Department The department Legal Affairs – Region Europe is responsible for providing legal support (excluding intellectual property) to all activities of SABIC in Europe . The department operates from four locations, i.e. Sittard (NL), Bergen op Zoom (NL), Amsterdam (NL) and Wilton (UK). The department consists of twelve legal counsels of which six hold office in Sittard. Furthermore, Records Management forms part of the department as well and currently consists of two individuals located in Sittard. The secretarial support to the department in Sittard is being provided by a Legal Assistant and a Secretary, the latter position being vacant at this moment. The Challenge The Secretary is a professional and excellent in management, organizational and administrative support. She is a real team player. She understands the organization and relationships and knows what is relevant and how to set priorities. She is pro-active, anticipating, self-propelling and is able to act independently when necessary. She likes to work with and for a team and is also able to work for several managers. Main tasks: Provide secretarial support to legal counsels and records manager and officer. Organizational Support: Managing of electronic calendar and organizing, monitoring appointments, meetings and conference calls. Booking business trips. Organizing business lunches or dinners. Organizing internal and external events. Administrative Support: Maintaining departmental environment in digital filing system (Livelink/Content Server). Maintaining online SABIC Europe contract data base with metadata and scanned copies of executed contracts. Assist in corporate housekeeping and process basic corporate data in digital system. Keeping up financial and staff administration, sickness and leave days, staff administration directories (addresses and relations). Establishing travel claims and purchasing orders. Communication: Picking up and select calls. Assessing kind, purpose and importance of the call, delegating and independently settlement of the call. Judge if it is necessary to put through the call. Your Profile MBO + secretarial education and preferably experience as legal secretary; In case you have not this experience / education you are prepared to gain this necessary knowledge Affinity and acquaintance with Legal issues Fluent in English, both verbally and in writing Easy personality with above average communication skills and able to work with different functional disciplines and hierarchical levels International mindset; Internal and external focus Sensitivity for (cultural) diversity Pro-active and self-propelling Excellent skills in Word; Outlook; Power point and Livelink Accuracy and attention to detail Discrete, able to handle confidential information Main competences: Customer focus Planning and Organization Stress Tolerance Quality Orientation Contributing to team succes Initiating action Further Information If you are interested in this fulltime job please apply on-line at sabic.com For more information please contact Boudewijn de Heer, Recruiter at +31 (0) 164 29 1191 or Sjraar van Heijster, HR BP; +31(0) 46 722 2673. Chemistry that matters SABIC, headquartered in Riyadh (Saudi Arabia), is one of the world’s leading manufacturers of chemicals, fertilizers, plastics and metals. We supply these materials to other companies, who use them to make products on which the world has come to depend. In Europe, SABIC employs over 6,000 professionals and is running 6 world-scale production sites and 4 technology & innovation centers. We are present in almost every European country. Major locations within our broad network of innovation, production and marketing are: Teesside (UK), Cartagena (Spain), Gelsenkirchen (Germany), Geleen (Netherlands) Bergen op Zoom (The Netherlands) and Genk (Belgium). Based upon this strong fundament, we are a key producer of olefins, polyolefins, engineering thermoplastics resins, films and sheets in Europe. The essence of SABIC is about powering ambition. Through what we do and how we to it, we power the ambitions of our customers, the society in which we operate, our business partners and our employees. Our focus puts our customers’ success at the heart of what we do. It also fuels individual development. It is grounded in a deep understanding of what customers want and what we can best offer them. To achieve this we strongly invest in our most important asset – our employees. We want to help you develop a career with us that challenges you in ways that really make you come alive. Make your career happen with SABIC.