Personal Assistant

At Warburtons, family is at the heart of our business. Job Title: Personal Assistant Contract: Permanent Location: Bolton Are you a Personal Assistant on top of your game and looking for your next challenge? Essential Ingredients   Proven experience as a PA supporting Board-level executives Exceptional organisational skills and impeccable attention to detail High proficiency in MS Office  Excellent verbal and written communication skills Discretion and confidentiality of the highest degree A proactive approach to problem-solving with strong decision-making capability Flexibility and adaptability to juggle a range of different tasks An approachable low-ego personality with high emotional intelligence   The Recipe   As a Personal Assistant, you’ll be the backbone of our Board members’ day-to-day activities. Your role is pivotal in ensuring that their time is optimised, and their administrative tasks are handled with precision and care.  You’ll be supporting multiple Board members based in our Head Office in Bolton. We’re an informal and non-hierarchical business and we’re looking for someone with the same approach. You’ll be the kind of person who gets on with and can relate to everyone regardless of the role they do. High standards will be important to you and the skill to anticipate our Board’s needs, getting them to where they need to be with the right information to hand. Making their lives easier by using your initiative to do some of the thinking ahead. We’re looking for a master of organisation to be the secret ingredient behind our Board’s seamless operations. Managing calendars, inboxes, scheduling meetings, events and travel. Interacting with internal teams, customers and regular interaction with the Warburton family. You’ll be confident coordinating Board papers, conducting research, collecting and analysing data to prepare reports and documents. We aren’t looking for a ’gatekeeper’ but someone who’s approachable and can find flexibility in our Board’s schedule. There’s some flexibility to work from home but the team would like to have you around when they’re in the office. Fridays tend to be quieter so there’s usually an opportunity to work remotely.  There’ll be plenty of variety and interesting activities to keep you engaged and busy! About Us:   Did you know there are two bakery sites in Bolton (Bolton & Variety), a distribution hub, a newly built Innovation Centre, Test Bakery, and our Head Office? We have approximately 480 colleagues working across Bolton and Variety manufacturing and distribution. We produce 1.5 million units per week, across 5 automated lines that bake our delicious fresh bread, crumpets, bagels, morning goods and muffins which is delivered daily to our customers across the UK. There has never been a more exciting time to join our Bolton & Variety Bakeries, with new site and group initiatives and projects, you can instantly make an impact driving our Unbeatable Quality vision of being Britain’s Best Food Business! You’ll be our safe hands, and we know you’ll love to be a part of it. As ‘the UK’s No. 1 Bakery Brand’ we have been baking bread since 1876. Today, we are proudly a sixth-generation family business, supplying over 18,000 retail customers from 11 bakeries and 16 depots, producing a range of over 70 products, including gluten and wheat free. We are striving to be a net zero business by 2050 and believe that we must minimise our impact on the environment, whilst making a positive impact on the society we are a part of. Extra Dough   You’ll want to know what your bread is worth: Base salary and benefits  A slice of the annual profits  Family time is important to us so you’ll receive 25 days’ holiday with the option to purchase a further 5 days’ leave.  Award winning company matched pension scheme  Life assurance  Warburtons products you’ll love along with deals and retail discounts for you and the family through our Extra Dough website Continued investment in your personal development  Fully stocked kitchens filled with our delicious products for you to enjoy with your daily brew!?  Support for your health and wellbeing: on-site gym, a comprehensive occupational health service, access to free physiotherapy, 24/7 access to online GP service plus a confidential helpline for practical advice should you need it.   At Warburtons we aim to respect and value difference, creating an inclusive workplace that values diversity.  We value all protected characteristics and more importantly, look to have an environment where everyone, from any background, can do their best work and be themselves