Personal Assistant

Personal Assistant

Department: Technical

Employment Type: Permanent

Location: Guildford, Surrey

Berkeley Group builds homes and neighbourhoods across London, Birmingham and the South of England. We revive underused land, creating welcoming, sustainable and nature-rich places where communities thrive and where people of all ages and backgrounds enjoy a great quality of life.

We specialise in long-term brownfield regeneration, focusing on challenging and complex sites that are beyond the scope of conventional homebuilders. We are highly collaborative, working with councils and communities to create a shared vision and to unlock a mix of social, environmental, economic and commercial value that benefits all our stakeholders.

Our passion for quality and design underpins everything we do. All Berkeley homes are created with care, expertise and relentless attention to detail.

• Proactively manage the Production Director's diary, including booking meeting rooms and greeting internal and external clients where required, as well as working closely with other PAs to coordinate plans.
• Promote and help organise extra‑curricular activities (e.g. Berkeley Foundation, Health & Wellbeing and Social events).
• Creating and distributing agendas and meeting minutes before and after meetings.
• Draft emails, memos and any other company forms for review and subsequent distribution.
• Where required, collate, format and bind presentation packs and reports.
• Coordinate events/entertainment for the Directors and in some cases the wider team.
• Maintain a well‑structured filing system and assist others with implementing best practice.
• Collate and submit expense claims for the Directors as required.
• Cover the reception desk on a rota basis, greeting internal and external clients.
• Attend and contribute to monthly Admin meetings, and subsequent actioning of any items.

• Experience working in an administrative role, or be able to demonstrate a desire to do so.
• Excellent organisational skills and the ability to proactively assist with others’ organisation.
• Intermediate IT skills particularly with Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
• Experience with diary management.
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written.
• Willingness to develop an understanding of how the wider business operates.

• 25 days annual leave, increasing with service to 33 days.
• Health and wellbeing benefits including Private Medical Insurance.
• Lifestyle benefits including access to an online discount platform.
• Berkeley Foundation volunteer day.
• Private pension plan.
• Group life assurance.

The standard default full‑time working hours in the office are 8am-5pm with core working hours 9am-4pm.

Internal applicants:
If you’re an internal applicant, please ensure you’ve informed your line manager of your intention to apply for this position.