Personal Assistant to CFO & CIO

ABN Feeds; Peterborough; Hybrid; GBP 43,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading agricultural company in Peterborough is seeking a Personal Assistant to support the CFO and CIO. This hybrid role (3 days in the office) emphasizes advanced organizational skills and the ability to handle sensitive information. Candidates should have extensive experience supporting C-suite executives and strong communication skills. Benefits include a competitive salary starting at £43,000 plus a benefits package.

Benefits

Free breakfast

Free healthy lunch option

Subsidised coffee shop

Qualifications

• Must have extensive experience supporting C-suite executives.
• Strong attention to detail and time management skills are necessary.

Responsibilities

• Manage complex diaries and coordinate travel arrangements.
• Provide high-level administrative support to CFO & CIO.
• Maintain stakeholder relationships and facilitate communication.
• Coordinate events and ensure successful execution.

Skills

Extensive experience as a PA supporting senior leaders

Demonstrated literacy, communication, and organizational skills

Extensive MS Office knowledge (Advanced Word, Excel, Powerpoint and Outlook)

Professionalism, discrete, efficient and trustworthy

High level inter-personal skills with a customer-focused attitude

Job description

The Role & Key Responsibilities

Job Title: Personal Assistant to CFO & CIO

Location: Peterborough (Hybrid, 3 days in office)

Package includes: Salary from £43,000, plus a benefits package designed to support your wellbeing and reward your impact, including discretionary performance related bonus and a matched pension contribution of up to 10%

Are you a PA with experience of working with c-suite senior stakeholders? Do you enjoy managing diaries, organising and supporting leaders in a professional manner? Do you have the ability to communicate with a variety of people from all levels, managing expectations and priorities?

If so we have an opportunity for you to join our team here at AB Agri as a Personal Assistant to our CFO and CIO. This role requires resourceful professionalism with advanced organizational ability, plus proficient interpersonal and communication skills. You will be handling sensitive information, so confidentiality is extremely important in this role, as well as ensuring smooth communication and coordination.

What You'll Be Doing

• Administrative Support - Manage complex diaries, coordinate meetings and travel, prioritise tasks, and act as a gatekeeper to senior leaders’ time. Provide high-level administrative support to CFO & CIO including agenda preparation, minute-taking, recognition programme administration, and occasional cover for the CEO’s office.
• Travel & Logistics - Organise domestic and international travel, including visas, accommodation, transport, and itineraries. Handle travel expenses and credit card processes in coordination with Finance.
• Project Management - Assist with ad hoc projects, ensuring timelines are met and deliverables achieved; compiling information and drafting presentations.
• Liaison & Communication - Maintain stakeholder relationships, facilitate communication, and manage confidential information with discretion.
• Event & Meeting Coordination - Coordinate events and conferences, ensuring logistics, technology, and materials are in place and run smoothly.
  
  

What You'll Bring

• Extensive experience as a PA supporting senior leaders
• Demonstrated literacy, communication, and organizational skills
• Extensive MS Office knowledge (Advanced Word, Excel, Powerpoint and Outlook)
• Professionalism, discrete, efficient and trustworthy
• High level inter-personal skills with a customer-focused attitude, experience of communicating with people professionally at all levels with the ability to build and maintain relationships
• Thorough attention to detail with focus on delivery to tight deadlines with effective time management skills
  
  

Location

Our Peterborough office provides a comfortable working environment and collaborative culture. We offer a free breakfast and a free healthy wellbeing lunch option daily. A subsidised coffee shop also provides other meal and snack options for you to purchase if wanted. The office has ample free parking, electric charging car parking spaces available to book, a discounted ABF staff shop, a prayer room, a sunflower quiet reflection room and hosts regular wellbeing activities and initiatives. For this role you will need to work in the office 3 days a week.

About The Company

Rewarding your passion

When you join us, you'll do meaningful work and be rewarded fairly for it. From annual salary reviews and incentive bonus, ongoing career development and enhanced family, financial and wellbeing benefits - these are just some of the ways we reward you - from day one.

About Us

We’re AB Agri, part of Associated British Foods (ABF plc) and we’re passionate about feeding the world responsibly and affordably by making quality animal feed, creating nutrition and technology-based products, and offering data services for the agri-food industry. What sets us apart is how we delight our customers - and that’s because of great people like you. People with different life experiences who share common values. Together we’re building a fair, innovative and inclusive culture.

As a Disability Confident employer, we’re committed to ensuring our application and recruitment processes work for everyone so if you need any additional support (like alternative formats for your application, bringing a support dog to the offices, a sign language interpreter - or anything else) just let us know.

Application Notes

We hope you feel that AB Agri is somewhere you can thrive and so we’d love to hear from you. We get a lot of applications for our roles and sometimes need to close the process early so register your details and upload your CV via our careers website as soon as you can - it will only take a few minutes.

When you do, we’ll ask you some equal opportunities questions just to ensure our recruitment process is inclusive - or show us areas we can improve. This information is anonymised, separate from your application and is never seen by the hiring panel. You can choose not to answer these questions and this won’t affect your application.

Apply today or contact our recruitment team for more information.

Agencies and media sales

AB Agri group politely requests no contact from recruitment agencies or media sales. We don’t accept speculative CVs from recruitment agencies nor accept the fees associated with them.