Description
Are you an experienced Personal Assistant looking for a fast-paced, high-level role? We are recruiting for a highly organised and proactive PA to provide essential support to senior leaders within a prestigious and award-winning firm based in Leeds. This hybrid role offers three days in the office and two days working from home.
Why Join?
This is an opportunity to work within a well-established organisation that values its people. With an exceptional reputation and a strong culture of professional growth, the firm has been recognised for its world-class employee engagement.
Benefits include:
- Buy/sell holiday scheme
- Birthday off
- Profit share scheme
- Medical cash plan
- 6% company pension contribution
- Volunteer days
The Role:
This PA position is split across two key stakeholders:
- 70% PA support to a Senior Partner – a top biller and leader of the highest-performing team in the firm. They require a PA who is highly proactive, anticipates needs, and takes full ownership of tasks.
- 30% PA support to a Partner who leads a team of multiple Partners and is frequently out at events and client meetings, requiring a PA who can provide consistent, reactive support while ensuring seamless diary and inbox management.
- This role also includes some project support for other Partners within the team
Key Responsibilities:
- Inbox Management: Highly proactive email management for the Senior Partner, filtering and flagging key priorities. Managing a high volume of less critical emails for the other Partner.
- Diary Management: Extensive calendar coordination, scheduling meetings, handling conflicts, and ensuring senior leaders are prepared.
- Meeting Administration: Minute-taking for key project meetings, tracking action items, and ensuring follow-ups.
- Event Planning & Coordination: Supporting team events, awards, and major corporate events with full logistical oversight.
- Business Development & Marketing Support: Managing BD trackers, ensuring follow-ups, scheduling client meetings, and coordinating materials.
- Team Management Support: Scheduling 1:1s, new starter lunches, annual reviews, and maintaining People HR system records.
- Project Support: Driving project progress through action tracking, reminders, and proactive support.
- Travel & Expenses: Arranging travel, accommodation, and expense management.
The Right Candidate:
- Direct and confident: Must be comfortable working with high expectations and a fast-paced environment.
- Critical thinker: Able to anticipate needs, solve problems, and take initiative without hand-holding.
- Highly proactive: We are looking for a PA that is solutions focused without needing lots of day-to-day guidance
- Strong communicator: Able to balance different stakeholder needs, from high-energy demands to a more traditional approach.
- Event and project management experience: Strong attention to detail and the ability to coordinate large-scale events.
- Fast-paced and adaptable: Experience working at speed in a demanding, high-level PA or EA role.
If your skills and experience fit the above specific criteria, please forward your CV to us immediately to be considered.
