Personal Assistant - 12-months Secondment or Fixed-Term Contract

Position: Personal Assistant – 12 months Secondment or Fixed-term Contract
Location: Cambridge, UK
Competitive Salary & Excellent Company Benefits

This is an exciting opportunity for you to take on a challenging, proactive, and varied role within the OTD Small Molecule Bioscience team on a one-year secondment/fixed term contract. The role reports to the Vice President of Small Molecule Bioscience and is responsible for providing comprehensive support to her and her extended Leadership Team, in addition to delivering administrative support across the department as required.

Responsibilities Include:

• Delivering full PA support to the VP of SM Bioscience, with a strong focus on complex calendar management, while also providing PA support to three additional Leadership Team members
• Working independently and pro-actively to resolve issues and challenges relating to administrative requests
• Perform administrative tasks using independent judgement and discretion
• Providing end-to-end meeting support for key Small Molecule Bioscience meetings, including agenda circulation, presenter alignment, and central collation of presentations, minutes, and recordings
• Effectively coordinate and collaborate with other Administrative Assistants within OTD on cross-functional and cross-organizational meetings / events / processes, including across multiple international time zones
• Extensive and proactive planning of travel arrangements, including flights, accommodation, airport transportation, car bookings, trains etc
• Collating and processing of expense claims within set timelines and ensuring compliance with the expenses policy
• Organising internal/external meetings including room bookings and catering arrangements, coordinating global video calls
• Oversee new starters and leavers, completing all related on/off boarding tasks, and keep distribution lists current
• Delivering administrative support across the department as required

Skills Required

• Proven experience of providing full PA/administrative support at a senior level
• Excellent time management, organisational and communication skills, both written and verbal
• Flexible, adaptable, and highly collaborative
• Ability to manage multiple tasks simultaneously and effectively
• Able to work independently and as part of a team
• Knowledge of Microsoft Outlook, Teams, Excel, Word and PowerPoint

Interested? Submit your CV by COB 26 March 2026.

Date Posted

12-Mar-2026

Closing Date

26-Mar-2026

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