Executive Assistant to Md

**Company Description** Informa** is a leading academic publishing, business intelligence, knowledge and events business, creating unique content and connectivity for customers all over the world. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a member of the FTSE 100.

**Taylor & Francis Group** produces high quality, peer reviewed books and journals. We produce unique, trusted content by expert authors, spreading knowledge and promoting discovery globally. We aim to broaden thinking and advance understanding, providing academics and professionals with a platform to share ideas and realise their individual potential.

Our purpose is to foster human progress through knowledge. We strongly believe that this requires us to encourage and examine different ideas and voices so that any work that meets our exacting levels of quality deserves to be included in our publications. This requires open minds, the opportunity for robust debate, and the courage to defend perspectives that stand up to scrutiny, even if they conflict with our personal beliefs or values. Because that’s the only way to find the best obtainable version of the truth and, ultimately, foster human progress. If you agree, then we’d love to hear from you.

**What we offer in return**:

- 30 days annual leave
- 4 volunteering days annually
- Day off for your birthday
- Pension contributions
- Medical insurance for self and dependents; life cover and personal accident cover for self
- Seasonal social and charitable events
- Training and development

This role ensures the MD’s time is aligned with their priorities through a demonstrated understanding of the core business and leveraging expert prioritization strategies. Supporting the complex project management, the EA to the MD will pull together priorities, follow up on action points, and undertake and execute the project on a regular basis.

**Key Accountabilities**:
This role ensures the MD’s time is aligned to core business priorities by providing:

- Dynamic calendar management and meeting schedules across multiple time zones
- Gathering data and generating reports, presentations for meetings with staff and outside parties
- Organising travel, visas and accommodation for MD, Executive Leadership Team and other visitors
- Assistance and coordination with external stakeholders such as trade groups, institutional partners, government, and agency relations

**Qualifications**
- Exceptional communication & interpersonal skills to effectively interact with a wide range of partners
- Excellent IT skills, including knowledge of a range of software packages
- A proven track record of executive support over many years working across a global organisation
- Self-starting initiative; to anticipate the needs of executives and plan for them
- Ability to react with appropriate levels of urgency to situations and events that require quick response
- Ability to be discrete and work appropriately with confidential and sensitive information
- High level of resilience to deal with change and ambiguity

**Additional Information**
We believe that great things happen when people connect face-to-face. That's why we work in-person with each other, or with customers and partners, three days a week or more. When you’re not spending time together in one of our offices or other workplaces - like at conference - you get the flexibility and support to work from home or remotely.

**Being Yourself at Taylor & Francis**

Taylor & Francis is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We believe in and value diversity of people and thought, fostering a supportive and inclusive environment where all colleagues can learn and succeed as their true selves. Taylor & Francis recruits, develops, and retains colleagues without regard to any protected personal characteristics or other non-merit-based factor.