Sales Support/Back Office Assistant, Consumer Biosolutions, Turkey

Do you want to rethink your impact and passionate about sales and support with your proven coordination and administrative skills? Then you might be our new Sales Support & Back Office Assistant, supporting/assisting our Country Manager/Business Director and his leadership team under Consumer Biosolutions Division, with your passion and ambition as we aspire to put more biotech out there in the consumer markets.

What if you could work for a cause, not just a company?
Novozymes is the global market leader in biological solutions. We help build better lives. Together with our customers, partners and the global community, we use our innovative thinking and passion for science to boost industries and make everyday products more sustainable for the good of the planet. As the world’s leading provider of industrial enzymes and microorganisms, our bio-innovation enables higher agricultural yields, low-temperature washing, energy-efficient production, renewable fuel and many, many other biological solutions that the world can benefit from today and in the future. We call it Rethink Tomorrow.

Join us as our new Sales Support/Back Office Assistant
If you are an ambitious individual looking for a career where you can support the drive of the business with your coordination, communication skills and ownership, you could be our new colleague in ME Consumer Biosolutions team. As a motivated and proactive person, you know the value of networking and enjoy supporting the sales growths.

This a fantastic opportunity to work in a high-energy company with dedicated diverse group of people – Zymers as we call ourselves – that we together get great things done.

Welcome to Consumer Biosolutions!
Consumer Biosolutions is one of our business divisions in Novozymes and unites our consumer-facing industries at the front of the value chain, covering Baking, Beverages, Dairy, Food, Household Care and Protein. The starting point is an improved understanding of our customers’ needs, then we offer biosolutions that fulfil those. Biosolutions combine existing products, new technology, digital solutions and a comprehensive service package. The goal is to create a customer pull for our biosolutions, as we deliver on our purpose – better lives in growing world!

In this role you’ll make an impact by:

  • Working closely with the business teams(in Sales, Technical and Marketing), and helping/assisting the Business Director on day-to-day tasks with operational impact.
  • Being a part of the broad range of projects that will have the impact on the business results of CB ME.
  • Preparing internal and external presentations, driving the yearly cycles, designing and coordinating the meetings(agendas, minutes, actions) and follow up with the relevant stakeholders.
  • Dependably and efficiently supporting the Director by handling all the administrative aspects (calendar management, travel arrangements, monthly/quarterly reporting, office related activities).
  • Having an analytical, structured, and proactive approach to problem solving, and multitasking with focus and positivism.
  • Effectively networking, connecting to internal stakeholders, and help driving for results by relieving process related communications.


To succeed you must:

  • Have a Bachelor or a Master’s degree in Business and/or a relevant technical area and have minimum 3-5 years of relevant job experience in a similar role.
  • Have excellent skills in Microsoft Office tools, especially PowerPoint and Excel.
  • Have great communication skills, outgoing personality and well organized
  • Have English language proficiency (speak and write it fluently).
  • Be motivated and familiar in working successfully in an international and intercultural team environment.
  • Be willing and able to travel internationally – when the conditions normalize.

Location:

This job will be located at our Istanbul office.

Are you passionate about making a sustainable impact, and do you see yourself in this position? Then unlock your passion and apply today!

Application deadline: 2021, May 21st
Contact details: for more details around the role welcome to reach out to Umut Koroglu, [email protected]

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Want to learn more?
Did you know, that Novozymes was ranked #7 in Science magazine’s global Top Employers Survey 2019?

At Novozymes, we invite you to join us in finding biological solutions to the world’s problems. Being a pioneering company, we seek people, who are eager to try new things, motivated by challenge and not afraid to fail but driven to try again. And again. Original thinking happens when we’re given the flexibility to focus and the freedom to fully unfold our individual strengths. This is key to our innovation power and how we have become one of the top patent holders in the biotech industry. Learn more about Novozymes, our purpose, and your career opportunities at www.novozymes.com/en/careers. Follow us on LinkedIn and Instagram.

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