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PA to Managing Director

£competitive plus benefits

Northampton, Northamptonshire

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Are you an experienced Personal Assistant looking to secure a new role in a fast paced industry. Have you previously supported Directors and managed multiple extensive, ever changing diaries. Do you take pride in taking ownership of providing a comprehensive and confidential service, If so, we want to hear from you!

At Travis Perkins we have an opportunity for a Personal Assistant to support our Managing Director and Senior Leadership Team for Travis Perkins Toolhire.  This role will be part based in our Northampton office with our new working model of also working from home.

What you’ll do

As the Personal Assistant for Toolhire, your days will be varied, ensuring the Managing Director and senior leaders' lives run as smoothly and efficiently as possible. You will be processing and reconciling invoices, submitting expenses, managing travel, hotels, venues and coordination for events, along with the organising of other essential commitments into their diaries. You will be carrying out crucial administrative duties, often to deadline and in line with the individual requirements of each director. Some travel will be required on an ad hoc basis, therefore a level of flexibility will also be required. 

Some accountabilities of the role:

- Supporting the Managing Director in his day to day activities, managing his email inbox and ensuring he is prepared for all meetings and events
- Preparing presentations for board meetings and taking minutes, ensuring deadlines are met for board reports/type up correspondence and any minute-taking, so the appropriate documentation is prepared 
- The role also involves specific project work as required to support the Managing Director including organising supplier and customer events 
- HR support including:-
recruitment support raising vacancies and raising employee contracts
attend any appeal hearing grievances working alongside employee relations
expense management, team holiday approvals
- Being a support and contact to the MD and senior leadership team

Is this you?

You will be joining a fast paced, forward thinking, driven team, where your proactive attitude and self starter mindset will be a great fit!

You will also have: 

- A  high degree of competence in written communication and organisational skills
- Excellent interpersonal skills will be key for you to succeed in building strong stakeholder relationships
- Your excellent attention to detail will be utilised on a daily basis, within this varied PA opportunity, alongside your excellent IT skills. We use Google suite platform, but we can teach you
- You will be adept at positively influencing colleagues whilst being discrete and professional

What’s in it for you?

Our myPerks scheme offers a whole host of benefits and discounts exclusive to Travis Perkins Group colleagues - from houseware to holidays, groceries to gadgets, there are hundreds of deals, offers and discounts available!

You’ll also have access to:
- Cycle to work scheme
- myColleague discount available across a variety of our businesses.
- Health & Wellbeing hub
- Financial Wellbeing hub

We’ll also equip you with a benefits package that grows as you grow with the company:
- Company performance related bonus
- Buy-as-you-earn scheme
- Contributory pension scheme

A bit about us

As the largest distributor of building materials in the UK, the Travis Perkins Group has been helping to build Britain for over 200 years.
With over 5 businesses, 20,000 colleagues and more than 1,400 branches, stores and sites around the UK we believe we have the best people and are the best place to work. Everyone works hard together to deliver results, but most importantly, have some fun along the way!

Application closing date - 01 July 2022

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