Personal Assistant (PA)

This is a fantastic opportunity to support several Senior Leadership Team
members of the Aerospace Defence and Security sector division of Sopra Steria.
The successful candidate will perform a range of administrative, logistical and
organisational support duties. This position will require some travel
throughout the UK depending on projects and key meetings. We are looking for high-quality
candidates with strong problem solving and multi-tasking skills. Excellent
interpersonal and communication skills are also essential for this role.

You will be confident in working with others to achieve results and
provide services either personally or by leveraging your contacts in a specific
area or discipline to meet defined quality or efficiency standards or to ensure
best practice advice is given. You will possess the skills, knowledge and
ability to perform and deliver without day-to-day supervision as the work
involves limited guidance and only general instructions from more senior
colleagues.
This is a hybrid role with
occasional office presence required in our London or Hemel Hempstead office.

What you'll be doing:

- Provide outstanding administrative
and secretarial support to SLT members.
- Manage complex calendars and prepare
correspondence, business unit communications, presentations and reports as
appropriate.
- Screen and control incoming mail,
drafting responses, redirecting or obtaining additional information on own
initiative.
- Coordinate arrangements for a
variety of internal and external meetings, gathering appropriate paperwork
and background information.
- Attend and minute meetings as
required and possess the ability to chase updates and own actions logs.
- Arrange UK and other approved
travel and accommodation including preparing monthly expense claims.
- Have complete integrity, professional
loyalty and to respect the position of trust this role enjoys.

What you’ll bring:

- Demonstrable
PA / EA experience supporting multiple senior leaders is highly beneficial,
excellent administration skills are essential
- Confident
MS Office user – Outlook, Teams, Excel, PowerPoint and Copilot
- Strong
diary management skills and stakeholder coordination capability
- Excellent
organisational and planning skills
- Ability
to handle confidential and difficult topics professionally
- Ability
to work unsupervised and show initiative and anticipation

If you are interested
in this role but not sure if your skills and experience are exactly what we’re
looking for, please do apply, we’d love to hear from you!

Employment Type: Full-time, Permanent
Location: Hybrid, occasional London or Hemel Hempstead visits
Security Clearance Level: SC
Internal Recruiter: Adrian
Salary: Up to £40k depending on experience
Benefits: 25 days annual leave with the option to buy
additional days, life assurance, pension and health cash plan scheme

Although this role is
advertised as full-time, we believe that flexibility at work can promote
work/life balance, increase your motivation, reduce stress and improves
performance and productivity. We support different ways of working and can
offer a range of flexible working arrangements. So, if you’re interested and
need to work flexibly, we encourage you to apply and talk to us about what
might be possible.

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this job and want to know more about us?

Our Aerospace, Defence and Security business
designs, develops and deploys digital solutions that bring clients enduring
business value across the UK’s Public and Private sectors. We foster a culture
in which employees feel valued and supported, delivering exceptional rates of
customer satisfaction in the UK’s most complex safety- and security-critical
markets.

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you like to join us on our journey?