Personal Assistant FTC

DroneTalks; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000

Job description

Baringa is seeking a Personal Assistant FTC.

Baringa set out to build the world’s most trusted consulting firm – creating lasting impact for clients and pioneering a positive, people-first way of working. They work with everyone from FTSE 100 names to bright new start-ups, in every sector.

You’ll find them collaborating shoulder-to-shoulder with their clients, from the big picture right down to the detail: helping them define their strategy, deliver complex change, spot the right commercial opportunities, manage risk, or bring their purpose and sustainability goals to life. Baringa's clients love how they get to know what makes their organisations tick – slotting seamlessly into their teams and being proudly geeky about solving their challenges.

As a Certified B Corporation, Baringa has proven that they've built social and environmental good into every bit of what they do.

Baringa has hubs in Europe, the US, Asia and Australia, and they work all around the world - from a wind farm in Wyoming to a boardroom in Berlin. Find them wherever there's a challenge to be tackled and an impact to be made.

Baringa's Business Services team are looking for an experienced Personal Assistant to join the team on a 12 month FTC: The Business Services team play a crucial role in supporting their Partnership and their wider teams. Baringa's EAs are a passionate, dedicated team that thrive on making the impossible. They are highly organised, multi-taskers, who bring inclusivity and fun to the workplace all whilst maintaining a can-do attitude. This is a great opportunity for you to join a fantastic team bringing your professionalism and ideas enabling them to continue providing exceptional assistance to the Partner team.

What you will be doing:

• Extensive calendar management support and logistics
• Providing support with all travel arrangements
• Liaising with their clients to arrange meetings
• Arranging meeting rooms for internal and external meetings, organising catering, hospitality and restaurant booking
• Supporting the Partners with running and managing their business unit
• Event Management for away days, offsites, workshops and various team building events
• Time and expense process management
• Writing and binding of documents for client meetings
• Executing ad-hoc tasks to support Partners when required, including minute taking and editing PowerPoint documents.

Your skills and experience:

• Experience in supporting multiple senior level executives with full calendar and travel management
• Proficient knowledge of MS Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, Excel
• Excellent communication skills (written and verbal)
• Presentable and personable with a proficient attention to detail
• Enthusiastic, friendly and helpful, a team player and is solution focused

Benefits: Baringa is a People First company and wellbeing is at the forefront of their culture. They recognise the importance of work-life balance and flexible working and provide their staff amazing benefits. Some of these benefits include:

• Generous Annual Leave Policy: Baringa recognises everyone needs a well-deserved break. They provide their employees with 5 weeks of annual leave, fully available at the start of each year. In addition to this, they have introduced their 5-Year Recharge benefit which allows all employees an additional 2 weeks of paid leave after 5 years continuous service.
• Flexible Working: Baringa knows that the ‘ideal’ work-life balance will vary from person to person and change at different stages of our working lives. To accommodate this, they have implemented a hybrid working policy and introduced more flexibility around taking unpaid leave.
• Corporate Responsibility Days: Our world is important to Baringa, so all their employees get 3 every year to help social and environmental causes and increase their impact on the communities that mean the most to them.
• Wellbeing Fund: Baringa wants to encourage all employees to take charge and prioritise their own wellbeing. They’ve introduced their annual People Fund to support this by offering every individual a fund to support and manage their wellbeing through an activity of their choice.
• Profit Share Scheme: All employees participate in the Baringa Group Profit Share Scheme so everyone has a stake in the company’s success.

Diversity and inclusion: Baringa is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. They believe that creating an environment where everyone feels a sense of belonging is central to their culture and that diversity is paramount to driving creativity, innovation, and value for their clients and for their people.

An award-winning workplace: You can be a part of their ‘Great Place to Work’ – with their commitment to women and well-being in the workplace for all.

Using business as a force for good: At Baringa, they believe that everyone creates a lasting impact when you put people - customers, employees, investors, suppliers, and society – first. Their B Corp certification shows that they’ve met and held themselves accountable to high standards of social and environmental performance and transparency. Baringa's award-winning people-first philosophy makes them distinctive - Be Kind. Be Curious. Be Great at Work.

Join them: All applications will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, nationality, disability, age, faith or social background. Baringa does not filter applications by university background and encourage those who have taken alternative educational and career paths to apply. They would like to actively encourage applications from those who identify with less represented and minority groups. They operate an inclusive recruitment process, ensuring reasonable adjustments where needed. Please contact a member of their Recruitment Team to discuss further.

Birmingham, England