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Dare. Discover. Do.\nAt PZ Cussons, we offer five big reasons that people join and stay: Futureproof Our Brands, Create Your Own Impact, Accelerate Your Craft, Flexibility to Perform, And Collaborate with Intent.\nAs Executive Assistant to the CEO, you’ll help create the focus, organisation and momentum that enable effective business leadership.\nYou’ll manage complex priorities, connect senior stakeholders and ensure the CEO has the information and preparation needed to make informed decisions. Your judgement, discretion and ability to stay ahead will directly influence executive productivity and stakeholder confidence. This is a trusted role with broad exposure across the organisation and regular interaction with regional, global and external partners.\nWhat You’ll Be Doing\nCreate space for strategic leadership by managing a complex diary, resolving conflicts and keeping the CEO focused on the priorities that matter most.\nBuild trusted relationships with senior leaders and external stakeholders, ensuring communication is timely, professional and well coordinated.\nMake meetings count by preparing clear briefings and materials, capturing decisions and driving agreed actions through to completion.\nDeliver seamless executive travel, events and logistics, anticipating potential issues and putting practical contingency plans in place.\nKeep priority initiatives moving by coordinating assignments, monitoring deadlines and supporting collaboration across functions.\nProtect confidential information while improving administrative workflows through secure records, accurate expense management and effective use of digital tools.\nWhat You’ll Bring\nA bachelor’s degree or equivalent qualification in Business Administration, Management, Communications or a related discipline.\nAt least five years’ progressive experience in executive or senior administrative support, ideally supporting a CEO or another C-suite leader.\nExperience managing demanding schedules, multiple priorities and changing deadlines with limited supervision.\nConfidence preparing executive correspondence, presentations, meeting materials, reports and action trackers.\nStrong stakeholder-management skills, with the tact and professionalism to engage senior leaders and external partners.\nAdvanced proficiency in Microsoft 365 applications, including Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams, SharePoint and OneDrive.\nExcellent organisation, communication and problem-solving skills, with strong attention to detail.\nHigh integrity, sound judgement and a proven ability to handle sensitive information with discretion.\nWhat You’ll Get In Return\nOur benefit brings together your total rewards in one place.\nKey benefits we offer include:\nCompetitive annual bonus, pension, life assurance\nMedical Insurance\nFlexible holiday options\nPZ products\nOnsite gym (where available)\nOur Purpose, Culture and Values\nAt PZ Cussons, our purpose is For Everyone, For Life, For Good. Guided by our BEST values, Bold, Energetic, Striving and Together, we nurture a culture where people feel empowered to grow, perform and make a meaningful difference every day.\nWe retain the pioneering spirit of our founders, by building portfolios of locally-loved brands across our key markets in the UK, ANZ, Nigeria and Indonesia, backed by the manufacturing scale and capability of a global business.\nSpanning Personal, Home, and Baby Care, our products are trusted by millions of consumers worldwide, including Carex, Childs Farm, Cussons Baby, Imperial Leather, Morning Fresh, Original Source, Premier, Sanctuary Spa and St. Tropez.\nInclusion and Fairness\nWe’re committed to building diverse teams that reflect our consumers and communities, creating an inclusive environment where everyone feels respected and able to thrive. 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