Administrative Expert

On behalf of our client in the Life Science industry, Harvey Nash is looking for a Administrative Expert for a 9 month project in Switzerland.

The role

- Responsible for the independent delivery of profound administrative services in a local and a global context General administrative support: Independently takes care of general administrative tasks and maintains the administrative processes also in case of absence of the line manager/team members
- Interaction: Informs, advises and supports the team and associates from outside the team on processes, guidelines and services that are specific to the department
- Work processes in own area of responsibility: Supports optimization of current processes and/or introduction of new or modified processes
- Handling of administrative projects: Acts as a team member for administrative projects (eg organization of special events) and manages the administrative part of special tasks
- Guarantees a smooth adjustment to the job of new employees in the own area of responsibility
- Takes over supervising for colleagues in the administrative area (eg apprentices, new employees etc.)
- Makes customers and their needs a priority in daily work and ensures good service. Ready to take on new things. Adapts rapidly new requirements and situations and seeks for solutions. Keeps own professional skills up-to-date with job-relevant training

Requirements

- Commercial training (eg Swiss Association of Commercial Employees, business school) or equivalent (eg other vocational qualification, must have very good administrative skills/experience)
- Experience as Administrative Specialist or additional career training
- Good written and spoken English and German. Knowledge of other languages (eg French) advantageous

Are you available immediately, have experience working within a Life Science company? Please send your complete CV (Word documents preferred). For further details feel free to call me. Im looking forward to receiving your application.