Creative Assistant London, England

Pentland Brands Limited

Full Time London, England 36000 - 45711 GBP ANNUAL Today

Job description

Over twenty years ago Pentland set up Design Pool, since then it has nurtured more than 200 creatives from across four continents – giving them a launch pad into our brands and many varied creative careers.

We are looking for a dynamic motivated, highly organised, Creative Assistant to provide administrative support to the Creative Talent & Network Director to help her support Design Pool, whilst the Design Pool Manager is on maternity leave.

You will work with internal brand teams, universities, charities, and social enterprises, maintaining a culture of world class design, curiosity, craft, and energetic environments.

Design Pool is the fresh creative fizz at the heart of Pentland Brands.

The role you’d play:

Diary management and inbox management – organising all aspects of diary; including organising meetings both internally and externally and travel arrangements (UK and International).
Ensure Creative Talent Director is set up for success with upcoming meetings and deadlines, handling of confidential and sensitive information with the upmost discretion.
Long term calendar management ensuring all activities run smoothly.
Collating monthly UK and international expense claims.
Managing and maintaining filing and archiving server
Invoice management, coding, and correct allocation.
Management of creative events, internally, externally, and virtually across Design Pool teams & Brand Creative teams.
Event agenda and compiling content and preparing event materials.
Being the point of contact with internal & external partners.
Managing Design Pool annual leave requests, absence processes, expenses new starter set up, inductions, co-ordinating the performance review process.
Manage department area and ensure stationary and IT equipment is up to date.
Assisting Design Pool across all Pentland locations with meeting set up and time management
Scheduling work experience placements throughout the year- ensure all risk assessments completed with facilities.
Proactively identifying opportunities to improve current processes and increase efficiency and effectiveness within the teams
Preparing presentations and other communications.

What you’d bring / be:

Relevant experience of working as an assistant at head of function/department level.
Advanced user of Outlook, Word, Excel, Teams, and PowerPoint.
Great at putting presentations together.
Attention to detail and time management skills.
Ability to understand and anticipate needs to ensure appropriate outcomes.
Ability to remain professional and maintain confidentiality with sensitive people related data and information.
Wonderful with people.
A can-do attitude.

Desirable

Event and Project Management experience.
Experience using Adobe suite Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign.
Have a firm awareness of current visual and cultural trends.

Candidate Profile

If this sounds like you we’d love to hear from you:

Creatively curious, obsessed with culture.
Not afraid of hard work, full of fun.
A strong team player, low in ego with natural collaborative style and not afraid to challenge.
Organised, pro-active with strong attention to detail and able to manage time effectively.
Effective negotiator and communicator.
Able to work and deliver under own initiative and build support networks.
Calm under pressure; resilient and positive in difficult situations and motivated by operating in a changing, flexible environment.
Strong creative eye and ‘taste’ level.
Intuitively relates to Pentland Brands’ values.
An ambassador for Pentland & Creative Talent Director.

What you’ll get in return:

Competitive remuneration package
Hybrid / smart working
Brand and retail perks
Financial perks
Travel perks
Time out perks
Wellbeing commitment

Who we are

We are Pentland Brands, a global business touching the lives of millions through some of the worlds most-loved active and footwear brands. We own Speedo, Berghaus, Canterbury of New Zealand, Endura, Mitre, Ellesse, SeaVees, KangaROOS and Red or Dead. We’re the UK licensee for Kickers and have a joint venture with Lacoste footwear.

We have a rich and remarkable history, of family, of ambition and of innovation, of leading from the front with a legacy of outstanding brands and equally outstanding people. Of pioneering brands that make life better. Brands that create an emotional

connection with our consumers and help keep people on the move. Brands that do good, that form part of a positive business that takes action for people and planet.

We celebrate differences and give everyone the freedom to innovate and develop because we know this is an exceptional place to build brands and build your career. We want you to come to work every day excited about what we can achieve when we have a clear and single-minded focus on being consumer-centric and relentlessly focused on improving our performance.

Always guided by our principles, we not only do a great job, but we also do it in the right way; success is a team game; with clarity and courage; better as standard; in good conscience. We believe every individual has the power to shape the Pentland of the future, by making sure that every day we’re better than the day before. Join our team of passionate, exceptional individuals, and do the best work of your life.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age or disability.

To find out more go to www.pentlandbrands.comor follow @pentlandbrands on Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram or Facebook

Job Types: Full-time, Fixed term contract
Contract length: 12 months

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