Executive Assistant (6 Month fixed term contract)

What You'll Be Doing

As our Executive Assistant, you'll play a key role in ensuring the smooth running of the business while supporting the delivery of strategic priorities. Working closely with the Managing Director, Executive Team and Senior Management Team, you'll coordinate projects, manage competing priorities, and help drive initiatives from planning through to successful completion.

You'll lead and support transformational projects such as business integrations, contract mobilisations and continuous improvement initiatives, ensuring milestones, actions and deadlines remain on track. Alongside managing executive diaries, meetings, communications and travel arrangements, you'll act as a trusted partner to senior leaders, helping to prioritise commitments and facilitate effective decision-making.

You'll build strong relationships across the business and with external stakeholders, support business development activities, oversee property and office management responsibilities, and ensure business continuity arrangements remain effective across all sites. Using digital tools and systems, you'll maintain accurate records, track deliverables and support collaboration across teams, all while encouraging a positive, solutions-focused and "whole company" approach to achieving our goals.

What You'll Bring

You'll be an experienced Executive or Personal Assistant who is confident supporting senior leaders in a dynamic and growing business. You'll bring strong organisational skills, excellent attention to detail and the ability to balance multiple priorities while remaining calm and professional under pressure.

We're looking for someone who naturally takes ownership, anticipates what's needed next and enjoys solving problems before they arise. You'll be a confident communicator with the ability to build trusted relationships at all levels, working collaboratively across teams while maintaining discretion when handling sensitive information.

You'll have experience managing diaries, priorities and deadlines, be comfortable using Microsoft Office applications, and ideally have exposure to project management or business transformation activities. Most importantly, you'll be adaptable, energetic and motivated by the opportunity to make a genuine impact, embracing change and continuously looking for ways to improve how we work.

You'll share our values of being Together, Open, Responsible and Ambitious, bringing a positive attitude, strong work ethic and a genuine desire to contribute to the success of the wider business.

What’s in it for you?

We offer a range of benefits designed to support your life in and out of work, some of which include:

• Matched or contributory pension scheme
• Online GP service, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year
• Employee assistance programme
• My Rewards portal, access to 1000’s of retail discounts
• Life assurance
• Cycle to work, salary finance and give as you earn schemes
• Enhanced maternity, paternity leave and adoption leave
• Reward and recognition scheme

In addition, this role offers:

• Health Care Cash Plan, giving you the ability to claim back medical expenses for things like dental, eyecare and physiotherapy and much more!
• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays

Please note: Occasionally, job adverts might be closed before the stated closing date. Do apply as soon as possible to ensure your application is considered.

For certain roles, successful candidates will be subject to 3rd party background checks as part of the hiring process. Some roles require drug and alcohol testing as part of induction and onboarding.

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