Executive Assistant

<p><strong>Closing Date: 28th August</strong></p> <p><strong>Location: Bristol or London at least 3 days a week on site</strong></p> <p><strong>12 month FTC</strong></p><div><div style="padding:10.0px 0.0px;border:1.0px solid transparent"><div style="font-size:16.0px;word-wrap:break-word"><H2 style="font-size:1.0em;margin:0.0px"><b>About the role</b></H2> </div><div><p>The Executive Assistant supports the delivery of critical activities for senior functional leadership, enabling executive effectiveness and operational efficiency through high-quality administrative, organisational and stakeholder support.</p> <p>The role acts as a trusted partner to senior leaders, coordinating priorities, managing key processes and ensuring alignment across teams and stakeholders. The Executive Assistant provides subject matter expertise in executive support, administrative processes and business coordination, helping leaders focus on strategic priorities while maintaining smooth day-to-day operations.</p></div></div><div style="padding:10.0px 0.0px;border:1.0px solid transparent"><div style="font-size:16.0px;word-wrap:break-word"><H2 style="font-size:1.0em;margin:0.0px"><b>What you’ll be doing</b></H2> </div><div><p><strong>Executive Support &amp; Coordination</strong></p> <ul> <li>Deliver high-quality executive support including diary management, meeting coordination, travel arrangements and expense management.</li> <li>Manage competing priorities and coordinate leadership activities to maximise executive effectiveness and efficiency.</li> <li>Act as a trusted point of contact for internal and external stakeholders.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Project &amp; Process Management</strong></p> <ul> <li>Own and manage selected team projects and business processes.</li> <li>Develop timelines, schedules and delivery plans to ensure milestones and deliverables are achieved.</li> <li>Monitor progress and provide regular updates to stakeholders.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Stakeholder Engagement</strong></p> <ul> <li>Build and maintain strong relationships across BT and with external contacts.</li> <li>Coordinate activities and communications across multiple stakeholder groups.</li> <li>Support collaboration and alignment across teams and programmes.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Business Operations</strong></p> <ul> <li>Maintain project documentation, records and filing systems.</li> <li>Provide reporting, analysis and administrative support to enable informed decision-making.</li> <li>Monitor budgets and support planning activities for assigned projects and processes.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Continuous Improvement</strong></p> <ul> <li>Act as a subject matter expert for administrative systems, processes and ways of working.</li> <li>Identify opportunities to improve efficiency, effectiveness and stakeholder experience.</li> <li>Promote best practice across executive support activities.</li> </ul></div></div><div style="padding:10.0px 0.0px;border:1.0px solid transparent"><div style="font-size:16.0px;word-wrap:break-word"><H2 style="font-size:1.0em;margin:0.0px"><b>Essential Skills / Experience</b></H2> </div><div><ul type="disc"> <li><strong>Executive Support &amp; Prioritisation</strong> – Proven experience supporting senior leaders, managing complex diaries, competing priorities and sensitive communications while enabling executive effectiveness. </li> <li><strong>Stakeholder Management &amp; Communication</strong> – Exceptional relationship-building and communication skills, with the ability to establish credibility quickly and work confidently with senior stakeholders across a complex organisation.</li> <li><strong>Organisation &amp; Delivery</strong> – Highly organised with strong attention to detail, able to coordinate multiple activities, projects and business processes whilst consistently delivering high-quality outcomes.</li> <li><strong>Commercial Awareness &amp; Judgement</strong> – Strong business acumen, analytical thinking and problem-solving capability, with the confidence to make decisions, manage ambiguity and drive continuous improvement.</li> </ul></div></div><div style="padding:10.0px 0.0px;border:1.0px solid transparent"><div style="font-size:16.0px;word-wrap:break-word"><H2 style="font-size:1.0em;margin:0.0px"><b>Desirable Skills / Experience</b></H2> </div><div><ul type="disc"> <li>Experience supporting Directors, General Counsel, Leadership Teams or Executive-level stakeholders.</li> <li>Experience coordinating projects, programmes or business transformation activities.</li> <li>Budget monitoring, reporting and financial administration experience.</li> <li>Event planning and leadership team meeting coordination experience.</li> <li>Experience of document management, records management and governance processes.</li> <li>Strong analytical and reporting skills, including the ability to present information clearly and support business decision-making.</li> <li>Experience working within a large, complex and matrixed organisation.</li> <li>Knowledge of project management approaches, tools and methodologies.</li> </ul></div></div><div style="padding:10.0px 0.0px;border:1.0px solid transparent"><div style="font-size:16.0px;word-wrap:break-word"><H2 style="font-size:1.0em;margin:0.0px"><b>Our Package</b></H2> </div><div><p>Tailored benefits make a real difference. That’s why we offer a comprehensive range to support your growth, wellbeing, and everyday life. You can design the package to suit you and your lifestyle. Your core benefits include:</p> <ul type="disc"> <li>10% on target annual bonus</li> <li>Access to an online private GP 24/7 for you and your immediate family</li> <li>Market-leading paid carers leave with up to 2 weeks off</li> <li>Equalised maternity, paternity, and adoption leave – 18 weeks’ full pay and 8 weeks’ half pay</li> <li>Discounted EE and BT products, including mobile and broadband</li> <li>Market leading Pension scheme – 5% from you and 10% from us</li> <li>Holiday purchase scheme</li> </ul> <p>You can select additional benefits, including healthcare, dental, gym memberships and more when you’re ready.</p></div></div></div><p>BT Group is the UK’s leading communications group and the holding company behind some of the country’s most recognised brands – including BT, EE, Openreach and Plusnet. Our purpose is as simple as it is ambitious: we connect for good.  Our customers include consumers, small, medium and large businesses, public sector organisations and other communications providers. </p> <p>BT Group’s role is about setting direction, unlocking value and creating the conditions for our brands and businesses to thrive.</p> <p>Having come through the most capital-intensive phase of our fibre investment, our focus now is on what comes next – simplifying how we operate, using technology and AI to work smarter, and organising ourselves to serve customers better and grow sustainably. Group teams shape strategy, policy, brand, capital allocation and transformation, helping the whole organisation perform at its best.</p> <p>We have a singular culture that unites all our people: we are customer-first challengers, who are committed, clear and connected. These behaviours unite us as one team to deliver for our colleagues, our customers, our stakeholders and the country.   Joining BT Group means working at the heart of a business that matters to the UK, with the opportunity to shape decisions, influence outcomes and help set the future course of one of the country’s most important companies.</p>