Job Description

Executive Assistant to VP / Director

📍 Almería / Global scope
🕒 Full-time

Are you a highly organized and proactive professional with strong communication skills, eager to support senior leadership and ensure smooth coordination in an international environment?

This is why you want to join us as an Executive Assistant at Enza Zaden

At Enza Zaden, we develop innovative vegetable varieties that contribute to a sustainable food chain. We are an international, people-driven organization where collaboration, ownership, and continuous improvement are part of our daily way of working.

As an Executive Assistant, you will play a key role in enabling our VP’s and Directors to operate effectively by ensuring seamless organization, communication, and administrative support. You will act as a trusted partner, connecting people, priorities, and processes across a global organization.

Working in close collaboration with senior leadership and international teams, this role offers a great opportunity to develop in a dynamic and multicultural environment, while contributing to the efficiency and success of our organization.

Reporting to a VP or Director, you will provide daily support in managing agendas, communications, and activity coordination, ensuring everything runs smoothly behind the scenes

What are you going to do?

As a structured and service-oriented professional, you ensure that daily operations run efficiently and that stakeholders are well supported. You are able to prioritize, anticipate needs, and bring clarity in a fast-paced environment.

You manage communication, organize agendas, and coordinate key activities while maintaining a high level of accuracy and professionalism. You act as a central point of contact, facilitating collaboration across teams and locations.

Make a difference as Executive Assistant

• Manage and screen incoming correspondence, including emails, calls, and requests.
• Prepare draft communications, documents, and presentations.
• Coordinate and manage complex calendars and agendas.
• Organize meetings, including preparation, logistics, and minute taking.
• Arrange and coordinate business travel and itineraries.
• Organize international meetings, visits, and events.
• Coordinate with internal and external stakeholders to ensure smooth operations.

What you bring as a future colleague

• Have a vocational or associate degree (or equivalent);
• Have experience in an administrative or executive assistant role;
• Are highly organized and able to manage multiple priorities;
• Have strong communication skills in English;
• Have a proactive, hands-on, and service-oriented mindset;
• Are comfortable working in an international environment;
• Bring attention to detail and a high level of accuracy.

Enza Zaden as your employer

With more than 3,000 passionate team members across the world, we’re on a mission to develop the finest vegetable varieties. Our goal is to deliver seeds that offer better taste, better yields, and better resistance. Every day, more than 480 million people eat vegetables grown from our seeds — something we are proud of.

Our strength lies in our people. We believe in collaboration, ownership, and creating an environment where everyone can grow and contribute. With our strong family values, entrepreneurial spirit, and focus on innovation, we continue to build a sustainable future together.