PA to Development Directors

We’re recruiting for a PA to Development Directors to join us. We’re offering a competitive base salary. You will provide support to Development Directors and administrative support to their wider teams. Liaise and coordinate with internal and external resources, work collaboratively with the other PAs and Administrators in the Business Support Team to ensure a consistent and excellent level of service is always provided.

What you'll be doing:

• Proactive Inbox management: monitoring, reading, forwarding, responding on their behalf as appropriate
• Diary Management: first point of contact for all meetings, anticipate director’s needs, proactively resolving diary clashes and proposing ideas to resolve
• Travel and hotel bookings internationally, allow adequate time to travel to/from meetings ensuring comprehensive itineraries are created
• Planning and preparing for meetings collating papers, reports, committee packs, and agendas. Ensuring meeting rooms are booked, attendees are aware of their own action points from previous meetings so that any outstanding actions can be quickly addressed
• Taking accurate minutes to a high standard and circulate in a timely manner
• Maintaining our internal CRM system to a high standard, managing electronic filing and archiving, keeping accurate and confidential records
• Assisting with planning and organisation of business events e.g., off-site meetings, workshops, training courses and company away days

Do you share our passion for creating a safe, secure, and affordable place for everyone to call home? That's exactly what we're working towards at Legal & General Affordable Homes - we're on a mission to tackle the UK's housing landscape and address the chronic shortage of affordable housing in the UK head-on! With a fast-growing pipeline, we collaborate with well-known developers, housing associations and public sector bodies across the country to drive new investment into the affordable housing sector. 

As part of the wider Legal & General Group, our heritage goes back over 180 years, with a solid reputation as one of the leading financial services groups. Now, we are pioneering institutional investment into the housing sector, whilst providing excellent service and quality homes. 

Focusing primarily on the Shared Ownership and affordable rent markets, Legal & General Affordable Homes is creating positive, economic and social impacts on the regions and communities in which we work. We strive to be the UK’s leading private affordable housing provider, known for excellent service and quality homes. We've already started to make a real difference, but we can't do it alone. 

Who we're looking for:

• Proven track record working as an PA supporting senior level executives with complex, ever-changing priorities and deadlines
• High levels of proactivity required along with good decision-making skills
• Strong collaboration skills
• Flexible in approach to projects/workload and ability to adapt to new and changing situations
• Ability to work closely with and interact in a team environment
• Happy to work with minimum supervision and use own judgement in order to make good commercial decisions
• To be First Aider and Fire Marshal trained or be willing to become both via training which will be provided by LGAH

Whatever your role, we reward performance and behaviour with a package that looks after all the things that are important to you. Here are some of the benefits we offer: 

• The opportunity to participate in our annual, performance-related bonus plan and valuable share schemes  
• Generous pension contribution  
• Life assurance   
• Private medical insurance (permanent employees only) 
• At least 25 days holiday, plus public holidays
• Competitive family leave 
• Participate in our electric car scheme, which offers employees the option to hire a brand-new electric car through tax efficient salary sacrifice 
• There are the many discounts we offer – both for our own products and at a range of high street stores and online   
• In 2023, some of our workspaces were redesigned. Our offices are great spaces to connect and collaborate and have your wellbeing at the heart  

Legal & General is a leading financial services organisation, named Britain’s Most Admired Company in 2023, for the second year running. Rated top in our sector and top for inspirational leadership, we have a strong heritage and an exciting future.  

We’re one of the world's largest asset managers, homebuilders, pension providers and insurers. Connecting to form a unique business model which drives value for our customers and society. And enabling our people to create impact through work that is meaningful and valued.  

If you join us, you’ll be part of a welcoming, inclusive culture, with opportunities to collaborate with people of diverse backgrounds, views, and experiences. Guided by leaders with integrity who care about your future and wellbeing. Empowered through initiatives which support people to develop their careers and excel.  

We strive to be open, mindful, and inclusive, so are always willing to discussing flexible working arrangements and reasonable accommodations for candidates with specific needs. It doesn’t matter if you don’t meet every single criterion in this advert. Instead, think about what you excel at and what else you can bring in terms of strengths, potential and connection to our purpose. 

If you’re open to find out more, we'd love to hear from you.