Executive Assistant

**Team purpose**

To live the values of Covéa Insurance and support the Executive Team to continue to build on the success of the business.

From day 1, you’ll be able to contribute to the Covéa Insurance purpose which is ‘To help people protect against the worst happening and put it right if it does’.

**What would you be responsible for in this role?**
- Managing Executive Director diaries
- Organisation of meetings across the business
- All general office administration to support the Executive team

**Strategic focus**
- Lead and inspire your department to deliver the company’s strategy and purpose through clear objectives and vision
- Play a key role in shaping the overall company strategy
- Keep up to date with relevant external developments and changes to identify opportunities

**Leading our people**
- Inspire and coach
- Lead with integrity
- Act in a proactive and decisive way when taking the lead on tough decisions
- Foster collaboration through clear and inclusive communications
- Initiate and drive positive change
- Recognise and nurture talent and future successors
- Create a culture of success
- Positively challenge yourself and your team to take ownership for delivery
- Act with resilience, resourcefulness and maintain strong belief
- Support and promote a culture which is genuinely inclusive and respectful

**Customer experience**
- Make sure that you treat all our customers with the principles of Treating Customers Fairly (TCF)
- Understand how you play a part in the Customer Experience
- Provide a service to all of our customers (internal and external) that is memorable for the right reasons and builds our reputation as a great company to work for and do business with

**Doing the right thing**
- Act with integrity, due care, skill and diligence
- Make sure that everything you do fits in with the legal requirements, Covéa Insurance policies, regulatory requirements and observes proper standards of market conduct
- Be aware of threats to our organisation and customers (e.g. financial crime, fraud and money laundering)
- Taking the appropriate action to minimise the impact of risks to our business (e.g. by following processes and reporting any concerns to your manager)
- Treating the personal data of our customers, employees and other individuals lawfully and in accordance with current Data Protection laws, and other related legislation
- If required, you will be open and cooperative with the FCA, PRA and other regulators

**What would we like to see in you?**

**Essential Skills/capabilities**
- Diary management using Microsoft Outlook
- Good working knowledge of Microsoft packages
- People management

**Behaviours**
- Honest
- Discreet
- Highly motivated
- Adaptable
- Able to communicate effectively at all levels

**Qualifications**
- GCSE’s in Maths and English with grades 4 to 9 (or equivalent)
- Experience and knowledge
- Experience in a similar role supporting Senior Management

**Nice to have**

**Skills/capabilities**
- Knowledge of French (written and spoken)
- Document management

**Experience and knowledge**
- Administration/customer service background

**What’s on offer?**
- Working with a highly motivated team
- Further opportunities for development within Covéa
- Opportunity to build on personal potential

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

**Salary**: £24,000.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- Additional leave
- Company events
- Company pension
- Employee discount
- Flexitime
- Referral programme
- Wellness programme

Schedule:

- Day shift
- Holidays
- No weekends

Supplemental pay types:

- Yearly bonus