Executive Assistant

In Technology & Innovation, we create the foundations that help TAL show up for customers when it matters most. As an Executive Assistant in our Technology Administration team, you’ll provide trusted support to the General Managers in our Technology & Innovation Leadership Team, helping bring focus, momentum and connection across Platform Delivery, Cyber, Infrastructure Management and Transformation. By strengthening the cadence behind our technology agenda, you enable teams to deliver secure, reliable and evolving experiences for customers and partners. It’s meaningful work because the support you provide helps turn TAL’s purpose and ambition into action, so we can be there for people when they need us most.

In this role you will:

• Enable GM’s focus and decision-making by managing priorities, calendars and key communications.
• Build seamless alignment across leaders and teams through trusted relationships and proactive coordination.
• Keep leadership forums running smoothly with clear agendas, timely pre-reads and captured outcomes.
• Turn actions into progress by tracking follow-ups and removing bottlenecks before they escalate.
• Lift the quality and consistency of leadership communications and presentations for internal and external audiences.
• Support business continuity by coordinating travel, events and time-critical requests with care and discretion.

• Bring at least 3 years’ experience as an Executive Assistant supporting senior leaders
• Stay highly organised and adaptable, with a calm, detail-focused approach
• Communicate clearly and respectfully with stakeholders, using discretion and diplomacy
• Handle sensitive and confidential information with sound judgment and professionalism
• Write with clarity to help shape messages and materials
• Use Microsoft 365 confidently (Outlook, Word, PowerPoint and Excel)

TAL is one of Australia’s leading life insurers, committed to inclusion, and supporting the career growth of our diverse workforce. We’re proud to be:

• An Inclusive Employer – Recognised as Employer of Choice for Gender Equality by the Workplace Gender Equality Agency from 2014 to 2025 and 2023 to 2026 Bronze Tier Status within the Australian Workplace Equality Index
• Diversity Champions – Member of Diversity Council Australia, Australian Disability Network, Pride in Diversity and Champions of Change
• Reconciliation Advocates – Read our Innovate Reconciliation Action Plan.
• We welcome applications from people with diverse experiences, perspectives and backgrounds including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, caregivers, individuals with disability/ies, people from culturally diverse backgrounds and the LGBTQ+ community.
• Need adjustments during the recruitment process? Let our team know by getting in touch with us here.—we’re here to support you.

You’re always accountable for your actions. You never give up. You strive to find the best outcomes for customers and partners. And you value working together to find the best solutions for problems. 

As part of the recruitment process, there are several checks which may be conducted to demonstrate your eligibility for a role at TAL including Criminal History, Bankruptcy, Entitlement to Work, Regulatory and Reference Checks.

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Everyone at TAL has a responsibility to do the right thing and is accountable for the way they conduct themselves. Our expectations are that you follow the principles set out in our Code of Conduct when you come to work every day. Risk management is everyone’s responsibility.

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