Executive Assistant (Maternity Cover)

1866 Seco Tools (UK) Limited; Alcester; Remote; GBP 30,000 - 42,000; Part time

Job summary

1866 Seco Tools (UK) Limited is seeking an experienced Executive Assistant to provide temporary cover, supporting a Vice President and senior leadership across a fast-paced, global organization. The role is fully remote and UK-based, with responsibility for diary management, confidential communications, and cross-time-zone coordination.

Responsibilities include travel and logistics, leadership meeting support, and administrative duties to sustain strategic initiatives.

Qualifications

• Previous experience providing executive or senior-level administrative support.
• Exceptional organisational and prioritisation skills.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management abilities.
• The ability to work independently and manage multiple priorities simultaneously.
• Excellent attention to detail and problem-solving skills.
• Experience coordinating complex travel arrangements and leadership meetings.
• Strong Microsoft 365 skills, including Outlook, Teams, PowerPoint, Word, and Excel.

Responsibilities

• Provide high-level executive support to senior leaders and coordinate calendars across time zones.
• Coordinate extensive domestic and international travel arrangements and expense reporting.
• Support leadership team coordination, agendas, minutes, and action logs.
• Draft, proofread, and distribute professional communications and internal events.
• Travel occasionally to support leadership meetings and events, including quarterly visits.

Skills

Executive support

Diary management

Travel coordination

Microsoft 365

Outlook

PowerPoint

Word

Excel

Tools

Outlook

PowerPoint

Word

Excel

Teams

Job description

We are looking for a Executive Assistant (Temporary Cover) We are seeking an experienced and proactive individual to join our team as Executive Assistant (Temporary Cover). This is an exciting opportunity to work in a dynamic, collaborative environment where your skills and expertise will support our objectives and contribute to the success of the business.

Job Summary

We are seeking a highly organised, proactive, and professional Executive Assistant to provide temporary cover within a fast-paced global organisation. The primary focus of this role will be providing executive support to a Vice President leader, with additional support to another members of the executive team. The successful candidate will also play a key role in coordinating activities across senior leadership teams, ensuring the smooth running of meetings, projects, and day-to-day operations. This is a fully remote, UK-based position, offering the opportunity to work closely with senior stakeholders across an international business while supporting strategic initiatives, leadership meetings, events, and executive operations.

Key Responsibilities

Executive Support

Provide high-level executive support to senior leaders. Manage complex and ever-changing diaries, coordinating meetings across multiple time zones and balancing competing priorities. Proactively manage communications, correspondence, actions, and follow-ups. Handle confidential and sensitive information with professionalism and discretion. Prepare presentations, reports, meeting materials, and executive communications.

Travel & Logistics

Coordinate extensive domestic and international travel arrangements, including flights, accommodation, transport, itineraries, and travel documentation. Support frequent business travel requirements, adapting plans quickly where priorities change. Manage travel-related administration and expense reporting. Ensure seamless coordination of meetings and events both virtually and in person.

Leadership Team Coordination

Support and coordinate activities for senior leadership teams. Organise virtual and face-to-face leadership meetings, workshops, and events. Prepare agendas, meeting packs, minutes, action logs, and follow-up communications. Track actions and deadlines to ensure priorities remain on schedule. Provide administrative support for key business projects and initiatives.

Administrative Support

Draft, proofread, and distribute professional communications. Coordinate internal events and leadership activities. Maintain documentation, records, and collaboration platforms. Support planning activities and business initiatives as required. Build strong working relationships with stakeholders across the business.

Travel Requirements

This role includes occasional UK and international travel, typically on a quarterly basis, to support leadership meetings and events. Travel may occasionally require overnight stays and, on rare occasions, weekend travel for international commitments.

What We’re Looking For

You’ll bring:

• Previous experience providing executive or senior-level administrative support.
• Exceptional organisational and prioritisation skills.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management abilities.
• The ability to work independently and manage multiple priorities simultaneously.
• Excellent attention to detail and problem-solving skills.
• Experience coordinating complex travel arrangements and leadership meetings.
• Strong Microsoft 365 skills, including Outlook, Teams, PowerPoint, Word, and Excel.
• A professional, adaptable, and collaborative approach.

Why Seco Tools?

At Seco Tools, we develop advanced metal cutting solutions and work closely with our customers to deliver real value. Our culture is built on our Core Values: Winning Together - we take the lead with a collaborative spirit and succeed as a team. Curiosity - we explore, challenge and innovate to shape the future. Responsibility - we put safety first and act with integrity and responsibility for our people and our planet. Customer Focus - we listen, create, adapt and deliver - always close to our customers. With a presence in over 75 countries and a team of 5,000+ employees, we offer a truly global and supportive environment.

From our founding in Fagersta Sweden, to today's global company, our business has always been made to measure, but built on trust. Combining Cutting-Edge, precision tools with lasting, personal partnerships, we're a true people company helping our partners discover the future of the manufacturing industry. We're proud to make for makers, invent for inventors, and partner with pioneers. Propelling the future forward with our own obsession for innovation. In short - if the right tool for the job exists, we'll deliver it. If it doesn't, we'll create it. We're also proud to put sustainability at the heart of everything we do, challenging perceptions of our industry, changing the process of manufacturing, and playing our own small part in shaping a brighter looking future.

Job Requisition Number

R0099259

Closing Date

17th November 2026

Additional Requirements

Applicants must hold a full UK driving licence and be eligible to work in the UK.

To learn more, please visit us at www.secotools.com