About the Role
You'll be embedded in our Technology function working alongside our CTO with a dedicated portion of your time working with our incoming CPO giving you genuine visibility across both Tech and People at the most senior level.
Responsibilities
- Skilfully oversee the CTO & CPO’s schedules, ensuring comprehensive awareness of upcoming commitments.
- Serve as the primary point of contact for internal and external stakeholders, efficiently managing enquiries.
- Coordinate and follow up on various projects and initiatives led by the relevant Executive.
- Anticipate the Executive's needs, streamline processes, and provide solutions in advance of issues arising.
- Demonstrate unwavering precision, upholding the highest standards of accuracy and quality in all responsibilities.
- Handle confidential information with discretion, maintaining a high level of trust and integrity.
- Execute a wide array of administrative tasks, from crafting and refining presentations to managing documents, schedules, inbox management and communications.
- Oversee and track the expenses and reimbursement requests.
- Prepare comprehensive meeting agendas, materials, and presentations.
- End-to-end meeting preparation for high-impact and complex engagements, anticipating information requirements, ensuring clear outcomes, and managing follow-up actions.
- Manage a number of work-streams including tracking milestones, sharing progress updates, and facilitating communication between teams.
Requirements
- Inherently self-motivated with a strong solutions-oriented mindset.
- Proven experience in effectively engaging with C-level executives.
- Ability to manage workloads and adeptly prioritise tasks in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment.
- Ability to multitask and manage multiple work-streams simultaneously.
- A desire to build a deeper understanding of the business.
- Several years’ experience as an Executive Assistant.
- Ideally experience in the high growth scale up tech space, reporting directly to C-level.
- Understanding of Technology and People is a bonus.
- Proficiency in office software tools (e.g. Google Suite).
- Familiarity with productivity and scheduling software.
- Strong use of AI and the willingness to learn about such tools and products.
- Outstanding organisational and time management skills including quick response times.
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to draft professional correspondence and emails on behalf of the Executives.
- Ability to stay composed under pressure and carry oneself with professionalism and integrity.
- Ability to communicate with clarity and precision.
- Comfortable in the room with senior leaders and able to manage relationships at the highest levels.
- Ability to diagnose problems quickly and move to solutions.
- Ability to bring energy and optimism to the team.
- Ability to bounce back from setbacks, learn from them, and keep moving forward.
Skills
- AI tools
- Google Suite
- Productivity software
- Scheduling software
- Executive Assistant
- Stakeholder Engagement
- Project Coordination
- Problem-Solving
- Attention to Detail
- Responsiveness
- Confidentiality
- Administrative Tasks
- Expense Management
- Meeting Coordination
- Communication
- Time Management
- Organisational Skills
Location
- Hybrid
Work Type
- Hybrid working
Experience Level
- Several years’ experience as an Executive Assistant
Salary/Compensations
- Competitive salary
Benefits
- Hybrid working
- Competitive salary
- Matched pension contributions
- Share options
- Vitality Private Healthcare
- Eyecare vouchers
- Life Assurance
- Monthly coaching sessions with Spill
- Enhanced holiday package
- Bank Holidays
- 28 days annual leave
- 1 day for your wedding
- 1 day off when you move house
- 30 days of annual leave per year (from third year anniversary)
- 35 days of annual leave per year (from tenth year anniversary)
- Option to buy 3 extra days of holiday per year
- Work from abroad for a month
- Inclusive parental, partner and shared parental leave
- Fertility treatment policies
- Pregnancy loss policies
- Bubble childcare support
- Discounted nanny fees
- The latest tech (Macbook or Surface)
- Up to £500/€550 home office allowance
- Generous learning and development budget
- Regular social events
- Refer a friend bonus
About the Company
- To become the car-changing destination of choice.
- Combining technology, media and deep automotive expertise to change how people buy, sell, advertise and lease cars.
- One of the largest online car-changing destinations in Europe, with over 50% growth last year.
- Nearly £3bn worth of cars bought on site, while £1.8bn of cars were listed for sale through our Sell My Car service.
- Acquired Autovia in 2024, doubling audience overnight.
- One of the biggest YouTube channels in the world with almost 10m subscribers and over 1.1 billion annual views.
- Sell 1.2 million print copies of magazines.
- Annual web content reach over 350million.
Equal Opportunity
- Diversity and inclusion is an integral part of our culture.
- Diverse teams are strong teams, so we welcome those with alternative identities, backgrounds, and experiences to apply for this position.
- We make recruiting decisions based on experience, skills and potential, so all our applicants are treated fairly and equally.
