Personal Assistant

The Personal Assistant is a key supporting role working alongside our Partners and Directors. You will provide proactive support in all dealings, assisting with the delivery of projects and company initiatives as well as reporting, planning, scheduling, and organising tasks to keep time and attention focused on company goals, objectives and priorities.

Key Duties:

• Coordinating schedules, events, appointments, reservations and complex travel arrangements.

• Reviewing inboxes, ensuring emails are redirected as required and responded to in a timely manner.

• Act as a liaison between all departments, stakeholders and clients.

• Support Partners/Directors in driving forward business objectives.

• Reliably prepare, edit and maintain correspondence, communications, presentations and other documents.

• Provide information for reports and records through research, data retrieval, compiling and/or tabulating statistics, and organising and presenting the information in useable and understandable formats.

• Support the wider PA/EA team and assist in the induction of new employees.

• Ensuring a constant and timely flow of information across all areas of the business.

• Continuously look to improve processes and working practices.

• Actively seeks to expand role into new areas adding wider value to the business

Your experience and qualifications:

• Previous experience in a similar role is essential

• Clear concise communicator with attention to detail

• Proficient user of the MS365 suite of applications including SharePoint

• Complex travel management including visa applications

• Proven ability to effectively prioritise workflow in a fast-paced environment.

What we offer you

Bring your knowledge and expertise to one of the world's most respected consultancies.

• Hybrid working arrangements

• Attractive salary

• Discretionary bonus

• Holiday entitlement of 25 days per annum (exclusive of bank holidays) and flexible holiday arrangements

• Generous company pension scheme, life assurance and income protection

• Flexible benefits including cycle scheme, dental insurance, optical cover, travel insurance, season ticket loans, and corporate discounts

• Enhanced parenthood leave policies

• 3pm finish on the last Friday of the month

• A strong commitment to continuous development. Whatever stage in your career, we have a learning and development programme that will enable and empower you

• Entitlement to two memberships to professional bodies or subscriptions

• A commitment to your wellbeing through a comprehensive employee assistance programme and wellbeing activities

• An opportunity to support your local community and those in society that are most in need, wherever they are located in the world through our Share Our Skills (SOS) programme

• A supportive and inclusive environment that will welcome you through social and outreach activities from the Young Employees Forum to mentoring

• An international culture that wherever your career takes you at Buro Happold, you won't be far from exceptional.

Apply now and be where exceptional is everywhere.