Executive Assistant

About The Role

Join the Samworth Brothers Team and Take your next step with Samworth Brothers! Become part of our dynamic family!

At Samworth Brothers, we genuinely care about our colleagues and strive to create an engaging environment that values your unique contributions. We are committed to your success and offer a range of exceptional benefits that we believe supports your life and personal aspirations: -

• Enhanced pension scheme
• Private health scheme
• Employee discount scheme
• Experience annual pay reviews
• Profit related pay
• Unlock your potential through training and growth opportunities

The Opportunity

As an Executive Assistant (EA), you will find this to be a varied role that provides high level support to members of the Group Executive Board (GEB). You will be an essential part of the EA team to provide seamless executive level support to the GEB. This diverse role will provide you with a fantastic opportunity to demonstrate your organisational and collaboration skills, providing exceptional service and support at the highest level.

Key Responsibilities

• Your primary responsibility will be providing seamless, executive-level support
• You will be responsible for the coordination of confidential calendar, inbox and travel management.
• You must ensure that all correspondence and requests effectively utilise time by proactively and proficiently scheduling meetings and events and assisting as required on high-level projects and varied administrative tasks.
• Your role will be to think several steps ahead, anticipating what is needed
• You will provide meeting packs and make sure that the Group Board team are fully prepared for all meetings and appointments

The Ideal Candidate

We believe that success is built upon collaboration and diverse perspectives. At Samworth Brothers, we welcome candidates who are passionate about working together to achieve greatness. As a valued member of our team, you will bring the following skills and experience: -

• Previous administration experience in an Assistant or similar role supporting at a C-suite level.
• Diary and email management (including experience in supporting some personal diary management and logistics as needed)
• Technologically savvy experience in using full Microsoft 360 suite (including Teams, One Note and One Drive), video conferencing, etc.
• Slide deck and report preparation
• Experience in taking minutes (from audio dictation) and supporting governance frameworks

We also want you to thrive in an engaging and inclusive work culture where you will have the opportunity to take on personal accountability and take pride in your work. We encourage positive communication, and the building of strong collaborative relationships is essential to every role.

Join us at Samworth Brothers, where you'll be more than just a team member you'll be an integral part of our thriving family.

Make this your next careers move, with Samworth Brothers

About Us

We are a fourth-generation family business producing high quality own-label products for many of the UKs best-known retailers along with our own brands including Ginsters, Soreen, Higgidy, Dickinson & Morris, Urban Eat, West Cornwall Pasty Company and Walker & Son. We employ over 10,000 people in well-invested modern food manufacturing sites around the country.

At Samworth Brothers we take pride in our family feel within our businesses and work together to make things happen. We can offer you the stability of a wider group as well as the opportunities that that offers if you wish to progress your career with us. We are family and we would like to invite you to be part of that and support our teams in delivering great products to all of our customers.

Samworth Brothers do not engage with unlicensed gangmasters or third parties. Samworth Brothers will NEVER ask you for money in order to provide you with employment. If you are in any doubt, please contact an official Samworth Brothers representative.

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