Hybrid Personal Assistant – Maternity Cover

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About the role

  • Provide high quality secretarial and administrative support by running an efficient office focusing effort on achieving objectives.
  • The diary can constitute as much as 80% of your workload and its paramount to connect regularly to build a strong partnership and understand workstyles and align on priorities to keep the flow of work going and ensure things happen at the right time, and in the right order.
  • It is important in a changing and challenging environment to adapt and establish new ways of working, pioneering change by sharing and introducing collaboration applications to provide support and services, in the office and remotely, simplifying processes and communication using digital technology and applications to achieve results.
  • Diplomacy and discretion in keeping sensitive strategic, commercial and personnel matters; confidentiality and trust is paramount.
  • Ability to work with minimum instruction, anticipate needs and takes the initiative without being prompted are essential.

Requirements

  • significant experience support senior leaders and operating within a large, complex FTSE 100 company or equivalent organisation
  • Confidentiality: diplomacy and discretion in keeping sensitive strategic, commercial and personnel matters
  • Time Management and Planning: strong skills in planning, organisation and time management, Effe
  • strong grasp of detail, working to deadlines
  • Autonomy: self-starter, takes the initiative without being prompted by others and able to work with minimum of instruction, anticipating needs
  • Emotional Intelligence: Awareness of how and when to communicate to help improve relationships or outcomes
  • Team Player: Actively contributes to a supportive team environment, going out of your way to help and support others, offering advice and guidance freely
  • Relationship building: able to present a strong professional front, build strong relationships and develop wide networks internally and externally to get work done through others
  • IT proficiency: highly proficient with Office 365 and digital apps with a good level of IT skills to produce and edit PowerPoint and Word documents
  • Able to set up and manage channels in Microsoft Teams and OneNote
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills: with the ability to communicate clearly across all levels of stakeholders
  • High level of flexibility: to provide business support as and when required. This may also include travel to other UK sites
  • Expert knowledge of internal BT systems
  • Active Learner: you’re committed to continuous learning to attain skills for the future, dedicating time to focus on development and acquiring knowledge
  • Governance and compliance: you evaluate and quantify the impact of standard legal and regulatory risks. You use your knowledge of internal and external regulatory standards, legal requirements and principles

Benefits

  • Online GP – Giving you access to a GP via telephone or video 24/7 for both you and your immediate family, fully funded by us
  • Market leading paid carer’s leave, up to 2 weeks off for carers to give that bit of extra support to our colleagues who are caring for family or friends who are disabled, ill or elderly
  • Family Leave - Equalised maternity, paternity, and adoption leave and it gives all parents 18 weeks full pay and 8 weeks half pay in the first year however they choose to grow their family
  • Huge discounts of EE & BT products including your Mobile and Broadband – saving you hundreds of pounds every year
  • Support in carving your own career path. We are passionate about developing our people and we’ll support you in achieving the career you want
  • Season Ticket Travel Loan – Giving you the funds to pay for your travel to and from work up front, making a difference where it counts

Job title

Personal Assistant – Maternity Cover

Job type

Experience level

Mid levelSenior

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

High School Diploma

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