Group Executive Assistant
Company Overview
Swiss-based Aryzta is an international food business with a leading position in frozen B2B bakery business in Europe and APAC.
Aryzta’s customer channels consist of grocery, convenience, quick service restaurants, bakeries and foodservice. Listed on the Swiss stock exchange, Aryzta employs around 8,000 people today with, in FY23, a revenue of EUR 2.
12 bn and an EBITDA margin of 12.8%.
Aryzta Europe (approx. EUR 1.87 bn) has leading market positions in the bakery markets in Switzerland, Germany, Japan, Ireland, the UK, the Netherlands, Hungary, Poland, Denmark, Spain, Sweden, Romania and other European countries.
The vision of Aryzta is to be the preferred partner for in store bakery solutions in four channels :
- Grocery
- Convenience
- Quick Service Restaurants
- Bakeries and Foodservice
To realize our vision the value proposition and promise to our customers is to deliver the gold standard for in store bake off solutions with focus on seven categories :
- Bread
- Rolls
- Croissant
- Pastry
- Savoury
- American Bakery
- Buns
The dimensions and key value drivers to deliver against the gold standard are :
- Excellence in Customer Development
- Excellence in Innovation / Category know-how
- Excellence in Quality & Efficiency
- Excellence in Channel Solutions
In terms of Business Models, Aryzta operates through :
- Aryzta Bakery - servicing large retail customers
- Aryzta QSR - servicing Quick Service Restaurant chains and
- Aryzta Food Solutions - servicing large numbers of individual customers mainly in foodservice
The Position
As the Group Executive Assistant this role will manage all administrative and organisational support for the CEO and ExCo members.
Principal Responsibilities
- Administrative and organisational support for the CEO and the ExCo Team organising their schedules and correspondence
- Organisation, coordination, preparation and follow-up of various internal and external meetings and events
- Organisation and preparation of the agenda for the ExCo meetings based on their input
- Attending ExCo meetings and taking minutes
- Creation and preparation of presentations and reports
- Researching, analysing and preparing a wide range of information
- Organising business trips and preparing travel expense reports for the ExCo members
- Occasionally taking on special projects
Experience & Responsibilities
- Completed commercial training or studies
- At least 5 years of professional experience in a comparable position
- Very good MS Office skills (especially Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and SuccessFactors)
- Fluent in English, German and ideally also French
- Trustworthy, service-orientated and discreet personality
- Strong with Time Management
- Streamlined Communication Skills
- Problem-solving oriented
- Organizational skills
- Structured way of working
- Able to deal with several topics at the same time
- Willingness to travel occasionally to our Business Units
Your Application
At ARYZTA our employees are our number one asset and we support your decision to explore other opportunities within the organization.
If you are interested in applying for a new role, please ensure that you inform your current manager.
Please submit your complete application documents (CV and motivation letter). We are looking forward to receiving your application on http : / / www.aryztacareers.com /
Each of our employees throughout the world deserves to be treated with fairness, respect and dignity.
We are an equal opportunity employer and committed to hiring, training, compensating, and promoting persons based on their individual talents and abilities.
We embrace diversity and opportunities are extended to employees and prospective employees without regard to race, colour, gender, religion, age, natural origin, family status, veteran status, sexual orientation, disability, or any other criterion prohibited by applicable federal, state, local, or international laws.