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Sr Executive Assistant (E)-June 2024
Manchester
Jun 30, 2025
ABOUT THERMO FISHER SCIENTIFIC
As the world’s leader in serving science, at Thermo Fisher Scientific, our professionals develop critical solutions—and build rewarding careers.
10,000+ employees
Biotechnology, Manufacturing
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About Sr Executive Assistant (E)

  Job Description

  As a Senior Executive Assistant you will be at the centre of fast-paced growth, using your stellar office and project management skills to support the President, EMEA. You'll use discretion and diplomacy while working with partners across the company, and your proficiency in time management, logistics planning, organization, and attention to detail will ensure perfect execution of multiple priorities.

  This opportunity will be site-based either within our UK, France, Spain, Belgium, Italy or Nordic sites.

  What will you do?

  • Ensure the President gets where they need to be on time through meeting scheduling and the arrangement of complex global, multi-city travel

  • Develop understanding of business priorities and goals for EMEA; using your knowledge and understanding to prioritize meeting requests

  • Schedule and coordinate complex executive meetings, bringing together geographically dispersed teams, running logistics, and detailing follow-up activities

  • Collaborate and form relationships to get results in a global-matrixed organization experiencing change and transformation

  • Complete projects and special assignments by establishing objectives, figuring out priorities, managing time, gaining cooperation of others, supervising progress and problem-solving

  • Research, compile, summarize, and analyze information to make decisions, find answers,

  and respond to various inquiries from internal and external customers

  • Utilize the full suite of Microsoft office products to prepare high quality correspondence,

  reports, and presentations

  • Handle expense reporting, process vendor invoices, and support annual budget process

  • Personally deal with many matters and questions, including answering substantive questions requiring technical knowledge, but can often require research and follow up

  • Proactively manage projects/deliverables/due dates, following up with project owners, key stakeholders, and employees as needed to meet assigned due dates successfully

  • Attend meetings and prepare

  minutes

  • Demonstrate both the flexibility and adaptability required to meet the dynamic nature of

  the business

  • Maintain confidential files and records

  • Coordinate with other Executive Assistants and Administrative Staff to cover

  the area that is unavailable due to illness, vacation or other special circumstances.

  • Occasional travel coordination support after hours and on weekends

  Who we are looking for:

  

  • Strong experience gained as an Executive Assistant within a very fast paced, professional large matrixed organisation providing direct C-level support

  • Demonstrated experience in working independently to identify, analyze, and solve problems with creative solutions

  • Reliability and discretion

  • Proactive and thoughtful planning and excellent communication both verbal and written

  • Strong organizational skills with ability to anticipate what needs to be completed

  • Trustworthy with sensitive information

  • Skilled and experienced in the art of organization and time management to balance multiple priorities with competing deadlines

  • Excellent judgment, tact, and diplomacy skills in dealing with customers as well handling

  highly confidential and proprietary information

  • Flexible and adaptable, with the ability to respond to lastminute changes while

  maintaining poise and a positive "can do" attitude

  • Extensive international travel management with VISA administration experience.

  • Expert level skills in all Microsoft office suite products, including Power Point, Excel, Outlook, Visio

  Experience with Workday

  • Experience working with Concur would be preferable

  About Thermo Fisher Scientific

  Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. (NYSE: TMO) is the world leader in serving science, with annual revenue of approximately $40 billion. Our Mission is to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. Whether our customers are accelerating life sciences research, solving complex analytical challenges, increasing productivity in their laboratories, improving patient health through diagnostics or the development and manufacture of life-changing therapies, we are here to support them. Our global team of more than 100,000 colleagues delivers an unrivaled combination of innovative technologies, purchasing convenience and pharmaceutical services through our industry-leading brands, including Thermo Scientific, Applied Biosystems, Invitrogen, Fisher Scientific, Unity Lab Services, Patheon and PPD. For more information, please visit www.thermofisher.com.

  

  Apply today!

  https://jobs.thermofisher.com

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