Regional Sales Assistant

NCBioImpact; Schweiz; On-site; CHF 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Syngenta Crop Protection is seeking an organized Sales Administration Assistant to support the Sales organization with efficient administration and communications. You will assist the sales team and other departments to ensure smooth operations in line with company policy.

Key responsibilities include handling expenses claims, maintaining documentation, data reporting, coordinating travel and meetings, and serving as a regional contact for internal and external inquiries.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration / Secretary Academy / Agriculture.
• Proficiency in MS Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint).
• Fluent in written and spoken English.
• 2–3 years of administration or secretarial experience.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
• Attention to detail and accuracy.
• Performance-oriented with high standards.

Responsibilities

• Provide admin and communications support to the Sales department.
• Handle expenses claims and business advances in line with LOA.
• Maintain documentation, filing, and data retrieval.
• Prepare data and reports, including forecasts and sales data.
• Coordinate travel and meetings for Sales leadership.
• Serve as regional enquiries point for internal and external customers.

Skills

Organizational skills

Communication skills

Interpersonal skills

Attention to detail

English proficiency

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration / Secretary Academy / Agriculture

Tools

MS Office

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Sales & Business Development · Full-time

As a world market leader in crop protection, we help farmers to counter these threats and ensure enough safe, nutritious, affordable food for all –while minimizing the use of land and other agricultural inputs.Syngenta Crop Protection keeps plants safe from planting to harvesting. From the moment a seed is planted through to harvest, crops need to be protected from weeds, insects and diseases as well as droughts and floods, heat and cold. Syngenta Crop Protection is headquartered in Switzerland.

Syngenta is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate in recruitment, hiring, training, promotion or any other employment practices for reasons of race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, sexual orientation, marital or veteran status, disability, or any other legally protected status. Learn more about our D&I initiatives here: https://www.syngenta.com/careers/working-syngenta/diversity-and-inclusion

Job Description

To ensure support to Sales organization team and optimally carried out all administration and communication. Provide services to customers & sales team to support the business managed effective and efficiently in line with the company policy.

Accountabilities:

• Maintain & ensure effective & efficient support to sales department in all admin work: Provide support in all administration work and communication in sales dept and across dept.
• Expenses claim and business advance: Ensure that claims are supported by adequate supporting documents, valid, accurate, properly classified, ensure that BA & operational claims comply with the existing LOA and the existing company regulation, follow up immediately and ensure problem/unclear situation are solved-coordination with head office.
• Clear documentation: All data in Sales Dept. Maintain effective, efficient filing and retrieval system.
• Data & reporting: Ensure that all required data and report are manage and reported within time line (i.e: forecast, sales retailer, channel stock, KAM, promotion material, deployment staff, sample data, asset, staffing), Ensure that all administration in region - related to MBR reports, regional forecast, sample, sales dealer to retailer, stock channel, cost spending, file data & retrieval, staffing, company asset are within the company LOA, following company policy and well managed within time frame.
• Rebates: Ensure accurate, reliable and valid document for submission. To follow Rebate policy, Prepare settlement proposal for RSM. Consolidation with CS for final realisation.
• Ticketing, meeting arrangement: Provide travelling & meeting arrangement for Sales organisation (especially for the Sales Manager, Business Managers) and help necessary request from field force in region.
• Contact Point of Enquiries in region - for Internal and External Customer: ensure that all enquiries from internal and external customer are received, follow up and solved.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration / Secretary Academy / Agriculture.
• Proficiency in MS Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint).
• Fluent in English both in written and speaking.
• Having 2-3 years’ experience and strong back ground in administration and or secretarial work.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
• Attention to detail and accuracy.
• Manages performance to ensure high standards.