Team Assistant at Lafarge Cement

Lafarge is a world leader in building materials, with top-ranking positions in its Cement, Aggregates & Concrete businesses. Located in 64 countries with 65,000 employees, the vision of Lafarge in Nigeria is to be the most trusted and preferred partner of Nigerian construction professionals and home builders by delivering cement and concrete solutions that are best in quality, environmentally sustainable and nationwide available at affordable cost.

We are recruiting suitable candidates to fill the position below:

Job Title:  Team Assistant

Requisition ID: 13074
Location: Ewekoro, Ogun

About the role

• The Team Assistant provides support to the function by performing a wide variety of responsible, complex, administrative, secretarial, analytical and research duties for the team. In this role, organisational skills are vital. 
• Due to the volume of work that will be ongoing at any one time, the Team Assistant will need to be able to juggle a multitude of priorities and work to tight deadlines, specifically as the role will be supporting several team members with differing remits and agendas.
• He/she will also support the Functional Director by effectively and confidentially managing their schedule. The role holder will work closely with other colleagues from multiple departments/functions to ensure team coherence and effectiveness.

Responsibilities
What you'll be doing:

• Provide confidential administrative support to the Functional Director including daily diary management, organising meetings, producing any associated materials and creating presentations, making travel and venue arrangements and liaising with key internal and external contacts.
• Provide administrative support to the functional leadership team including organising meetings, producing any associated materials and creating presentations, making travel and venue arrangements and liaising with key internal and external contacts.
• Office management including stationery & hospitality, liaison with facilities management team
• Tracking and monitoring spend against budget by performing reconciliation as required
• Ensure a seamless and efficient processing of payments
• Process all supplier and prompt payments for the department
• Follow- up with purchasing department to ensure the PO process is speedily executed
• Follow-up with Finance department to ensure payments have been made to suppliers
• Process all incoming and out-going mails, file and retrieve corporate documents and reports as well as handling enquiries and requests as appropriate
• Ensure department housekeeping and maintenance including ordering stationery and office equipment
• This list of responsibilities is not exhaustive and the job holder may be required to perform duties outside of this as operationally required

Requirements
What we are looking for:

• 3 - 5 years office administration and co-ordination experience.
• Good written and oral communication skills
• Good working knowledge of SAP is compulsory
• Strong computer Skills especially Excel, Word, PowerPoint and email applications
• •Ability to prioritise with excellent time management skills
• Good attention to detail
• Able to manage confidential information.

Who you'll be working with:

• Direct Reports
• Key Interfaces, Stakeholder:
  • O&HR Director
  • Executive Committee.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.