Chemaxon is an industry-leading cheminformatics software company helping early-stage drug discovery and chemistry research for more than 20 years. Our clients are top pharmaceutical companies, innovative biotech startups, and leading academic institutions.
We are agile, innovative and friendly, offering compelling opportunities for frequent collaboration and cross-training with teammates and stakeholders.
We operate internationally, with regional teams based in Budapest (HQ), UK, Boston, San Diego and Basel (Switzerland), along with distributors in the Asia Pacific. We have recently been acquired by Certara, a US-based model-informed drug development services and software company. We are in an exciting time of organizational and business growth, so now is the perfect time to join our team!
About the team
The office management team believes that the office environment has a direct impact on employees’ engagement and well-being. Our goal is to ensure that employees have everything at their disposal to perform their possible best.
We would like to support employees so that they remain happy, motivated, and productive.
We are looking for someone who can support us in this mission, with the opportunity to join on a full-time or part-time basis (30 hours per week).
About your responsibilities
- Act as the first point of contact for visitors, ensuring a smooth process flow.
- Provide administrative support to Office Management, Finance, and HR teams.
- Manage incoming calls, mails, and deliveries.
- Greet guests, suppliers, and couriers professionally.
- Ensure office areas are well-maintained, including preparing and setting up meeting rooms for scheduled events.
- Coordinate taxis and handle guest parking tickets.
- Assist with company events and office projects as needed.
- Support new employee onboarding, including workspace setup and access card management.
Experience, skills and knowledge you should bring to us
- Proficiency in Excel and other office applications.
- Strong stakeholder management skills.
- Kind, helpful, and customer-oriented attitude.
- Structured, professional work style with attention to detail.
- High-quality performance and precision in tasks.
- Excellent problem-solving abilities and ability to work independently.
- Good command of English, both spoken and written.
Bonus skills that will help you hit the ground running
- 1-2 years experience in a similar position
What we offer
- Flexibility to join the team on either a full-time or part-time basis
- Private health insurance (Medicover)
- Daily entry into Life1 Fitness Clubs
- Generous annual training budget supporting your professional development (off-site training, international conferences, e-books)
- We work with global Top500 companies (R&D) and leading academic institutions, giving you a chance to gain insights into these dynamically evolving industries.
- Inspiring working environment - leisure and recreation area, playing corner for children, English lessons, yearly user conference with social programs, innovation days
- You will be a valued member of a creative and supportive agile team
- Everyday use of English in a multicultural environment
Location: Budapest, Váci Greens Office Park
For some info on Chemaxon, you can check out these videos:
- a shorter one about what we do in a nutshell (~1.5 min)
- and one about the Budapest HQ (~30 min)
Please note, we’re unable to support relocation or sponsor visa for this role.
Top Skills
What We Do
So, briefly: who are we?
Chemaxon is a leading cheminformatics company, with headquarters in Budapest, Hungary and offices in the US and Switzerland
And what do we do?
We provide chemical software development platforms mostly for the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries - but any chemist might find us useful.
Why do our users prefer us?
Because we are known for our rapid and high quality technical support, we develop our tools together with our users (the reason we have good quality software); and because we support academic research and teaching like no one else in the industry!
All right, so exactly what are we good for?
Well, among many other things, you can draw & view chemical structures with Marvin Suite; manage and search your compounds with JChem tools; search your database in Excel or in our Instant JChem interface; perform a variety of calculations and predictions; cluster, screen, fragment or synthesize your compounds virtually and deal with Markush structures.
That's it really in a nutshell. If you are interested, contact us or post a message here.
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