Position: Personal Assistant (PA) 

Location: Witney (OX28) 

Salary: £25,000 – £30,000 

Hours: 09:00 – 17:30 (Monday – Friday) 

Experience: Personal Assistant, PA, Administration, Organised, Property Development, Personal Administration, Diary Management,

Opportunity: 

Thompson & Terry Recruitment are working with a well-established property business with offices in Witney to recruit an outstanding and personable Personal Assistant to directly support the Managing Director.

The role of Personal Assistant will be an extremely varied one, best suited to a creative candidate with a flexible approach and a genuine desire to support.

Whilst many of the duties will be somewhat basic, such as dealing with personal issues, like making travel arrangements, collecting lunch orders and running personal errands, our client are seeking to recruit an intelligent candidate that has the confidence to really step up when needed.

You will also be expected to provide a high level of support to ensure the Managing Director’s time is used efficiently. This will range from responding to emails, answering the telephone, attending and taking minutes during meetings and also acting as the point of contact for many of the firm’s key stakeholders.

The successful Personal Assistant will therefore have extremely strong literacy and organisational skills combined with the confidence to lead conversations both internally and externally. As well as the ability to prioritise all the day to day needs of the Managing Director. Personality is key for this role; they are really looking for a candidate that can combine excellent work and time management with a great sense of humour.

A previous successful post holder has moved to another part of the business therefore there will certainly be a handover and support period for the successful candidate. For this reason our client would also be very open to recruiting an intelligent candidate that is looking to make the step up.

The Company: 

Our client are a well-established property business who have been building well known properties across Oxfordshire to an exceptional standard for more than 60 years.

The business pride themselves on excellence, which extends to their team, who are all very friendly and united in driving the business forward.

The successful candidate will enjoy a lovely working environment with the opportunity to really develop professionally by supporting the Managing Director with lots of different projects, whilst making a huge impact across the business.

Requirements: 

• Well educated with strong literacy skills
• Highly organized and innovative in your approach to work
• A confident and professional communicator at board level
• An eye for detail and strong proof reader
• A team player with strong relationship building skills, and a sense of humour is a must!
• A genuine interest in property would definitely be an advantage

Thompson & Terry Ltd, trading as Thompson & Terry Recruitment (thompsonandterry.co.uk) are an Abingdon based recruitment agency specialising in placing candidates into jobs in Oxford and around Oxfordshire. We typically source candidates for Sales, Marketing and office administration jobs. No terminology used in this advert is intended to discriminate on the grounds of race, religion, gender, age or sex.

PLEASE NOTE: Due to a high volume of applications, if you have not heard from us within 5 working days, unfortunately, your application has been unsuccessful at this time.