Job Description
Main Tasks
- Diary management – outlook experience essential
- Booking meetings/appointments
- Business travel – booking flights, hotels, car hire, valet parking etc
- Organizing visas
- Arranging visa invitation letters to overseas visitors
- Maintaining MD’s travel log
- Maintaining MD’s planner
- Reconciling monthly expenses
- Check report produced by the receptionist for staff sickness/holiday is the correct update of the sickness absence report
- Fielding calls for MD & taking messages
- Organizing food/refreshments for business lunches
- Inputting and updating contact details into Outlook
- Managing MD’s office
- Carrying out research for particular projects as requested by MD
- Taking minutes at various management meetings & typing up minutes
- Purchasing various items for MD as and when required
- Paying personal bills for MD
- Organizing medical/dental appointments
- Organizing MD’s personal/family cars – insurance, MOT, servicing, repairs etc.
- Organizing MD’s personal hobby - hotels where required. Arranging flights/hotels
- Assisting MD with personal holidays/events
- Ad hoc paperwork & duties
Technical & Essential Skills
- Knowledge and experience with complex travel and flight itineraries, particularly international travel/hotel bookings
- Experience of working for Directors/Senior Management
- Excellent Diary Management with the ability to pre-empt and look ahead at all times
- Essential experience in Microsoft Office- Outlook/Word/Excel/PowerPoint
Interpersonal Skills:
- Ability to multitask and experience of dealing with a demanding role and high-level workload
- Ability to prioritize work and manage time effectively and be proactive
- Excellent Organisational skills
- Communication skills – the ability to communicate well at all levels
- Demonstrate a professional manner at all times and possess the ability to remain calm under pressure
- Self-motivated
- Ability to maintain a high level of discretion