Administration Assistant

About Abbott

Abbott creates breakthrough products – in diagnostics, medical devices, nutrition, and branded generic pharmaceuticals – that help you, your family, and your community lead healthier lives, full of unlimited possibilities. 

Your role

This role is a critical administrative and coordination role supporting a sales team. This role will work closely with the Sales Director and their sales team to provide support including meeting coordination, making domestic travel bookings, filing and other general admin duties.

Your Responsibilities include (and not limited to):

• Perform administrative duties to support the team including meeting coordination, making domestic travel bookings, filing and other general admin duties
• Update and maintain information systems, databases, records, files and confidential documents, taking into consideration company policies, compliance and audit procedures
• Manage POs, invoices and vendor set-up in a timely manner and follow up to ensure compliance guidelines met
• Assist in the preparation of meetings, training courses and conferences as required
• Provide support to the field Key Account Management team
• Process sample order requests from the field Key Account Management team and own sample process including monthly reporting process
• Assist in booking domestic travel and hotels for respective sales teams within company guidelines
• Collaborate with other Coordinators across the ANI ANZ business
• Assist with ad hoc requirements and projects as required.

Training & development

As an Abbott professional, you’ll work in a dynamic environment that:

• Fosters your growth through comprehensive learning
• Recognizes and rewards your contributions through competitive compensation to align your work with business success
• Values and encourages diversity 
• Provides you with meaningful work and gives you the opportunity to have an impact on the lives of people across the world

Benefits

Abbott's mission is to help people fulfil their potential through health, and that starts with you. Here are some of the benefits that you can take advantage of as an Abbott employee:

1. Company Share Ownership Plan
2. Generous Parental Leave package
3. Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

Career progression

Discovering the power of mentorship can help unlock your professional potential. Finding a leader you admire and tapping their experience and perspectives will help you define goals and shape your career. Mentorship combines trust, encouragement, and honesty to help people find their authentic voices and define their leadership styles.

Work-life balance

To help its people take care of themselves and their families, Abbott offers employee and retiree medical coverage, health and wellness programs, workplace flexibility, childcare, and eldercare solutions along with other innovative benefits.

Culture & vibe

Abbott believes advancing diversity is critical because they know varied perspectives inspire new ways to address challenges. That helps them serve its purpose, translating into better life-changing technologies that help people live their healthiest lives.

To know more about what life's like at Abbott, watch this video:

About you

Here's what Abbott is looking for in this role:

• Tertiary qualifications in business, commerce or Marketing
• Previous administrative experience in a similar role
• Ability to organise and prioritise workload with strong time management skills
• Attention to detail
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Strong interpersonal skills, with the ability to build and maintain relationships
• Ability to work as part of a team
• Advanced Microsoft Office skills; general exposure to, or willingness to learn key digital tools

Due to the inherent requirements of the role, the preferred candidate must provide evidence of full COVID-19 vaccination before the commencement date and maintain a fully vaccinated status for the period of employment.

How to apply

To apply for this role, simply click the "Apply on employer site" button on this page to submit your application directly to Abbott Australia.

Source

The following sources were used in researching this page:

• aus.abbott/careers/benefits.html