Executive Assistant to General Counsel
City
£Circa 70-75k + London allowance + bens and bonus (Negotiable for right experience)
A new world-leading consumer company with category leading brands is looking for an EA to support their recently appointed General Counsel.
This is an exciting time to join an innovative, expanding company and help shape the future. They pride themselves on their aspirational and collaborative, forward thinking culture which offers lots of scope for development and progression.
This is a truly all-encompassing and super involved 1:1 EA/Business Assistant role. You will provide effective, proactive and comprehensive administrative support to the General Counsel and be the "glue" of the senior leadership team.
- Key responsibilities:
- The 'glue' of the Leadership team; Anticipating what matters most and aligning the Leadership team accordingly. Championing the team, providing counsel and challenge, bringing it all together and providing support across the collective work streams. Partner with the Group Legal Leadership team to define, communicate and implement functional objectives. Delivering priorities on a project-by-project basis.
- Partner with the Legal LT to enable the delivery of the function's ambitions. Enabling the change management process - supporting development and implementation of plans, colleague communication and engagement and embedding future ways of working across the function.
- Play a leading role in managing monthly Leadership meetings. Setting the agenda, content collation, distilling high level strategic discussions into detailed actions. Tracking next steps and driving forward execution and output
- Support the team engagement, culture and people ambitions in collaboration with the Leadership team and People Business Partner, incorporating EVM action plans to achieve strategic outcomes for the function.
- Manage conference and events, shaping and delivering the agenda in collaboration with the Legal Leadership Team. Translating key messages into content aligned to our strategy and purpose and in line with our style and Tone of Voice.
- The 'glue' of the Leadership team; Anticipating what matters most and aligning the Leadership team accordingly. Championing the team, providing counsel and challenge, bringing it all together and providing support across the collective work streams.
- Manage the function's comms and engagement approach, including drafting all internal communication materials on behalf of the LLT.
- Operating with a broad, commercial, in depth understanding of the 'why' and the complexities of the GCs corporate, governance and regulatory responsibilities.
- Support the GC to meet the Groups governance requirements across PLC Board/Board committees, ExCo, GRCC, Cyber, and Disclosure.
- Providing support to the GC on significant corporate M&A transactions, working closely with internal corporate teams and external advisers.
- Horizon scanning; anticipating what is coming next and in turn what actions need to be taken now. Identifying key priorities, managing business critical matters, disseminate information and confidential flow of information.
- Playing a crucial part in the efficient day to day running of the GCs office, managing competing priorities and complex scheduling for all ExCo, Board and NED commitments aligned to strategic business priorities and functional objectives. Allocating tasks and problem solving for multiple stakeholders.
- Managing relationships with internal and external stakeholders. Liaising with Law firms, External advisors, Board members and senior internal stakeholders across a broad range of confidential commercial matters.
Key skills and experience:
Experience in a FTSE 100 company where you have operated in a large matrix organization. You will have ideally supported a General Counsel or Head of Legal otherwise supported at CEO/CFO level with a good understanding of corporate governance. This role is fully autonomous and ideally suited to an EA looking to take on a part Business Assistant/ Chief of staff role.