Strategic Transformation Executive Coordinator

Laing O'Rourke; Dartford; On-site; GBP 34,000 - 48,000; Full time

Job summary

Laing O'Rourke is seeking an Executive Business Coordinator to support the Strategy & Transformation Director and the S&T team in the UK. This broad role combines executive support with team coordination, planning cycles and hands-on project activity, offering variety, learning and opportunities to influence how we work.

The role involves managing diaries, coordinating meetings, assisting with recruitment and development, and helping deliver strategy and transformation initiatives

Qualifications

• Experience in executive support or similar role.
• Proven ability to coordinate multiple tasks across teams.
• Strong communication and organisational skills.
• Comfortable with senior stakeholders and dynamic environment.

Responsibilities

• Provide proactive day-to-day support to the Strategy & Transformation Director and wider team, coordinating diaries, meetings, priorities and occasional travel and expenses.
• Anticipate what is coming up and ensure the right meetings, information and materials are in place.
• Support desktop research, team rhythms, recording actions, workshop coordination and stakeholder engagement.
• Support recruitment, interviews and other people activity across the team.
• Help coordinate the team's rhythm of work, including the strategy and business planning cycle, team meetings, workshops and key stakeholder engagements.
• Keep actions, priorities and key activities moving, bringing structure and follow-through where needed.
• Coordinate workshops, team events, recruitment, onboarding and development activity.
• Help create a connected, inclusive and enjoyable team environment and continually improve how the team works together.
• Provide flexible, hands-on support across strategy, transformation and project activity.
• Conduct desktop research to support strategic and business questions.
• Support presentations, briefing papers, workshop materials and the planning and delivery of project activities.
• Help coordinate the strategy and transformation calendar, including key EEC and stakeholder touchpoints.
• Support key stakeholder maps and engagements, and contribute ideas that improve processes and ways of working.

Skills

Executive support

Stakeholder management

Diary management

Team coordination

Microsoft 365

Proactive mindset

Communication

Attention to detail

Tools

Microsoft 365

Job description

Laing O'Rourke is seeking an Executive Business Coordinator to support the Strategy & Transformation Director and the S&T team in the UK. This broad role combines executive support with team coordination, planning cycles and hands-on project activity, offering variety, learning and opportunities to influence how we work.

The role involves managing diaries, coordinating meetings, assisting with recruitment and development, and helping deliver strategy and transformation initiatives