Executive Assistant
Sunbury-on-Thames
Johnson Controls

Benefits:
Competitive base Salary
25 Days Holiday + public holidays
Pension
Mon - Fri, 39 Hours
Join a global organisation with outstanding career opportunities

Who are we:

At Johnson Controls, we're shaping the future to create a world that's safe, comfortable and sustainable. Our global team creates innovative, integrated solutions to make cities more connected, buildings more intelligent and vehicles more efficient. We are passionate about improving the way the world lives, works and plays. The future requires bold ideas, an entrepreneurial mind-set and collaboration across boundaries. You need a career focused on tomorrow.

What you will do:

Johnson Controls currently have an outstanding opportunity for an Executive Assistant to join our global business. Based from our Sunbury-on-Thames office the Executive Assistant will directly support one of the organisations senior business leaders as well as providing resource to a number of other key stakeholders within the business.

As Executive Assistant you will be working for Johnson Controls, a global diversified technology and multi industrial leader. In this fast paced role you will report to a Senior Director to provide first class PA support, diary management and travel arrangements in addition to supporting a number of other business functions.

How you will do it:

As Executive Assistant you will have excellent organisational skills allowing you to undertake full diary management which will include the coordination of regional, national and occasional international travel arrangements. Additionally you will be responsible for processing expenses so an outstanding attention to detail is a must. You will be responsible for communicating at Director Level with internal stakeholders and external partners on a daily basis. As such we are looking for an excellent communicator with the confidence to interact at this level, to influence decisions and to lead and impact conversations.

Taking meeting notes and presenting information will form an important part of the role so you will need be computer literate with good to advanced working knowledge of the Microsoft office suite, particularly Outlook, Excel and Power Point.

What we look for:
*Excellent written and verbal communication
*Previous experience as a PA to Director or Executive Assistant is preferable.
*Good decision maker with the ability to use initiative.
*Strong relationship building skills and ability to influence others
*Professional presence - ability to work across levels of the organization
*Outstanding organisational skills with the ability to drive multiple tasks simultaneously and find points of intersections and integration across functions
*Flexible, resilient and productive as needs and priorities change
*Ability to think both strategically and tactically as needed
*Computer literate and proficiency with Microsoft Excel and Power Point.