Bring your passion, ideas, and purpose to life in a company that can truly help you achieve your full potential.
Join Abbott Rapid Diagnostics – Infectious Disease business, a world leader in point-of-care testing.
The Opportunity
We are recruiting for an Office and Project Manager to join our Rapid Diagnostics – Infectious Disease Business. The role would be based in Abbott House, Maidenhead, Berkshire, and would report to the General Manager UKI & Nordics.
What You’ll Do
As an Office & Project Manager, you will be responsible for coordinating administrative support related to purchasing and invoicing, office administration, internal and external events management, and project management. More specifically:
* Primary contact for raising purchase orders and managing invoicing.
* Coordinate vendor agreements including Master Service Agreements and Scope of Works (SOW), enroll vendors.
* Coordinate approval of expenses with procurement.
* Identify cost-reduction opportunities, manage suppliers, improve quality, review contracts, and enhance procurement processes.
* Set up procedures on purchasing to benefit the company in terms of cost reduction, quality, and delivery. Source and negotiate goods at reasonable prices, monitor inventory, and manage contract renewals.
* Schedule, organize, and monitor events such as congresses and business conferences/meetings.
* Arrange travel, hotel, and transportation requirements for customers at business events.
* Manage compliance documentation related to sales activities.
* Handle administration duties for the general manager, including expenses and travel arrangements.
* Support onboarding tasks and training for new joiners.
* Coordinate warehousing of sales support materials and ensure controls for managing promotional materials are in place.
* Coordinate key projects as required by the General Manager.
Required qualifications/Profile
* Bachelor’s Degree or diploma
* Relevant experience in a similar administrative role
* Proficiency in Microsoft Office and Outlook
* Excellent interpersonal skills
* Detail-oriented and thorough
* Strong collaboration skills and team spirit
* Effective communication skills, both verbal and written
* Efficient time management
* Problem-solving abilities and ability to work autonomously
* Ability to handle multiple tasks and projects
* Customer focus
As you’d expect from an innovative global healthcare company, we offer a competitive range of benefits including excellent salaries, a leading defined contribution pension scheme, private healthcare, life assurance, and a flexible benefits scheme.
Abbott is about the power of health. For more than 135 years, Abbott has been helping people reach their potential — because better health enables people and communities to achieve more. Joining us, you can shape your career as you shape the future of healthcare.
With a diverse, global network serving customers in more than 160 countries, we create new solutions across the spectrum of health, around the world, for all stages of life. Whether it’s next-generation diagnostics, life-changing devices, science-based nutrition, or novel reformulations, we are advancing some of the most innovative and revolutionary technologies in healthcare, helping people live their best lives through better health.
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