Executive Assistant

Blenheim Chalcot is one of the leading venture builders in the world. Headquartered in London from our flagship White City Scale Space campus, we have been building exciting and disruptive businesses for over 20 years. Blenheim Chalcot is responsible for building some of the most innovative companies in the UK and increasingly around the world - with significant operations in India and the US, as well as emerging operations in South Africa and SSoutheast Asia.

Our ventures are at the forefront of a multitude of industries being disrupted by digital including Fin Tech, EdTech, Gov Tech, Media, Sport, Charity and more. Our portfolio has been conceived and launched by us and employ over 3,000employees. Our assets under management stand at more than £1.8bn and total portfolio sales is over £500 million. Our team, Venture Builder Services (VBS), exists to support our ventures to be successful quickly, sustainably and with access to the best practice tools, solutions, and expertise.

We provide a range of services to help new business get off the ground, including technology, growth (marketing and sales), talent, HR, finance, legal and tax.

15% of our partnerships and ventures are charities. These include the British Asian Trust, Baby Zone and Onside Youth Zones. In the same way that we support our ventures, our Partners provide direct hands‑on support to these charities bybeing active board members and offering expert advice.

We are currently seeking an Executive Assistant to provide outstanding 1:1 support to one of the Co-Founding partners of Blenheim Chalcot with all areas of business support. Working closely with the EA to the other Co-Founder you’ll be an integral part at the heart of BC. This is a fantastic opportunity to join a dynamic and ambitious business at an exciting time of growth.

The Co-Founder has a wide variety of business, charity and social interests, and needs someone who hassuperb organisational skills who can keep up with the pace of the role.

• Sole responsibility for managing a complex set of engagements - business and occasional personal appointments
• High volume of internal and external meeting coordination
• Facilitating the seamless running of every day – greeting guests, preparing meeting rooms, timekeeping etc
• Reacting swiftly and efficiently to short notice changes
• Having the tenacity to ensure tasks are seen through to completion
• Developing a good understanding of business priorities
• Proactively assisting with document creation and maintenance
• Preparing and collating information for board packs using Power Point
• Liaising both internally and externally with Board members, key stakeholders and clients
• Co-ordinating travel, hotels, visa etc
• Personal and business administrative duties, and personal tasks as required
• As with this type of role, ad hoc tasks as require

• Ideally 5+ years of experience in a similar position, but would consider candidate with a strong set of transferrableskills e.g. event management experience
• Great commercial awareness
• Be able to demonstrate upmost professionalism and be comfortable representing the business to our network, which includes regularly liaising with high-status guests and HNWIs'
• First-rate written and verbal English, comfortable with drafting professional correspondence
• Able to troubleshoot issues before they become problematic, and proactively anticipate priorities
• Excellent MS Outlook/Word/Powerpoint/Sharepoint skills
• Experience with in a start-up culture ideal but not essential
• Highly organised, efficient and systematic
• Ability to exercise discretion around sensitive and business issues
• Supreme efficiency and attention to detail with the ability to adeptly multi-task
• Patience,…