Highbourne House (Commercial)
Eldon Way, Crick, NN6 7SL

Personal Assistant

Salary: Competitive basic + bonus
Working Pattern: Full Time
Contract Type: Permanent
Hours: 37.50
Closing Date: Wed 09 Sep 2026 - 12:00 am UTC
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Personal Assistant

#BelongWithUs

Come and join us as a Personal Assistant and be part of a fast-paced, ambitious business, providing vital support to our senior leadership team and helping to keep the organisation running smoothly and effectively.

The Role:

We're looking for a highly organised and proactive Personal Assistant to provide dedicated support to our executive leadership team. This is a fantastic opportunity to work at the heart of the business, ensuring our senior leaders can focus on driving growth, innovation and delivering outstanding results for our customers and colleagues.

As a trusted partner to the Managing Director and Senior Leadership Team, you'll manage complex diaries, coordinate travel and meetings, oversee key administrative activities and act as a vital link between stakeholders across the organisation.

Key Responsibilities

  • Managing complex and ever-changing diaries for senior leaders.
  • Coordinating meetings, appointments and business commitments.
  • Filtering and managing inboxes, ensuring priorities are identified and actioned appropriately.
  • Booking and coordinating travel, accommodation and detailed itineraries.
  • Preparing meeting documentation, agendas and presentations as required.
  • Taking notes during meetings and tracking actions through to completion.
  • Building strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
  • Ensuring confidential information is handled with discretion and professionalism.
  • Providing responsive administrative support to help leaders operate effectively and efficiently.

You:

You'll be highly organised, proactive and professional, thriving in a fast-paced environment where no two days are the same. You'll enjoy building strong relationships with stakeholders at all levels, providing seamless support to senior leaders and ensuring priorities are managed effectively. Most importantly, you'll be committed to acting with integrity, discretion and honesty in everything you do.

Skills and competencies

  • Proven experience as a Personal Assistant or Executive Assistant, supporting senior leaders in a fast-paced environment.
  • Exceptional organisational and time-management skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities effectively.
  • Strong diary, inbox and calendar management experience.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with a high standard of UK British English.
  • Experience coordinating travel, accommodation and itineraries.
  • Strong attention to detail and a professional, proactive approach.
  • Ability to build effective working relationships with stakeholders at all levels.
  • Good understanding of administrative processes and business support functions.
  • Proficiency in Google Workspace (Google Suite).

Us:

From boilers to bathroom suites, tubing to towel rails and everything in between, City Plumbing has all the products our customers need to complete the job. And we have all you need to build a successful career! We’re proud of our reputation for selling quality plumbing and heating products to both trade and retail customers and we’re super excited about our future. We put our colleagues at the heart of all we do, giving them all the tools they need to be successful, happy and feel rewarded in their career with us.

Benefits Package and Cultural Environment:

  • Bonus
  • Discounts, savings and cash back at numerous retailers
  • Life assurance
  • Extended family policy including maternity, paternity, additional annual leave and more
  • Mental Health First Aiders and Employee Assistance Programme, we look out for each other
  • Complete induction and a company that lets you grow and encourages development
  • Financial education and loans
  • Flexible working options
  • A business striving to create an environment of inclusion so everyone can be their true self
  • And more!

#BelongWithUs

We’re passionate about creating an inclusive workplace that celebrates and values diversity. Bring your whole self to work regardless of age, disability, gender identity or reassignment, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation. We don’t want you to ‘fit’ our culture, we want you to enrich it. 

We are committed to best practices in recruitment and undertake Basic Criminal Record Disclosures for candidates that are offered employment within our branches that undertake deliveries for British Gas. This check will only be undertaken after the acceptance of an offer of employment.

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Salary: Competitive basic + bonus
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