Assistant Company Secretary

**About The Role**:
**Join the Samworth Brothers Team and become part of our dynamic family**

At Samworth Brothers, we genuinely care about our colleagues and strive to create an engaging environment that values your unique contributions. We are committed to your success and offer a range of exceptional benefits that we believe supports your life and personal aspirations:
- Enhanced pension scheme
- Private health scheme
- Employee discount scheme
- Experience annual pay reviews
- Profit related pay
- Unlock your potential through training and growth opportunities

**The Opportunity**

In this role you will be supporting the Group Company Secretary in providing proactive and effective Company Secretarial support to the Samworth Group and subsidiary boards and their committees. You will be a positive individual who is focused and enthusiastic, proactive, and with excellent attention to detail. You will need to be able to meet deadlines, being responsible for statutory filings and accurate record keeping. You will be the first point of contact for executives, boards, chairs and committee members.

Key Responsibilities:

- Responsible for the statutory and regulatory administration of Group subsidiaries, including directorate changes, confirmation statements, and other filings required to be made with Companies House;
- Managing Group and subsidiary board and committee meeting processes - working with Group Company Secretary to set agenda, briefing management teams on lead times for the delivery of board and committee papers; and ensuring the timely publication of high quality materials to the company’s board portal.
- Together with the Group Company Secretary, identify and implement improved processes in subsidiary governance.
- Attendance at and minuting certain board and committee meetings, some of which will require occasional travel.
- Tracking to completion actions arising from board and committee meetings
- Qualified, part qualified or qualified by experience and willing to study for ICSA
- Previous experience in a similar role ideally in a listed environment
- Experience administering electronic statutory registers and online filings essential.
- Strong knowledge of Microsoft suite of products
- Excellent time management, organisational and prioritisation skills

We also want you to thrive in an engaging and inclusive work culture where you will have the opportunity to take on personal accountability and take pride in your work. We encourage positive communication, and the building of strong collaborative relationships is essential to every role.

Join us at Samworth Brothers, where you'll be more than just a team member - you'll be an integral part of our thriving family.

**About Us**: We are a fourth-generation family business producing high quality own-label products for many of the UK’s best-known retailers along with our own brands including Ginsters, Soreen, Higgidy, Dickinson & Morris and Walker & Son. We employ over 10,000 people in well-invested modern food manufacturing sites around the country.

At Samworth Brothers we take pride in our family feel within our businesses and work together to make things happen. We can offer you the stability of a wider group as well as the opportunities that that offers if you wish to progress your career with us. We are family and we would like to invite you to be part of that and support our teams in delivering great products to all of our customers.

**_Samworth Brothers do not engage with unlicensed gangmasters or third parties. Samworth Brothers will NEVER ask you for money in order to provide you with employment. If you are in any doubt, please contact an official Samworth Brothers representative._