Executive Assistant

12 months fixed term contract (maternity cover)

Hybrid (travel as needed)

This Executive Assistant role reports directly to the President EMEA, as the Executive Assistant you will also provide executive support, as needed to the EMEA Leadership team, acting as their professional representative within the business.

This is a rare opportunity to step into our leadership space with access to all areas as a trusted partner to our EMEA leaders. The extended EA community in RS is a fantastic network of support for any new colleague, making this EA role unique in appeal.

You’ll be managing varied tasks across internal decision-making meetings and external, customer-facing priorities. The dynamic nature of this role requires flawless time management skills and the capability to anticipate the needs of the leaders and the business. To get the most from this job it will require regular interaction with a varied range of individuals across the business. Handling confidential information while exercising professionalism and integrity. You will thrive in a fast-paced environment enjoying the daily challenges bringing high levels of energy and a natural ability to get the job done.

Role key themes:

Diary management and co-ordination, including organising internal and external meetings, Booking of accommodation and travel, both within the UK & Internationally

Organisation team meetings, monthly calls and direct reports meetings

Financial management of your VP’s

Internal & external stakeholder management

Your skills & experience

Experience in managing multiple diaries in the Executive space within a corporate environment

Excellent interpersonal and relationship building skills

Flawless organisational skills, particularly in relation to diary and project management

Microsoft office savvy

We are RS

At RS UK, part of RS Group, we’ve been solving engineering problems for over 80 years: big ones, small ones, easy and difficult ones. We turn the ‘what ifs’ into the ‘why nots’, the impossible into the possible.

Our purpose? Making amazing happen for a better world.

We offer service and product solutions. We send out a parcel every 2 seconds, to over 130 countries. We provide over 700,000 in-stock and over 3 million unstocked products to more than 1.2 million customers.

We want people like you, as you are curious about things, you like doing things differently and also in a human way with empathy. Because that’s exactly how we partner with people – our customers, suppliers, colleagues and communities – to solve problems.

We’ll also invest in your development and wellbeing – because building a more diverse and inclusive culture, being ethical, responsible and committed to our Environment, Social and Governance (ESG) action plan is at the heart of everything we do.

Come and join our UK team with over 2000 colleagues in this region – and we’ll help you to think big, do more and unleash your brilliance, so you do amazing things too.

What you can expect

At RS, as well as the usual employee benefits you’d expect from a FTSE listed company, including annual performance bonus, enhanced maternity and paternity leave, private healthcare and 30 days holiday, in the UK&I, we’ve just introduced a number of new Family Friendly Policies including:

Help for people to take control of ongoing Health conditions such as diabetes or asthma with £500 a year available for monitoring & consultation

Support for Neurodiverse colleagues and families with neurodiverse members with needs assessment, diagnosis and post diagnostic support for autism spectrum, ADHD and Tourette’s syndrome.

Support for Women at different life stages from streamlined fertility support through to diagnosis and monitoring of both endometriosis and menopause
Helping our LGBTQ+ community through enhanced coverage for trans colleagues, including voice coaching, facial surgery and gender confirmation surgery

Additions to Fertility coverage including IVF for lesbian couples and information/support around surrogacy and adoption for all