Administrator Assistant

Parkside; London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A well-established company in the food industry is seeking a temporary Administrator Assistant in London. The role involves assisting with food tastings, administrative support in meetings, and ensuring quality assessments throughout the food lifecycle. Ideal candidates will have a strong administrative background, proficiency in Excel, and excellent organizational skills. This position offers valuable experience in a leading company until next summer.

Responsibilities

• Support the preparation of internal food tastings and meetings.
• Buy product benchmarks and conduct tastings for food concepts.
• Assist in tasting food over its shelf-life for quality assurance.
• Support in preparing and delivering professional food presentations.
• Take minutes and record actions during key meetings.
• Ensure accurate product and sample bookings for testing.
• Complete submission forms for concepts in line with customer requirements.
• Create handover documents for new food concepts.
• Assist in sample preparation and paperwork for chefs.
• Conduct online research for benchmarking.

Skills

Strong administrative background

Proficient in Excel spreadsheets

Highly organized

Ability to take minutes for key meetings

Excellent attention to detail

Job description

Our client, a well-established and globally recognized company within the food industry, is seeking a temporary Administrator Assistant to join their welcoming team until next summer.

This position offers variety and great exposure to a top company and professionals. You will assist with various activities across the team, supporting meeting minutes, actions, admin tasks, validations, bookings, and ad hoc work.

Administrator Assistant Overview:

• Support the preparation of internal food tastings, meetings, and change meetings, attending with the Head of Food & Chef team. Take notes, record actions, ensure attendance, and share outputs with relevant teams.
• Buy product benchmarks and conduct tastings to assess food concepts, ensuring continuous development of best-in-class food.
• Assist in tasting food over its shelf-life, from fresh to frozen, ensuring customer acceptance of quality at each stage.
• Support the Head of Food in preparing and delivering professional food presentations, detailing recipes, ingredients, cooking methods, and key rationales for launches.
• Support the team in key meetings by taking minutes, recording actions, writing reports, circulating to teams, and following up on actions.
• Ensure product and sample bookings are completed accurately and on time for testing, submissions, and photoshoots.
• Complete submission forms and paperwork for concepts in line with customer requirements.
• Assist in creating handover documents for new food concepts and support the launch process as needed.
• Help chefs with sample preparation and paperwork.
• Conduct online research for benchmarking, creating tools and analysis.
• Analyze products to generate reports and tables for review.

Administrator Assistant Experience:

• Strong administrative background
• Proficient in Excel spreadsheets
• Highly organized
• Ability to take minutes for key meetings
• Excellent attention to detail

If you meet the above requirements, please apply now to be considered.

Thank you.