Executive Assistant in London

We are currently looking for an Executive Assistant (EA) to support a C Suite Director based in Rolls-Royce offices at Kings Place, London. This is an outstanding opportunity for a well-organised and passionate individual to apply your administration experience in an extremely high-profile role, supporting a senior C-suite executive of a top FTSE 100 company.

This is an interesting opportunity to operate in a busy, world-class engineering and manufacturing environment.

What you will be doing:

• Manage the diary for the C Suite Director, including arranging meetings, anticipating requirements, and preparing, checking and circulating materials in advance if necessary.
• Manage the inbox and mail on behalf of the C Suite Director, using judgement to prioritise or redirect accordingly.
• Be the first point of contact for enquiries on behalf of the C Suite Director, screening calls and responding to queries directly.
• Build and maintain effective working relationships with the C Suite Director's key contacts, such as customers, suppliers, government or regulatory bodies, along with senior leaders and their teams across the organisation.
• Produce professional documentation, create presentations and prepare reports and minutes to the required deadlines in support of the C Suite Director.
• Organise and project-manage delivery of complex global events for the C Suite Director such as off-site conferences, including the relevant administrative, logistical and hospitality arrangements.

Why Rolls-Royce?

Work with us and we will welcome you into a culture of caring and belonging where you can be yourself. We will listen first, embrace feedback and act with integrity. We will invest in your continuous learning and development, and make sure you have access to a wide breadth and depth of opportunities to grow your career and make a difference. We offer excellent development, a competitive salary, and exceptional benefits. These include bonus, employee support assistance and employee discounts. Your needs are as unique as you are. Hybrid working is a way in which our people can balance their time between the office, home, or another remote location.

Who we’re looking for:

• Have significant previous experience in a senior PA/EA role in a similar fast-paced FTSE 100 environment, having provided C-suite and board level support.
• Have excellent planning and organisational skills, with excellent attention to detail and a high degree of accuracy in work.
• Are able to predict needs, prioritise and exercise judgement and discretion, suggesting appropriate options when obstacles appear, and acting autonomously.
• Are able to gather information from a variety of sources, both internally and externally and process and evaluate data accordingly with little guidance.
• Take every opportunity to improve your skills and knowledge and ensure that you really understand our business.
• Contribute to continuous process improvement activities, by identifying areas for process and system improvement, and creating and updating administration operating procedures.
• Have an advanced level of computer literacy in Microsoft Office Applications.

Join us and help Rolls-Royce to become a high-performing, competitive, resilient business. We are an equal opportunities employer. We are committed to developing a diverse workforce and an inclusive working environment. We believe that people from different backgrounds and cultures give us different perspectives. And the more perspectives we have, the more successful we’ll be. By building a culture of respect and appreciation, we give everyone who works here the opportunity to realise their full potential.