Administrative Assistant

As a world market leader in crop protection, we help farmers to counter threats and ensure enough safe, nutritious, affordable food is available for all – while minimizing the use of land and other agricultural inputs. Syngenta Crop Protection keeps plants safe from planting to harvesting. From the moment a seed is planted through to harvest, crops need to be protected from weeds, insects and diseases as well as droughts and floods, heat and cold. Syngenta Crop Protection is headquartered in Switzerland.

About this opportunity:

We are looking for an enthusiastic and friendly individual to provide a timely, positive, and effective service to the multi-disciplinary teams based at the Manchester Office. The role will sit within a small team, providing administrative and operational support to ensure the smooth day-to-day running of the site. This is a dynamic and varied role which provides excellent customer service both internally and externally, to multiple stakeholders.

You will be accountable for:

The role will include administrative support, event management and communications, interfacing with colleagues within the Manchester office and in other global locations.

• To provide effective administrative support for the Manchester Office
• To support the smooth running of site functions
• To ensure effective site communication, using various collaboration tools including emails, Teams, Yammer
• To be responsible for the tidiness and restocking of stationery for the site, including meeting rooms
• On request to arrange meetings and events, including booking venues, transport and catering, and keeping accurate records.
• To support with onboarding process for New Starters.
• To Raise accurate purchase orders, being aware of relevant information needed to create orders successfully.

Skillset required for the role.

Essential Knowledge & Experience:

• Able to develop good working relationships with the community in Manchester and quickly become familiar with activities where they can provide effective support.
• Good working knowledge and understanding of Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Share point, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook)
• Good communicator with excellent interpersonal skills
• Strong organisational, planning and time management skills.
• Commitment to providing a responsive and helpful service.
• Ability to manage multiple tasks, e.g., support with onboarding new starters, arranging social events and meetings.
• Ability to work independently and use own initiative.

Preferred Knowledge & Experience:

• Awareness of Agrichemical industry
• Good keyboard skills
• Experience in creating communications and sharing via social media platforms, e.g., Yammer, LinkedIn

• Minimum GCSE English and Maths or equivalent

Based in Didsbury, Manchester. This is a hybrid working role, with minimum three days in the Office.

Whilst this role offers a competitive base pay, at Syngenta we value total reward which includes the benefits we offer to our employees. We support well-being, offering comprehensive benefits including flexible working, generous holiday entitlement, discretionary bonus scheme, competitive pension scheme, private medical insurance & an employee assistance programme.

In return for your skills and knowledge Syngenta will offer:

• Competitive benefits package
• Up to 31.5 days holiday
• The opportunity to work with and learn from highly qualified and experienced employees

• A Multi-country / multi-cultural matrix environment

We embrace and encourage diversity, and this is what drives our innovation and lets us outperform the market. https://www.syngenta.com/careers/working-syngenta/diversity-and-inclusion

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