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Executive Assistant

Posted: 30/08/24
Recruiter:MASS
Reference:2815893623
Type:Permanent
Salary:Competitive
Location:Little Paxton, Cambridgeshire
Description:

Executive Assistant (Internally known as Senior Business Support Officer) St Neots (PE19 6BN) Perm Full Time

  • Salary £35,000 - £45,000
  • 25 days annual leave (inclusive of up to 3 days December shut-down)
  • Buy or sell up to 5 days annual leave
  • Two pension schemes to choose from
  • Private Medical & Dental Insurance + discounts for additional family members
  • Life Assurance scheme up to 4 x salary
  • Multiple Save schemes
  • Electric/Hybrid Car leasing scheme
  • Cycle to work scheme
  • Retail discounts
  • Continuous Professional development support
  • Annual Wellness Allowance

Our Digital Services Group (DSG) is a diverse business within a business at MASS. They provide a full spectrum of digital capabilities and technological requirements for customers in the most secure settings. They have a favourable influence on national security initiatives for the United Kingdom and its strategic partners throughout the world.

Testament to their current success as a division and their future growth plans, they are developing their methods of working and infrastructure to enable that growth. As part of this, they are looking to bring in an experienced and credible assistant to handle a variety of project, diary and team administration, in support of our CIO and DSG s management team.

You will be based at our Cambridgeshire Head Office, where we have a Hybrid of around 3 days per week in the office, but this may occasionally be determined by project requirements.

How you ll support us

You ll manage the administration and provision of a highly proactive, efficient, professional, and flexible business support service, co-ordinating and prioritising workloads to meet service demands. You ll develop a practical understanding of the areas of work within DSG, enabling the prioritisation of our CIO and Senior Managers time, and enabling business continuity across the team and wider organisation.

You ll do really well in this role if you can network and build mutually beneficial relationships with other areas of the business, to support frictionless collaboration. There s also a huge benefit if you have the ability of working to achieve goals that might not have a clear or defined process to follow.

It will be a varied, confidential, tactical and ever evolving role which may be familiar if you have had experience as an Executive/Military Assistant, or Civil Servant.

The invaluable experience you ll bring, to help us achieve more

We re expecting that you ve been in a customer-facing position, previously, so have had experience of translating complex requirements into solutions, and conveying complex solutions to audiences of varying technical abilities:

Essential experience

  • Organisation and communication skills are essential to succeeding alongside management of relationships.
  • Experience working within an administrator background or/and previous experience working as an Executive Assistant or Military Assistant.
  • Comfortable and confident in working at pace to manage conflicting short term and long-term priorities
  • Excellent working knowledge of Microsoft Applications

Desirable experience

  • Experience working in the defence sector, a government agency or civil service

Our non-negotiables:

Due to the highly secure nature of the projects that you will be involved with, you must be:

  • A UK Passport Holder, eligible to work in the UK
  • Eligible and willing to obtain and maintain a UK Government Security Check (SC) security clearance

Who is MASS?

MASS is an independent, global technology company, trusted by highly-secure organisations to provide advanced, digital services that manage data and keep information safe. With our heritage in defence, we offer robust solutions to sectors where security expertise is essential.

We work in partnership with customers, using skilled, technical experts. We think innovatively to provide tailored, agile and resilient solutions that secure advantage, so you re ready for digital transformation. MASS is an equal opportunities employer; we know that our people are smart, skilled and motivated and in return we provide a friendly workplace where everyone is valued and has the chance to make an impact.

Apply today to see how working for MASS could work for you!

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