The Role
The Administrative Associate provides operational support, handles scheduling, travel arrangements, data entry, and customer communications while ensuring efficient daily operations.
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About Cerelia
Cerelia is a global leader in ready-to-bake and ready-to-eat doughs, proudly serving customers across North America, Europe, and Asia with high-quality products that operators and food lover’s trust. As experts in dough and batter, Cerelia produces a wide range of items—including rolled and pizza dough, cookies, crepes, pancakes, pastries, waffles, and clean-label options—sold through foodservice, retailers, industrial partners, and private label programs. With cutting-edge production capabilities, more than 40 years of know-how, and a deep commitment to sustainability and innovation, Cerelia combines global strength with a “small-town” passion for partnership, product quality, and culinary creativity.
Role Location & Work Schedule: This Administrative Associate role is based fully onsite in Whitehall, Ohio. Core business hours are from 8:00 am - 5:00 pm Mon - Friday.
Working conditions
Education and/or Experience:
Cerelia is a global leader in ready-to-bake and ready-to-eat doughs, proudly serving customers across North America, Europe, and Asia with high-quality products that operators and food lover’s trust. As experts in dough and batter, Cerelia produces a wide range of items—including rolled and pizza dough, cookies, crepes, pancakes, pastries, waffles, and clean-label options—sold through foodservice, retailers, industrial partners, and private label programs. With cutting-edge production capabilities, more than 40 years of know-how, and a deep commitment to sustainability and innovation, Cerelia combines global strength with a “small-town” passion for partnership, product quality, and culinary creativity.
Role Location & Work Schedule: This Administrative Associate role is based fully onsite in Whitehall, Ohio. Core business hours are from 8:00 am - 5:00 pm Mon - Friday.
Position Summary
The Administrative Associate provides comprehensive administrative and operational support to ensure smooth, efficient, and professional daily operations. This role includes scheduling, planning, travel arrangements, visitor coordination, data entry, transcription, expense processing, invoice entry, and customer communication management. The ideal candidate is detail oriented, proactive, and skilled at managing multiple priorities in a fast paced environment.Primary Responsibilities
Scheduling, Calendar and Communication Management- Manage complex calendars for leaders and teams, including meetings, appointments and events.
- Coordinate meeting logistics and resolve scheduling conflicts proactively.
- Manage incoming and outgoing phone calls with professionalism.
- Prepare and distribute meeting agendas, notes and follow up items.
- Arrange domestic and international travel, including flights, lodging and ground transportation.
- Prepare detailed travel itineraries and ensure compliance with company travel policies.
- Manage travel changes and adjustments as needed.
- Coordinate visitor access, security sign in and badge distribution.
- Greet and assist guests to create a warm and professional experience.
- Prepare meeting rooms and coordinate logistics for on site meetings and tours.
- Plan and coordinate catering for meetings, trainings and events.
- Track headcounts and dietary needs.
- Manage conference room setup, refreshments and event materials.
- Enter data accurately into company systems, spreadsheets and databases.
- Transcribe meeting notes, recorded messages and documentation.
- Maintain organized digital and physical filing systems.
- Assist with project coordination, timelines and administrative workflows.
- Performs Quality Assurance on own work and work of others
- Answer telephone, emails, and place service calls when needed
- Adhere to Cerelia policies and procedures
- Use equipment and supplies in a cost-efficient manner
- Thoroughly assess job requests and ensure appropriate completion of job tasks throughout task lifecycle
- Communicate with manager and team members on job or deadline issues
- Meet deadlines for accepting, completing, and delivering all work
- Troubleshoot basic equipment problems
- Prepare, enter and reconcile expense reports.
Process vendor invoices and enter them into financial systems.
Verify accuracy of purchase orders, receipts and accounting records.
- Serve as a point of contact for customers, vendors and external partners.
Respond to inquiries professionally and in a timely manner.
Maintain customer records and follow up on open requests or issues.
- Interact with key contacts in person, over the phone, via video or electronically
- Prioritize workflow
- All other duties as assigned.
Working conditions
- Position operates at a site with maximum of 24/6 operations.
- Ability to work overtime as needed.
- Work is performed fully onsite office in a professional office environment
- Business casual and/or professional attire required.
Minimum Qualifications
Education and/or Experience:
- High school diploma or equivalent education
- Minimum 1-2 years administrative support experience in a professional organization. Formal education and/or training may be considered in lieu of experience.
- Proficiency in the use of MS Office software (Word, Excel, PowerPoint); strong keyboarding and typing skills. Basic knowledge of Microsoft Office suite
- Experience with scheduling, calendar management and communication support.
- Proficiency in data entry, transcription and document organization.
- Experience with expense reporting and invoice entry.
- Strong customer service, interpersonal and communication skills.
- Excellent organizational skills, attention to detail with emphasis on accuracy and ability to multitask.
- Ability to maintain confidentiality and handle sensitive information with professionalism and discretion.
- Familiar with other software programs for providing administrative support
- Ability to meet deadlines and complete all projects in a timely manner
- Ability to exercise good judgment to make decisions that conform to business needs and policy
- Good problem-solving skills, with the ability and understanding of when to escalate a problem
- Adaptable to changing priorities
- Ability to maintain professional composure when working with immediate deadlines
- Ability to work both independently and collaboratively as part of a team
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment
- Ability to communicate professionally both verbally and in writing
- Demonstrate proficiency in using equipment/technology/software and hardware necessary to perform job functions
- Must be self-motivated with a positive attitude
- Proven customer service skills are required to create, maintain, and enhance internal and external customer relationships
- Must be a good fit with Cerelia’s entrepreneurial spirit, agile and innovative environment; with a desire to make a strong impact on the business.
Core Competencies
- Drive High Performance: Establish clear accountability for outcomes. Stays focused and disciplined in planning and execution. Takes initiatives to overcome challenges. Celebrates wins and acts with urgency to keep momentum.
- Collaborate: Works as One Team. Builds relationships and makes commitments to others and follows through. An active listener who understands and communicates openly while engaging in healthy debate. Supports and execute decisions when they are made.
- Innovate: Challenge the status quo by pro-actively identifying opportunities to make things better. Encourages team to share best practices, be creative and try new things. Experiments, incorporates learning and adjusts as needed. Acts with speed and agility while accepting and learning from failure.
- Can-Do Attitude: Has a pragmatic view on reality while understanding the challenges and perspectives across the organization. Pro-actively and easily connects with the customers, factories and the different stakeholders. Acts like an owner by providing ready-to-go solutions.
- Independent: Ability to work independently while proactively updating the Senior Management team about challenges, opportunities and progress. .
- Learning Agility & Knowledge Retention: Demonstrates the ability to absorb and retain new information effectively. Documents key processes and applies prior training. Takes ownership of personal learning and builds independence over time.
- Information Seeking: Actively researches and verifies information to ensure accuracy and completeness. Digs to resolve discrepancies; seeks out relevant perspectives from internal and external sources to make well-informed, data-driven decisions.
- Flexibility: Adapts efficiently to changing priorities, environments, and stakeholders. Maintains effectiveness when working with various teams, personalities, or shifting demands. Adjusts communication and working style to fit the context while staying focused on objectives.
- Self-confidence: Willing to take on a new challenge or assignment displaying confidence and enthusiasm; emphasizes the positive and upside aspects of difficult situations – every situation provides an opportunity for learning.
Top Skills
Basic Knowledge Of Microsoft Office Suite
Excel
MS Office
PowerPoint
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The Company
What We Do
Cérélia, founded in France in 2012, is renowned for its expertise in the production of ready-to-bake dough, including refrigerated doughs (for tarts, pizzas, and viennoiseries), as well as pancakes, waffles, and cookies. Thanks to sustained organic growth and an ambitious acquisition strategy, Cérélia has become the European market leader within just 10 years. Today, Cérélia operates 12 production sites, including 9 in Europe (France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Italy, and the United Kingdom) and 3 in North America (Canada and the United States). Its products are distributed in over 50 countries under its own brands, private labels for leading global retailers, and through co-manufacturing partnerships. The company is committed to continuous innovation to meet consumer needs while prioritizing sustainable and responsible manufacturing practices. Sharing value creation and employee ownership are at the heart of Cérélia's identity. Currently, 70% of the Group's 2,000 employees are shareholders in the company.
