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Hours Full-time, Part-time
Location Rahway, New Jersey

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Job Description

Job Description

Responsibilities:

  • General and confidential clerical and administrative duties
  • Expense management and financial budget support
  • Manage agreement and contract creation and signatures
  • Facilitate procurement processes to initiate new purchase orders and process invoices while maintaining accurate recordkeeping (50% of responsibilities)
  • Maintain calendars and meeting scheduling, coordinating with senior administrative staff throughout the organization
  • Scheduling of international and domestic travel
  • Support virtual meetings using the latest technologies for Teams, Teleconferences and Webcasts, ensuring seamless execution of logistics
  • Ensure accurate posting and retention of documentation such as confidentiality agreements and contracts

Position Qualifications:
Education Minimum Requirement

  • Required: High School Diploma
  • Preferred: Advanced education or certifications such as (e.g. Certified Administrative Professional, Project Management Professional Certification)

Required Experience and Skills:

  • Minimum 5 years Administrative Assistant experience
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Advanced computer skills using (MS Outlook, Word, Excel, Power Point, SharePoint, Teams)
  • Extensive SAP and ARIBA experience processing Expense Reports, Purchase Orders, Payment Requests, Vendor Add Forms
  • Organization and time management; ability to handle and prioritize many simultaneous assignments
  • Good judgment and discretion handling sensitive documents and maintaining confidentiality
  • Ability to work both independently with little supervision and in a collaborative team environment
  • Extraordinary attention to detail
Company Description
Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp. ("Merck") is a leading research-driven pharmaceutical products and services company. Merck discovers, develops, manufactures, and markets a broad range of innovative products to improve human health, directly and through its joint ventures

Imagine getting up in the morning for a job as important as saving and improving lives around the world. Here, you have that opportunity. You can put your empathy, creativity, digital mastery or scientific genius to work in collaboration with other like-minded colleagues to pursue and bring hope to countless people who are battling the most challenging diseases of our time. Our team is always evolving, so if you are among the intellectually curious, join us—and start making your impact today.

Company Description

Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp. ("Merck") is a leading research-driven pharmaceutical products and services company. Merck discovers, develops, manufactures, and markets a broad range of innovative products to improve human health, directly and through its joint ventures\r\n\r\nImagine getting up in the morning for a job as important as saving and improving lives around the world. Here, you have that opportunity. You can put your empathy, creativity, digital mastery or scientific genius to work in collaboration with other like-minded colleagues to pursue and bring hope to countless people who are battling the most challenging diseases of our time. Our team is always evolving, so if you are among the intellectually curious, join us—and start making your impact today.

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Posting ID: 1202922474 Posted: 2026-01-03 Job Title: Administrative Assistant