Personal Assistant

We have an exciting opportunity for a Personal Assistant to join us where you will be reporting directly to a small team of directors in the Senior Leadership Team within HR and Employee Communication.

The successful candidate can be based in one of our UK offices. The role qualifies for hybrid working, with a combination of office and home working. You will be required to attend the office at least 2 days per week (Full-time office working is available if preferred). Travel to various offices will be required, primarily Birmingham and Warrington.

You will be providing support to three members of the Senior Management in the HR and Employee Communication directorate team, acting as a primary point of contact and carrying out a range of administrative duties to support the Directors and the delivery of business objectives.

To apply, please submit your CV and a covering letter.

What you'll be leading on

• Diary Management including day-today meetings, travel planning and expenses.


• Act as the first point of contact for the Directors, assist managing mail and calls, ensuring that these are prioritised, deadlines are considered, and appropriate action is taken.


• Undertake ad hoc administrative duties as and when required, ensuring accurate, timely delivery.


• Arrange meetings and events giving effective and efficient use of time and cost; maintain and update action logs for all meetings.


• Manage personal workload in a way which is efficient and effective.
  
  Experience of working in an administration or personal assistant role.


• Experience with diary management and organising events.


• Ability to use office software products to produce and maintain a range of documents and spreadsheets.


• Confident and capable of multi-tasking on a day-to-day basis.


• Understanding and navigating financial and procurement ways of working or willingness to learn.


• Experience communicating and engaging with a broad range of stakeholders at all levels.


A bit about us

We're fully committed to making National Highways a great place to work. We want an inclusive culture where our people feel informed, motivated, engaged - and always reaching for high levels of performance.

Our HR directorate includes a wide range of services to support our people to be the best they can be and to enable the organisation to achieve its goals and objectives.

Through our People Strategy we're also building our company's resilience, making it better prepared for the future - and we're always striving to improve our day to day services.

At National Highways we believe in a connected country. We are passionate about creating a culture where colleagues feel connected, included and enjoy greater wellbeing to achieve this. We're proud that as an organisation we are continually striving to do better and actively encourage and support our colleagues to do the same with their careers.

An informal blended working approach has been adopted for many of our roles across National Highways. We offer many different ways to work flexibly and we're open to discuss part-time working, job shares, and flexible start and finish times.

Please wait until the interview stage before asking us about flexibility, and we will explore what is possible.

Our benefits package


• Our total reward package includes basic salary, the potential for a performance related bonus


• Contributory pension scheme with employer contribution of up to 10%


• Annual Leave starting at 26 days (plus Bank Holidays) rising by 1 day each year up to 31 days (plus Bank Holidays)


• Flexible hours and blended working between base location/home


• Life assurance of 4 times annual salary


• Health and wellbeing support, including an Employee Assistance Programme, available 24/7 365 days and network of mental health first aiders. Plus access to a wellbeing app to enhance your self-care 24/7, Occupational health service and flu vaccines


• A cycle to work scheme for the purchase of a bicycle and equipment for healthy, low carbon travel


• Significant investment in your career development, through learning and development, talent management, coaching, mentoring and on job experience


And we are

• Family friendly with enhanced maternity leave and pay, paternity leave (15 days), shared parental leave, adoption leave. Plus access to financial support for holiday play schemes and paid special leave (up to 5 days pa), eg for caring responsibilities


• Money friendly with access to a discounts platform including over 3000 discounts for supermarkets, eating out, leisure, holidays. Alongside a financial wellbeing programme


• Community friendly - offering paid leave to volunteer, 3 days basic/year plus an extra 3 days to support the national Covid effort


If you are successful, it is key to know all offers of employment are subject to satisfactory completion of our pre-employment checks which include:


• Right to work check


• 3 year employment history references


• DBS criminal record check


• Social media and adverse journalism check


• Driving licence check (if applicable)


• Fit to work questionnaire (for all), followed by a medical check (if applicable)