Personal Assistant to the Managing Director - Korean Speaker - 12 Month Contract

Position Summary: An excellent opportunity has become available for an experienced Personal Assistant to join Samsung Research UK. You will provide a proactive and high standard of support to our Managing Director, managing their diary to ensure appointments and meetings are efficiently prioritised, allowing them to make maximum use of operational time. This is a full time role requiring flexibility and commitment in an interesting and varied environment.

Role and Responsibilities

• Act as the first point of contact: dealing with correspondence and phone calls.
• Manage diaries and organise meetings and appointments, controlling access to MD booking and arranging travel, transport and accommodation.
• Organise meetings, events and conferences and remind the MD of important tasks and deadlines.
• Type, compile and prepare reports, presentations and correspondence.
• Legal administration - grammatical review of documents to be sent to legal, submission of legal matters onto internal legal system and monitoring/progressing of matters through to conclusion.
• Manage databases and filing systems, implementing and maintaining procedures/administrative systems.
• Liaise with staff, suppliers and clients.
• Collate and file expenses.
• Miscellaneous tasks to support the MD administration and support the HR team.

Skills and Qualifications

• Previous experience in a similar role.
• Fluency in Korean language.
• Excellent communication skills, both orally and written, with a high level of competence with English grammar.
• Discretion and trustworthiness; will often be part of confidential information.
• Flexibility and adaptability, able to work additional hours or be contactable as required.
• Organisational skills and ability to multitask.
• Ability to be proactive and take the initiative.
• Tact and diplomacy.
• Knowledge of standard software packages and the ability to learn company specific software if required.

Contract & Location

12 month contract working via one of our preferred recruitment agencies.

Location: Samsung R&D Centre, Staines upon Thames, Surrey, UK.

Right to Work: We politely request that you only apply if you have the right to work in the UK. Unfortunately visa sponsorship is not available for this outsourced contract role.

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