Are you an organised and proactive individual with a passion for supporting senior leadership in a dynamic and fast-paced environment? Do you excel in managing competing priorities and thrive on providing high-level administrative support? If so, we want to hear from you!
About the Role:
Join Ipsos as a Personal Assistant for a 9-month FTC. Be the linchpin for three senior Directors in the UK and global business. This role is your opportunity to enable leadership effectiveness through proactive diary management, communication triage, and complex meeting coordination. It's a chance to work with a team that provides crucial insights across various industries, assisting clients in navigating dynamic markets. Use your judgement to prioritize demands and support leaders in focusing on strategic priorities. This role is key to building strong client relationships and supporting high-impact research projects.
About You:
- Proven experience in executive or personal assistant roles
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office suite including PowerPoint
- Strong written and communication skills
- Capable of managing competing priorities and multitasking
- Experience with hybrid meetings and AV/tech arrangements
- Collaborative mindset and willingness to provide assistance where needed
- Proficiency in AI tools and their application to administrative tasks
Essential Skills:
- Executive support experience
- Diary and inbox management
- Strong communication skills
- Organisational proficiency
- Event and meeting coordination skills
- Strong skillset in Microsoft Office (Outlook, Teams, PowerPoint, Word and Excel).
Desirable Skills:
- Experience in a matrix organisation
- Familiarity with AI tools
- Expense and financial reconciliation experience
- Event organisation
- Basic project coordination skills
Benefits:
We offer a comprehensive benefits package designed to support you as an individual. Our standard benefits include 25 days annual leave, pension contribution, income protection and life assurance. In addition, there are a range health & wellbeing, financial benefits and professional development opportunities.
We have a hybrid approach to work and ask people to be in the office or with clients for 3 days per week. We appreciate you may have commitments outside of work and will consider flexible working applications - please highlight what you are looking for when you make your application.
We are committed to equality, treating people fairly, promoting a positive and inclusive working environment and ensuring we have diversity of people and views. We recognise that this is important for our business success - a more diverse workforce will enable us to better reflect and understand the world we research and ultimately deliver better research and insight to our clients. We are proud to be a member of the Disability Confident scheme, certified as a Level 2 Disability Confident Employer. We provide an inclusive and accessible recruitment process. Your application will be reviewed by someone from our Talent Team who will be in touch either way to let you know the outcome.
Ready to have an impact? Apply now!
About UsIpsos is one of the world’s largest research companies and currently the only one primarily managed by researchers, ranking as a #1 full-service research organization for four consecutive years. With over 75 different data-driven solutions, and presence in 90 markets, Ipsos brings together research, implementation, methodological, and subject-matter experts from around the world, combining thematic and technical experts to deliver top-quality research and insights. Simply speaking, we help the biggest companies solve some of their biggest problems, serving more than 5000 clients across the globe by providing research, data, and insights on their target markets. And we are proud of our continuous efforts in making Ipsos the best place to work! About the TeamThe Ipsos Understanding Unlimited service line uses Qualitative techniques to humanize data and bring cultural intelligence into our clients’ thinking. We bring ‘life to life’, through listening, observing and illuminating human interactions. Ipsos UU is the largest qualitative research company in the world. IUU has a community of 1300 specialists with diverse backgrounds and skill sets (e.g. ethnographers, community managers, semioticians) who understand people better than anyone else, simply because we have done more research for more clients in more countries than anyone else. With us, clients are fluent in 88 cultures.
