Personal Assistant - Sky Sports United Kingdom
Sky
Full Time
United Kingdom
10.56 - 12.04 GBP Today
Job description
This role is an exciting opportunity to join us in Sky Sports as a Personal Assistant to work with the Director of Sky Sports News & Digital Media and the Executive Director for Development. This role is split 50% responsibility for supporting the Director of SSN and 50% the Executive Director in Sky Sports.
The successful candidate will also be expected to assist 3x Heads of Department with diary management and some SSN Newsroom administration tasks such as invoicing, guest management and maintaining kit and office stationery.
What you'll do:
- Be responsible for proactive diary management – seamlessly organising and maintaining extremely busy and constantly changing diaries.
- Booking all meeting rooms, organising frequent video conferencing sessions for our teams.
- Attend key meetings as required, organising onsite and offsite departmental events.
- Provide professional and effective administrative support –Hospitality orders, preparing agenda’s/materials, meeting and greeting visitors, and processing expenses.
- Manage Corporate business Travel- Arranging domestic and international travel itineraries, flights, rail and taxi’s.
- Respond to enquiries and requests ensuring all client and key contact enquiries are handled efficiently and effectively, seeking answers and resolving matters personally where appropriate. Acting as an effective conduit to the Directors.
- Act as a delegate to Directors of for Sky systems including Ariba, Spark & Sky Life for all administrative functions required (i.e. approvals and requests)
- Provide new starter support to Directors of managing the onboarding process, organising their system set-up and ordering new equipment.
- Provide ad-hoc support for the various teams
What you'll bring:
- A confident, friendly, approachable manner with a flexible, can-do attitude, collaborating for success
- Exceptional organisational skills, ability to multi-task, have good time management and an eye for detail.
- Proven ability to work under pressure, to tight time scales and enjoy understanding issues and problem solving
- Ability to prioritise and appropriately manage senior stakeholder requirements.
- Discretion and deep appreciation for professional confidentiality
- Excellent attention to detail and accuracy – using methodical approach to ensure all aspects of a task or project are anticipated and dealt with.
- The ability to show maturity and initiative in often pressurised and confidential situations.
- Excellent communication skills (verbal & written); able to build effective relationships internally and externally.
- Excellent knowledge of and proficiency in using: Microsoft Office Package; Word, Outlook, PowerPoint, Excel and database systems
- A desire to achieve excellence, being motivated and driven.
- The ability and willingness to take on new and different challenges
- A knowledge of and interest in sports is not a pre-requisite but will make you enjoy your role even more!
Closing date: 13/06/2023, 11:59pm
Sky Sports
We deliver the most innovative and best Sports content experience to our customers across all platforms. We promote continuous innovation, driving value for our customers and high-quality output. Everyone is passionate about sport and proud of the work that they undertake both on screen and behind the scenes.
The Rewards:
There's a reason people can't stop talking about #LifeAtSky. Our great range of rewards really are something special, here are just a few:
- Sky Q, for the TV you love all in one place
- A generous pension package
- Private healthcare
- Discounted mobile and broadband
- Access a wide range of exclusive Sky VIP rewards and experiences
How you'll work:
We know the world has changed, and we want to offer our employees the chance to collaborate at our unique office spaces, whilst enjoying the convenience of working from home.
We've adopted a hybrid working approach to give more flexibility on where and how we work. You'll find out more about what this means for this role during the recruitment process.
Your office base:
Osterley:
Our Osterley Campus is a 10-minute walk from Syon Lane train station. Or you can hop on one of our free shuttle buses that run to and from Osterley, Gunnersbury, Ealing Broadway and South Ealing tube stations. There’s also plenty of bike shelters and showers.
On campus, you’ll find 13 subsidised restaurants, cafes, and a Waitrose. You can keep in shape at our subsidised gym, catch the latest shows and movies at our cinema, get your car washed and even get pampered at our beauty salon.
Inclusion:
We take pride in our approach to diversity and inclusion: we’ve been recognised by The Times and Stonewall for this, and we’ve committed £30million to support the fight against racial injustice. We’ve also set ambitious targets for increasing ethnic diversity and representation throughout our organisation.
At Sky we don’t just look at your CV. We’re more focused on who you are and your potential. We also know that everyone has a life outside work, so we're happy to discuss flexible working.
And we'll do everything we can to support you during your application. If you need us to make any adjustments to our recruitment process, speak to our recruitment team who will be happy to support you.
Sky
careers.sky.com
Isleworth, United Kingdom
Dana Strong
$10+ billion (USD)
10000+ Employees
Company - Public
Broadcast Media
1989
