Personal Assistant, Southern Europe

About us

Diageo is the world's leading premium drinks company with an outstanding collection of brands, such as Johnnie Walker, Smirnoff, Baileys, Captain Morgan, Tanqueray and Guinness. Our purpose - Celebrating life, every day, everywhere - has a meaningful role in our company, for our people, our diversity, our brands, in how we perform and how we build shared value.

About the role

In this position, you'll support our Southern European market, by coordinating activities and providing administrative support. This is a multifaceted and meaningful role which requires a high degree of flexibility, initiative, and confidentiality.

Role responsibilities

• Effective diary management - emphasis on anticipating needs and understanding priorities
• Travel and accommodation management and co-ordination
• Timely management of expenditure via Concur, ensuring a thorough filing and reference system
• Meeting co-ordination, preparation, efficiency, and effectiveness
• Co-ordination of data and preparation of relevant business reports e.g. critical metrics
• Leading routine one-off and recurring tasks, including resolving issues and implementing comprehensive solutions
• Management and organization of internal and external events e.g. conferences, meetings, events
• Management and co-ordination of functional specific projects and administration

About you
Experience/skills required

• Previous experience in a similar role
• Fluency in Spanish and English, other languages a plus
• Continually demonstrate high standards in terms of planning, quality and accuracy of work outputs to meet challenging timescales
• Utilize exceptional interpersonal skills to build and sustain excellent relationships across a diverse range of cross-functional networks
• Be creative in finding solutions to issues faced by the leaders you support and develop and apply an understanding of the function to your work
• Highly organized and self-motivated, with an ability to anticipate, optimally prioritize and progress workload
• Demonstrate a high level of integrity, compliance and confidentiality at all times
• Ability to tactfully and assertively prioritize core duties for those you support
• Experience working with; SAP, Concur, Condeco, Coupa, Outlook & Microsoft Office

Working with us

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 wellbeing and balance your priorities from day one.

Rewards and Benefits statement

Join us and you can also expect a highly competitive and flexible rewards and benefits package such as:

• Work life balance policies and wellbeing activities.
• Subsidised gym membership.
• Contributary pension scheme.
• Comprehensive health insurance for you and your family.
• Annual bonus dependent on performance.
• Our products discounts.
• Employee Assistance Programme.

Diversity statement

Our purpose is to celebrate life, every day, everywhere. And creating an inclusive culture, where everyone feels valued and that they can belong, is a crucial part of this. We embrace diversity in the broadest possible sense. This means that you'll be welcomed and celebrated for who you are just by being you. You'll be part of and help build and champion an inclusive culture that celebrates people of different gender, ethnicity, ability, age, sexual orientation, social class, educational backgrounds, experiences, mindsets, and more.

Our ambition is to create the best performing, most trusted and respected consumer products companies in the world. Join us and help transform our business as we take our brands to the next level and build new ones as part of shaping the next generation of celebrations for consumers around the world.

Feel inspired? Then this may be the opportunity for you. If you require a reasonable adjustment, please ensure that you capture this information when you submit your application.

If you require a reasonable adjustment, please ensure that you capture this information when you submit your application.