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Location: Lakeland, FL
Job ID: 39472BR
Job Category: Administrative Support
Working Hours: Monday - Friday; 8:00am - 4:30pm
Pay Frequency: Weekly
Pay Range: $19 - $26
Date Posted: Nov 05, 2026

$38 - 53k

Onsite

Full Time - Regular

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Description

The purpose of this position is to perform administrative functions for the Director of Real Estate Assets and provide administrative management support and guidance on various areas (e.g., paid time off (PTO), payroll) to associates on the real estate assets team.

This position impacts Publix as the Director of Real Estate Assets needs a knowledgeable, reliable, and trustworthy assistant to ensure administrative needs will be handled in an accurate, timely and confidential manner as well as ensuring that Real Estate Assets administrative functions are performed with accuracy and timeliness as it pertains to the department’s hiring, onboarding, time administration, payroll, etc. while providing administrative guidance to keep the department compliant with corporate and department policies.

Primary Responsibilities

• Providing administrative support to the director of RE assets.
• Overseeing/administering administrative actions for payroll submittals and timekeeping.
• Overseeing/administering the administrative actions of onboarding and offboarding to ensure that associates are managed according to the department’s processes and actions are completed in a timely manner.
• Collaborating with the RE Assets VP Administrative Assistant, Employment Office (EO), and sub-department team coordinators to fill new or vacated positions.
• Managing (e.g., maintaining, generating, disseminating) the creation and publication of the Federal Information Processing Standard-county codes (FIPS) Territory Responsibility Spreadsheet (i.e., RE Territory list) and territory maps, which depict territory responsibility as a visual aid to internal department users (via an internal SharePoint page) and external customers (e.g., developers, possible future retailer tenants) on the Publix Real Estate webpage.
• Managing, maintaining, and publishing the RE Assets’ Company Controlled Territory List spreadsheet, used as a reference for company-owned locations for RE assets, RE accounting-BAR, and facilities services.
• Serving as back up for the Vice President’s assistant by completing tasks assigned by RE Assets Vice President and providing support on various relevant areas/topics, when needed.
• Providing additional departmental support for various items and general operations, as needed.

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Required Qualifications

• High school diploma or equivalent experience (if applicable)
• 3 years’ experience as an administrative assistant
• Problem solving
• Interpersonal skills
• Written and verbal communication
• Flexibility/adaptability
• Independence
• Microsoft Word
• Microsoft Excel
• Microsoft PowerPoint
• SharePoint

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Preferred Qualifications

• Associate’s degree in business or another analytical discipline
• 5 years’ experience with Publix, including 3 years’ experience within Publix Real Estate
• Notary Certification
• Knowledge of corporate and real estate policies, practices, and methodology.
• Knowledge of department position/personnel movements, onboarding/ offboarding, and departmental documents/lists.
• Knowledge of the position transfer forms completion process for salaried and hourly associate.
• Knowledge to correspond with HR Org Management team to request updates to RE Assets SAP Org structure.
• Oasis
• TPASS (Time/ Personnel Administrator Self Service)
• Manage Time Off Requests
• BrassRing
• Visio
• Alteryx Gallery

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Benefits

• Employee stock ownership plan that contributes Publix stock to associates each year at no cost
• An opportunity to purchase additional shares of our privately-held stock
• 401(k) retirement savings plan
• Group health, dental and vision plans
• Paid Time Off
• Paid Parental Leave
• Short- and long-term disability insurance
• Tuition reimbursement
• Free hot lunches (buffet-style) at facilities with a cafeteria
• Visit our website to see all of our benefits: Benefits – Jobs (publix.com)

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Year End Bonus

To reward associates for their contributions to the company for the calendar year, Publix provides a Holiday Bonus in November.

In the first year of continuous employment the bonus is equal to 15 hours of pay, and in the second year of continuous employment the bonus is equal to one week’s pay if associate remains employed through issue date of the bonus check.

In subsequent years, the bonus is equal to two weeks’ pay.

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Additional Information

Your application may have additional steps that you will need to complete in order to remain eligible for consideration. Please be sure to monitor your email, including your spam folder, on a daily basis for critical, time-sensitive emails that could require action within 24-48 hours.

Please do not use your Publix email address when applying. Once your application has been successfully submitted you will receive a confirmation email.

For this position, Publix does not and will not file a petition or application with the USCIS or Department of State on behalf of any noncitizen for any immigration-related benefit to work and/or to continue to work in the United States, e.g., an H-1B or TN petition or permanent residence.

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