Leadership Team Assistant - 12 month FTC
As a Leadership Team Assistant, you will support multiple Tesco Business Leaders and Directors to achieve their priorities through proactive and effective diary management. You will also provide flexible, cross‑functional support to colleagues, ensuring that all Business Leaders and Directors receive a consistent, high‑quality level of service.
You will be responsible for:
Proactively and efficiently managing the diaries of multiple Business Leaders and Directors, organising and prioritising their time to maximise efficiency and support business priorities.
Prioritising and completing tasks in a fast‑paced, ever‑changing environment, ensuring all stakeholders receive a prompt, accurate, and high‑quality service.
Arranging meetings ranging from 1:1s to complex, multi‑stakeholder sessions, taking full accountability for locations and ensuring all required details are accurately recorded in diaries.
Identifying and flagging critical emails where lack of response could pose a business or operational risk.
Encouraging and fostering a culture of self‑service, enabling Business Leaders and Directors to operate confidently while allowing focus on core LTA responsibilities.
Coordinating national and international travel with third‑party providers, always seeking the most cost‑effective, simple, and efficient options.
Partnering with the Events team to support the planning and delivery of large‑scale events for supported Business Leaders and Directors.
Managing administrative tasks, including raising purchase orders, processing visa applications, and submitting expense claims on behalf of leaders.
Identifying, sourcing, and working with external agencies, ensuring strong value for money and quality of service.
Flexible, cross‑functional support
Providing capacity to support Business Leaders and Directors across all office functions, including absence and peak‑time cover for colleagues.
Operating within a dynamic support model that enables the reallocation of services across divisions as required, ensuring efficient use of resources in line with changing business priorities and demands.
You will need:
Strong relationship‑building skills, with the ability to work effectively with senior stakeholders and build trust quickly.
Excellent organisational skills, including forward planning and a high level of attention to detail.
The ability to prioritise and complete multiple tasks in an ever‑changing, fast‑paced environment.
Strong, clear, and effective communication skills, both written and verbal.
Confident and efficient administrative skills, with experience handling a wide range of support tasks.
Proficiency in MS Office and Outlook, with extensive experience in complex diary management.
Extensive experience supporting multiple senior Directors is essential
What's in it for you:
We’re all about the little helps. That’s why we make sure our Tesco colleague benefits package takes care of you – both in and out of work. Click Here to find out more!
Annual bonus scheme of up to 10% of base salary
Holiday starting at 25 days plus a personal day (plus Bank holidays)
26 weeks maternity and adoption leave (after 1 years’ service) at full pay, followed by 13 weeks of Statutory Maternity Pay or Statutory Adoption Pay, we also offer 6 weeks fully paid paternity leave
Free 24/7 virtual GP service, Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) for you and your family, free access to a range of experts to support your mental wellbeing
About us:
Our vision at Tesco is to become every customer's favourite way to shop, whether they are at home or out on the move. Our core purpose is 'Serving our customers, communities and planet a little better every day'. Serving means more than a transactional relationship with our customers. It means acting as a responsible and sustainable business for all stakeholders, for the communities we are part of and for the planet.
We are proud to have an inclusive culture at Tesco where everyone truly feels able to be themselves. At Tesco, we not only celebrate diversity, but recognise the value and opportunity it brings. We're committed to creating a workplace where differences are valued, and make sure that all colleagues are given the same opportunities. We're a big business with diverse working patterns and many business areas which means that we can find something that works for you. Everyone is welcome at Tesco.
We have recently announced that we will be moving towards a more blended working week – combining office and remote working. Our offices will continue to be where we connect, collaborate and innovate. Please talk to us to about how this can work for you.
NOTE: Should you be successful in your application, your offer will be subject to and conditional upon you providing your bank account details on your agreed start date.
We're proud to have been accredited Disability Confident Leader and we're committed to providing a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process. For further information on the accessibility support we can offer, please visit https://www.tesco-careers.com/accessibility
