Executive Assistant to Brand Director JD EMEA
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Provide support to the Brand Director in their day to day role, ensuring that all travel and meeting arrangement are in place in addition to attending meetings and supporting with actions. A requirement to assist with communication to the wider Marketing Leadership team and JD Group.
• Job Title - Executive Assistant to Brand Director JD EMEA
• Location - BL9 8RR & M12 6FZ
• Working rota - Monday Friday
• Working hours - 40
What You'll Be Doing:
- Meeting with Brand Director to understand priorities for the coming week and support in compiling required information for various trade and other meetings, following up the required information with various departments.
- Maintaining Brand Directors diary by planning and scheduling meetings, meeting rooms, and conference calls and making appropriate arrangements for travel and hospitality.
- Keeps up to date with Marketing activities and calendar events across the business.
- Tracks and ensures expenses are submitted on behalf of the group.
- Supports the Brand Director in maintaining Brand Relationships and attending meetings where appropriate.
What We're Looking For:
- Strong, effective written and spoken communication skills along with excellent research and organizational skills.
- Evidence of and a commitment to practice a high level of confidentiality.
- Strong experience in planning, organizing and carrying out the daily activities and administrative functions in a sensitive, highly visible and dynamic and organizational environment, requiring management of multiple and rapidly changing priorities.
- Strong office administrative and management practices and procedures.
- Must be proficient in Microsoft Office with the ability to learn new software and computer systems as well as advanced use of PowerPoint, spreadsheet, graphics and other business management software. Must be flexible and be able to work in a high-change, quick-paced environment.
The Company:
The JD Group is a leading omnichannel retailer of Sports Fashion, Street & Premium Fashion, Outdoors and Gyms with over 90,000 colleagues over 4,500 stores across several retail fascia's in over 36 countries around the world.
We are an equal opportunities employer who embraces and values differences. We recognise the importance of an inclusive workplace culture in which everyone can thrive irrespective of their background or identity.
To be a part of this successful and continuously growing company, you will have the desire to ingrain our strategic goals of being a people first, a digital leader and customer focused organisation which provides operational excellence and is continuous with identifying new areas of growth into our day-to-day.
We know our employees work tirelessly to make JD Sports the success it is today and in turn, we offer them some amazing benefits:
- Incremental Holiday Allowance
- Staff Discount on qualifying purchases across Group retail stores and online
- Exclusive Colleague Bike Discount scheme
- Discounted Gym membership
- Personal development opportunities to learn and develop at work
- Access to Apprenticeships and accredited qualifications
Interested?
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Due to the high volumes of applications our opportunities attract, it takes time to review them all. If you don't hear back within two weeks of your application, please consider your application to have been unsuccessful on this occasion
Applications that meet the skills criteria will be contacted for a 1st stage meeting with the talent team. Shortlisted candidates will then be invited to interview with the hiring manager.
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