Executive Admin Assistant at bioMrieux

We are looking for a highly organized, professional, and proactive individual to join our team as an Executive Administrative Assistant. This pivotal role demands a person who is not only well-versed in English and French, proactive attitude, intuitive decision-making, and rapid learning ability. The position will be based in Kenya or the Ivory Coast.

Responsibilities include:

• Manage and maintain executives’ schedules. Make travel arrangements for executives.
• Answer phone calls and direct calls to appropriate parties or take messages
• Communicating with Supervisors, Peers, or Subordinates — Providing information to supervisors, co-workers, and subordinates by telephone, in written form, e-mail, or in person.
• Establishing and Maintaining Interpersonal Relationships — Developing constructive and cooperative working relationships with others, and maintaining them over time.
• Organizing, Planning, and Prioritizing Work — Developing plans to prioritize, organize, and accomplish objectivesTrain and supervise junior clerical staff.

Profile: 

• An undergraduate degree
•  8 to 10 years of experience in an international environment

Required Skills/Abilities:

• Bilingual proficiency in French and English is a must
• Good relationship and presentation
• Good oral and written communication both in mother tongue and in English
• Good knowledge of bioMerieux, its organization and processes
• Discretion, sense of confidentiality
• Good sense of adaptation, strong organizational capacity, rigor, and method, ability to take on a heavy workload
• Ability to work in an international context
• Ability to work in a team
• Ability to acquire a relative knowledge of files and make connections between them
• Last but not least, good resistance to stress