Executive Assistant

Location: Hybrid, Sunrise House, Ninth Ave, Burton-on-Trent, Staffordshire, United Kingdom

Company

hirify.global is a British pub company and brewer with a 220-year brewing and pub history and a 39,000-person workforce.

What you will do

• Partner with an Executive Team member to manage priorities, actions, communications, and business outcomes.
• Drive strategic initiatives across multiple workstreams by tracking actions, timelines, risks, blockers, and accountability.
• Prepare board and committee papers, presentations, briefings, executive communications, agendas, and meeting materials.
• Build trusted relationships with senior internal and external stakeholders and coordinate complex communication flows.
• Manage projects, governance processes, complex diaries, travel arrangements, logistics, and executive requests.
• Line manage and develop a Team Assistant while promoting efficient, coordinated, technology-enabled ways of working.

Requirements

• Significant experience supporting senior executives or board-level leaders in a complex organisation.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills and confidence influencing at senior levels.
• Strong strategic planning, prioritisation, organisational, and attention-to-detail skills.
• Proven ability to manage multiple competing priorities and deliver in a fast-paced environment.
• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills, including experience preparing executive-level materials.
• Strong problem-solving abilities with a proactive and solutions-focused approach.
• Sound judgement, discretion, and experience handling confidential information.
• Experience managing projects, actions, and governance activities from initiation through to completion.

Nice to have

• Previous people management or coaching experience.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid working environment.
• Competitive salary and pension contribution.
• Career development, apprenticeships, and accredited training opportunities.
• Discounts across hirify.global brands and hirify.global Inns for employees and their loved ones.
• Employee Assistance Programme, financial wellbeing platform, and retail, travel, and leisure discounts.
• £1,500 employee referral scheme.