Job Title: Executive Assistant
Location: Dalton Avenue, Warrington UK - Hybrid
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF51021
At Babcock we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as a Executive Assistant at our Warrington site.
The role
As a Executive Assistant you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You’ll ensure that the Executive team are able to remain organised alongside their daily responsibilities to ensure the business is able to operate smoothly.
Day to day, you’ll act as the personal representative of the executive and liaise effectively with senior staff and external contacts on behalf of the executive such that activities of the department and executive are completed on time
- Receive and assess incoming mail, respond directly on routine matters, direct elsewhere or present to executive, including (where necessary) obtain and provide additional relevant information from other departments
- Take incoming telephone calls and visitors, refers to executive where necessary and acts as focal point and filter for calls and visitors
- Schedule appointments, co-ordinate complex travel and accommodation arrangements and produces itineraries that optimise use of executive’s time
- Collate and circulate information where issues may be particularly sensitive or confidential
Essential experience of the Executive Assistant,
- Evidence of skill gathered through experience
- Extensive experience working at a senior level with above average secretarial skills
- Ability to handle issues of high sensitivity
- Thorough understanding of organisational dynamics
- Familiar with full range of department activities, contacts (internal and external), software and computer systems
This is a hybrid working role based in the UK, with three - four days in the Warrington office.
Qualifications for the Executive Assistant,
- Secretarial qualification is desirable
The successful candidate must be able to achieve BPSS security clearance level for this role.
Our Benefits
- Generous holiday allowance
- Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
- Employee share scheme
- Employee shopping savings portal
- Payment of Professional Fees
- Reservists in the armed forces receive ten days special paid leave
- Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows the majority of employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement
- ‘Be Kind Day’ enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity
For the full extensive Benefits package please visit our Careers pages
Babcock International
For over a century Babcock International have helped to defend nations, protect communities, and build a better world. To continue, we must adapt, advance and be a sustainable business with a shared goal.
If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please let us know. We’re committed to building an inclusive culture where everyone’s free to thrive. We are happy to talk about flexible working - please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.
Closing date: 12/05/2023
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