendar management, maintaining both day-to-day and long-term scheduling of meetings, projects, and priorities.
  • Creates and distributes meeting agendas; collaborates and proactively works with attendees to ensure content and presenters are prepared.
  • Ensures accurate documentation and timely submission of expenses and invoice reporting through Concur.
  • Manages Capital Project requests.
  • Oversees the Supply Chain Manufacturing Recognition Event request process.
  • Offers continuous improvement opportunities to create greater process efficiencies.
  • Coordinates events ranging from small to complex in-person, virtual, and hybrid events; understands meeting technology and has the technical savvy to support events.
  • Provides various project support as needed, including tracking deliverables and assisting with execution.
  • Create and maintain manufacturing calendar of events and distribution lists.

Required Experience/Education/Skills:
  • High School Diploma or GED
  • Minimum of 7+ years' administrative support, with experience supporting positions that interacts with various levels of management.
  • Excellent professional verbal and written communication; understands nuance and adapts communication style based on audience and situation.
  • High attention to detail with ability to manage multiple competing priorities effectively.
  • Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite and related tools.
  • Ability to maintain confidentiality and handle sensitive information with discretion.
  • Proactive and decisive, with ability to take ownership and execute requests to completion.
  • Strong planning, organizational, time and project management skills to prioritize and coordinate workflow across multiple projects

This position requires a minimum of three days per week in office (Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday).

Salary Range: $50,240 - $75,360. In most cases, candidates offered employment can expect to be hired at a pay rate near the middle of our salary ranges.

About Land O'Lakes, Inc.

Join us and be part of a Fortune 250, farmer- and member-owned cooperative that is reimagining the business of food. We have been named a Top Workplace by Indeed and LinkedIn, and to the TIME 100 Most Influential Companies list.

Benefits for most full-time roles include medical, dental, vision, PTO, life & disability insurance, education assistance, a 401k and a variety of well-being resources. Most part-time employees are eligible for prorated PTO, holiday pay, employee development programs, prorated education assistance, and a 401(k).

Land O'Lakes, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE) M/F/Vets/Disabled. The company maintains a drug-free workforce, including post-employment substance abuse testing pursuant to a Drug and Alcohol Policy.

Neither Land O'Lakes, nor its search firms, will ever contact you and ask for confidential information over the phone or in email. If you receive a call or email like this, please do not provide the information being requested.

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Job Post Date: 10/18/25
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