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Personal Assistant

AT Diageo
Diageo

Personal Assistant

London, United Kingdom

This role will provide personal assistant support to the business leader(s) of Global Tax and Global Audit and Risk. It will be required to co-ordinate their activities and provide administrative support. This is a varied and challenging role which requires a high degree of flexibility, initiative and confidentiality.

Top Accountabilities

Functional:

  • Effective diary management - emphasis on anticipating needs and understanding priorities
  • Meeting co-ordination, preparation, including ability to set up and run virtual meetings
  • Ensure all Purchase Orders, invoices and expenses are completed in a timely, accurate and compliant manner
  • Co-ordination of data & digital filing systems
  • Preparation of relevant business reports e.g. team budget
  • Managing routine one-off and recurring tasks, including resolving issues and implementing comprehensive solutions
  • Facilitating departmental initiatives (e.g. global town hall meeting organisation, and coordinating between members of the leadership/extended leadership team re administrative tasks that benefit the department)
  • Management and organisation of internal and external events e.g. conferences, meetings, events
  • Travel, visa and accommodation management and co-ordination
  • Timely management of expenditure via Concur, ensuring a thorough filing and reference system is in place

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Leadership standards:

Win through Execution
  • Takes a wide view of their accountabilities
  • High energy and ambition to achieve
  • Effective prioritisation skills
  • Generates a range of workable solutions to problems and takes action

Shape the Future
  • Accurately digests large amounts of information and breaks down complex problems
  • Challenges themselves to take on new or unfamiliar tasks and ways of working

Inspire through Purpose
  • Aspires to have a positive impact on those they support
  • Is actively aware of the impact they have on others and tunes in to the needs of individuals around them
  • Communicates in a compelling, clear and impactful way

Invest in Talent
  • Displays confidence in their ability to meet challenges and succeed
  • Demonstrates a realistic and thoughtful awareness of their own capabilities
  • Proactively seeks feedback and development for growth and takes action

Ideal experiences / Qualifications / capabilities
  • Demonstration of high performance in a PA or Team Assistant role
  • Continually demonstrate high standards in terms of planning, quality and accuracy of work outputs to meet challenging timescales
  • Utilise exceptional interpersonal skills to build and sustain excellent relationships across a diverse range of cross-functional networks
  • Be creative in finding solutions to issues faced by the leaders you support and develop and apply an understanding of the function to your work
  • Highly organised and self-motivated, with an ability to anticipate, effectively prioritise and progress workload
  • Demonstrate a high level of integrity, compliance and confidentiality at all times
  • Ability to tactfully and assertively prioritise core duties for those you support
  • Experience working with a wide range of technology solutions (preferably including SAP, Concur, Condecco, Coupa, Outlook & Microsoft Office & virtual meeting tools (e.g., Zoom))

Diversity statement:

Celebrating our inclusive and diverse culture is core to Diag's purpose of "celebrating life every day everywhere". This purpose is, in itself, inclusive in nature, as it values everybody irrespective of background, disability, religion, gender identity, sexuality or ethnicity.

We know that for our business to thrive and for Diageo to realize its ambition, we depend on having diverse talent with a range of backgrounds, skills and capabilities in each of the 180 countries in which we operate and to reflect our broad consumer base. We view diversity as one of the key enablers that helps our business to grow and our values, purpose and standards set the conditions for us to respect the unique contribution each person brings.

Flexibility is key to success in our business and many of our staff work flexibly in many different ways, including part-time, compressed hours, flexible location. Please talk to us about what flexibility means to you and don't let anything stop you from applying.

Client-provided location(s): London, UK
Job ID: Diageo-JR1100812
Employment Type: Full Time

Perks and Benefits

  • Health and Wellness

    • Health Insurance
    • Health Reimbursement Account
    • Dental Insurance
    • Vision Insurance
    • Life Insurance
    • Short-Term Disability
    • Long-Term Disability
    • FSA
    • FSA With Employer Contribution
    • HSA
    • HSA With Employer Contribution
    • Fitness Subsidies
    • Pet Insurance
    • Mental Health Benefits
  • Parental Benefits

    • Birth Parent or Maternity Leave
    • Non-Birth Parent or Paternity Leave
    • Fertility Benefits
    • Adoption Assistance Program
    • Family Support Resources
    • Adoption Leave
  • Work Flexibility

    • Hybrid Work Opportunities
  • Office Life and Perks

    • Commuter Benefits Program
    • Casual Dress
    • Happy Hours
    • On-Site Cafeteria
    • Holiday Events
  • Vacation and Time Off

    • Paid Vacation
    • Paid Holidays
    • Personal/Sick Days
    • Leave of Absence
    • Volunteer Time Off
  • Financial and Retirement

    • 401(K)
    • Pension
    • Stock Purchase Program
    • Performance Bonus
    • Relocation Assistance
  • Professional Development

    • Tuition Reimbursement
    • Promote From Within
    • Mentor Program
    • Access to Online Courses
    • Lunch and Learns
    • Internship Program
    • Leadership Training Program
    • Associate or Rotational Training Program
  • Diversity and Inclusion

    • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Program
    • Employee Resource Groups (ERG)
    • Woman founded/led

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