Executive Assistant
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Executive Assistant (EA) to Directors (2)
Preston (On-site) Full time Maternity Cover
Are you looking for your next challenge Baxi Heating is a leading provider of environmentally friendly and efficient heating solutions across a range of leading domestic and commercial brands. We have over 150 years of experience pride ourselves on our values and strive for earning lifetime loyalty with our customers.
An exciting vacancy has arisen at our Preston Manufacturing site for an Executive Assistant to join the team. Reporting directly to the Operations Director & UK Service Director the main purpose of this role is to manage key internal & external stakeholders supporting internal meetings governance providing outstanding administrative skills and acting as an ambassador for the business and on behalf of the Directors.
As an Executive Assistant you will:
- Manages calendar e mails and contacts to ensure the Directors time is leveraged as effectively as possible.
- Organise travel arrangements and accommodation for Directors & all staff on the Preston site as required.
- Co-ordinates diary with the rest of the Preston senior management team and sensitively priorities time.
- Attends meetings to take confidential minutes and follow up on actions items
- General administrative duties and ad-hoc projects as required
- Line Manager for the two-reception staff (job share)
- Deals with suppliers and other third parties
Knowledge Skills & Experience Required:
- Excellent organisational skills
- Qualified to a minimum standard grade 5 GCSE (Maths and English are mandatory).
- Proven relationship management at senior level including building good networks.
- Highly discreet and able to manage sensitive confidential information in the appropriate manner.
- Excellent interpersonal skills including verbal communications skills and the ability to write clear precise well organised documents.
- Comfortable and confident at interacting with senior stakeholders and clients
- Advanced Microsoft Word PowerPoint Excel and Outlook.
- Ability to support with technology enabled meetings eg digital conference calls.
- Experience of managing a team.
- Event management experience
- High attention to detail and proven experience of managing sensitive data
- Conscientious but proactive approach
- Resourcefulness/initiative passionately finds ways over around or through barriers to success. Achieves results despite lack of resources. Goes beyond the call of duty. A results-oriented doer.
- Solution orientated and confident style
- Experience of working in a pressured environment and delivering to short deadlines.
We offer a competitive salary alongside 25 days holiday per annum not including UK bank holidays. We also offer a contributory pension and sick pay schemes staff discounts and more.
Does this sound like you Then we would love to hear from you!
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race religion colour national origin gender sexual orientation age marital status or disability status.
Closing Date: Friday 1st August 2025
Recruitment Agency Notice
We operate a strict Preferred Supplier List (PSL) for the provision of recruitment services. Only agencies on our PSL may provide CVs via our online recruitment system. We will not accept unsolicited CVs from suppliers not currently on our PSL. We explicitly reserve the right to add candidate details from unsolicited CVs from non-PSL agencies into our own candidate database and to pursue/hire such candidate(s) without any obligation financial or otherwise to the agency concerned.
At BDR Thermea Group we believe that diversity equity and inclusion (DE&I) are critical to our success. We are committed to creating a workplace where every potential future employee feels valued respected and empowered to bring their whole selves to work. Please check out our DE&I policy on our website to find out more.
Employment Type
Full-Time
