Executive Assistant

Columbia Sportswear Company • Portland, OR

4d • Onsite

About The Position

As one of Columbia Sportswear’s Executive Assistants, you’ll be the right hand to the company’s executive leaders. You’ll be relied on to balance a broad scope of administrative functions, confidential communications, and proprietary information. Your scope of work will include secretarial ownership, management of routine office matters, and coordination & engagement on special projects.

Requirements

• High school or equivalent degree.
• 5+ years’ work experience providing senior level administrative support in progressively responsible positions.
• Highly proficient in MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote/Drive) with an ability to create presentations using PowerPoint and/or other presentation software.
• Strong familiarity with calendaring, event planning, simultaneously manage & support multiple projects, and understanding what motivates people and teams.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in a publicly held company highly desired.
• Experience managing expense reporting strongly preferred.

Responsibilities

• Drive cross‑functional alignment by connecting numerous teams that all support DTC. For example: Marketing, Merchandising, Ops, Finance, Real Estate, Analytics, eCommerce, Planning & Allocation and Tech to keep priorities, timelines, and decisions moving smoothly across all functions.
• Anticipate business needs by understanding DTC rhythms (launch cycles, promotional calendars, inventory flows, customer insights).
• Protect executive focus through strategic calendar management that prioritizes revenue‑driving work, partner alignment, and decision‑making moments.
• High level management of complex ever changing calendars for multiple executives
• Enable fast, clear communication across teams by synthesizing updates, surfacing risks, and ensuring leaders have the right context at the right time.
• Lead operational excellence by owning business cadences, leadership meetings, offsites, and cross‑functional workflows that keep the DTC Org running.
• Excellence in event coordination, resourcefulness, and organization is critical to operating effectively and supporting the team at a high level.
• Build strong partner relationships to influence without authority and ensure seamless collaboration across functions.
• Identify gaps and streamline processes & meetings to reduce friction, improve speed, and support a high‑velocity retail environment.
• Model judgment, discretion, and calm in a fast-moving, customer‑centric business where priorities shift quickly.
• Coordinate varying styles of meetings including but not limited to: department meetings, staff meetings, onsite/offsite meetings etc.

Benefits

• At Columbia Sportswear Company, we’re proud to offer regular full-time employees a benefits package that includes a variety of services and products to help make your life and work more rewarding.
• Our benefit programs contribute to overall employee well-being by aligning those programs with the fundamental elements of well-being: physical, social/emotional, financial, career and community.
• Benefits that can protect your family’s financial future and help you save money through our 401k plan plus a generous company match.
• Columbia offers medical, dental, vision, life Insurance, disability, flexible spending accounts, health savings account, and an assortment of voluntary benefit offerings (accident, critical illness, hospital indemnity, and legal services).
• In addition, Columbia offers EAP + which is free and confidential 24/7/365 counseling services.
• We have extensive wellness benefits, employee discounts and a generous time off program available.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: High school or GED