Personal Assistant

Want to do the best work of your life? With 24 million customers in 6 countries, 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. 

The purpose of this role is to provide flexible support up to three directors and their teams across departments within Global Product. The successful candidate will need to thrive in a fast paced and demanding environment, possess keen attention to detail, will bring a sense of fun and energy to the world of work, will establish and maintain excellent working relationships at all levels within the department, across Sky, Comcast and externally if required, and will be able to work autonomously as well as being a team player.

What you’ll do: 

• Maintaining an efficient, correct, and up-to-date diary for your manager(s).

• Undertake administrative duties such as preparing and approving expenses, purchase orders, and other accounting documents.

• Work collaboratively with PAs and Admin Assistants across the Global Product team, providing cover and adapting support as needed.

• Arrange UK and international travel and accommodation, book meetings across time zones, and coordinate restaurant bookings and events.

• Assist with presentation preparation, offsite team events, social events, general admin tasks, and organise agendas and minute meetings when required.

• Liaise with Sky Spaces, AV, IT, HR teams, and provide support for recruitment, onboarding, team maintenance, team moves, and new starters.

• Manage meeting room bookings, visitor passes, conference or VC calls, hospitality, couriers, post, team reports, departmental reward schemes, internal systems, comms distribution, and organising gifts or hospitality.

What you’ll bring: 

• Proven secretarial or personal assistant experience, with a strong ability to handle confidential information professionally is a must.

• Excellent organisational skills with the ability to multi-task and manage multiple diaries simultaneously.

• Willingness to take on new and different challenges, showing a proactive, confident, and self-motivated approach to all tasks.

• Friendly, approachable, and confident manner with excellent communication skills at all levels, and a flexible, can-do attitude that supports collaboration.

• Strong ability to act independently within the core role, with excellent knowledge of Microsoft Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.

• Demonstrated ability to work under pressure and meet tight deadlines, with excellent attention to detail, a methodical approach, and the ability to read the room and problem-solve effectively.

Team overview: 

Global Product is made up of 8,000 people across eight countries, who also create all of the hardware products for Comcast, manage the content platforms that power our products, as well as develop Peacock, the streaming service for NBC Universal, and Sky Showtime, which launched in 2022. Global Entertainment Experience Product Management is one of the areas that sits within Global Product. 

The Rewards: 

There's one thing people can't stop talking about when it comes to #LifeAtSky: the perks. Here’s a taster:

• Sky Q, for the TV you love all in one place

• The magic of Sky Glass at an exclusive rate

• A generous pension package

• Private healthcare

• Discounted mobile and broadband

• A wide range of 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:

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.  

We are a Disability Confident Accredited Employer, and welcome and encourage applications from all candidates. We will look to ensure a fair and consistent experience for all and will make reasonable adjustments to support you where appropriate. Please flag any adjustments you need to your recruiter as early as you can.

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.