Editorial Operations Assistant, Iberia - Reuters

Are you looking to use your operational and administrative skills to their full potential? Want to be part of an international operations team that allows journalists based across Spain and Portugal to succeed? If so, this position as an Editorial Operations Assistant at Reuters might be for you.

Reuters are looking for an Editorial Operations Assistant based in Madrid to manage our news support and operations function across Spain and Portugal. In this role, you would play a key role in the management of these international offices and will be part of a wider team across Europe. As an Editorial Operations Assistant, you will be involved in tasks ranging from planning and managing administrative processes and enabling our journalists to succeed, to organizing corporate events and cooperating with facility management, finance service and HR.

About the Role

As our Editorial Operations Assistant, you will:

• Assist local management with record keeping, managing contracts and correspondence
• Act as security officer and coordinator for our data protection officer
• Support the bureaus in Spain and Portugal with travelling to major events, accreditations, visa applications, and more
• Process invoices in coordination with the Thomson Reuters finance and accounting teams
• Cooperate with vendors and internal sourcing department.
• Manage our fleet of company vehicles
• Manage the local subscriptions (TV cables, mobile phones, news feeds)
• Familiarize new employees with the company systems, coordinating with the IT departments
• Liaise with Facilities in the areas of shipment management, health and safety, maintenance, and business continuity
• Organize and coordinate of company and customer events
• Cooperate with wider European Editorial Operations Team

About You

You’re a fit for the role of Editorial Operations Assistant, if you have:

• Ability to work in a highly complex ambiguous environment
• Ability to multitask and meet changing deadlines, time management and attention to details
• Strong problem-solving, project management and collaboration skills
• Exceptional written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills
• Fluency in Spanish and English (knowledge of Portuguese would be an advantage)
• Advanced level experience in MS Office: Outlook, Word, Project, Excel, PowerPoint, SharePoint
• Ability to work independently or with minimal supervision

Please Note: Completed applications must be submitted by 23:59 on Tuesday 16th July 2024.

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What's in it For You?

Do you want to be part of a team helping re-invent the way knowledge professionals work? How about a team that works every day to create a more transparent, just and inclusive future? At Thomson Reuters, we’ve been doing just that for almost 160 years. Our industry-leading products and services include highly specialized information-enabled software and tools for legal, tax, accounting and compliance professionals combined with the world’s most global news services – Reuters. We help these professionals do their jobs better, creating more time for them to focus on the things that matter most: advising, advocating, negotiating, governing and informing.

We are powered by the talents of 26,000 employees across more than 70 countries, where everyone has a chance to contribute and grow professionally in flexible work environments that celebrate diversity and inclusion. At a time when objectivity, accuracy, fairness and transparency are under attack, we consider it our duty to pursue them. Sound exciting? Join us and help shape the industries that move society forward. 

Accessibility 

As a global business, we rely on diversity of culture and thought to deliver on our goals. To ensure we can do that, we seek talented, qualified employees in all our operations around the world regardless of race, color, sex/gender, including pregnancy, gender identity and expression, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, age, marital status, citizen status, veteran status, or any other protected classification under applicable law. Thomson Reuters is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer providing a drug-free workplace.

We also make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and for sincerely held religious beliefs in accordance with applicable law.

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