Executive Assistant

Join us and celebrate the beauty of human experience. Create for happier, healthier lives, with love for nature. Together, with kindness and humility, we deliver food innovations, craft inspired fragrances and develop beauty and wellbeing solutions that make people look and feel good. There’s much to learn and many to learn from, with more than 16,000 employees around the world to explore ideas and ambitions with. Dive into varied, flexible, and stimulating environments. Meet empowered professionals to partner with, befriend, and stretch your skills alongside. Every day, your energy, your creativity, and your determination will shape our future, making a positive difference on billions of people. Every essence of you enriches our world. We are Givaudan. Human by nature.  

Executive Assistant - Your future role?

As an Executive Assistant in Vernier, you will provide multiple administrative support to the Head of Global IT and IT Management team and ensure smooth coordination of specific events.

You will report to the Head of Global IT.

 

Your main responsibilities:

• Administration: management of specific written communications, calendars, travels, and provide multiple support to the Head of Global IT and IT management team, including preparation of meetings and required materials

• Organising and Scheduling: leading the organisation of several IT main global events such as management committees, in charge of preparing the agenda, preparing meeting presentations and coordinating invitations and arranging logistics.

• Interdepartmental liaison: build relationships with the IT all partners to coordinate the necessary activities, update the IT management team on upcoming activities and communicate progress on tasks.

• Other ad-hoc projects upon request and act as back-up to the Executive Assistant of Givaudan Business Solutions

 

You have:

• Swiss CFC diploma or university degree

• 3+ years of experience in a similar position within a multinational company

• Fluent in English, both written and spoken

• Proficiency in French is a plus

• Good sense of prioritisation and communication to deal with all levels in the organisation

• Treat confidential information

• Foresighted to anticipate possible issues

• Customer and Service oriented

• Autonomous

• Collaboration spirit

• Proficient in managing every collaboration tools: emails, Microsoft office

 

Our benefits:

• Healthcare support

• Career development opportunities

• Paid Time Off and family leave

• Retirement plan

• Sport and leisure clubs

• Company shop

• Staff restaurant

 

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At Givaudan, you contribute to delightful taste and scent experiences that touch people’s lives.
You work within an inspiring teamwork culture – where you can thrive, collaborate and learn from other talented and passionate people across disciplines, regions and divisions.
Every essence of you enriches our world.
Givaudan is committed to equal opportunities. Therefore, we welcome applications regardless of cultural and social background, gender, age, religion or sexual identity. 
We also have a safe working environment, progressive working conditions and are certified as an equal pay employer.