PERSONAL ASSISTANT TO GROUP CHIEF HR OFFICER

Role Purpose   The successful candidate will provide proactive, professional and confidential executive assistant and administrative support to a member of our Executive Committee, Group Chief HR Officer and their wider team as required.
The successful team member, will play a key part in supporting the CHRO, liasing with the Group CEO Office, Executive Committee Members and acting as a coordinator for the Group HR Leadership Team and whole team activities.
The Chief HR Officer is operating in a very fast changing environment and is keen on bringing on-board a colleague with a pro-active and strategic mindset, who is able to always be a step ahead and have the gravitas to become the Executive Committee Members business partner and to support them to achieve their goals.
What you’ll do     Chief HR Officer support • Extensive diary and calendar management in a timely and professional manner • Owning activities, including, but not limited to, travel arrangements, system approvals, purchasing orders and tracking annual spend, etc.
• Ensuring CHRO’s full preparation for all meetings, including agenda and presentations, pre-read and follow-up actions • Support on ad-hoc requests • Ability to understand the business area and proactively support the CHRO to achieve their day-to-day and long-term objectives • Ad-hoc requests Relationship Management • Building and developing meaningful relationships with stakeholders and administrators across Group and markets  • Acting as professional point of contact on behalf of Directors to internal and external visitors • Provides vendor management support  Team assistance with  • Supports the team to deliver activities related to programmes/projects through active involvement in specific initiatives to ensure they meet time, cost and quality requirements, comply with project standards and maximise benefit delivery • Team events, forums and meetings.
This includes but it is not limited to arranging facilities, travelling, catering  • New joiners and leavers management  • Ad-hoc project requests, including but not limited to HR, Property, Finance and Communication activities  Who you are   • Superb organisational, prioritisation and communication skills • Strong secretarial / general administrative experience • Track record of of project, programme and vendor management  • Comfortable working under pressure and taking full ownership of work, both on an 1-2-1 and at a team level • Ability to communicate and to build meaningful relationships across all levels and audiences both internally and externally, including vendors and suppliers  • Experience in working as a senior member’s partner and building trusted relationship with them • Proactive, positive and can-do attitude and ability to learn quickly   What's in it for you   We want you to feel happy and fulfilled at work, without compromising the other things in life that matter to you.
There are lots of ways we support this, including hybrid working and generous parental leave.
You'll also get four Spirit Days a year to focus on your personal development and wellbeing, plus a host of other great benefits too.
Yearly bonus.
5% Annual leave.
28 days + bank holidays + the opportunity to buy/sell/carry over 5 days/year Charity days.
5 days/year Maternity leave.
52 weeks, the first 13 weeks are fully paid, followed by 26 weeks of half pay Private pension.
You can contribute up to 5% of your basic pay with 2.
matching from Vodafone up to 10%.
Access to.
private medical, private dental, free health assessments, share save scheme Additional discounts.
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