Cochlear’s mission is to help people hear and be heard. As the global leader in implantable hearing solutions, Cochlear is dedicated to helping people with moderate to profound hearing loss experience a world full of sound. We aim to transform the way people understand and treat hearing loss and innovate to connect people with future technologies. Our employees tell us that the number one reason they enjoy working for Cochlear is the opportunity to make a difference to people’s lives. Learn and grow with us as we tackle the most complex challenges in helping more people to experience a lifetime of hearing.
The Opportunity
Cochlear has an opportunity for a full-time Personal and Team Assistant based in our Macquarie, Sydney office to support key leaders and teams within our R&D department. In this role, you will provide essential personal assistance to two Vice Presidents and team support across multiple R&D groups. You will help enable seamless operations through exceptional organisation, communication, and coordination skills. This is an exciting opportunity for someone who enjoys variety and working with cross-functional teams.
Responsibilities include:
- Managing calendars, inboxes, travel, expenses, and leadership meeting logistics for two VPs
- Supporting departmental spending tracking and administrative reporting
- Assisting teams with travel, purchasing, meeting coordination, and event organisation
- Handling onboarding activities, visitor access, and internal communications
- Managing departmental resources including room bookings, equipment, and supplies
- Providing general administrative support and covering for other assistants during leave
What makes this opportunity unique?
This role offers the chance to significantly contribute to the efficient functioning of high-impact R&D teams.
You will be integral in enabling leaders and teams to focus on innovation by managing essential administrative functions.
About You
To add value to Cochlear in this role, you'll be able to demonstrate the following skills and experience:
Essential:
- Proven track-record in autonomously & proactively providing high-level admin support to multiple teams
- Proven ability to work flexibly in a team environment to provide excellent customer service
- Self-starter who takes initiative
- Proven ability to think and act in a customer-centric way
- Intermediate to Advanced Microsoft Office skills (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
- Ability to manage and prioritise own work, delivering to tight deadlines in a team environment
- Ability to develop and implement processes to improve the performance of the team
Ideal:
- Experienced in department assistant roles, ideally in a product development or service-oriented environment
- Exposure to and an affinity with working in a culturally diverse environment
- Experience with Oracle/SAP, Concur, Workday, and Planisware
- Experience working in customer-facing roles
If you feel that you have the skills and experience to be successful in this role and take on new challenges to build your career with Cochlear, please start your application by clicking the apply button below.
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How we recognise your contribution
At Cochlear we value and welcome the unique contributions, perspectives, experiences, and backgrounds of our employees and aim to build a culture that celebrates and leverages these differences, creating a sense of belonging and enabling our people to realise their full potential. Through our internal programs and employee benefits, we aim to create an environment where our people will feel value and supported. Whether your focus is on continuous learning, professional development or simply finding an environment which enables you to thrive whilst balancing family or personal life commitments, then we have several programs in place to support you.
For more information about Life at Cochlear, visit www.cochlearcareers.com
Top Skills
What We Do
Hear now. And always
As the global leader in implantable hearing solutions, at Cochlear (ASX: COH) we are committed to our mission to help people hear and be heard. Our story started more than four decades ago when Professor Graeme Clark pioneered the world's first multi-channel cochlear implant and created an entirely new treatment for hearing loss.
Since our formation in 1981, we continue Professor Clark’s work to help people with moderate to profound hearing loss experience a life full of hearing.
We have provided more than 650,000 implantable devices. Each recipient helps form a global community of millions, through families, friends, colleagues, teachers and more. And they’re not just connected to their own community — each shares a link with each other and to Professor Clark’s childhood desire to help people hear.
We aim to give people the best lifelong hearing experience and access to innovative future technologies. We understand the privilege of connecting people to a life lived with hearing. And we listen, respond and move with the times – to continue to bring hearing within reach of all those who need it.
That's how we live our mission every day. Our global workforce of more than 4,000 people shares a collective determination to give more people the opportunity to enjoy a life of hearing.
Cochlear’s global headquarters are on the campus of Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia with regional headquarters in Asia Pacific, Europe and the Americas. Through our offices in over 180 countries we help people of all ages to hear.
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