Executive Assistant

# Executive Assistant
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Location:

Coventry-Binley Business Park, Hybrid, Manchester Location is a required field

Salary Details:£32,000 - £40,000 (dependant on relevant experience)## About the role

We’re recruiting for an Executive Assistant role to partner with our Customer Service Director and the Customer Service Senior Leadership team, providing them with a high‑level, comprehensive and proactive executive support.

The successful candidate will be responsible for managing the Directors and SLTs communications including planning and orchestrating work, meetings and events to ensure priorities are met, functional goals are achieved, and best practices are upheld. It will ensure adequate time to prepare for meetings, boards, committees and key deliverables, as well as collating relevant information and returns on behalf of the function.

The role holder will also proactively manage and control access to the Directors diary, identifying what is essential whilst maintaining balance across their schedule. It will require focus on proactive and anticipatory management of the Directors and SLTs workload and accountabilities, ensuring key priorities are met and goals are delivered. Building strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders is a vital part of the role, as well as acting as a communication bridge inside and outside of the function.

This role will support the Senior Leadership Team with the smooth running of the function including organising governance, taking minutes and actions of functional meetings and managing expenses and travel arrangements.

Thisrole can operate from either our Head Office campus in Binley, Coventry or our Manchester office but travel to both locations will be required occasionally. Ateam-led hybrid working arrangement is in place.
** Benefits:
*** 28 days holiday a year plus bank holidays and a holiday buy/sell scheme
* Annual discretionary bonus scheme
* Personal pension with matched contributions
* Life assurance (6 times annual salary)
** Find out more about the fantastic benefits of joining Coventry Building Society
** We reserve the right to close this advert early if we receive a high volume of suitable applications.

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You’ll already have exceptional organisational ability, strong judgement, emotional intelligence and professional discretion. You’ll also thrive in a fast‑paced environment, act confidently at senior levels, and take ownership of creating the conditions that will our Customer SLT to operate at their best.
** To be successful in this role it’s essential you have:
*** Exceptional planning and organising experience, with an emphasis on priority management.
* Experience of managing multiple stakeholder with strong relationship building skills
* Confident communication skills, with the ability to persuade, influence and network as required.
* Experience of multitasking and adapting quickly in a challenging and pressured environment.
* Ability to anticipate workloads, events and issues.
* Proficient in Outlook and a solid understanding and experience using Microsoft Office Suite
* High level of tact and integrity with the ability to negotiate confidently and professionally at all levels.
* Executive Assistant or equivalent role experience.
** Desirable experience needed will be:
*** Banking or financial services sector
* Support to Executives.
* Commercial awareness of current and ongoing key issues relating to the wider financial industry.
* Budget management and control experience.

We’re serious about equality, of race, age, faith, disability, and sexual orientation and we celebrate diversity. By working together, we know you’ll build more than just a career with us.
** Flexibility and why it matters
** We understand the need for flexibility, so wherever possible, we’ll consider alternative working patterns. Have a chat with us before you apply to see what the possibilities are for this role.

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