Executive Assistant To Executive Director, Mergers

Are you a professional and highly organised individual ready to advance your career as an Executive Assistant? If you are passionate about delivering exceptional support, this is an outstanding opportunity to acquire new skills and elevate your career at the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA).

About the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA)

We help people, businesses, and the UK economy by promoting competitive markets and tackling unfair behaviour. Our work is wide ranging, ambitious and often new and challenging.

The role

As an Executive Assistant, your core responsibility will be providing efficient and responsive support in a fast-paced environment, including diary and inbox management and personal assistance to the Executive Director, Mergers (ED).

Assisting with the management and prioritisation of time and tasks, you will play a major role in foreseeing potential problems and issues, conducting research and seeking solutions, reviewing documents and serving as the crucial link between the ED and the wider organisation, as well as external stakeholders.

You will also work closely with other EAs across the CMA to organise, operate and support regular management and other cross-Directorate meetings. You will have the opportunity to organise and deliver Merger team’s away days, events and training, including engagement with external speakers/providers.

What you will need

The ideal candidate will demonstrate exceptional communication and liaison skills, having effectively represented organisations to external stakeholders while tailoring communications to diverse audiences.

Strong administrative skills are essential, with the ability to respond adeptly to complex and highly sensitive correspondence. We are looking for a candidate capable of prioritising multiple tasks to meet strict deadlines, coupled with an unwavering attention to detail.

Additionally, the successful candidate will exhibit demonstrable research and analysis skills, with proficiency in gathering, summarising, and presenting information for varying audiences.

What we can offer you

In return the CMA is a hugely diverse, rewarding and stimulating place to work - an opportunity to work for the public good and to stretch and develop yourself in doing so. We offer generous benefits, including an excellent pension scheme, at least 25 days leave (increasing to 30 over five years), and generous maternity/paternity leave provision. You can also take advantage of interest-free season ticket loans, a cycle to work scheme, our employee assistance programme and flexible working options.

To find out more about this opportunity and about working for the CMA, please click on the APPLY button.

Closing date for applications: 11:55 pm on Monday 5th February 2024.

Like many other organisations, we operate a hybrid working model with a mix of office and home working. We believe this supports us to deliver our best work while allowing the flexibility to maintain balanced and healthy lives.

The CMA are an accredited Disability Confident Employer, and we are an equal opportunities employer, welcoming suitably qualified applicants from all backgrounds.

We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles.