Personal Assistant in Köln

At Dyson, we solve the problems others choose to ignore through better ideas and better technology.

Our teams combine engineering excellence, creativity, and commercial expertise to deliver pioneering products and experiences.

The Germany business plays a key role in driving growth, strengthening our brand, and delivering outstanding results across the market.

About the Role

As Personal Assistant to the Managing Director Germany, you will provide proactive, high-quality executive support, ensuring the effective management of priorities, schedules, communications, and business activities.

You will act as a trusted partner, enabling the Managing Director to focus on strategic objectives while maintaining smooth day-to-day operations.

Key responsibilities include

• Manage a complex and frequently changing calendar, prioritising meetings and business commitments.
• Coordinate domestic and international travel arrangements, including itineraries, accommodation, transportation, and visa support where required.
• Prepare agendas, presentations, reports, briefing materials, and meeting documentation.
• Organise leadership meetings, town halls, customer visits, and business events.
• Screen and manage correspondence, ensuring timely responses and appropriate follow-up actions.
• Track actions arising from meetings and support execution of key business priorities.
• Build strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders across all levels of the organisation.
• Support budget administration, purchase orders, expense management, and other administrative requirements.
• Maintain confidentiality when handling commercially sensitive and personal information.
• Collaborate with wider administrative and business support teams to drive operational efficiency and best practice.

About You

Significant experience in a Personal Assistant, Executive Assistant, or senior administrative support role.

Experience supporting a Managing Director, Country Manager, or equivalent senior executive.

Exceptional organisational and prioritisation skills with the ability to manage competing demands.

Strong written and verbal communication skills in German and English.

High attention to detail and strong administrative discipline.

Advanced proficiency in Microsoft 365 applications, including Outlook, Power Point, Word, and Excel.

Proven ability to handle confidential information with discretion and professionalism.

Strong stakeholder management skills and the confidence to engage with senior leaders.

Desirable Experience working within a fast-paced international organisation.

Experience coordinating leadership events and large-scale business meetings.

Understanding of corporate governance and executive office processes.

Experience supporting cross-functional business initiatives and projects.

• Key Behaviours
• Proactive and solutions-oriented.
• Highly collaborative with a strong customer-service mindset.
• Adaptable and resilient in a dynamic business environment.
• Able to anticipate needs and work independently with minimal supervision.
• Demonstrates professionalism, integrity, and sound judgement at all times.

Dyson is an equal opportunity employer.

We know that great minds don't think alike, and it takes all kinds of minds to make our technology so unique.

We welcome applications from all backgrounds and employment decisions are made without regard to race, colour, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, protected veteran status or other any other dimension of diversity.

At Dyson we are focused on solving the problems that others have ignored; solving them first using our technology and ingenuity.

In order to achieve this we need to pioneer technologies that are different and authentic.

This is the core of what we do and who we are.

We must strive to create the future, every single day by developing new things, different things, things that go against the grain with a diverse and global team of ingenious minds.

Dyson employs 14,000 people and is present in more than 80 countries.

And while we are growing fast we want Dyson to remain a start-up in spirit with the freedom of experimentation and learning, constantly reinventing our products as well as reinventing how we work, how we sell and how we support our owners.

At the same time we are working through the James Dyson Foundation, James Dyson Award and Dyson Institute to inspire future engineers and pioneering a new approach to engineering education.

Underlining everything we do in this diverse environment is the need to always show respect, supporting each other as one team to overcome whatever challenges we encounter.

We drive empowerment, development and equality in an inclusive environment for our people around the world.

The future doesn't just happen, we look to make it happen, to achieve leaps through pioneering new ideas.

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