Senior Associate, Operational Excellence - Process & Admin

Palladium: Make It Possible; Arlington (VA); Hybrid; USD 75,000 - 80,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Job summary

Palladium, based in Arlington, VA, is seeking a Senior Associate, Operational Excellence, to support executive management and cross-functional teams. This hybrid role blends in-office collaboration with remote work, offering a base salary in the mid-to-upper range and exposure to process excellence, HR, contracts, and legal functions.

You will coordinate priorities with the VP and provide administrative and project support across Process Excellence, HR, Contracts, and Legal, while helping

Qualifications

• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
• Ability to juggle multiple tasks and changing priorities.
• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail.
• Proactive, independent worker with collaborative mindset.
• Familiarity with Teams, SharePoint, and Excel is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Provide day-to-day administrative, coordination, and project support to the VP, Operational Excellence.
• Process invoices, organize files, develop templates, maintain shared resources, ensure accessibility.
• Serve as liaison between internal stakeholders to support timely information flow and aligned decisions.
• Maintain trackers, schedules, agendas, meeting notes, and action items across functions.
• Support projects, proposals, policy updates, process improvements, and corporate priorities.
• Assist with internal and external communications and data collection.
• Identify and implement practical improvements to tools, templates, workflows, and processes.
• Provide meeting, workshop, and event support including logistics, materials, and budget tracking.
• Perform other duties as required.

Skills

Interpersonal skills

Multitasking

Organizational skills

Communication

Independence

Team collaboration

Tools

Microsoft Teams

SharePoint

Excel

Job description

Palladium, based in Arlington, VA, is seeking a Senior Associate, Operational Excellence, to support executive management and cross-functional teams. This hybrid role blends in-office collaboration with remote work, offering a base salary in the mid-to-upper range and exposure to process excellence, HR, contracts, and legal functions.

You will coordinate priorities with the VP and provide administrative and project support across Process Excellence, HR, Contracts, and Legal, while helping