Hours: 37.5 per week, Monday to Friday
Location: Hybrid working 3 days a week in Virgin Atlantic HQ, Fleming Way, Crawley, West Sussex
Contract: Permanent
Closing date: 1st May 2026
In a nutshell
This is a role at the centre of how one of Virgin Atlantic’s most critical leadership functions operates. As Executive Assistant to the SVP Corporate Development & Legal Affairs, you will be the force that keeps everything moving, creating clarity, driving focus, and ensuring time is spent where it matters most.
You will partner closely with a senior leader operating in a fast-paced, high-impact environment spanning corporate strategy, legal, governance, and regulatory activity. It is a role that goes far beyond diary management. Acting as a trusted gatekeeper, a connector across teams, and a key enabler of decision-making at the highest level of the business.
If you thrive on pace, enjoy working with senior stakeholders, and take pride in bringing order and precision to complexity, this is an opportunity to step into a role with real influence.
Day to day
- Orchestrate the SVP’s diary, priorities, and time to maximise focus, impact, and delivery
- Act as a trusted point of contact, managing communications and representing the SVP with professionalism and judgement
- Plan and coordinate leadership team meetings, offsites, and wider directorate activity, ensuring clear agendas and outcomes
- Manage complex travel, logistics, and expenses in line with company policies
- Support Board and Committee cycles alongside the Company Secretary, ensuring timely preparation and distribution of materials
- Maintain oversight of approvals, governance, and compliance activities, including audit records and regulatory requirements
- Collaborate with the wider EA/PA community and stakeholders across Virgin Atlantic, Virgin Group, and Delta
- Contribute to team engagement, wellbeing, and the smooth running of the Corporate Development & Legal Affairs function
About you
- Demonstrated experience supporting senior executives, ideally at C-suite level within a complex and regulated environment such as Law, Financial Services, or Consultancy
- Proven ability to operate with confidence and credibility, including influencing and constructively challenging senior stakeholders
- Strong experience managing complex scheduling and diary management, including international travel coordination
- Demonstrated ability to handle sensitive and confidential information with discretion and sound judgement
- Strong organisational capability, with a track record of managing multiple, often competing priorities with precision and pace
- Evidence of proactive problem solving, anticipating needs and resolving issues before they escalate
- Established ability to build and maintain trusted relationships across diverse stakeholder groups
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to tailor messaging to different audiences
- Experience working both autonomously and collaboratively within high-performing teams
- Practical working knowledge of core business tools including Outlook, Teams, PowerPoint, Excel, and Word
We review applications on a first-come, first-served basis and may close the application window early if we receive a high volume of applications.
Be yourself – Our differences make us stronger
Our customers come from all walks of life and so do our colleagues. That’s why we’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer and actively encourage applications from all backgrounds. At Virgin Atlantic, we believe everyone can take on the world - no matter your age, gender, gender identity, gender expression, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disabilities, religion, or beliefs. We celebrate difference and everything that makes our colleagues unique by upholding an inclusive environment in which we can all thrive. So that everyone at Virgin Atlantic can be themselves and know they belong.
To make your journey with us accessible and individual to you, we encourage you to let us know if you’d like a little extra help with your application, or if you have any individual requirements at any stage along your recruitment journey. We are here to support you, so please reach out to our team ([email protected]), feeling confident that we’ve got your individual considerations covered.
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What We Do
Virgin Atlantic first took to the skies in 1984 to shake things up, bringing a sparkle of red, a touch of wit and a passion for flying to the grey world of airlines. We fell in love with creating the best experience in the skies for our customers, and they fell in love with us right back. Since then we’ve become Britain’s second largest carrier, with non-stop transatlantic routes including New York, Orlando, the Caribbean, Delhi and Johannesburg. And thanks to our hugely successful joint venture with Delta, Air France and KLM, we can seamlessly connect our customers to over 350 cities across North America, Europe and the UK. Today, we want to empower everyone to take on the world. The customers we proudly fly and our people who go the extra mile. As we embark on a brand spanking new era of travel, it gives us more opportunities to do things differently and lead the way with fresh ideas. This means becoming more sustainable for our planet and our destinations, and working hard to make travel open to everyone, no matter who you are, who you love or where you go. And of course never, ever, forgetting the small stuff - like the clink of champagne glasses on a special occasion or a cheeky cream tea at 30,000 feet.
