Senior PA & Team Coordinator

We have a great opportunity for an individual to join our HR team here in Birmingham as a Senior PA & Team Coordinator. This role is a 12-month fixed term contract to cover maternity leave. In this role, you will work as an executive-level personal assistant to the HR Director, ensuring top-tier client service and efficiency with all stakeholders. Your duties will include supporting the HR leadership team (HRLT) by providing operational assistance for key strategic projects to ensure their efficient delivery. Additionally, you will offer comprehensive operational support to the HR Director.

We are seeking an experienced executive-level personal assistant who thrives in a demanding, fast-paced environment. The ideal candidate will exhibit the highest levels of integrity, professionalism, diplomacy, and discretion, especially when handling highly confidential information. In this role, you will manage varying priorities and duties, requiring you to remain composed under pressure, exercise excellent judgment, and demonstrate self-sufficiency, independent thinking, and resourcefulness. You must efficiently handle multiple tasks and meet tight deadlines. You will support key project deliveries, showing curiosity in exploring new technologies and techniques to enhance efficiency and client service. Proficiency in IT skills, including drafting reports and creating presentations using Microsoft Outlook, Excel, Word, and PowerPoint, is essential. Additionally, you must possess exceptional client service skills, including effective communication in person, over the phone, and through email and voicemail.

The opportunity to work for a firm that has been recognised as one of best places to work in the UK and has been ranked by Great Place to WorkÂŽ for 24 consecutive years. Excellent benefits, including:

• A hybrid approach to office and remote working.
• 25 days annual leave, with the option to buy up to a week's extra annual leave
• Private medical insurance, and the option to add family members
• A generous pension allowance
• Life assurance covering four times your annual salary
• Maternity, paternity and adoption leave schemes
• A range of health and wellbeing programmes
• State of the art offices, in the heart of Birmingham City Centre, with an onsite restaurant
• Travel to our London office when required
• Opportunities to flourish in your role through training and personal development
Equal Opportunities: Gowling WLG is committed both to promoting equality and diversity in the firm and to Equal Opportunities in employment. The firm believes in equality of opportunity regardless of race or racial group (including colour, nationality, ethnicity, national origins), religion or belief, age, disability, sexual orientation, sex, gender re-assignment and gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, and pregnancy, maternity and paternity. This also includes any incidents of perceptive or associative discrimination and harassment. At Gowling WLG we seek to attract and retain talented people from a diverse range of backgrounds and cultures, to create an exciting and rewarding place to work. Our aim is to fulfil everyone's potential and together to achieve personal and business goals.