Executive Assistant

An opportunity to join a well-established, fast growing family business in this exciting new role!

BMC Recruitment Group are currently recruiting for an Executive Assistant for their client in Newton Aycliffe
, a well-established family run business. As part of their ongoing commitment to their clients and their growth plans, they are moving to a new 57,000 sq. ft facility at Aycliffe Point
, Newton Aycliffe
.

As the company Scales, the Managing Director requires a highly capable, proactive and commercially minded Executive Assistant to provide a high level of support across the group of two companies.

This is an exciting time to join this family run business who have over 20 years’ experience in the care sector. You will be working from their new, modern site at Newton Aycliffe. Which will offer close links to the A1 and it’s also on a public transport route.

Working closely with the Managing Director to remove day to day administrative pressure this will include; improving organisation, managing his email inbox, along with assisting with reports and proposals, ensuring key actions are followed up to meet deadlines.

You must be happy to be flexible to the needs of the business; this may mean downing tools at short notice and dealing with an urgent report for a client or manager that may not have been on your; things to do list for that day.

You’ll be highly organised, discreet, confident, and commercially aware, whilst being comfortable to work across multiple departments – supporting sales and marketing activity when needed. These are all key attributes in you being a success in this role. This will then offer you progression in time.

• Full time – Permanent
• Competitive salary & Benefits
• Early finish on a Friday
• Fresh Fruit, snacks, Tea/coffee facilities, water and juices provided free by the company

• Proven experience in a similar role with a SME, supporting MD, CEO or a senior leadership team
• Strong IT skills, including Microsoft office, Excel, PowerPoint and ideally CRM/ERP systems. Net Suite would be ana advantage
• Manage MD’s inbox, flagging urgent matters and drafting a response where appropriate
• Diary management, meetings, travel arrangements
• Prepare agenda’s, notes ahead of meetings
• Ensure MD is prepared for internal/external meetings including board meetings
• Attend SLT and other keys meetings alongside the MD
• Experience coordinating projects, agencies, supplier and external partners
• Confidence in preparing minutes, reports, presentations, and customer facing documents