Administrative Assistant

Eurofins Scientific is an international life sciences company, providing a unique range of analytical testing services to clients across multiple industries, to make life and our environment safer, healthier and more sustainable. From the food you eat, to the water you drink, to the medicines you rely on, Eurofins laboratories work with the biggest companies in the world to ensure the products they supply are safe, their ingredients are authentic, and labelling is accurate.

Eurofins is dedicated to delivering testing services that contribute to the health and safety of society and the planet, and to its corporate responsibility to protect the environment and ensure diversity, equity, and inclusion across the entire network of Eurofins companies.

As an Administrative Assistant, you will provide high-level administrative support to several executive leaders within the organization. You will ensure that all administrative tasks are completed accurately, efficiently, and to a high standard of quality. This role is varied and dynamic, requiring excellent organizational and communication skills.

Key Responsibilities:

• Manage multiple calendars and coordinate schedules
• Perform general clerical duties such as filing, photocopying, organizing, and digitalizing documents
• Draft, edit, and format various texts and documents, including correspondence, invitations, and organizational charts
• Process purchase requests and other transactions, and follow up on necessary approvals
• Assist the Recruitment team by scheduling interviews and meetings
• Support review processes by tracking documents and approvals
• Assist in organizing internal events and global meetings
• Support ad hoc projects and provide backup to other administrative assistants when needed
• Handle basic office management tasks (e.g., coffee machine maintenance, toner replacements, IT supplies)

• Bachelor’s degree
• Excellent command of English (written and spoken) and French
• Proficient in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Internet Explorer)
• Highly proactive and resourceful
• Strong attention to detail and a commitment to accuracy
• Dependable, trustworthy, and discreet, with the ability to maintain confidentiality
• Flexible and capable of managing multiple tasks simultaneously
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills

We support your development! Do you feel you don’t match 100% of the requirements? Don’t hesitate to apply anyway! Eurofins companies are committed to supporting your career development.

We embrace diversity!  As an Equal Opportunity Employer, the Eurofins network of companies believes in strength and innovation through diversity. We prohibit discrimination against employees or applications based on gender identity and/or expression, race, nationality, age, religion, sexual orientation, disability, and everything else that makes employees of Eurofins companies unique.

Sustainability matters to us!  We are well on our way to achieving our objective of carbon neutrality by 2025, through a combination of emission reduction and compensation initiatives. We encourage our laboratory leaders to make sustainable changes at their local level, and in addition to their initiatives we count on our dedicated carbon reduction team to help us to achieve this goal!

Find out more on our Careers page: https://careers.eurofins.com/

Company description: Eurofins Scientific is an international life sciences company, providing a unique range of analytical testing services to clients across multiple industries, to make life and our environment safer, healthier and more sustainable. From the food you eat, to the water you drink, to the medicines you rely on, Eurofins laboratories work with the biggest companies in the world to ensure the products they supply are safe, their ingredients are authentic and labelling is accurate.

The Eurofins network of companies believes that it is a global leader in food, environment, pharmaceutical and cosmetic product testing and in discovery pharmacology, forensics, advanced material sciences and agroscience contract research services. It is also one of the market leaders in certain testing and laboratory services for genomics, and in the support of clinical studies, as well as in biopharma contract development and manufacturing. It also has a rapidly developing presence in highly specialised and molecular clinical diagnostic testing and in-vitro diagnostic products.

In over 37 years, Eurofins has grown from one laboratory in Nantes, France to ca. 63,000 staff across a decentralised and entrepreneurial network of more than 950 laboratories in over 1,000 companies across 60 countries. Eurofins companies offer a portfolio of over 200,000 analytical methods to evaluate the safety, identity, composition, authenticity, origin, traceability and purity of biological substances and products.

In 2024, Eurofins generated total revenues of EUR 6.95 billion, and has been among the best performing stocks in Europe over the past 20 years.