Executive Assistant London, England
Job description
This role offers a competitive salary, hybrid working (London/Home, Minimum 2 days a week in the office), 28 days holiday a year plus Bank Holidays and 11% pension after one year of service.
Salary £39,000 – £44,000 per annum
About the role
As an Executive Assistant, you'll be the right hand to our CTPO (Chief Technology Product Officer) , ensuring their daily operations run seamlessly. Your adaptability, proactive approach, and exceptional organisational skills will make you an indispensable asset in managing schedules, coordinating meetings, handling confidential information, and driving efficiency across the board. You'll have the unique opportunity to work closely with brilliant minds, contributing to strategic decisions and witnessing the impact of your efforts firsthand.
What you'll be doing:
- Being a proactive, go-getter that actively seeks out pressure points for the CPTO to alleviate and assist in areas before they have the chance to become problems
- Keepingthe CPTO on track, focused on aligned on upcoming projects, meetings and work
- Collaboratively working with the Extended Leadership Team as a go-between
- Keeping on top of emails and inbox + being a consistent and reliabile sounding board for the CPTO
- People-centric; attending key meetings within the department and relaying updates back to CPTO to ensure he is being kept up to date on ongoing projects within relative areas.
About you:
- Experience of providing efficient EA support to senior staff
- A Keen organiser with excellent attention to detail.
- Ambitious, with a constant hunger for growth and learning
- Flexible and able to prioritise and switch priorities as needed.
- Strong relationship building skills, ability to create and maintain relationships internally across the organisation and with external stakeholders at varying levels
- Problem solver with a willingness to talk through pressure points and problems with LT member until a solution is found.
We also have these benefits for you to consider:
- Generous Holiday allowance of 28 days a year from the start (plus bank holidays)
- 35 hour working week
- Hybrid way of working, with patterns agreed at team level, based on the requirements for the role
- Award winning pension scheme – when you pay in 3%, Which? pays in 6% (rising to 11% after one year of service.)
- Discount site Sodexo which offers large %% off every day shopping
- Eligible to join Charity Worker Discount scheme – further savings and offers
- Annual Bonus (up to 5% currently, depending on employee and company performance)
- Healthcare insurance & Private medical insurance and opportunity to participate in Vitality rewards programme - at 6 months
- Free life assurance cover (worth at least 4 times your annual salary)
- Free access to Which? member content and free access to Which? money and legal helplines
- Free fruit at all office sites, free bean to cup coffee and daily free breakfast is available everyday in our offices
- Work from (almost) anywhere” for 4 weeks of the year policy
Our interview process usually involves 2 stages:
- Sometimes a chat with a recruiter by phone (typically 30 minutes), followed by
- An interview on Google Meet (approximately 45-90 minutes) consisting of values and experience-based competency questions and a role related task on a laptop
About Which?
Which? is the UK's consumer champion, here to make life simpler, fairer and safer for everyone. As an organisation we're not for profit and all for making consumers more powerful.
We impact in key areas such as consumer rights, scams, data protection and unfair pricing. Our investigations go deep and our expert advice is completely impartial. Same goes for our product reviews – our rigorous tests and expert recommendations help consumers to make better decisions. Come and champion consumers with us – it's important work. As people we're brave, caring, rigorous and insightful in the way we connect with each other to make change happen.
At Which? we value diversity and we're committed to creating an inclusive culture where everyone is able to be themselves and to reach their full potential. We want to receive applications from everyone. We believe that a diverse workforce helps us to understand and create a positive impact for consumers.
As a Disability Confident Employer, we want to ensure that everybody can apply and be part of our recruitment processes and so we'll put reasonable adjustments in place to support you - just let us know on your application. Find out about the Disability Confident Interview Scheme here. https://careers.which.co.uk/disability-confident-interview-scheme
