Valencia Edwards-Phiri
Mckinney,Texas
Summary
With over 20 years of experience in administrative and project coordination, sales support, Human Resources, Procurement and UX/UI Design, I have excelled in streamlining processes, managing budgets, and delivering exceptional support to executive leaders and partners in the pharmaceutical and the financial industries.
Overview
24
24
years of professional experience
Work History
Executive Assistant
Micron Technology
08.2025 - Current
- Provide executive partnership support to the Corporate Vice President of the High Bandwidth Memory team. Proactively anticipating needs and ensuring seamless execution of priorities across multiple business functions.
- Serve as a strategic partner managing complex calendars, meetings, global travel, visa processing, passport renewals and communications in a fast-paced, high-volume environment with constant change.
- Innovate site culture for 235 employees to build team morale and community impact outreach events.
- Demonstrated ability to manage multiple tasks while remaining adaptable and flexible in rapid change.
- Responded quickly to meet customer needs and resolve problems.
- Manage Site budget for team building, recognition, wellness and other site events.
Sr. Principal Coordinator (Relo to Dallas)
Capital One
05.2018 - 01.2025
- Provide project and administrative support to Vice President and 4 Senior Directors of UX/UI Experience Design for Tools, Research, and Operations in McLean, Richmond, Texas and Chicago area with 160+ Associates.
- Optimized calendar management, resulting in a 94.1% increase in meeting efficiency and contributing to improved departmental productivity.
- Monitored associate DDP feedback metrics, identifying trends and implementing improvement initiatives, resulting in seamless on-boarding transitions and increased associate satisfaction.
- Monitor financial budget for XD offsite, team engagement, associate reward and recognition strategies to increase efficiencies.
- Improved on-boarding procedures, reducing process time by 81.2% resulting in enhanced new hire experience and increased productivity.
- I have excelled in our culture collective team our QI All calls and 6 WUT with 94% satisfaction rate, expertly managing logistics and fostering a welcoming environment to enchanted our culture of belonging.
- EPX Day registered 280 associates who volunteered for a community impact day of volunteering for nonprofits in South Dallas and McKinney.
- Lead planning and logistics for events, including annual PI and town hall meetings, conferences, and other stakeholders events.
Sr. Administrative Assistant/Project Coordinator
Grainger
06.2016 - 05.2018
- Provide administrative support and act as Indirect Procurement project coordinator for VP, Sr. Directors of Indirect Procurement and Pricing.
- Compose, modify and proofread correspondence, reports or presentation from general instruction or based on knowledge of business unit.
- Maintain professional working relationship with vendors, review invoices for accuracy ensuring assets are well maintained.
- Organize and train new hire on P2P (Procure to Pay) System.
- Optimized office procedures, resulting in a 94.8% increase in efficiency for managing administrative details, streamlining processes and improving overall productivity.
- Track department expenses, rebates and request journal entries on GL budget department accounts.
- Process preferred supplier rebate checks account, set up score cards, and temp labor agreements.
- Process supplier match rebates to calculate potential rebate credits for different business units.
- Streamlined communication and information dissemination by creating and consolidating PowerPoint decks for a range of important meetings, resulting in increased productivity and engagement.
- Create an admin manual and workflow map and streamline process.
- Maintain highest level of confidential, drive process improvement, building a strong admin community and resources.
Sr. Administrative Coordinator
Amgen (Layoff)
06.2014 - 06.2016
- Provide administrative and project support to 3 Regional Sales Directors of Enbrel and Epogen blockbuster drugs 210+ Sales Representatives throughout Midwest, West and Northeast territories.
- Manage calendars, travel arrangements, conference calls, and maintain regional departmental files for sales force.
- On-Board 160+ Inventive and Quintiles top performer sales reps for Rheumatology business unit in Salesforce.
- Manage and track American Express Corporate Card transactions and expense reporting for the marketing team.
- Coordinate sales training and mass communication to regional territories and corporate office.
- Retrieve radar sales forecast and publish mass communication across the different regions.
- Staffing Coordinator schedule interviews, flights, hotel, and ground transportation for candidates.
- Created a New hire on-board manual for Reps, Regional Director’s and Administrative Coordinator on SharePoint.
- Facilitate new hire orientation process I-9 forms via E-verify assist with direct deposit and benefits.
- Coordinate candidate screenings sourcing, pre-employment screens, candidate expense, deploy offer, relocation and contact for ADP HireRight.
Administrative Assistant II
AbbVie (A Spin Off from Abbott Laboratories)
09.2010 - 06.2014
- Provide support to the Sr. Vice President, 4 Directors and 200+ Sales Reps of Neuroscience Parkinson’s Dopamine Brand Sales team.
- Department Ambassador for Parkinson Corporate Sponsorships, Guest Speakers Patient Advocates, statement of work and purchase orders.
- Create mail mergers distribution list, brand launch calendar, org chart and FAQ flow charts.
- Process Corporate sponsorship grants for Chicago Moving Day 5K, Duopa Day, and Brand Kick off.
- Manage and track, reconcile corporate card transactions and expense reporting for Marketing brand team.
- Manage and update SharePoint with Org charts, announcements, anniversaries, birthdays, and Global Brand Launch dates.
- Patient Advocate coordinator for Parkinson’s Awareness speaker programs and Duopa Coordinator.
- Process ACR’s for offsite team building event, venue contracts, corporate sponsorship and memberships.
- Assist with coordination of booth location, booth logistics and sponsorship participation, conference registration and coordinate event debrief to review feedback survey.
- Maintaining a comprehensive calendar that encompasses all aspects of your life, including your children’s school events, social engagements, corporate travel itineraries, doctor’s appointments, and personal dates to achieve a better work-life balance.
- Prepare external stakeholders Bio for external meetings.
- Completed STAR admin training with over 5 years of C-suite experience as backup to Divisional Corporate officer.
Human Resource Assistant
Abbott Laboratories
11.2001 - 09.2010
- Updated employee profiles via AIMS for status changes to include active, terminated, FMLA and LOA.
- Boosted productivity by organizing and maintaining team training records, leading to enhanced compliance and more effective employee development.
- Efficiently recovered over $145K in outstanding debts through the implementation of a streamlined reconciliation process, improving cash flow and financial stability.
- Receive, track and route all inbound Tier 1-3 employee relation calls to managers.
- Processed new employee relocation expenses, sign-on bonus checks, vehicle buy out and VP spot awards.
- Managed the efficient processing of X separation forms for FMLA, LOA, STD, and LTD submission, promoting smooth transitions for employees and minimizing administrative errors.
- Managed highly sensitive employee HR documents with utmost confidentiality, establishing trust and security.
- Maintain professional and healthy working environment sourcing fun events for our team.
Education
BA - Business Management - International Business
Columbia College of Missouri
Skills
- ADP HireRight management
- Strong problem solver
- Schedule & calendar planning
- Meticulous attention to detail
- Google Suite
- Concur
- Sox
- Sales Force
Timeline
Executive Assistant
Micron Technology
08.2025 - Current
Sr. Principal Coordinator (Relo to Dallas)
Capital One
05.2018 - 01.2025
Sr. Administrative Assistant/Project Coordinator
Grainger
06.2016 - 05.2018
Sr. Administrative Coordinator
Amgen (Layoff)
06.2014 - 06.2016
Administrative Assistant II
AbbVie (A Spin Off from Abbott Laboratories)
09.2010 - 06.2014
Human Resource Assistant
Abbott Laboratories
11.2001 - 09.2010
BA - Business Management - International Business
Columbia College of Missouri