Personal Assistant - 12 Months Fixed Term Contract

Want to do the best work of your life? Make your mark at Europe’s leading media and entertainment brand. A workplace where you can proudly be yourself; our people make Sky a truly exciting and inclusive place to work.

This is a fantastic opportunity to join the Consumer Group for Sky and NOW as a Personal Assistant. You will need to thrive in a fast paced and demanding environment, possess strong attention to detail, bring a sense of fun and energy to the world of work, establish and maintain excellent working relationships at all levels, and be able to work autonomously as well as being a team player.

What you'll do:

• Proactive diary management – seamlessly organising and maintaining extremely busy and constantly changing diaries. Booking all meeting rooms, organising frequent video conferencing sessions between offices in all territories and other external companies.

• Providing professional and effective administrative support –hospitality orders, preparing agendas/materials, meeting and greeting visitors, onboarding new starters and processing expenses.

• Handle travel - arranging domestic and international travel itineraries, flights, rail and taxis.

• Acting as a delegate to managers for Sky systems including Sky Life (Workday), Ariba and Spark for all administrative functions required (i.e. approvals and requests).

• Provide ad-hoc support for the leadership teams.

• Work collaboratively with other PA’s across Consumer Group. Flexing and adapting where required and supporting each other, whilst also providing admin cover as and when needed for colleague’s holiday.

What you'll bring:

• Confident, friendly, approachable manner with a flexible, can-do attitude, collaborating for success.

• Outstanding organisational skills, able to multi-task, have good time management and an eye for detail.

• Experience in diary management and executive assistance to multiple stakeholders.

• Ability to work to tight time scales and enjoy understanding issues and problem solving.

• Excellent attention to detail and accuracy – using methodical approach to ensure all aspects of a task or project are anticipated and dealt with.

• Excellent communication skills (verbal & written); able to build effective relationships internally and externally.

• Pro-active team member with excellent interpersonal skills and capability to build rapport at all levels. Equally able to work independently.

Team Overview:

The Consumer group is responsible for bringing together proposition, commercial and marketing teams across TV, Content, Broadband, Sports and Mobile. By joining Consumer you’ll be part of a team integral to Sky.

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 Now TV for free

• A generous pension package

• Private healthcare

• Shop for less at selected high street and specialist retailer

How you'll work:

We know the world has changed, and we want to offer our employees the chance to collaborate at our outstanding 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:

Dublin

Our striking Ireland HQ has an A-list location on Burlington Road, walking distance from central Dublin. Grand Canal Dock and Pearse train stations are both around 1.5km away, and we’re a short stroll from the buses of Baggot Street, Leeson Street and Waterloo Road. There’s plenty of parking for cyclists too.

Inclusion:

Recognised as an ‘Inclusive Top 50 Employer’ and a ‘Times Top 50 Employer for Women’, we’re working hard to ensure we’re a truly inclusive place to work. 

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.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

Why wait?

Apply now to build an amazing career and be part of a brilliant team. We can’t wait to hear from you.

To find out more about working with us, search #LifeAtSky on social media. A job you love to talk about.

Just so you know: if your application is successful, we’ll ask you to complete a criminal record check. And depending on the role you have applied for and the nature of any convictions you may have, we might have to withdraw the offer.