Hybrid Executive Assistant – Managing Partner

at CF

• Job title: Executive Assistant – Managing Partner
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Mid level, Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Location requirements: Hybrid, London, United Kingdom

About the role

• Executive Assistant providing proactive support to Managing Partner at health consultancy firm. Responsible for diary management, correspondence, and organizational tasks to enhance efficiency and effectiveness.

Responsibilities

• This role provides comprehensive support to one of the CF Managing Partners
• Focused on supporting the Managing Partner to meet their professional commitments ensuring they is set up for success
• Able to strategically manage and organise a large volume of competing deadlines and thrive in a fast-paced environment
• Trusted partner to the Managing Partner, proactively managing his professional life
• Responsible for providing high-quality, proactive support ensuring that time, relationships, and priorities are managed with precision
• Core element of the job is strategic diary and schedule management
• Planning well ahead while accommodating day-to-day flexibility required, coordinating across time zones
• Maintaining accurate records of meetings, using CRM insights to support business development opportunities
• Preparing thoroughly for client engagements with clear communication and reliable follow-up
• Success in this role requires exceptional diary management in a fast-paced consulting environment where priorities shift
• Balancing competing demands – making space for urgent business development opportunities
• Confident management of correspondence, including oversight of email and LinkedIn inboxes
• Drafting responses and ensuring timely action is taken on urgent matters
• Supporting the Managing Partner’s professional profile, particularly through thoughtful social media activity
• Organising meetings and events, working closely with practice management and client delivery teams
• Planning seamless travel, coordinating logistics, and building trusted relationships with client EA teams
• Adhering to CF values; proactivity and thinking a few steps ahead is key
• Important to have an EA that works with a needed structure and design a process to allow the MP to thrive
• Candidate should be patient, kind, and empathic as this journey progresses

Requirements

• Educated to degree level or with equivalent experience
• Previous experience in professional services environment within an executive assistant capacity
• Experience supporting at c-suite level with personal work
• Exceptional diary management and organisational skills
• A passion for data and interpreting data to make a Partner successful
• Ability to work in a fast paced and quickly changing environment
• Ability to prioritise workload and work quickly to tight deadlines
• Proactive, flexible, organised and able to problem solve
• Polite, direct and a positive ‘can-do’ attitude
• Empathetic and understanding of workload pressures and able to distinguish between personal and professional
• Thriving in teamwork environment, prepared to support others and take a ‘lean in’ approach
• Interest in healthcare and making a social impact
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Excellent working knowledge of Microsoft Suite including Outlook and LinkedIn
• Previous experience of supporting leaders at Partner or CEO level
• Previous experience or shown knowledge of working with an individual with ADHD or other neurodiversity

Benefits

• Holiday entitlement: 25 days/year for staff and 30 days/ year for leadership, increasing by 1 day for every year of service up to a maximum of 35 days of holiday per year
• We contribute 7% of your salary into your pension, while you contribute 3% (or more if you like)
• Access to a flexible benefits programme giving you the chance to increase pension contributions, gain access to a health cash plan or benefit from a ClassPass subscription
• Annual leave purchase: employees with less than 35 days annual leave entitlement are able to purchase additional annual leave days
• Income protection: in the event of long-term incapacity and a qualifying claim, 75% of salary will be paid
• Enhanced sick pay benefit beyond Statutory Sick Pay for up to a total 12 weeks in any 12-month period
• Life insurance covering four times your basic salary in a tax-free lump sum payable to your beneficiaries in the event of your death whilst in service
• Enhanced family leave policies: additional pay for parents who have a baby or adopt
• Access to an interest free loan of up to £10,000
• Access to an interest-free season ticket loan, repayable by 12 monthly instalments
• Workplace nursery scheme: access to a scheme to help working parents save tax and NI on the cost of the nursery care
• Flexible working policy: including 44 remote working days to utilise in a way that suits your needs
• An Employee Assistance and Wellness Program: including access to telephone counselling, life coaching, interactive tools online and digital content downloadable from Lifeworks
• Seasonal flu jabs: provided by Boots annually
• Eye care tests: vouchers and discounts at Vision Express
• Ride to work scheme, saving up to 42% on bikes and cycling accessories at Evans Cycles
• Membership to the Health Service Journal (HSJ)