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Personal Assistant

Location: Warrington, Cheshire

Salary: £37k+ DOE

Hours: Full-time, with occasional out-of-hours support

The Benefits of the Personal Assistant

• Annual Leave: 25.5 days of leave, plus 4 extra days during Christmas shutdown, plus Bank Holidays.
• Reduced gym membership with discounts of up to 25% from 3,700 gym and leisure providers across the UK.
• Company Bonus: Be rewarded for your contributions.
• Learning Opportunities: Enhance your skills through excellent development programmes.
• Employee Assistance: Access support for personal and professional challenges.
• Cycle to Work: Stay active and eco-friendly.
• Life Assurance: Ensure peace of mind for you and your loved ones.
• Enhanced Sick Pay Benefits: Receive support during illness or injury.
• Access to 'Mydiscounts' with special offers and discounts from more than 200 suppliers, including medical and dental insurance.
• Health Care: Health savings plan to claim money back on visits to the dentist, optician, and/or physiotherapist (limits apply).

The Key Duties of the Personal Assistant

• Act as a first point of contact, dealing with visitors, correspondence, and phone calls.
• Day-to-day diary and email management, with thoughtful planning and supporting correspondence.
• Manage and coordinate travel and accommodation requirements, including related expenses, travel packs, and risk assessments.
• Communicate and collaborate with internal and external stakeholders, developing positive relationships.
• Prioritise and manage time effectively, ensuring the senior manager is well-prepared for all commitments.
• Organise internal and external meetings, ensuring all customer requirements are met to exceptional standards.
• Prepare, review, and proof-read documents, reports, and presentations.
• Manage and maintain databases and electronic filing systems, including time and attendance, and workflow approvals.
• Conduct research on behalf of the senior manager.
• Collaborate with other members of the office and administration team, supporting their work, attending meetings, and covering for absent colleagues as required.
• Provide personal assistance on specific tasks as and when required.
• Prepare and support the on-boarding of new staff members, where necessary.
• Communicate with Board Members, schedule Board Meetings, and arrange meeting agendas.
• Prepare meeting agendas and provide administrative support at key meetings, as agreed with the executive member.
• Support and occasionally project manage internal and external events, such as leadership meetings.
• Provide occasional out-of-hours support.

Essential Criteria for Personal Assistant

• Proven experience of having supported at Director level competence.
• Excellent planning and organisational skills with a disciplined approach and attention to detail.
• Excellent prioritisation skills with the ability to anticipate work needs, with a proactive and forward-thinking approach.
• Ability to communicate information in a variety of settings, both inside and outside of the organisation.
• Confident, articulate, and able to work on your own initiative.
• Demonstrate integrity, trust, and discretion in all activities.
• An adaptable and flexible attitude towards fluctuating demands in workload

If you are interested in the role, and want to know more, please apply or call Aiden Wood at Search Recruitment Group for more information.

Search is an equal opportunities recruiter and we welcome applications from all suitably skilled or qualified applicants, regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/beliefs, sexual orientation or age.