Executive AssistantHead Office

“Everything about Asda”

We are a values-led organisation. As such we, encourage everyone to be open and honest. We work creatively and collaboratively, valuing everyone's input.

Our collaborative culture, the size of our business and our belief in the empowerment of the individual means opportunities at Asda are abundant.

We conduct £300m worth of transactions every week. Our website handles over 2 million transactions a month. We have more than 145,000 dedicated Asda colleagues ensuring that our customers are at the heart of everything we do.

“Everything you'll love.”

• Minimum 24 days annual leave per year plus 8 bank holidays – Making sure you take time for yourself and switch off.
• 4 weekly pay – which means you get an extra payday a year.
• Digital GP and Wellbeing sessions – Asda genuinely cares so we create a culture where our people can perform at their best, the physical health and mental wellbeing of all our people is very important to us.
• Discount off your shopping at Asda and George - with extra discounts running throughout the year – really makes a difference, saving the colleagues an average of £700 a year.
• Career development and apprenticeship and graduate schemes - we want our colleagues to excel and grow with our business.

Plus, much more!

“Find your role”

As an Executive Assistant supporting Executive Board Members here at Asda you will work closely with them to support in the delivery of their roles and help them to achieve their strategic priorities and business goals.

• Expertly coordinate complex scheduling & extensive calendar management, aligning your Exec members commitments around the business and wider executive committee priorities.
• Liaising on behalf of your Exec member with suppliers and stakeholders both within the business and externally.
• Be embedded in our organisation, with a clear understanding of the business strategy, key priorities and objectives, providing support as required.
• Build a network specifically with the Executive Assistants to enable the delivery of great service to the Asda Executive Committee team.
• Manage the content and flow of confidential and commercially sensitive information including reviewing and actioning emails (where possible) to enable timely decision-making.
• Arranging logistics and itineraries associated with national & international travel including visa’s where relevant.
• Acting as the first point of contact for direct reports, internal and external stakeholders.
• Work cross functionally with the events team to organise meetings, events & conferences to ensure all events are a success.
• Managing key meetings by confirming agendas, attendance, minute taking and collating key actions and next steps.
• Project management of small-scale projects
• Preparing papers for executive committees and board meetings

"Let's find out about you"

The successful candidate will have demonstrable experience in providing comprehensive Executive Assistant support at Executive or Board level along with demonstrating:

• Highly organised and able to work at pace in a fast paced and constantly evolving environment.
• Experience of complex diary management & interaction with multiple stakeholders.
• MS Office / Outlook experience.
• Trustworthy and maturity to maintain a high degree of confidentiality.
• Solution orientated – ability to network & juggle competing priorities effectively for your Exec Members.
• Energetic & self-reliant with a creative approach to solving problems / clashes / multiple commitments.
• Pace and agility to react to changing business priorities
• Be able to commit to be based out of our Leeds Head Office a minimum of 3 days a week, and flexibility to mirror your Exec members ‘in office’ schedule.

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Work Where it Works

Our hybrid way of working gives you the choice to work where it works. This enables you to chose where you’ll be the most effective. It offers a mix of working from home and in an office environment that works best for you and your team.

You will also get an excellent benefits package including;-

• Discretionary company bonus
• Company pension up to 7% matched
• 15% colleague discount, free parking and many additional rewards.

We want all colleagues to be able to bring their best and true selves to work, every day. Simply put, we want our colleagues to be Proud to be Asda and proud to be themselves