Executive Assistant, based Waltham Abbey (EN9 1AS) Hybrid role. Salary up to £40k p.a. + many benefits. Supporting the CEO and Executive team with operational and administrative efficiency, ensuring effective communication between functions and able to work at pace and be up for a challenge in our dynamic and award-winning pet business.
The BenefitsIn return for your skills and experience as an Executive Assistant, we offer you the following:
- Competitive salary of up to £40k p.a. (depending on experience)
- Generous (up to) 50% colleague discount on Jollyes pet food and products, and discounts on additional services (e.g. dog grooming, community pet clinic)
- Employee Reward Scheme (discounts and cash back on hundreds of retailers and service providers)
- Employee Assistance Programme (discounts and cash back on various medical & mental health services)
- 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays, additional leave for weddings and civil partnerships, new pet arrivals and your birthday off!
Further benefits on completion of probationary period:
- Critical Illness & Life Assurance schemes
- Private Medical Insurance
- Company pension scheme
The Role - Executive Assistant
Jollyes is growing and experiencing great success, attracting awards, and receiving great customer reviews. But we are ambitious and focused on continuing our growth trajectory with some exciting plans.
This newly created role is based within our Head Office support team in Waltham Abbey*. It is a hybrid working role requiring at least 3 office days per week, and flexibility to travel to other sites as required, to support the CEO and Executive team to succeed in achieving their goals.
A full job description is available on request, but to outline your key responsibilities as an Executive Assistant, you'll be:
- Proactively managing effective and efficient communication between the Executive team
- Providing diary support, organizing and keeping notes for key meetings including preparing agendas and presentation decks, following up on meeting actions without prompting
- Event planning, delivering full event management within budget and brief
- Providing travel arrangements and itineraries
- Source, set up and manage travel agency / provider relationship, analyzing spend and presenting findings to the Executive Team
- Develop relationships with Private Equity board and their executive support associates
- Complete administrative tasks such as meeting room bookings, expense reporting, holiday bookings and track budgets where necessary
- Our office is pet friendly (of course!) but only the colleagues with 4 legs are ok to snooze on the job.
The Skills - Executive Assistant
So, what does it take to be the EA of the Jollyes Executive team? You'll be supporting different characters and personalities who all have their own priorities whilst working towards our common business goals. You'll need to be personable, adaptable and able to cope with change. Also able to work at pace with energy and enthusiasm and not daunted by a challenge. This role will keep you busy but within an incredibly welcoming and supportive culture. Of course, it would help if you're a 'pet person' and can relate to our vision of making pet care affordable and enjoyable across the UK.
To be successful, you'll need the following skills, experience and qualities:
- Proven experience in a similar EA type role, supporting board members for a similar sized business with geographically diverse teams (UK).
- Proactive in nature and able to anticipate potential issues and find solutions to minimize risk
- Astute and commercially aware of the pressures of an executive board and how best to support
- High level of confidentiality and integrity with experience of managing senior diaries
- Strong interpersonal skills with the confidence to interact and communicate at all levels
- Exceptional organization skills, able to prioritize your own workload with a high level of accuracy and attention to detail
- IT savvy with the ability to pick up internal systems and highly proficient in MS Office suite
- Share our values of being: Wise, Focused, Genuine, Eager, Together
About Jollyes - The Pet People
Since initially making paw prints in 1971, Jollyes has become one of the largest pet superstore retailers across the United Kingdom & Northern Ireland. From a community-led in-store experience to an ever-flourishing online presence, there's over 50 years of experience and over 100 stores between our paws.
It's not just products we offer; our customers enjoy affordable grooming thanks to The Jolly Groomer and veterinary services at our Community Pet Clinics.
Our recent recognition at the Pet Industry Federation (PIF) Awards is a real testament to our dedication to pet parents, and we're very proud of being named 'Pet Retail Chain of the Year 2023' and also delighted to win the Retail Week award for Best Retailer (under £250m t/o) in 2024. We're proud of our 4.8 star rating on Trust Pilot which reflects our colleagues' passion to give our pets and their parents fantastic service. We're equally proud of our 4* rating on Glass Door, the employer review site which reflects our colleagues' opinions that we're a good place to work! We've also been listed in the 'Sunday Times Great Places to Work' which we're thrilled about!
To Apply:
If you're looking for a career with an award-winning company who will truly value you and recognize your contribution with some fantastic rewards and benefits, where you can really make a difference, click to apply today!
Respectfully, no agencies please.