Meet Sophie, Office Manager and Executive Assistant
“I want to look in the mirror at the end of the day, like, 'Okay, I contributed. I did great. Yeah, I did it to the best of my abilities. I can be proud. And I can't wait for tomorrow.'"
Meet Sophie Hermans, office manager and executive assistant at Salvia. Sophie’s journey to Salvia included a midnight call and more than a little serendipity.
Sophie’s pre-Salvia career included everything from studying law to seven years as a sales manager for a chain of lingerie boutiques in Maastricht. “And that was amazing until it wasn’t.” Ready for a change, she went to a recruiter, who called her late at night to tell her about an opportunity at a MedTech company in Eindhoven. “He said, ‘I don't have the details yet. But Sophie, this is it.’”
As the recruiter predicted, her click with Salvia was immediate. After an interview with co-founder and COO Daniel Schobben, “I thought, ‘How can I be part of this? I need to be part of this right now.’ I’d never had an interview like the one I had with Daniel.” In her interview with Daniel, she was struck by how he made a human connection. “It was such a two-way street. I forgot that that existed, that people can be interested in you as well, but also look at the bigger picture.”
Sophie is an extrovert, and her defining personality trait is her openness to change: “We have a saying in Dutch: ‘When you stand still, you go backward.’” Which is good because at Salvia, her job is always shape-shifting as the company grows.
Working at a mission-based medical device company such as Salvia can be addicting in a good way, Sophie says. Everyone sets high goals not just as individuals, but as a company, she says. “Everybody lifts each other up.”
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