About the Role
This role provides high-quality assistance to the Head of Brand & Innovation and the Head of Commercial, ensuring smooth day-to-day operations. You will act as a central point of coordination, managing schedules, travel, meetings, and communications, while collaborating with the wider assistant community to support senior leadership and company-wide activities. This is a highly organized, people-facing role at the heart of business operations.
Responsibilities
- Manage calendars and scheduling for both leaders, coordinating with local and overseas counterparts.
- Arrange business travel and handle expenses from end to end, including bookings and reimbursements.
- Prepare meetings for both leaders, including online meetings that require interpretation.
- Provide wider coordination and support to the Head of Brand & Innovation and the Head of Commercial as needed.
- Work with the Executive Assistant to the General Manager to support senior leadership.
- Act as a central coordinator for the other assistants across Brand & Innovation.
- Support companywide events and townhalls together with the other assistants.
Requirements
- Over five years supporting leadership as an Executive Assistant, ideally within a global company.
Skills
- Confident with Microsoft Office (Outlook, Word, Excel and PowerPoint)
- Strong organization
- Proactive approach
- Collaborative approach
- Willingness to stretch beyond your core role
- Business level Japanese
- Business level English
Experience Level
- Over five years supporting leadership
About the Company
- Opella is the self-care challenger with the purest and third-largest portfolio in the Over The Counter (OTC) & Vitamins, Minerals & Supplements (VMS) market globally.
- Our mission is to bring health in people’s hands by making self-care as simple as it should be.
- We serve half a billion consumers worldwide.
- At the core of this mission is our 100 loved brands, our 11,000-strong global team, our 13 best-in-class manufacturing sites and 4 specialized science and innovation development centers.
- Headquartered in France, Opella is the proud maker of many of the world’s most loved brands, including Allegra, Buscopan, Doliprane, Dulcolax, Enterogermina, Essentiale and Mucosolvan.
- As a globally certified B Corp company, we are active players in the journey towards healthier people and planet.
- Find out more about our mission at www.opella.com.
