Personal Assistant in Leatherhead

Location: Leatherhead

Salary: Hidden

Recruiter: wates

Job Hours: Full-time

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The Vacancy

Wates Group has an exciting opportunity for an exceptional Personal Assistant (PA) to provide full support to our Group HR Director (Group HRD), and the HR Leadership Team (HRLT). This role is perfect for a proactive and intuitive PA with a proven track record working at an executive level.

In this role, you'll be the go-to person for important stakeholders, showing great judgement and a proactive attitude to solving problems. Your will have a proven track record of consistently delivering results, even when things get tough. You will be required to demonstrate high levels of discretion, diplomacy and empathy when dealing regularly with complex and confidential matters.

This job requires first-rate diary management, event coordination, and organisational skills. You'll excel at managing multiple tasks and keeping confidential information safe.

Key Responsibilities

Diary Management: Coordinate a complex calendar, ensuring optimal use of time and resources for the Group HRD and the HRLT.

Meeting and Event Coordination: Plan, organise, and oversee meetings and HR events, ensuring seamless execution.

Communication and Correspondence: Draft, review, and edit documents with precision, demonstrating strong verbal and written communication skills

Stakeholder Relations: Build and maintain strong relationships with key stakeholders, acting as a trusted partner.

You'll be able to work on your own, taking the initiative to solve problems and make decisions. This role needs energy, a positive attitude, (and a sense of fun!) along with the flexibility to adapt in a fast-paced setting. Being skilled in the full Microsoft Office suite is essential.

WHAT WE OFFER

Competitive salary & profit share

Flexible working - this role will be based in the Leatherhead Office for a minimum of 3 days a week.

Travel covered to any of our sites (subject to HMRC advisory rates) 

Extensive corporate benefits including, Private Medical, Pension 8% employer’s contribution, Health and Wellness programme, 26 days holidays + bank holidays and much more…

Excellent range of learning and development activity to support your career progression.

Industry leading family leave benefits to included 26 weeks fully paid maternity, 8 weeks fully paid paternity. 

Work for Wates

Wates is one of the UK’s leading family-owned development, building and property maintenance companies. Founded over 125 years ago, we have a proud legacy in the built environment.

We are driven by our purpose, ‘reimagining places for people to thrive’ and our three promises:

Thriving places – working with customers, partners and communities to create places that are more sustainable, inclusive, and full of opportunity.
Thriving planet – protecting nature and taking action on climate change by collaborating and innovating with our partners.
Thriving people – creating opportunities and relationships so that everyone who works for and with us feels included, invested in, and treated with care.

We are proud to be recognised as Gold Investors in People and as a Disability Confident employer. We also ensure that our recruitment processes do not treat anyone less favourably due to an offending background.

Awards

BEST PROJECT

Inside Housing Development Awards

WINNER

2022 Construction News Awards Winner

GOLD AWARD

Investors in People 2022

GOLD AWARD

Considerate Constructors Schemes (CCS) National Site Awards

TOP 50 EMPLOYERS

2022 Top 50 Employers for Women

WINNER

2022 Working Families Best Practice Awards

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The Wates Group was established in 1897 and is one of the leading privately-owned, construction, development and property services companies in the UK. We employ almost 4,000 people, working with a range of clients and partners from across the public and private sectors.