Azhia Taylor

Experience

1. Executive Administrative Assistant

   Lyell Immunopharma

   Aug 2019 — Present · Seattle, WA, US

   Provides high-level support for the COO/CTO, CIO, VPs of Manufacturing, Quality, CMC Supply Chain, Process Sciences and interim support for other VP’s and Director’s as needed• Ensuring administrative support for the LyFE Manufacturing Center – 100+ person facility, management of conference room bookings, arranging tours, coordinating onsite trainings, facilitating weekly lunches and any ad-hoc projects or requests• Anticipate the needs of my Executives and teams and proactively monitor and optimize complex calendars to ensure time is being leveraged and spent effectively and efficiently, meeting preparation and support, communication with appropriate stakeholders, tracking deliverables and following up on action items• Seamlessly coordinates small to large scale onsite/offsite meetings for the Senior Leadership Team • Ownership of organizing and executing monthly site engagement, morale and teambuilding events for all departments within Technical Operations and IT/IS across two states• Spearheaded organization and strategic oversight of quarterly companywide events: Volunteer Month, Summer Picnic, Friendsgiving, New Years Party; Pancakes & Pajamas, yearly Lyell Anniversary celebrations, Holiday parties and major milestone event celebrations• Manage, coordinate and prepare the Technical Operations New Hire Onboarding training programs• Executive support for the Talent Acquisition team supporting three Recruiting Directors • Scheduled over 430 candidate interview loops from 2020 to present• Obtained NDAs, managed candidate communications, arranged Hiring Manager calls, coordinating onsite and ZOOM interview schedules and hiring blitzes, arranging debriefs and reference checks• Accountable for coordinating and managing logistics for simple to complex travel itineraries and processing expense reports in a timely fashion• Planned, coordinated and executed the official launch and Go Live events for LyFE Manufacturing Center across three sites in two states