Kate Heinkel

About Kate Heinkel

Forward Thinking | Innovative | Tenacious | Highly Organized | Excellent…

Experience

1. Executive Assistant Ii to Vice President, Amazon Pharmacy & Pillpack Com

   Amazon

   Aug 2018 — Present

   Lead Executive Assistant (EA) for an EA team of seven serving 3,400+ employees (+hiring, training, inspiring and mentoring EAs to fulfill their career goals) • Manage multiple executives’ complex calendars over several time zones; expenses; travel • Create and drive leadership and team meeting agendas; capture and track action items • Manage and organize inputs from multiple teams and ensure timely deliverables • Organize monthly All Hands meetings; prepare PowerPoint presentations; manage speakers, room, tech and recordings Accomplishments • Assisted in the development of a mechanism that tracks hiring velocity vs headcount goals to establish timely data visibility • Invented a simplified access ticketing system reducing ~52 emails/day for each of six executive assistants • Mechanized All Hands meeting preparations reducing VP planning time • Served as Diversity & Inclusion Initiative support; scheduling meetings, updating goal tracker and resource quips, and capturing action items • Keeping a pulse on team culture and sentiment; designed and maintain mechanisms to foster and enrich healthy team culture and communication (e.g. monthly VP Q&A lunches and All Hands meetings, guest speakers, trainings, happy hours, newsletters)