Senior Administrative Assistant (m/f/d) 60% to 100%

Our Support Functions deliver services and make recommendations about ways to enhance our workplace and the culture of our organization. Our Support Functions include HR, Finance, Information Technology, Legal, Procurement, Administration, Facilities and Security.

The Senior Administrative Assistant (m/f/d) 60% to 100% will be providing general administrative duties and project support to the EURAM Animal Health Finance Lead and broader Finance Leadership Team with the ability to produce/complete various work assignments requiring advanced analytical ability, independent judgment, creativity, and problem-solving skills under tight timelines.

The primary activities include and are not limited to the following:

• Complete a broad variety of administrative tasks by managing complex schedules/calendars, travel, expenses, planning, scheduling interviews, onboarding of new employees including training assignment

• Actively contribute to finance LT agenda planning across Europe, Middle East and Africa including scheduling, agenda and content generation, and documents gathering

• Manage departmental communication activities including but not limited to website/TeamSite, Town Halls, Surveys, Newsletters, organizational announcements, training deadlines, maintenance of distribution lists

• Coordinate headcount and training tracking for the entire department in collaboration with the LT members and provide workforce analytics contributing to the strategic HR initiatives of the department

• Identify, plan and implement structural improvement of administrative and business processes, including standardization & digital transformation

Your profile:

• Previous experience in a similar role with strong focus in administration

• Ability to prioritize and perform multiple tasks with great attention to detail and operate independently

• Ability to effectively communicate to a global organization and interact with our Company’s executives and their assistants as well as internal/external stakeholders both on-site and remotely

• Understanding of the proper handling of confidential and sensitive information and documents

• Ability to efficiently execute work activities requiring MS Office computer software and to quickly learn our Company’s internal systems

• Able to rapidly learn and apply our Company’s new technology systems and platforms to work duties (such as new videoconferencing, expense reporting, collaboration team spaces, workday)

• Strive for continuous improvement and pro-active problem-solving mindset

• Excellent command of the English language, in both word and writing

The greatest inventions would not be brought to market without the right project management and administrative support. Woven into every part of the organization, our Administrative teams makes sure our concepts become reality.

THE COMPANY

Our company has had a presence in Switzerland since 1963. With a regional office and manufacturing/packaging facility, Lucerne is considered the center of operations. Approximately 1,000 people work collaboratively at the four Lucerne locations (Tribschenstrasse, Citybay, Schachen and Kriens). A fifth location has been recently established in Zurich, aimed at accelerating the development and commercialization of many of our company’s medicines and vaccines, which supports our mission to save and improve lives around the world. The new location has a target date of 2021 for operational readiness.

We are proud to be certified as a “Top Employer Switzerland” and “Top Employer Europe” showing the company’s commitment to our employees and the community around us.

The Ring Center building located in Kriens is our Regional Headquarters for Europe, Middle East and Africa. Employees from 50 nations across the region bring their diverse backgrounds and experiences together to develop solutions that benefit all our patients. From this site we provide leadership and support to more than 70 local subsidiaries around the world.

Who we are …

We are known as Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, New Jersey, USA in the United States and Canada and MSD everywhere else. For more than a century, we have been inventing for life, bringing forward medicines and vaccines for many of the world’s most challenging diseases. Today, our company continues to be at the forefront of research to deliver innovative health solutions and advance the prevention and treatment of diseases that threaten people and animals around the world.

What we look for …

Imagine getting up in the morning for a job as important as helping to save and improve lives around the world. Here, you have that opportunity. You can put your empathy, creativity, digital mastery, or scientific genius to work in collaboration with a diverse group of colleagues who pursue and bring hope to countless people who are battling some of the most challenging diseases of our time. Our team is constantly evolving, so if you are among the intellectually curious, join us—and start making your impact today.

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Requisition ID:R220701