Executive Assistant (9 month FTC)

What's the opportunity?

- Provide direct executive support to our COO, managing their calendar, ensuring they're prepared for every meeting, and protecting the time they need to focus on the highest-priority work.

- Play a central coordination role across the EA team, supporting travel arrangements, company events, and other operational activities that help the executive function run smoothly and create capacity where it's needed most.

- Own the coordination of our weekly Executive meetings, publishing agendas, gathering pre-reads, and supporting action tracking with the wider team.

- Help deliver key company events, from our annual conference and summer party to regular company meetings, contributing to both planning and on-the-day logistics.

- Maintain and improve our corporate calendar, ensuring critical business milestones, deadlines, and events are visible and accurately reflected across the organisation.

What you'll achieve

- You'll help the COO stay focused on the highest-priority work through thoughtful diary management, strong meeting preparation, and effective prioritisation.

- You'll provide flexible support across the EA team, stepping into operational and project-based work when needed so the team can continue providing great support across the business.helping the team adapt as priorities shift and workloads change.

- You'll help deliver well-organised company events, from large-scale conferences to regular company meetings, ensuring everything runs smoothly behind the scenes.

- You'll bring structure and consistency to operational processes, from SIIT request tracking to maintaining the corporate calendar, leaving them better than you found them.

- You'll be known as someone who gets things done, communicates clearly, and manages competing priorities without dropping the ball.

About you

- Experience supporting senior stakeholders as an Executive Assistant or in a similar support role, with the confidence to work autonomously

- Excellent organisational skills, attention to detail, and the judgement to balance multiple priorities effectively.

- Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to build relationships across a wide range of stakeholders

- A proactive and ownership-driven approach, with the confidence to spot opportunities, solve problems, and take initiative.

- Resilience, adaptability, and a calm approach to changing priorities and busy environments

Nice to haves

- Experience supporting a COO, operational leader, or working alongside functions such as Finance, Legal, IT, Facilities teams.

- Familiarity with travel management platforms such as Perk.

Salary and benefits (the stuff you’d expect!)

- Salary is £40k - £50k, depending on experience

- This is a full time opportunity, working Monday to Friday with the option of flexible home working (for most of us that looks like 2-3 days a week in the office). We are also open to discussing part-time options for this position.

- This is a 9 month fixed term contract

- Generous personal development budget for courses, conferences, or whatever is useful to your professional development in the role of up to £1500 per year

- Opportunity to join our Long Term Incentive scheme

- Top end hardware provided

- Free lunch in the office

- 25 days holiday plus bank holidays (with the option to buy an extra 5 each year)

- Company Pension Plan (matching up to 5%)

- Bupa health care

- Life Insurance & critical illness cover

- Discounted gym membership, as well as a range of health and wellness benefit