Executive Assistant & Office Manager

Executive Assistant & Office Manager to the Leadership Team of a business with a clear purpose and a serious plan

Our client provides essential services that protect vulnerable people where they live. The work matters, and the people behind it care about getting it right.

It is also a business with real ambition. Backed by private equity and with significant growth planned over the next two years, it is building a new leadership team now and wants someone alongside them from the start.

This is the first hire into the executive office. You won’t inherit someone else’s systems. You’ll build them.

The role

You’ll support the CEO, CFO and Chief Commercial Officer, and help shape how a new leadership team works together.

You will:

• Manage three senior diaries, travel and meetings, and keep them working together
• Prepare board packs, presentations, reports and confidential correspondence
• Run leadership meetings: agendas, actions and following up until things are done
• Look after day-to-day office administration and set up the processes a growing business needs
• Be the main point of contact for the team, investors, advisers and other external partners
• Organise company events, leadership meetings and staff engagement activities
• Handle commercially sensitive information with discretion and good judgement

About you

Applicants must have solid board level EA experience, and y know what good looks like. You are organised without needing a rulebook, and you are a completer finisher. Applicants must be able to manage Investor and CEO expectations..

Experience in a growing business, a PE-backed company or a startup would be desirable.

Katie Bard is acting as an agency and is an equal opportunities employer.