Executive Assistant

Job Purpose

 

The Executive Assistant provides organizational, secretarial and administrative support the CEO/CFO and efficiently manages the busy schedule and mailbox and structure the daily work.

 

Job Position

 

The Executive Assistant reports to the CEO/CFO.

 

Job Responsibilities

 

Your responsibilities will include:

 

  • Acting as a first point of contact: dealing with correspondence and phone calls
  • Managing agenda’s and organizing meetings and appointments
  • Keeping minutes, monitor progress as and send reminders
  • Coordinate and book all travel, including flights, hotels  etc
  • Organizing events and meetings, including planning, logistics and follow-up
  • Compiling and preparing reports, presentations and correspondence
  • Implementing and maintaining procedures/administrative systems
  • liaising with staff, suppliers and clients
  • Archive management and performing office management tasks
     

Travelling to European entities on regular basis may be required

Function

Executive Assistant

Location

the Netherlands, Rotterdam Apply now

About you

Competences

 

The Executive Assistant is service oriented and well organized and has a proactive attitude. The ability to work in a fast-paced culture where multitasking and hands-on collaboration and communication are critical to success. The Executive Assistant is able to keep an overview and know how to prioritize the work. The Executive Assistant enjoys balancing numerous responsibilities at once and can shift focus when needed. It is no problem to finish tasks under deadlines and you can logically consider problems and easily come up with potential solutions.

 

Knowledge/Skills/Experience

 

  • English: strong written and verbal skills, additional knowledge of Dutch is a bonus
  • Bachelor level acquired through either education or experience
  • Minimum 5 years relevant experience
  • Knowledge of MS Office and Outlook

We offer

 

  • A competitive salary, a company pension scheme, and other benefits.
  • A multi-faceted challenge in a successful, multinational chemical distributor.
  • Fully catered lunch, every working day;
  • An inspiring working atmosphere in a stable company.
  • A collaborative culture where you work closely with a diverse and talented team across Europe.
  • Health is important to us! Exercise at a discount through Urban Sports Club.
  • We care about the mental well-being of our employees with free and unlimited access to OpenUp.

About us

Because we care, we touch the lives of hundreds of thousands of people every day. We inspire innovative and sustainable distribution solutions in life and material sciences for the food, pharma, personal care and industrial product formulation markets of the world. Our solutions, carefully sourced and customized to specifications whenever required, are backed by outstanding research & development, customer service, and technical & regulatory support, ensuring that they meet precisely determined needs at every stage of the value chain. Across 43 countries in Europe, Latin America, North America and Asia-Pacific, our approximately 4,000 employees go the extra mile day in, day out, to deliver added-value solutions for our customers. In our activities, we embrace the principles of sustainability, designing products, services and processes with these in mind. From formulation to delivery, from ingredient to packing, from supplier to customer, we care about every detail of what we do. Because every detail is in our care.