Executive Assistant

Position: Executive Assistant to the CEO

Company: Nuritas

Location: Dublin.

Reporting Relationship: CEO. 

COMPANY BACKGROUND / CULTURE

Nuritas is revolutionizing the discovery of novel, natural and scientifically proven bioactive ingredients that enable their partners to create better or new product solutions for their customers. The company’s disruptive computational approach to discovery uses artificial intelligence, deep learning, and genomics to rapidly and efficiently predict and then unlock the most health-benefiting components hidden within plants and natural food sources, called peptides. Nuritas has established the world’s largest peptide knowledge base. Through its discoveries, Nuritas wants to firstly manage and improve human health and secondly help make our food system more sustainable by replacing current unwanted ingredients and molecules with more natural and sustainable ones.

Since its founding in 2014, Nuritas has developed proprietary AI and DNA analysis to enhance the accurate analysis of molecules and peptides in food. The new technology is significantly faster with unparalleled accuracy compared to traditional methods of discovery. Founded by research scientist Dr. Nora Khaldi, Nuritas has received significant backing to develop its technology.

Nuritas has built and grown a unique discovery platform N𝛑𝛟™ (Nuritas Peptide Finder). The N𝛑𝛟™ artificial intelligence platform with wet lab has been shaped and trained on years of proprietary experimental data as well as curated structured and unstructured data allowing it to predict novel peptides with targeted efficacy. Beyond efficacy, N𝛑𝛟™ can also predict with huge accuracy the chemical and physical characteristics of peptides needed to have clinical and commercial viability, such as cell penetration or bioavailability.

Nπϕ has attracted high-profile partnerships and customers, including Nestle, Mars, Sumitomo Corporation and Pharmavite. Nuritas’ science-proven bioactive peptides are unlocked from plants and natural food sources, with applications across functional foods, supplements, medical food, cosmetics and food technology.

Separately, the beating heart of Nuritas is their incredibly passionate team. Nuritas have an international team comprising over 16 different nationalities with offices in Dublin and Connecticut. They are also very proud of their gender balance with 50% women and men across the team. The Nuritas Data Scientists, Biologists, AI Engineers, Chemists, Commercial and Operations teams bring innovation, passion and flexibility to their work every day. With an extremely strong team, advisory board, investors and collaborations, the Nuritas mission is to unlock the benefits of nature and improve the lives of billions.

The Position:

We are looking for a passionate, upbeat, innovative, and organized person to join us as Executive Assistant / Office Manager Working under the direct supervision of the CEO. This is an tremendous position for someone with good work ethics and an interest in Office Management, Personal Assistance and Administration. Our ideal candidate is a multi-tasker that can meet accelerated deadlines, manage detailed projects, is passionate about working on a fast-moving team. If you are keen to keep learning, love to be helpful and would like to improve your overall working skill set this position may be for you.

 Main Tasks include but are not limited to: 

·       Providing extensive admin support to the CEO (professional and personal).

·       Manage and/or participate in various projects (implementing process improvements, managing the coordination of a conference, etc.) and support ad hoc requests.

·   Independently manage leader(s) calendar and prioritization of meetings. Schedule meetings and/or conferences by interacting with internal/external partners/clients to coordinate calendars, accommodations, meeting materials and supplies

·    Heavy calendar management and travel arrangements (personal and business both domestic and international)

·     Act as the point of contact among executives, employees, clients, and other external partners

·      Responsible for coordinating meetings, setting up appointments and setting reminders on behalf of the CEO

·     Attend meetings, take records or minutes and process these accordingly and monitor actions taken on decisions made

·       Manage information flow in a timely and accurate manner.

Skills and experience required:

·       Excellent organisation and communication skills (written and verbal).

·       Expert in all Microsoft Office suite applications

·       Exceptional attention to detail

·       Ability to work under pressure and to tight deadlines

·       Great organisational and time management skills

·      Excellent interpersonal skills with well-tuned EQ, especially with regard to the ability to proactively identify or anticipate executive needs and develop executive intent.

·       Proactive self-starter with excellent problem-solving skills

·       Honest and reliable

·       Possess an awareness of when discretion is required, and adhere to high confidentiality

·       Ability to work independently, autonomously and with a problem-solving mindset

·       Be a team player and have a can do, helpful & friendly attitude

·       Have the desire to grow within your role and be committed to contributing in success of the company.

About You:

·       Previous and proven 5+ years’ experience in a support role for senior staff desirable

·       A business degree or related qualification required

·       Have a strong administration background

·       Comfortable pivoting between tasks to address changing priorities & deadlines

·       Being flexible to adapt to time zone difference as CEO will be other time zones 

·       Handle confidential and sensitive matters with integrity and discretion.

Does this sound like you? Then we would love to hear from you! Please apply using the provided link and form, attach your CV and your cover letter, outlining why you feel motivated and qualified for the role.