Administrative Assistant

Accountabilities

The role will include administrative support, event management and communications, interfacing with colleagues within the Asia Hub - Bangkok office and in other global and regional locations.

• To provide effective administrative support for the Asia Hub - Bangkok Office
• To support Head of Business for all administrative and business organizational works with confidentiality
• To support the smooth running of the office operations
• To ensure effective communications, using various collaboration tools including emails, Teams, Viva Engage
• To be responsible for coordination of supply activities for office consumables (stationery, cleaning supplies, kitchen supplies, etc.), follow up third party services and seeking for improvement on the services
• 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 for procurement process requirements on SAP and Ariba
• To support visitors from abroad for travel planning and organization
• Act as a contact point of Asia Hub – Bangkok office for any logistical matters

As a world market leader in crop protection, we help farmers to counter these threats and ensure enough safe, nutritious, affordable food 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.

Essential Knowledge & Experience:

• Able to develop good working relationships with the community in Thailand 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 organizational, 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 event management skills
• Experience in creating communications and sharing via social media platforms, e.g., Viva Engage, LinkedIn
• Good level of written and spoken English, knowledge of second language is preferred.
• Good level of MS Office programs, SAP- Ariba knowledge is preferred
• Good communication skills
• Solution oriented mindset

Set direction:

• Execution of planned and scheduled tasks
• Well time planning and high coordination skills

Create edge:

• Seeking improvement ideas on his/her scope
• Carry out of business discipline

Drive results:

• Customer focus
• Solution oriented on his/her working area

Liberate potential:

• Open to collaborate with different functions
• Working align with procedures and rules

Set direction:

• Execution of planned and scheduled tasks
• Well time planning and high coordination skills

Create edge:

• Seeking improvement ideas on his/her scope
• Carry out of business discipline

Drive results:

• Customer focus
• Solution oriented on his/her working area

Liberate potential:

• Open to collaborate with different functions
• Working align with procedures and rules

Based in Bangkok, Thailand. 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 program.

In return for your skills and knowledge Syngenta will offer:

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

• A Multi-country / multi-cultural matrix environment