Personal Assistant to CEO

5 months ago

Manchester, United Kingdom boohoo group Full time

**The role**

As part of this role, you will report directly into our CEO, where you will work collaboratively to create the key support needed for our much-loved Debenhams’ Partners, Brands and Teams.

You will ensure all business elements, which link to their daily working life, are overseen with a high degree of organisation. You will be great at communicating, experienced in personal assistant duties, a creative problem solver and have the ability to work with the upmost integrity and discretion. You will be required to make decisions and respond to enquiries on behalf of the CEO.

We want you to challenge the status quo, innovate and be open to trying new things. We’re always pushing boundaries. We want you to think big. Think creatively. Be bold. Be brave.

**Your team**

We’re Debenhams, an established and much-loved household name. We’re known for our impressive fashion, beauty and homewares offering - we’ve become a truly unstoppable digital brand. We aim to be the UK’s leading online department store and expand internationally.

Whilst you will have the support of the other PA's across the group, you will need to be comfortable working as an individual, in a stand alone role, building relationships across a number of other teams and acting as an extension of the CEO.

**What you'll be doing**
- To be the primary liaison and first point of contact for all business queries and phone calls directed at the CEO
- Organising personal correspondence, invitations, contacts, reviewing documentation, scheduling appointments and reservations according to their needs during normal business hours and to be available out of hours on an ad hoc basis
- Processing expenses on time and in line with the Company’s procedure
- Keeping up to date with progress of tasks and feeding back timelines
- Taking minutes in meetings and feeding back to relevant people
- Organisation of all travel requirements UK and Globally
- Organising and setting up conference calls
- Processing business expenses and invoices (Also some personal expenses and invoices)
- Preparation of various documents including presentations and meeting agendas
- Researching news, articles, reports and company information
- Liaising with third party service providers
- Ad Hoc Projects

**Working with us**

To succeed here, you have to love working at pace. It’s relentless, but we love it. Change is a certainty - you need to adapt and be agile. We want you to challenge the status quo, innovate and be open to trying new things. We’re always pushing boundaries. We empower our people, giving them freedom and autonomy to learn and grow in their roles. We’re passionate, agile, creative and one team.

**More about you**
- The perfect balance between professionalism and personality, where you will become the ‘Face’ of Debenhams.
- Previous experience of a board level PA role where you have been required to prioritise and multi-task various and competing demands
- A good communicator with the ability to interface regularly with internal and external stakeholders
- Ability to be discrete, confidential and reliable at all times
- Professional always, responsible and loyal. With a high attention to detail
- Proactive approach - endeavouring to be a step ahead
- Resourceful - ability to get things done
- Ability to work with people at all levels of seniority
- Willing to travel between Manchester base and our London office on occasion

**Why join us**

We’ve set our sights on dominating the global e-commerce fashion market, and because we’re 13 brands (and counting), there are plenty of opportunities to grow your career. Our mission is to create a workplace where everyone is respected, their individual differences are valued, and they can be themselves at work without exception.
- You’ll get the opportunity to take part in our various share schemes
- Core hours enable you to flex your working times around your needs on an ad hoc basis
- Benefits that support your health and wellbeing
- There’s up to 40% discount off our all of our brands

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