Executive Assistant

IDEMIA; Tewkesbury; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

IDEMIA is seeking an experienced Executive Assistant to support a senior executive in a fast-paced, international setting. You will manage an intricate calendar, coordinate international travel, and prepare executive materials, while liaising with global leaders.

This role requires discretion, strategic thinking, and a proactive mindset to anticipate needs and ensure smooth day-to-day operations in a multinational environment.

Qualifications

• Significant experience supporting senior executives (EVP, C-level) in a multinational context.
• Strong calendar and travel management skills in a fast-paced, global environment.
• Ability to prepare executive-level materials and coordinate cross-functional activities.

Responsibilities

• Manage a complex executive calendar with prioritization of meetings and commitments.
• Coordinate international travel including flights, accommodation, visas, and detailed itineraries.
• Prepare presentations, reports, agendas, and briefing materials for leadership meetings.
• Organize leadership events and executive visits with C-level stakeholders worldwide.
• Act as liaison between executive and senior stakeholders, ensuring clear communication and alignment.
• Track follow-ups on priorities, decisions, and deadlines; support approval workflows.
• Handle expenses, invoices, and other administrative processes in line with policies.
• Maintain strict confidentiality of sensitive information.

Skills

Executive support

Calendar management

Travel coordination

Presentations

Stakeholder management

Confidentiality

English proficiency

AI tools (Copilot)

Tools

Outlook

PowerPoint

Word

Excel

Teams

Job description

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IDEMIA Secure Transactions, a division of IDEMIA Group, is the leading technology provider making it safer and easier to pay and connect. With unmatched expertise in cryptography and credential issuance, IST is trusted by over 2,000 financial institutions, mobile operators, automotive manufacturers, and IoT providers worldwide. Every day, IST secures billions of essential transactions, ensuring the highest levels of data protection and convenience.

Purpose

About the Role

We are seeking an experienced and highly proactive Executive Assistant to support a senior executive within a global organization.

Acting as a trusted partner, the successful candidate will play a critical role in managing priorities, coordinating leadership activities, driving follow-up on key actions, and ensuring the smooth execution of day-to-day business operations. The role requires exceptional organizational skills, sound judgment, discretion, and the ability to thrive in a fast-paced and constantly evolving international environment.

Key Missions

Key Responsibilities

• Manage a complex and dynamic executive calendar, ensuring effective prioritization of meetings and business activities
• Coordinate domestic and international travel arrangements, including flights, accommodation, transportation, visas, and detailed itineraries
• Prepare presentations, reports, briefing materials, meeting agendas, and other executive-level documentation
• Organize leadership meetings, workshops, off-sites, executive visits, and other business events, ensuring seamless planning and execution, with particular focus on coordinating executive-level customer meetings and engagements with C-level stakeholders worldwide
• Act as a trusted liaison between the executive and senior stakeholders, ensuring effective communication and alignment across the organization, specifically in integrating and coordinating with the global network of Executive Assistants
• Coordinate leadership team activities, governance processes, and executive meetings, including preparation of materials and follow-up on actions
• Monitor and drive follow-up on key priorities, ensuring commitments, decisions, and deadlines are effectively tracked and delivered, including acting on delegated validation and approval flows
• Manage expenses, purchase requests, invoices, and other administrative processes in compliance with company policies
• Handle highly confidential business, organizational, and personnel information with the utmost discretion and professionalism
• Anticipate business needs, identify priorities, and proactively resolve issues before they arise

Profile & Other Information

Experience & Qualifications

• Significant experience as an Executive Assistant supporting senior executives (EVP, C-level, or equivalent) within a multinational and matrix organization
• Proven ability to operate effectively in a fast-paced environment with changing priorities and competing demands
• Strong experience managing complex calendars, international travel, and executive-level meetings
• Experience interacting regularly with executive leadership teams and senior stakeholders
• Demonstrated ability to work independently, exercise sound judgment, and maintain strict confidentiality
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Office applications, particularly Outlook, PowerPoint, Word, Excel, and Teams, with the ability to leverage AI-powered and digital tools to improve productivity and efficiency, such as Copilot.
• Professional proficiency in English, both written and spoken, is required
• Strong sense of ownership, accountability, and follow-through
• Excellent judgment and decision-making capabilities
• Ability to influence and drive outcomes without direct authority
• Proactive, resourceful, and solution-oriented mindset
• Strong business acumen and ability to understand organizational priorities
• High attention to detail and commitment to quality
• Digital mindset with the ability to leverage technology and AI tools to improve efficiency

Why Join Us

This is an opportunity to play a key role at the heart of a global business, partnering closely with senior leaders across multiple regions and functions. The role offers broad exposure to strategic priorities, leadership decision-making, and a dynamic international environment.

By choosing to work at IDEMIA, you will join a unique tech company, offering a wide range of growth opportunities. You will contribute to a safer world, collaborating with an international and global community. We value the diversity of our teams and welcome people from all walks of life, regardless of how they look, where they come from, who they love, or what they think.

We deliver cutting edge, future proof innovation that reach the highest technological standards and we’re transforming, fast, to stay a leader in a world that’s changing fast, too.

At IDEMIA, people can develop their expertise and feel a sense of ownership and empowerment, in a global environment, as part of a company with the ambition and the ability to change the world.

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