Personal Assistant

Arqiva; Winchester; On-site; GBP 39,000 - 47,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading communications company is seeking a Personal Assistant to support Directors in Winchester. This role involves managing diaries, facilitating communication, and enhancing productivity. Ideal candidates will have strong organisational skills, problem-solving abilities, and significant experience in personal assistant roles at the Executive level. The position offers a competitive salary and opportunities for personal and professional development.

Benefits

Private Medical

25 days annual leave

Access to flexible benefits including discounts

Hybrid working culture

Qualifications

• Effective organisation and prioritisation of workload.
• Proactive problem solver enhancing Executive productivity.
• Strong communication with cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

• Manage Directors' diaries, travel, and correspondence.
• Facilitate communication between Directors and key stakeholders.
• Organise meetings, workshops, and related logistics.

Skills

Organisational skills

Problem solving

Communication skills

Time Management

Discretion

Personal initiative

Experience supporting Executive management

Microsoft tools proficiency

Education

High School Graduate

Tools

Jira

Share Point

Job description

Location & Travel: Commutable distance to Winchester at least twice a week

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Total Package

• Up to £47,000
• Private Medical
• 25 days annual leave
• Access to our comprehensive flexible benefits including discounts on big brands, wellness and employee assistance programmes, gymflex, buy and sell annual leave, travel and dental insurance
• Work. Life. Smarter. Our commitment to a flexible and hybrid working culture

Supports Directors with administrative and personal assistant functions, so that Directors can fulfil their roles as productively as possible.

The role

• Provides personal assistant functions for Directors, including time, inbox, diary and travel management, research and preparation of agendas, correspondence, reports, presentations, policies, maintaining IT systems (eg the relevant system, Jira, Share Point, e-signature etc) Board papers and other communication in line with meeting cycles
• Supports administrative tasks and assignments for the function, requiring use of judgement, personal initiative and discretion
• Facilitates effective communication and liaison between Directors within a function, the Executive Team member and other colleagues as necessary.
• Implements improvements to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of Directors supported
• Facilitates communications between Directors, their direct reports, and other internal and external key stakeholders as required
• Facilitates meetings and/ or events as required to include attendance at meetings, workshops, hospitality, accommodation, meeting schedules, preparation and issue of agendas and papers
• Provides occasional support for the Executive Team Member or other Directors across Arqiva including support of function wide events
• Arranges payment of invoices, expenses and approvals on behalf of the Directors supported
• Supports adherence to established governance processes within local functional area.

The person

• Organisational skills - has effective organisation skills, including the ability to prioritise workload, a methodical approach to work, can remain calm under tight deadlines or pressure
• Problem solving - spots and executes opportunities to improve Executive member productivity, proactively resolves problems without being asked
• Communication skills - collaborate with cross-functional teams, present technical info and provide training or support
• Time Management - Ability to manage time effectively and prioritise tasks in a fast-paced environment
• Discretion - understands importance of discretion and confidentiality, knowledge of information security protocols
• Personal initiative - fast thinking, proactive and confident working unsupervised using own initiative
• Experience of providing personal assistant support for Executive level senior management, including evidence of improving effectiveness and efficiency of senior management
• Significant experience of Microsoft tools, production and proof reading of presentations and documents
• Ability to work at speed

Why join Arqiva? We are theundisputed leader in UK TV and radio broadcastand theUK’s leading Smart utilities platform. This means we have a strong heritage and foundation for future growth for you togrow your career with us.

Our journey is totransition global media distribution to cloud solutions, where we aim todouble our revenueand continue to grow by being aninnovator of scalable solutions for new connectivity sectors. We have opportunities innew technology applications and products, you will have opportunities to learn and develop with us.

Your wellbeing… Our wellbeing mission is to help our people to be the best version of themselves at work and still have the time and energy to live a full life outside of work.

Job Info

• Job Identification 24079
• Posting Date 11/06/2025, 05:13 PM
• Degree Level High School Graduate
• Job Schedule Full time
• Locations Crawley Court, Winchester, HANTS, SO21 2QA, GB 64 Newman Street, London, GT LON, W1T 3EF, GB