Executive Assistant

Position Description At CGI, our leaders shape strategy, drive growth and deliver lasting impact for clients—and behind every high-performing leader is a trusted partner who enables their success. As an Executive Assistant within our Leeds Business Unit, you will play a pivotal role in ensuring strategic priorities translate into action. From orchestrating seamless operations to leading meaningful community and engagement initiatives, you will help create the conditions for innovation, collaboration and measurable business outcomes. This is an opportunity to take real ownership, influence culture and contribute to a business that values initiative, professionalism and shared success. Your future duties and responsibilities In this role, you will be the trusted partner to a Business Unit Leader and Senior Leadership Team, ensuring their time is optimised and strategic priorities are delivered. You will manage complex schedules, oversee communications and coordinate leadership activity, enabling focus on growth and client impact. Acting as a central point of contact across internal teams and external stakeholders, you will drive clarity, efficiency and alignment while maintaining the highest standards of discretion and professionalism. You will be empowered to bring new ideas, enhance processes and help foster a collaborative, high-performing environment. Key responsibilities:

• Coordinate & Enable – Manage complex diaries, inboxes and senior stakeholder schedules
• Optimise & Deliver – Process expenses, arrange travel and ensure seamless administrative operations
• Maintain & Enhance – Oversee CRM accuracy, supplier onboarding and purchase order processes
• Capture & Communicate – Record meeting minutes, track actions and create high-quality presentation materials
• Engage & Represent – Support client meetings and external business events Required Qualifications To Be Successful In This Role To succeed, you will bring proven experience supporting senior leaders within a complex, fast-paced environment. You will be proactive, highly organised and confident managing competing priorities while maintaining discretion and professionalism. You should have:
• Demonstrable experience supporting senior stakeholders or executives
• Strong stakeholder management and relationship-building skills
• Excellent organisational skills with high attention to detail
• Proven ability to manage multiple priorities and tight deadlines
• Clear and professional written and verbal communication skills
• Experience using CRM systems and Microsoft Office tools
• A proactive, solutions-focused mindset with the confidence to take ownership Together, as owners, let's turn meaningful insights into action. Life at CGI is rooted in ownership, teamwork, respect and belonging. Here, you'll reach your full potential because… You are invited to be an owner from day 1 as we work together to bring our Dream to life. That's why we call ourselves CGI Partners rather than employees. We benefit from our collective success and actively shape our company's strategy and direction. Your work creates value. You'll develop innovative solutions and build relationships with teammates and clients while accessing global capabilities to scale your ideas, embrace new opportunities, and benefit from expansive industry and technology expertise. You'll shape your career by joining a company built to grow and last. You'll be supported by leaders who care about your health and well-being and provide you with opportunities to deepen your skills and broaden your horizons. That same commitment to fairness extends to how we use technology. To support our recruitment team, AI tools may be used to help assess applications though they never replace human judgement. All hiring decisions remain entirely in the hands of our recruitment professionals. Come join our team—one of the largest IT and business consulting services firms in the world.