Office and Project Manager

Bring your passion, ideas and purpose to life in a company that can truly help you achieve your full potential.

Join Abbott Rapid Diagnostics – Infectious Disease business, a world leader in point-of-care testing.

The Opportunity

We are recruiting for an Office and Project Manager to join our Rapid Diagnostics – Infectious Disease Business. The role would be based in Abbott House, Maidenhead, Berkshire and would report to the General Manager UKI & Nordics.

What You’ll Do

As an Office & Project Manager you responsible for the coordination of administration support related to purchasing and invoicing, office administration, internal and external events management, and project management. More specifically:

• Primary contact person for raising purchase orders and manage invoicing.
• Coordinate vendor agreements including Master services agreements and scope of works (SOW), enroll vendors.
• Coordinate approval of expenses with procurement.
• Identifying cost-reduction opportunities, managing suppliers, improving quality, reviewing contracts and improving procurement processes
• Sets up procedures on purchasing that will benefit the company in terms of cost reduction, quality and delivery. Source and negotiate goods at reasonable prices, monitor inventory and purchase contract renewal.
• Schedule, organize and monitor events (internal/external) such as congresses and business conferences/meetings.
• Arrange travel, hotel and transportation requirements for customers at defined business events.
• Manage compliance documentation related to sales activities.
• Administration duties for the general manager including expenses and travel arrangements.
• Support the onboarding related tasks and training for the new joiners
• Coordinate sales support material warehousing and ensuring controls for managing promo material are in place
• Coordinate key projects as required by the General Manager.
  
  

Required Qualifications/Profile

• Bachelor’s Degree or diploma
• Relevant experience in a similar admin role
• Microsoft office proficient
• Outlook proficient
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Detail oriented and thoroughness
• Collaboration skills, Team Spirit
• Strong communication skills verbally and in writing
• Time management efficiency
• Problem solving approaches, work autonomously
• Ability to work in multiple tasks and projects
• Customer focus
  
  

As you’d expect from an innovative global health care company, we offer a competitive range of benefits including excellent salaries, a class-leading defined contribution pension scheme, private healthcare, life assurance and a flexible benefits scheme.

Abbott is about the power of health. For more than 135 years, Abbott has been helping people reach their potential — because better health allows people and communities to achieve more. Joining us, you can shape your career as you shape the future of healthcare.

With a diverse, global network serving customers in more than 160 countries, we create new solutions — across the spectrum of health, around the world, for all stages of life. Whether it’s next-generation diagnostics, life-changing devices, science-based nutrition, or novel reformulations, we are advancing some of the most innovative and revolutionary technologies in healthcare, helping people live their best lives through better health.