Administrative Business Partner

Palantir Technologies; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 200,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading software company is looking for an Administrative Business Partner in Abu Dhabi. The role involves providing support to executives, handling travel arrangements, and managing calendars. Ideal candidates have strong communication and digital skills, with at least two years of experience in administrative roles. This position promotes a collaborative and healthy work environment, encouraging in-person interaction for fostering creativity and team connectivity.

Benefits

Health and wellbeing support

Career growth opportunities

Qualifications

• Emirati national with a valid family book (i.e. Khulasat Al Qaid).
• At least two years of previous administrative or personal support experience in a fast-paced environment.
• Experience with scheduling international and domestic travel itineraries.

Responsibilities

• Provide administrative support to a portfolio of individuals/teams across EMEA timezone.
• Handle sophisticated calendars and prioritize commitments.
• Book travel arrangements and track expense reports.

Skills

Excellent communication skills

Strong attention to detail

Digital literacy

Tools

Microsoft Outlook

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft Word

Microsoft PowerPoint

Job description

A WorldChanging Company Palantir builds the worlds leading software for data-driven decisions and operations. By bringing the right data to the people who need it our platforms empower our partners to develop lifesaving forecast supply chain disruptions locate missing children and more.

The Role

Our team of Administrative Business Partners does more than just support our leaders: we’re the backbone of the busiest people at Palantir. We build positive relationships with the people we support and anticipate their needs without being asked. Our passion for helping others makes us an invaluable resource at Palantir!

As an Administrative Business Partner you will be handling a variety of professional responsibilities including calendaring travel and expenses. You are very organized and thrive off of enabling the people you support to be as productive and impactful as possible. You’ll demonstrate your excellent communication skills and exercise tact and diplomacy in helping to manage relationships with internal and external teams. This role you’ll also demonstrate good judgment and critical thinking by understanding competing priorities and actioning accordingly.

Core Responsibilities

• Provide administrative support to a portfolio of individuals/teams across EMEA timezone.
• Handle sophisticated calendars in a fast-paced environment and prioritize commitments to enhance time and productivity.
• Book travel arrangements (domestic and international).
• Track and process expense reports.
• Help plan, support and complete office events and external gatherings.
• Work both autonomously and in collaboration with teammates, colleagues and external contacts.

What We Value

• Ability to adjust quickly, anticipate needs and implement autonomously with strong attention to detail.
• Ability to prioritize and have a high sense of urgency.
• Excellent communication skills and perceptiveness.
• Ability to interact with a wide range of teams internally and externally with thoughtfulness and tact.
• High level of integrity, confidentiality and discretion in both internal and external interactions.

What We Require

• Emirati national with a valid family book (i.e. Khulasat Al Qaid).
• At least two years of previous administrative or personal support experience, preferably in a fast-paced environment.
• Excellent digital literacy including proficiency with Microsoft products (Outlook, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, etc.).
• Experience with scheduling sophisticated international and domestic travel itineraries.
• Familiarity with travel booking and expense reporting software.

Life at Palantir

We want every Palantirian to achieve their best outcomes—that’s why we celebrate individuals’ strengths, skills and interests from your first interview to your long-term growth rather than rely on traditional career ladders. Paying attention to the needs of our community enables us to optimize our opportunities to grow and helps ensure many pathways to success at Palantir. Promoting health and wellbeing across all areas of Palantirians lives is just one of the ways we’re investing in our community. Learn more at Life at Palantir and note that our offerings may vary by region.

In keeping consistent with Palantir’s values and culture we believe employees are better together and in-person work affords the opportunity for more creative outcomes. Therefore we encourage employees to work from our offices to foster connectivity and innovation. Many teams do offer hybrid options (WFH a day or two a week) allowing our employees to strike the right tradeoff for their personal productivity. Based on business need there are a few roles that allow for Remote work on an exceptional basis. If you are applying for one of these roles you must work from the city and/or country in which you are employed. If the posting is specified as Onsite you are required to work from an office.

If you want to empower the world’s most important institutions you belong here. Palantir values excellence regardless of background. We are committed to making the application and hiring process accessible to everyone and will provide a reasonable accommodation for those living with a disability. If you need an accommodation for the application or hiring process please reach out and let us know how we can help.