Personal Assistant (12 Month Contract)

Insight Enterprises, Inc.; Uxbridge; Hybrid; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in IT services seeks a Personal Assistant to support senior leadership. You will manage schedules, organize meetings, and facilitate communication to enhance operational efficiency. A proactive, detail-oriented individual with strong interpersonal skills will thrive in this role.

Benefits

Comprehensive benefits package

Autonomy in the workplace

Supportive work environment

Qualifications

• Experience in a secretarial or administrative capacity.
• High level of written and spoken English.
• Experience managing diaries and travel arrangements.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate scheduling and manage emails for assigned leaders.
• Plan and execute meetings, manage logistics and agendas.
• Process expenses and track payments.

Skills

Project Management

Communication

Problem-Solving

Attention to Detail

Education

Professional qualification in Administrative Support

Tools

Microsoft Office Suite

Job description

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Location: Sheffield or Manchester based.

Hybrid, 2 days a week in office.

About us:

Insight is a Fortune 500-ranked global provider of hardware, software, cloud, and service solutions, providing clients the guidance and expertise needed to define, architect, implement and manage technology today while transforming for tomorrow.

The Personal Assistant provides administrative, secretarial, and logistical support to an assigned member of Insight’s senior leadership team. They provide coordination and support directly to management and senior leaders including the facilitation of prompt, courteous, and effective communication channels with stakeholders.

Key responsibilities:

Scheduling & Calendar Management

• Coordinate scheduling requirements for the assigned leader(s) and proactively manage their time with respect to priorities, goals, and objectives.
• Responsible for full email management, ensure all responses are dealt with in a timely manner whilst nurturing positive relationships with key stakeholders.
• Manage competing demands with a high degree of confidence and professionalism and handle matters expeditiously.

Internal & External Communications

• Answer the phone, take messages and re-direct calls where necessary, receive and assist visitors and teammates where meetings are taking place.
• Prepare, draft, and execute correspondence on behalf of the assigned leader, streamlining communications to ensure the leader is organised in the most productive way.
• Show a high degree of discretion when it comes to sensitive and or confidential matters.

Planning & Executing Meetings

• Arrange and participate in meetings including arranging logistics, setting agendas, taking minutes, owning actions, and ensuring completion of items.

Project Management

• May be required to support a range of projects from start to finish, provide progress updates, and flag any issues that may impact agreed project timelines.

Event Planning

• Work cross-functionally with internal and external vendors to organise events including scheduling agendas, briefing participants, and arranging venues, catering, and or logistics.

Travel & Expenses

• Responsible for processing expense claims, compile reports, process invoices, and track payments in line with expense policies and submittal deadlines.

This list is not exhaustive, you will be required to undertake additional responsibilities as reasonably requested by your manager.

Key skills and experience required:

• Experience working in a secretarial and or administrative capacity is advantageous
• Holds relevant professional qualification, accreditation and or certification
• High level of written and spoken English
• Fully conversant with Microsoft Office suite (Teams, Outlook, Excel, and Word) -Excellent project management, communication, and problem-solving skills
• Experience of diary management, inbox management and managing travel arrangements on behalf of someone
• Demonstrates previousexperience and a keen interest in internal and external communications, partnership development, and event management
• Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills, to enable professional interaction with a wide range of contacts
• Experience of working within a globally diverse environment, showing an understanding of and keen interest in equality, diversity, and inclusion
• Excellent attention to detail, with the ability to maintain a high level of accuracy
• The ability to research, digest, analyse and present material clearly and concisely
• A flexible, pro-active approach to work including the ability to prioritise and reprioritise
• Demonstrates personal integrity, credibility, and flexibility within the scope of position responsibilities
  

About Insight:

We believe that by giving you the freedom to think big and empower you to reach your full potential, together we will achieve the best outcomes. Along with excellent benefits and a compelling reward package, we offer the opportunity to work in a supportive environment with a high level of autonomy and creativity - there’s a reason our average employee tenure is over 6 years.

We strive to display our three core values of Hunger, Heart, and Harmony every day. They represent and drive who we are here at Insight and by doing so we are doing amazing things. Insight started in a garage in 1988 and it is through harnessing our three core values that two brothers, Eric and Tim Crown, steered Insight to the Fortune 500 company it is today. We are now a Global IT Services and Solutions business, passionate about helping customers and the real people who sit behind them.

Insight is an equal opportunity employer, and we are committed to achieving diversity and equality within our organisation. We seek out people from diverse backgrounds and encourage you to apply.

We will endeavour to contact you within five business days, should we feel your profile is a good match for this role. If you do not hear from us within this timeframe, please presume that on this occasion, your application was not successful.

A full job description will be provided upon application.