Executive Assistant

£35,000 - £40,000 per annum

Full time/37 hrs a week/Permanent

Location: Huntingdon & Home Working

Anglian Water offers a flexible approach, this role offers you the flexibility to work from home and from an Anglian Water office. You would be required to work in the office 3-4 days per week & your based location would be Lancaster House in Huntingdon.

Refreshingly different careers

We have a fantastic opportunity for an Executive Assistant to join our team here at Anglian Water.

This role offers a unique chance to support our Group Chief Financial Officer & Anglian Water Services Finance Director who value excellence, efficiency, and strategic collaboration.

We are looking for a master multitasker, meticulous planner, and a communication maestro to join the Anglian Water team in shaping success at an Executive level, where your commitment & excellence will be rewarded.

What you'll be doing:

- Full and proactive diary management for Executives' very busy schedules - arrange all internal/external meetings, forward planning and coordination of meeting/briefing packs, in order to maximise Executives' time and efficiency.

- Full inbox management - proactively deal with emails or delegate to others, prioritise/flag urgent emails for attention.

- Organise all travel arrangements and accommodation (domestic and overseas).

- Coordinate and maintain Executives' Action List.

- Secretariat to designated groups and committees - agreeing agendas, arranging meetings, distributing packs, taking notes and drawing out actions to be monitored for completion.

- Support to the Senior Leadership Teams, ensuring their priorities are communicated.

- Work closely with CEO's office on Board and Shareholder business.

- Preparation of correspondence, presentations, reports and other material, as specified, to the highest of standards, utilising full range of Microsoft applications.

- Arranging venues, team events, catering, meeting rooms/tech as required and support on high-level visits and company events.

- Build strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders and their PAs.

- Ownership of other ad hoc projects as required.

- Routine admin tasks including expenses, team holidays/absence management, onboarding arrangements for new team members, upkeep of team Sharepoint sites.

- Member of Anglian Water Force and occasional support on operational incidents as needed.

As a valued employee you'll be entitled to:

-Competitive pension scheme - Anglian Water double-matches your contributions up to 6%

-Personal private health care

-Annual bonus scheme

-23 days leave, rising with service + Bank Holidays, with the option to swap Christmas and Easter holidays for those celebrated by your religion

-Life Cover at 8x your salary

-Personal Accident cover - up to 5x your salary

-Flexible benefits to support your wellbeing and lifestyle

-Lots of great benefits including 20% off new EE mobile contracts, discounted cinema tickets and a Cycle2Work scheme

-Free parking at all offices, site and leisure parks

What does it take to be successful?

- Proven experience working in a similar senior level role.

- Competence in working with the full MS Office suite along with being tech savvy.

- Capable of multi-tasking with a positive can-do attitude.

- Able to demonstrate confidentiality and trust.

- Able to demonstrate strong attention to detail and problem solving skills.

- High degree of diplomacy and tact.

- Impeccable correspondence skills and confident in communicating with executive stakeholders.

- First class interpersonal skills.

- Proactive organisation and scheduling of a very busy business diary.

- Ability to work proactively as well as reactively using own initiative.

Inclusion at Anglian Water:

Join us and make a difference. Our customers come from a wide range of backgrounds, and we think our workplace should reflect that. We are committed to making sure all our colleagues feel they belong and are supported to succeed. Together with our fellow water companies, we are committed to the Social Mobility Pledge; we are also a signatory to Business in the Community's Race at Work charter; we hold the Armed Forces Gold Covenant for Employers; we are an accredited Disability Confident employer and we play a leading part in the Women's Utility Network.

Closing date: 25th February 2024

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