William Grant & Sons
Business Support Assistant
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Are you a detail-oriented, organised, and proactive Business Support Professional with a passion for ensuring the smooth operation of a business?
Would you like to contribute to the continued success of the largest family-owned Whisky distillery in the world, responsible for iconic brands including: Glenfiddich, The Balvenie, Hendricks Gin, and Monkey Shoulder. If you answered yes to the previous questions, then this opportunity could be for you.
William Grant & Sons are looking for a Business Support Assistant to join our established Business Support team, in the Global Marketing Team based in Richmond.
What We Can Offer You
- Competitive salary and benefits designed to promote employees' financial wellbeing.
- Eligibility to participate in a bonus plan.
- Generous holiday entitlement with the opportunity to 'buy' or'sell' some holiday entitlement.
- Private Healthcare and Doctor@Hand (remote GP service).
- Defined contribution pension plan with company contributions of 8% or 10% depending on employee contribution.
- Employee Assistance Programme offering practical, impartial support on everyday matters.
- Life Assurance cover of a multiple of eight times your annual basic salary.
- Product allocation to enjoy our fantastic portfolio of brands.
- Cycle to Work scheme allowing you to hire a bike for an agreed length of time and then purchase it for a fraction of its original value.
- Opportunity to claim up to £1,000 per year for a charity or charities.
- Learning resources to help you be your best self.
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Main Responsibilities
- Build strong professional relationships with our Global Marketing Leadership team.
- Own effective diary management, book frequent local and international travel.
- Organise engaging off-site events for our business teams.
- Support with general administrative tasks.
Our Ideal Candidate
- Proactive, organised, and detail-oriented.
- Enjoy working with people and value building strong professional relationships.
- Demonstrable experience in a similar role.
- Ideally, have experience supporting multiple senior stakeholders.
This is a part-time role based on 25 hours.
About William Grant & Sons
A HOME FOR RARE CHARACTERS
William Grant & Sons: a home where Rare Characters thrive.
We value every employee for their rare character, distinctive skills, experience, and perspectives. Every one of our colleagues has a role to play in helping us to achieve our growth ambitions.
At William Grant & Sons, our vision is to be A home where rare characters thrive. We value all colleagues for their rare character, distinctive skills, experience, and perspectives. Diversity & Inclusion is at the heart of how we do things at William Grant & Sons, fully aligned to our purpose and our company values. We strive to create an environment where we can all be our best and bring our whole selves to work.
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OUR AGILE WORKING PHILOSOPHY
Our agile working philosophy is to “Have your best work day everyday”.
Built on trust, we empower our rare characters to have their best work day every day. Where flexibility and positive working experiences help employees to feel connected and release potential across our teams.
We are open to discussing possible agile/flexible working options as part of the recruitment process.
INCLUSIVE RECRUITMENT PROCESS
Diversity & Inclusion is at the heart of how we do things at William Grant & Sons, fully aligned to our purpose and our company values. We want to ensure that our recruitment process is inclusive.
This vacancy is being advertised directly by William Grant & Sons. Unauthorised copying, reposting, or distribution of this advert by job boards, aggregators, or recruitment agencies is not permitted without prior written approval.
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