Personal Assistant, Global Sales & Marketing Marketing · London, United Kingdom

Join us and be part of a mission-driven, independent publisher. You’ll work with a diverse group of people who share a passion for empowering researchers, educators, and institutions to shape the future.

About Sage: Sage is a global academic publisher of books, journals, and library resources with a growing range of technologies to enable discovery, access, and engagement. Believing that research and education are critical in shaping society, Sara Miller McCune founded Sage in 1965. Today, we are controlled by a group of trustees charged with maintaining our independence and mission indefinitely.

Our guaranteed independence means we’re free to:

• Do more – supporting an equitable academic future, furthering disciplines that drive social change, and helping social and behavioural science make an impact.
• Work together – building lasting relationships, championing diverse perspectives, and co-creating resources to transform teaching and learning.
• Think long-term – experimenting, taking risks, and investing in new ideas.

About our Team: This role sits at the heart of our Global Sales & Marketing function, a team that champions our authors, partners, and customers across the academic publishing landscape, ensuring our research, learning solutions, and digital products reach the communities who rely on them. By nurturing connection, communication, and continuous learning, we foster a vibrant, inclusive environment where people feel valued, supported, and empowered to perform at their best.

Could you be our new Personal Assistant? Are you:

• Experienced in supporting multiple senior leaders, with a track record of managing complex, fast-paced diaries across several time zones and keeping priorities aligned.
• Consistently proactive in your communication, providing timely updates, following through on actions, and giving stakeholders confidence that nothing is missed.
• Skilled at anticipating needs, asking thoughtful questions, spotting gaps, and identifying ways to streamline processes or improve efficiency.
• Adaptable and solutions focused, able to shift between tasks, step outside your day-to-day remit, and stay calm in a changing environment.
• Motivated by impact, ensuring leaders can focus on strategic work because you’ve created clarity, structure, and momentum behind the scenes.
• Comfortable working in a hybrid global environment, including regular in-office collaboration with London-based leaders and flexible remote support for US-based leaders.

Your new role: You will support four senior leaders across our Global Sales & Marketing teams, each with distinct working patterns, time zones, and priorities. Your work will directly enable them to deliver strategic, operational, and commercial objectives.

• Optimise leaders’ time and focus by managing complex diaries across UK and US time zones, coordinating international travel and visas, and ensuring meetings are purposeful with clear agendas, materials, and follow-up actions.
• Drive operational efficiency through proactive management of expenses, invoices, and POs, and by improving administrative systems, introducing smarter workflows, and finding opportunities for automation.
• Advance strategic and change initiatives by tracking actions, monitoring progress, and ensuring momentum toward key departmental goals.
• Strengthen team culture and engagement by planning and delivering internal events (team meetings, connection days, volunteer activities, socials) and supporting select external events such as author webinars and library engagements.
• Build a connected global community by managing the Marketing blog on Viva Engage, encouraging contributions, sharing updates, and creating visual content that showcases our culture and achievements.
• Improve information flow by enhancing how documentation, resources, and knowledge are stored and shared across the global Marketing department.
• Cultivate strong working relationships across the business, engaging and collaborating to support seamless communication and alignment.

Overview of benefits: 25 days annual leave (plus