Executive Assistant

7 days ago


Manchester, Greater Manchester, United Kingdom TransPennine Express Full time
We're TransPennine Express and we're going places. Whether that's helping customers reach their destination, or ensuring our colleagues feel fulfilled and supported in their careers. We're looking for people with drive and enthusiasm to join our amazing team and help push for more progress within the rail industry. We look forward to meeting new faces and eager minds, ready to join our mission of creating a better-connected network in the North and Scotland, for good.

You will support the Major Projects & TRU Director and their Senior Leadership Team at TransPennine Express by providing a proactive, high quality and fully confidential seamless support service working both on your own initiative and collaboratively with the wider Directorate and integrated Programme Management Office team, as well as with our industry partners.

You'll ideally have experience in an Executive Assistant/Personal Assistant role and be able to demonstrate outstanding organisational skills able to communicate professionally at all levels. You will be flexible, have a calm supporting manner and resilience. Attention to detail is key, you will be able to meet tight deadlines while working under pressure, prioritising, and dealing with conflicting demands where necessary. There is a requirement to take minutes at meetings in this role, shorthand would be advantageous but not a requirement.

If that sounds like the right fit for you, we'd love to hear from you, please click apply and complete an application form.

What we offer
  • Excellent career prospects.
  • A personal development plan.
  • Fully funded structured training and development*.
  • Competitive salary paid on 4 weekly basis.
  • Generous annual leave entitlement.
  • Free TransPennine Express rail travel for you and your dependants*.
  • Travel discounts of up to 75% off other train operating companies, plus international rail travel after 1 years' service* for you and your dependants*.
  • Free & Confidential Employee Assistance Program and Wellbeing Portal 24 hours a day, 7 days a week to help you with any finance, family, health, or wellbeing issues you have. We make sure there's someone on-hand to offer guidance, advice, and useful information for our people when they are experiencing hardship at work or at home.
  • Option to join the Railway Pension Scheme with significant employer contributions.
  • Family friendly maternity and paternity benefits.
  • Plus, high street and lifestyle discounts as well as a cycle to work scheme*.

*Terms and conditions apply.

Help take the north further.

Goings places has never felt better

At TransPennine Express, it's our goal to help people reach their full potential. We offer the opportunity to not just join the transformation of the rail industry, but to lead it. Our values are designed with every team member in mind; whether it's ensuring you feel free to be yourself at work, or encouraging everyone to pull together and support each other. We promise to value our people for the individuals they are. Whichever department becomes your destination, from the tip of the train, to the tail, our only focus is heading at full speed into the future. So, if making people crack a smile helps you feel at home, and raising standards is second nature to you, we'd love to have you onboard.

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