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Tesco • Shire Park, Kestral Way, Welwyn Garden City, UK

Leadership Team Assistant - 12 month FTC

Employment type:  Contract
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Job Description

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, crossfunctional support to colleagues, ensuring that all Business Leaders and Directors receive a consistent, highquality level of service.

  • 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 fastpaced, everchanging environment, ensuring all stakeholders receive a prompt, accurate, and highquality service.
  • Arranging meetings ranging from 1:1s to complex, multistakeholder 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 selfservice, enabling Business Leaders and Directors to operate confidently while allowing focus on core LTA responsibilities.
  • Coordinating national and international travel with thirdparty providers, always seeking the most costeffective, simple, and efficient options.
  • Partnering with the Events team to support the planning and delivery of largescale 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, crossfunctional support

  • Providing capacity to support Business Leaders and Directors across all office functions, including absence and peaktime 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.
  • Strong relationshipbuilding 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 everchanging, fastpaced 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

You might know us as a supermarket, technology company or even for our award-winning mobile network. Truth is, we�re all of those things, and much more. Our colleagues work with one goal in mind, helping to make every day a little better for our customers, colleagues and communities all over the world. No two customers are the same, neither are our colleagues.

At Tesco, we champion a balance that lets you thrive both in and out of work. Spend 60% of your week collaborating with colleagues at our office locations or local sites and the rest remotely. Whether you're just kicking off your career, juggling passions, or navigating big life events, we're here to support you. We always welcome a conversation about flexible working, so talk to us throughout your application about how we can support.

We're proud to be an accredited Disability Confident Leader, where everyone�s welcome. That�s why we commit to providing a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process. If you need support with your application, click here for more information. And if you're interested in joining our team but don't tick every box, don't let that hold you back from applying

Company benefits

25 days annual leave + bank holidays
Additional voluntary pension contribution
Adoption leave – 26 weeks full pay (after 52 weeks service)
Annual bonus
Annual pay rises
Bike parking
Buy or sell annual leave
Car allowance
Charity donation scheme
Chill out zone
Cinema discounts
Coffee discounts
Collaboration spaces
Company car
Company freebies
Compassionate leave
Critical Illness Insurance
Cycle to work scheme
Death in service
Dental coverage
Discretionary sick pay
Electric Car Salary Sacrifice
Emergency leave
Employee assistance programme
Employee discounts – 10% off and 15% on pay day weekends
Employee phone programme
Enhanced maternity leave – 26 weeks full pay (after 52 weeks service)
Enhanced paternity leave – 6 weeks full pay (after 52 weeks service)
Enhanced pension match/contribution – up to 7.5% matching
Equity packages
Ergonomic workstations
Eye Care Support
Faith rooms
Family health insurance
Fertility treatment leave
Financial advice
Fully stocked snack cupboard
Gym membership
Health assessment
Health insurance
In house training
L&D budget
Learning license
Learning platform
Legal consults
Life assurance – Five times your pay
Life insurance
Lunch and learns
Meditation space
Menopause support
Mental health first aiders
Mental health platform access
Mentoring
Modern office
On-site barista
On-site catering
On-site gym
On-site personal trainer
On-site shower
On-site wellness room
On-site wellness services
On-site workout classes
Open to compressed hours
Open to job sharing
Open to part time work for some roles
Open to part-time employees
Optional unpaid leave
Paid fostering leave
Personal development budgets
Personal development days
Pregnancy loss leave
Private booths
Referral bonus
Religious celebration leave
Relocation packages
Restaurant discounts
Sabbaticals
Salary advance
Salary sacrifice
Secure on-site parking
Sensory-Friendly Setup
Share options
Skilled worker visas
Sports teams
Study support
Teambuilding days
Theme park discounts
Time off in-lieu
Tree planting
Volunteer days
Wellbeing incentive programme
Reservist leave

Working at Tesco

Company employees:

330,000+

Gender diversity (m:f):

49:51

Hiring in countries

Ireland

United Kingdom

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