Personal Assistant, Warner Bros Discovery
Wall to Wall & Twenty Twenty
Office located in Grays Inn Road, London
Entertainment company
Job no longer available
Entertainment company
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
Office located in Grays Inn Road, London
1001+ employees
Company mission
To take the world’s greatest possibilities and make them a reality - creating impact, inspiring imagination, and building connections.
Role
Who you are
- Experience in a similar role is essential
- Strong attention to detail
- Excellent organisational skills
- Highly pragmatic and reliable
- Ability to use initiative and work independently to find solutions and answer queries
- Ability to work in a pressurised environment managing a number of tasks/people simultaneously and prioritise accordingly
- Ability to be discreet and handle sensitive information in a confidential manner
- Flexible approach and outlook, comfortable with managing workloads and deadlines that may involve some occasional late working
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- PC literate including software skills of Word, Outlook and PowerPoint
- Ability to communicate clearly and confidently to include liaising with senior figures and commissioning editors
- Be a team player
- A strong commitment to the job due to the need to work extended hours and global interaction
- Building and maintaining relationships within the company and WBD Group with ability to interact at all levels
- Remain calm under pressure
What the job involves
- Provide support and administrative assistance to the MD and Head of Wall to Wall and Twenty Twenty, Creative Director, UK – Wall to Wall, Creative Director, International – Wall to Wall and Director of Development - Wall to Wall
- Extensive diary management across different time zones
- Ensure that necessary papers and preparation are prepared for meetings
- Organise rooms for meetings, providing refreshments when necessary
- Meet and greet visitors
- Organise UK and international travel including booking of taxis, hotels, trains and flights
- Co-ordinate international pitching meetings including dealing with overseas networks and broadcasters, scheduling meetings and screenings
- Organise attendance at UK and international festivals and conferences, arranging all travel and accommodation and co-ordinating all supporting materials
- Organise staff events including monthly drinks and Christmas party
- Process expense claims regularly and in a timely fashion
- Liaise with internal departments gathering information e.g. programme ratings
- Update documents e.g. holiday charts, proposals
- Manage and coordinate award entries with broadcasters, staff and freelancers, making sure they are accurate and submitted within deadline
- Contribute to Wall to Wall’s social media posts e.g. TX cards, social events etc
- Work closely with the Development Production Manager and Production Team Assistant to ensure the smooth running of the office and implement systems and processes where necessary
- Any other reasonable duties as required including any ad-hoc personal duties
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Warner Bros Discovery (WBD) is an entertainment company formed from the 2022 merger of Warner Bros and Discovery. It is a leader in the creation, production, distribution, licensing, and marketing of content, with Warner Bros alone boasting a huge library – more than 100,000 hours of programming – before the companies were joined. WBD’s portfolio includes Discovery Channel, Warner Bros. Entertainment, Discovery+, HBO Max, and franchises like “Batman” and “Harry Potter”.
Both of the company’s previous businesses have operated throughout the digitisation of the media space. David Zaslav, CEO of WBD, headed Discovery during its expansion into digital media, to make it a “content company” over a “cable company”. The recent focus for Warner Bros has been on next-gen distribution efforts, expanding the availability of its content across platforms and devices to reach the modern viewer. The new company has plans to migrate to one tech stack, which will require extensive retooling, as well as exploring cost-saving automation opportunities for its operations.
Since the merger, the new giant that is Warner Bros Discovery has had a shaky start, forcing the company to wind down operations and cut back on content, which included the very public scrapping of the “Batgirl” movie. However, it now seems the company may have been ahead of the curve, as a wider trend of cutbacks has been seen from peers in the space. This early move, combined with a hyper-focus on cash generation, seeks to establish WBD as an outperformer in an industry on the downturn.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-1% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company HQ
Midtown Manhattan, New York, NY
Leadership
David Zaslav
(CEO & President)Spent 17 years at NBCUniversal including as President of NBC Cable LLC and NBC Media LLC.
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