Office Manager & Assistant to the CEO

🥛 At Lamu, we are helping the world get healthier by reducing sugar in natural beverages.

We’re looking for an experienced, detail-oriented administrative professional, who will provide administrative and operational support to our CEO. Your role focuses on administration, project management and operations.

🍼 Why work with us?

Firstly, you’ll get the chance to be an early team member at a world-changing foodtech startup. We’re a small, intense science-driven team, where you'll learn a lot and have tons of responsibilities. By joining us, you’ll be part of a small business turning a new technology from early stage to industrial scale and changing the way the food industry works.

📈 Requirements

• The goal is to do whatever it takes to keep the CEO focused on company development. This role involves heavy collaboration with the CEO, but also requires an independent mindset.
• You’re extremely organized, you notice and remember details.
• You’re proactive: Identify things that need to be done and resolve them without being told to.
• You’re a fast learner.
• You’re willing to hustle, and do whatever it takes to get tasks done.
• You’re able to initiate complex tasks and see them through to completion with minimal assistance.
• You have strong verbal and written communication skills in Hebrew and in English.
• You’ve provided administrative and logistical support for startup founders.
• You’re an expert with email, calendars, excel and powerpoint. You’re not afraid of quickly learning new technologies.
• You’re fluent with the internet and internet culture, able to research anything effectively online.
• You strive to continuously improve yourself and your surroundings.
• You’re discrete and able to keep confidential information to yourself.
• You have a positive, proactive mindset.

🚀 Bonus points

• An academic degree.
• Previous experience at a startup.
• People-first and passionate about helping small businesses grow.
• Basic bookkeeping, HR and financial experience or knowledge.
• Foodtech/Biotech/Life science familiarity.
• You’re comfortable driving.

💎 Responsibilities

• Understand the CEO’s goals and protect her time accordingly.
• Office management: expenses documentation, coordinating company events and meetings, administrative support, HR support, logistics support.
• R&D support: vendor management and orders management.
• Independently track tasks and follow-up action items.
• Prioritize conflicting requests and needs and handle matters proactively, swiftly, and to completion while meeting deadlines.
• Assist the CEO with projects as needed and provide operational support for the CEO's initiatives.
• Arrange travel plans and itineraries.
• Stay in the loop.
• Work with others inside and outside of the company to make sure important moves are made.