Senior Executive Assistant
TR/079198
Posted: 18/09/2025
- €22.63 - €23.82 per hour
- Netherlands, Provincie Noord-Brabant, Breda
- Contract
Orion Group Life Sciences are looking for a Senior Executive Assistant on behalf of our Multinational Pharmaceutical/Biotechnology client located in Breda. Initial 12-month contract. This is a hybrid role.
What will you do
As a Senior Executive Assistant in Operations, you’ll play a pivotal role in enabling the success of our site leadership team. This is a high-impact position where your ability to anticipate needs, manage complexity, and communicate with clarity will be key. You’ll be the go-to person for coordination, communication, and execution — ensuring that everything runs smoothly behind the scenes.
Main Responsibilities of the role
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Our role in supporting diversity and inclusion
As an international workforce business, we are committed to sourcing personnel that reflects the diversity and values of our client base but also that of Orion Group. We welcome the wide range of experiences and viewpoints that potential workers bring to our business and our clients, including those based on nationality, gender, culture, educational and professional backgrounds, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, disability, and age differences, job classification and religion. In our inclusive workplace, regardless of your employment status as staff or contract, everyone is assured the right of equitable, fair and respectful treatment.
What will you do
As a Senior Executive Assistant in Operations, you’ll play a pivotal role in enabling the success of our site leadership team. This is a high-impact position where your ability to anticipate needs, manage complexity, and communicate with clarity will be key. You’ll be the go-to person for coordination, communication, and execution — ensuring that everything runs smoothly behind the scenes.
Main Responsibilities of the role
- Providing proactive and autonomous executive support to the Site Lead and Leadership Team.
- Planning and coordinating internal and external events, including high-level meetings, site visits, and celebrations.
- Leading internal communications efforts, including drafting announcements, newsletters, and presentations, in alignment with corporate standards.
- Managing office operations and coordinating with other assistants, providing guidance where needed.
- Ensuring smooth financial and administrative processes, including invoicing and payments.
- Representing our client professionally when hosting internal and external visitors.
- The ideal candidate is a highly intelligent, fast-paced, and detail-oriented professional, with a proven ability to operate independently in a dynamic, international environment. You thrive on structure, precision, and clear communication — and you bring a confident, mature presence to every interaction.
- Minimum 10 years of experience in administrative roles, with at least 5 years supporting senior executives.
- Proven ability to manage complex schedules, communications, and priorities with minimal supervision.
- Strong organizational and planning skills, with a perfectionist mindset and high attention to detail.
- Experience leading or mentoring other assistants.
- Familiarity with business areas such as logistics, clinical research, or safety.
- Strong interpersonal skills — confident, approachable, and able to build trust quickly.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English and Dutch.
- Experience in a multinational, scientific or regulated environment.
- Comfortable working across cultures and adapting communication styles accordingly.
#opportunity #multinational #pharmaceutical #biotechnology #administrative #executive #assistant #planning #internalcommunications
Our role in supporting diversity and inclusion
As an international workforce business, we are committed to sourcing personnel that reflects the diversity and values of our client base but also that of Orion Group. We welcome the wide range of experiences and viewpoints that potential workers bring to our business and our clients, including those based on nationality, gender, culture, educational and professional backgrounds, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, disability, and age differences, job classification and religion. In our inclusive workplace, regardless of your employment status as staff or contract, everyone is assured the right of equitable, fair and respectful treatment.
Tim Browaeys
Recruitment Consultant
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