Executive Assistant

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Sydney, New South Wales
Hybrid
Mid level
AdTech • Cloud • Digital Media • Information Technology • News + Entertainment • App development
NBCUniversal has a rich history of evolving the media and entertainment industry.
The Role
The Executive Assistant to the SVP, APAC will provide high-level support, manage executive calendaring, coordinate travel, and oversee daily operations while ensuring organization and efficiency. This role involves liaising with various teams and preparing business updates while maintaining confidentiality.
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Company Description
We create world-class content, which we distribute across our portfolio of film, television, and streaming, and bring to life through our theme parks and consumer experiences. We own and operate leading entertainment and news brands, including NBC, NBC News, MSNBC, CNBC, NBC Sports, Telemundo, NBC Local Stations, Bravo, USA Network, and Peacock, our premium ad-supported streaming service. We produce and distribute premier filmed entertainment and programming through Universal Filmed Entertainment Group and Universal Studio Group, and have world-renowned theme parks and attractions through Universal Destinations & Experiences. NBCUniversal is a subsidiary of Comcast Corporation.
Comcast NBCUniversal has announced its intent to create a new publicly traded company ('SpinCo') comprised of most of NBCUniversal's cable television networks, including USA Network, CNBC, MSNBC, Oxygen, E!, SYFY and Golf Channel along with complementary digital assets Fandango, Rotten Tomatoes, GolfNow, GolfPass, and SportsEngine. The well-capitalized company will have significant scale as a pure-play set of assets anchored by leading news, sports and entertainment content. The spin-off is expected to be completed during 2025.
As a company uniquely positioned to educate, entertain and empower through our platforms, Comcast NBCUniversal stands for including everyone. Our Diversity, Equity and Inclusion initiatives, coupled with our Corporate Social Responsibility work, is informed by our employees, audiences, park guests and the communities in which we live. We strive to foster a diverse, equitable and inclusive culture where our employees feel supported, embraced and heard. Together, we'll continue to create and deliver content that reflects the current and ever-changing face of the world.
Job Description
The Executive Assistant to the SVP, APAC is a dynamic and insightful individual who operates as a self-starter and will leverage their strong critical thinking skills to liaison with staff, executives, and senior leaders, and externally to provide high-level executive and office support with the goal of increasing the effectiveness and productivity of the executive.
This individual with excellent organizational & communication skills and a highly collaborative style to administer executive office support such as executive calendaring, meeting planning & coordination, travel administration, and executive planning and project updates. This individual will leverage their strong critical thinking, and proactive nature to assist the executive with overseeing some day-to-day business activities as they may arise.
RESPONSIBLIITIES
Daily Operations: Oversee and coordinate daily operations, collaborating with employees across various levels, and handling administrative tasks including calendar management, proactive communication, and planning and scheduling team and regional meetings.
Executive Support: Assist the executive in prioritizing business strategies by assessing their schedule and aligning with business demands.
Team Coordination: Manage the APAC team's channel, organise monthly and quarterly business and creative reviews, and record meeting minutes.
Travel Management: Coordinate complex travel schedules, arrangements, and documentation for the executive.
Expense Reporting: Prepare and process expense reports in line with divisional travel policy, ensuring timely submission using electronic payment systems.
Business Updates & Coordination: Manage weekly and bi-weekly business updates for senior executives by preparing and consolidating relevant information. Organise and streamline email and business requests from the APAC region, ensuring timely and efficient communication with the executive. Handle ad-hoc requests as they arise and continuously improve processes to optimise organisational efficiency and productivity.
Confidentiality & Discretion: Maintain the highest level of discretion and confidentiality in handling sensitive information.
Qualifications
Qualifications/Requirements:

  • At least 3 years of experience in an executive support role providing support to multiple executives at a fast-paced company
  • Proficient in Microsoft Word, Outlook, PowerPoint, and Excel. Knowledge of all basic office equipment required
  • Experience in organizing and directing multiple teams and departments
  • Versatile abilities and extreme dedication to efficient productivity
  • Ability to work in a flexible manner in line with the organization's objectives and willingness to undertake other duties as reasonably requested
  • Excellent verbal, written, and presentation communication skills
  • Comfortable dealing with multiple stakeholders through written and verbal communications
  • Ability to produce clear and concise materials with the mentioned tools including trackers, presentations, agendas, and memos.


ABOUT YOU

  • Self-motivated professional with ability to work independently and take charge
  • Resilient - not afraid to fail, getting back up and keep putting in the effort.
  • Global & holistic thinker - understand the wider context.
  • Confident being self - brings full personality and interests to work.
  • Light-hearted - a sense of humour, dealing patiently with frustrations.
  • Passionate - energetic, engaged, positive and desiring to make a difference.
  • Adaptable, agile & flexible - able to pivot quickly, adapt strategies and deal with change.
  • Good communicator - honest, transparent, and flexible depending on the audience. The ability to influence stakeholders.
  • Willing to get stuck in - hard worker, who is not rigid with the ability to prioritise, manage own time and respond quickly and efficiently.
  • Sociable - actively develops relationships, making time to get to know people. Easy-going and fun.


We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer and we'll do everything we can to support you during your application. If you need us to make any adjustments to our recruitment process, speak to our recruitment team who will be happy to support you. Accessibility Statement | NBCUnicareers
Additional Information
As part of our selection process, external candidates may be required to attend an in-person interview with an NBCUniversal employee at one of our locations prior to a hiring decision. NBCUniversal's policy is to provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, gender identity or expression, age, national origin or ancestry, citizenship, disability, sexual orientation, marital status, pregnancy, veteran status, membership in the uniformed services, genetic information, or any other basis protected by applicable law.
If you are a qualified individual with a disability or a disabled veteran and require support throughout the application and/or recruitment process as a result of your disability, you have the right to request a reasonable accommodation. You can submit your request to [email protected].

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From film, television, news, theme parks, interactive media, and streaming, our people are at the center of it all. ​Here, we solve complex and business-critical problems. That’s why we’re looking for people to help us continue our evolution, imagining and delivering the most innovative and disruptive products and services through the latest tech advancements in the industry. ​

Here you can develop solutions. You’ll develop solutions that allow engineers to broadcast live TV from the comfort of their homes. These solutions will enable the use of our collection of hundreds of thousands of distinct intellectual properties across our film, television and streaming brands.

Here you can transform. You’ll make decisions and solve complex problems by leveraging insights that come from data, building AI to help enable solutions to optimize every aspect of our content eco-system.

Here you can build. You’ll build emerging immersive technologies that are used to power the broadcasts and streaming of global events like the Super Bowl and Olympics. You can create secure, elastic cloud-based services connecting parts of our global platform ecosystem that effect tens of millions of viewers, consumers and businesses that consume and love NBCUniversal’s content. And while you design, build and architect your career, we have the culture to make sure you’re supported.

Here you can work and still live your best life!

We’re leaders in our fields. We hire smart people and trust them to get the job done. We are never too busy to develop a fellow colleague. We understand our goals – or we ask. When we see something that needs doing – we do it. We make data-driven decisions. We fiercely believe in our talent and their growth. If you're ready to make an impact, here you can.

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For us, it's more than just a work life. It's a daily passion. We take great pride in our legacy. We find fun in the challenge. We collaborate and inspire others. We're always creating, always solving and always ahead of competition.

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