Job Title: Personal Assistant
Contract: permanent
Location: London
Worker Type: Regular
About Us
With over 200 brands sold in nearly 180 countries, we’re the world’s leading premium drinks company. Bring your passion and use your curiosity as you explore, collaborate, and innovate to build brands consumers love. Together with passionate people from all over the world, you’ll test new ideas, learn and grow, and unlock a brighter, more exciting future. Join us to create a career worth celebrating.
About the Role
To provide proficient personal assistant support to the Global Investor Relations Director. This is a varied and challenging role that requires a high degree of proactivity, flexibility, initiative, and confidentiality. PA roles at Diageo are critical to the smooth running of our business; they offer ample opportunities to grow and maximise the impact of the leaders and teams you support.
Top Accountabilities
* Effective diary management – anticipation of needs and understanding complex priorities.
* Scheduling recurring and ad‑hoc internal and external meetings, accounting for time zones.
* Interacting with colleagues in Corporate Relations worldwide to organise meetings and conferences, and gather market information.
* Booking meeting rooms, logging external visitors and organising catering (if required), and assisting with external meeting logistics including investors with CEO and CFO.
* Travel, visa and accommodation management and coordination using preferred airlines/hotels aligned with budget.
* Timely processing of expenses via Concur.
* Raising purchase orders using Coupa, ensuring accuracy, compliance, and budget awareness.
* Co‑ordinate information and business flows to the wider Global Brand and Communications and Spirit of Progress teams.
* Managing routine and one‑off tasks, resolving issues and implementing comprehensive solutions.
* Planning and organising internal and external events (e.g., training days, offsite meetings, and celebrations).
What You'll Bring
* High performance in a PA or Team Assistant role.
* High standards in planning, quality and accuracy to meet challenging timescales.
* Exceptional interpersonal skills to build and sustain excellent relationships across diverse cross‑functional networks and at all levels of seniority.
* Creativeness and proactivity in finding solutions for leaders, applying an understanding of the function to work.
* Highly organised and self‑motivated, able to anticipate and prioritise workload.
* High integrity, compliance, discretion and confidentiality.
* Ability to tactfully prioritise core duties for those you support.
* Resilience to changes in direction, decisions and priorities.
* Experience with Concur, Condeco, Coupa, Outlook & Microsoft Office suite, Microsoft Teams and virtual meeting tools (e.g., Zoom).
Flexible Working Statement
Flexibility is key to our success. Talk to us about what flexibility means to you so that you’re supported to manage your well‑being and balance your priorities from day one.
Diversity Statement
Our purpose is to celebrate life, every day, everywhere. We create an inclusive culture where everyone feels valued and can belong. We embrace diversity in the broadest possible sense – welcoming and celebrating people of different gender, ethnicity, ability, age, sexual orientation, social class, educational backgrounds, experiences, mindsets, and more.
Seniorities
* Entry level
Employment type
* Full‑time
Job function
* Administrative
* Industries: Beverage Manufacturing
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