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Location: Cheltenham, Gloucestershire (hybrid working)

The role:

You will provide executive support to our Steam Business Development (SBD) Director, part of our global Steam Specialities business. You will provide the usual executive assistance, alongside supporting the Director with their transition after relocating to the UK.

Key responsibilities:

• Supporting the relocation of the SBD Director from China into the UK.
• Full responsibility for the day-to-day running of the Director’s offices, pro-actively managing own and the Director’s workloads.
• As gatekeeper of the Director’s time, you will ensure that the Director remains sufficiently accessible, while keeping them on track with their daily objectives.
• Diary management, arranging both internal and external meetings, ensuring maximum time utilisation.
• Pro-active management of emails, responding where appropriate and within remit on behalf of the Director and highlighting those that need immediate attention.
• Travel arrangements for the Director when attending meetings and other conferences as required.
• A pro-active member of the Leadership Team, organising and coordinating regular monthly meetings, supporting with minutes and any actions.
• Preparation of quarterly reports, Board Reports and Forward plans – using Word, PowerPoint, and Excel.
• General administration - expenses, resolving invoices, holiday tracking, handling post, call screening, answering emails where appropriate, stationery ordering, filing and other matters for the Directors and wider team.
• Working as a key member of the EA team, ensuring the highest standard of coordination and support within this community.

Your experience:

EA, PA, or Office Manager with experience of diary management, travel coordination and working with highly sensitive and confidential information. You will be comfortable and confident working with Leaders.

Your skills:

Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills with a can-do attitude. You will be organised with your time and your Leader’s time, and you understand the importance of prioritisation. You will be proficient in Microsoft Office and are comfortable working with other systems e.g., expenses and travel booking systems.

About us:

Spirax-Sarco Engineering plc is a FTSE100 and FTSE4Good multi-national industrial engineering Group with expertise in the control and management of steam, electric thermal solutions, peristaltic pumping and associated fluid technologies.

Our Purpose is to create sustainable value for all our stakeholders as we engineer a more efficient, safer, and sustainable world. Our technologies play an essential role in critical industrial processes and industrial equipment across industries as diverse as Food & Beverage, Pharmaceutical & Biotechnology, Power Generation, Semiconductors and Healthcare. With customers in 165 countries, we provide the solutions that sit behind the production of many items used in daily life, from baked beans to mobile phones!

Our Purpose, supported by our inclusive culture and Values, unites us, guides our decisions, and inspires us everywhere that we operate. We support our colleagues to make their difference for each other as well as customers, communities, suppliers, our planet, and shareholders by creating a truly equitable working environment where everyone feels included.

Benefits

You will receive a competitive salary (and a discretionary bonus), flexible/hybrid working and excellent benefits including 27 days holiday allowance (before bank holidays), 3 days’ paid volunteering leave, comprehensive private healthcare, enhanced pension plan, life assurance, optional participation in a Share Ownership Plan, free onsite parking, flexible benefits, and access to a personal discounts’ portal. We also offer a range of additional support and benefits through our Everyone is Included Group Inclusion Plan, detailed below.

Everyone is Included at Spirax-Sarco Engineering plc

We are passionate about creating inclusive and equitable working cultures where everyone can be themselves and achieve their full potential. For us, that means supportive teams and strong relationships where everyone’s contribution is valued - across social and cultural backgrounds, ethnicities, ages, genders, gender identities, abilities, neurodiversity, sexual orientation, religious beliefs, and everything else that makes us human and unique.

We want everyone to be able to make their difference here, so we will always consider requests for flexible working (such as full-time, part-time, select days and job sharing).

We know that everyone needs some extra help from time to time too, so we have introduced a range of additional benefits through our Group Inclusion Commitments. These include gender-neutral parental leave, 15 days of extra paid caregiver leave, paid time off and support for anyone experiencing pregnancy loss or domestic abuse, menopause-friendly workplace principles and more. Learn more at www.spiraxsarcoengineering.com/everyoneisincluded.

We are also a Disability Confident Committed Employer. If you would like to apply using this scheme, please select this option in our application form or notify our recruitment partners.