Personal Assistant
London, GB, EC2N 3AR
Let’s care for tomorrow.
Your ambitions. Your dreams. Your tomorrow
Whether it’s aircraft, international business or offshore wind parks, Allianz Commercial has an extensive range of risks covered when it comes to protecting businesses.
We are looking for a Personal Assistant (m/f/d) to the Global Head of Broker Management in London and the Global Head of Marketing in Toronto. The role is based in our office in London.
The Impact You Will Have
You'll provide efficient, responsive support across diary management, travel arrangement and general administration helping to manage and prioritise time effectively. By taking ownership of tasks that can be delegated, you'll allow the team to focus on the bigger, more strategic picture. You'll also step in and contribute to key projects when needed.
Some of your specific responsibilities could include:
- Coordinate and schedule a busy calendar of both internal and external meetings across multiple countries and time zones. Build strong working relationships with the PAs and EAs of internal and external stakeholders to ensure smooth scheduling and communication
- Organise end-to-end travel across Europe and intercontinentally, including flights, hotels, airport transfers, taxis, and any other logistics needed to keep trips running seamlessly
- Filter emails, highlight urgent correspondence, filter phone calls and invitations
- Act as the go-to person for all direct reports, as well as internal and external stakeholders, building strong relationships and keeping communication flowing smoothly and diplomatically
- Prepare agendas, and provide support by creating presentations and reports
- Contribute to and coordinate ad-hoc projects and initiatives.
- Undertake other duties as requested.
What You’ll Bring to the Role
- Proven senior PA experience within Financial Services, with a natural ability to build rapport at all levels and the kind of organisational skills that keep everything running like clockwork.
- Used to handling complex international diary management and travel
- Competent user of Microsoft Office applications: Outlook, PowerPoint, Excel, Word
- Excellent interpersonal skills at every level of the organisation
- Tact and discretion
- Well-developed ability to filter information, assess priorities and work independently
- Able to remain calm and focussed under pressure
- Ability to filter information, assess priorities and work independently
- Service-minded, resilient and able to find solutions
- Impeccable written and spoken English.
- A basic understanding of artificial intelligence (AI) and its potential applications in business is essential.
101586 | Sales & Distribution | Professional | Allianz Commercial | Full-Time | Permanent
What’s in it for you?
Let’s care about everything that makes you, you
We are committed to nurturing an inclusive environment where everyone feels they belong. We offer a hybrid working model, which recognizes the value of striking a balance between in-person collaboration and remote working. Please feel free to discuss flexible working arrangements with us.
Let’s care for your financial wellbeing
We believe in rewarding performance with a great compensation and benefits package (details vary by location), including a generous bonus scheme and pension.
Let’s care for your opportunities to progress
From career development and digital learning programs to international career mobility, we offer lifelong learning for our employees worldwide and an environment where innovation, delivery and empowerment are fostered.
Let’s care for life’s twists and turns
From our support for flexible working, health and wellbeing (including private healthcare and generous parental leave benefits), to helping people return from career breaks with experience that nothing else can teach. We've got your back.
Let’s care for our society and our planet
With opportunities to be engaged in shaping a future that is safe, inclusive and sustainable, we care for the tomorrows of our people, our industry and our clients.
Care to join us?
Allianz Commercial is the center of expertise of Allianz Group, insuring mid-sized businesses, large enterprises, and special risks. Our customers include top consumer brands, financial institutions, industry leaders, the global aviation and shipping industries, as well as family-owned and medium-enterprises. We also cover unique risks such as offshore wind farms, infrastructure projects and film productions. Our clients trust us to provide a wide range of traditional and alternative risk transfer solutions, outstanding risk consulting and multinational services, and seamless claims handling. Allianz Commercial helps customers to prepare for what's ahead.
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At Allianz, we stand for unity: we believe that a united world is a more prosperous world, and we are dedicated to consistently advocating for equal opportunities for all. And the foundation for this is our inclusive workplace, where people and performance both matters, and nurtures a culture grounded in integrity, fairness, inclusion and trust.
We therefore welcome applications regardless of ethnicity or cultural background, age, gender, nationality, religion, social class, disability or sexual orientation, or any other characteristics protected under applicable local laws and regulations.
Join us. Let's care for tomorrow.
People with disabilities:
We want to give all our candidates the best opportunity to succeed. If you need any adjustments to be made during the application and selection process, please email agcsglobalcareers@allianz.com
Recruitment Agencies:
Allianz Commercial has an in-house recruitment team, which focuses on sourcing great candidates directly. Allianz Commercial does not accept unsolicited resumes from agency or search firm recruiters. Fees will not be paid in the event a candidate submitted by a recruiter without an agreement in place is hired. When we do use agencies, we have a PSL in place, so please do not contact managers directly. Failure to comply could/may result in the disqualification of the candidates and/or the termination of our contract and/or fees not being paid.
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