Personal Assistant

Gowling WLG; Birmingham; Hybrid; GBP 28,000 - 36,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

25 days annual leave + bank holidays

Private medical insurance

Pension allowance

Life assurance

Sabbatical every 5 years

Parental leave schemes

Wellbeing programmes

Onsite restaurant and city-centre HQ

Training and personal development

Job summary

Gowling WLG in Birmingham is seeking a Personal Assistant to support the Risk and Disputes practice within the Construction team. You will provide proactive administrative support, manage day-to-day workloads, and develop trusted relationships to ensure exceptional client service.

The role requires organisational skills, confidence with Microsoft Office, and the ability to handle competing priorities calmly.

Qualifications

• Organised, proactive and pride in delivering high standard of support.
• Excellent communication and organisational skills.
• Strong attention to detail and professional but approachable manner.
• Able to manage competing priorities and build effective working relationships.
• Calm under pressure and able to meet tight deadlines.

Responsibilities

• Provide proactive and high-quality administrative support to the Risk and Disputes practice within the Construction team.
• Support day-to-day workloads and manage deadlines to deliver seamless legal services to clients.
• Develop understanding of client requirements and build trusted relationships to ensure exceptional service.

Skills

Organised

Microsoft Office

Communication skills

Attention to detail

Time management

Tools

Microsoft Office Suite

Job description

About the role:

We have an exciting opportunity for a Personal Assistant to join our Risk and Disputes practice group working within the Construction team in Birmingham.

Within this role, you will be responsible for providing proactive and high-quality administrative support, helping deliver seamless legal services to clients. You will support the effective management of day-to-day workloads, build a strong understanding of client requirements, and develop trusted relationships to ensure exceptional service and support.

About you:

We're looking for someone who is organised, proactive and takes pride in delivering a high standard of support. You'll be confident using Microsoft Office applications and comfortable picking up new systems and processes.

You'll have excellent communication and organisational skills, strong attention to detail, and a professional but approachable manner. You'll be able to manage competing priorities, build effective working relationships and remain calm under pressure, even when working to tight deadlines.

The successful candidate will be someone who takes ownership, uses their initiative and approaches challenges with a practical, solutions-focused mindset. You'll be dependable, collaborative and adaptable, with the ability to quickly build trust and credibility with colleagues, clients and stakeholders.

What We Can Offer You:

The opportunity to work for a firm which has been recognised as one of the best places to work in the UK and has been ranked by Great Place to Work for 26 consecutive years.

Excellent benefits, including:

• A hybrid approach to office and remote working
• 25 days annual leave plus Bank Holidays, with the option to buy up to a week's extra annual leave
• Free private medical insurance, and the option to add family members
• A generous pension allowance
• Life assurance covering four times your annual salary
• The chance of a three-month sabbatical every five years
• Maternity, paternity and adoption leave schemes
• A range of health and wellbeing programmes
• State of the art offices, in the heart of Birmingham City Centre, with an onsite restaurant
• Opportunities to flourish in your role through training and personal development

Equal Opportunities:

Gowling WLG is committed both to promoting equality and diversity in the firm and to Equal Opportunities in employment. The firm believes in equality of opportunity regardless of race or racial group (including colour, nationality, ethnicity, national origins), religion or belief, age, disability, sexual orientation, sex, gender re-assignment and gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, and pregnancy, maternity and paternity. This also includes any incidents of perceptive or associative discrimination and harassment.

At Gowling WLG we seek to attract and retain talented people from a diverse range of backgrounds and cultures, to create an exciting and rewarding place to work. Our aim is to fulfil everyone's potential and together to achieve personal and business goals.