Personal Assistant to Country Manager

2 weeks ago

Riyadh, Ar Riyāḑ, Saudi Arabia Turner & Townsend Full time
Company Description

At Turner & Townsend we're passionate about making the difference.

That means delivering better outcomes for our clients, helping our people to realize their potential, and doing our part to create a prosperous society.


Every day we help our major global clients deliver ambitious and highly technical projects in over 112 offices in 45 countries worldwide.

Our team is dynamic, innovative and client-focused. Our clients value our proactive approach, depth of expertise, integrity and the quality we deliver. As a result our people get to work on some of the most exciting projects in the world.

Job Description:

PA's Administrative Duties

Not limited to the following:

  • Provide high quality organisational support services to the Country Manager
  • Bring the administrative team together to work as one team and build a sense of team amongst this group
  • Word processing correspondence, memos and reports
  • Prepare presentations
  • Organise and maintain effective filing systems (including digitally)
  • Ensure compliance in the team around expenses, travel, hotel bookings, client care, risk management
  • Building connections with PAs/EAs in the region and especially with clients
  • Full Board meeting management
  • Minute taking and action tracking
  • Filter general queries, phone calls and invitations to the Country Manager by redirecting or taking forward such contact as appropriate
  • Highlight urgent correspondence and print attachments
  • Prepare correspondence on behalf of the Country Manager, including the drafting of general replies if instructed

Diary and Travel Management

  • Ensure busy diary commitments and travel arrangements are managed effectively including assessing priority of appointments, reallocation as necessary and troubleshooting problems
  • Conduct weekly diary meetings with the Country Manager to discuss upcoming engagements, invitations and other requests
  • Coordinating and arranging video and conference calls
  • Schedule on behalf of the Country Manager meetings between him and his direct reports
  • Liaise with relevant individuals and external organisations to arrange meetings, organise schedules, prepare agendas and draft minutes
  • Making travel arrangements and booking accommodation

Meeting and Event Management

  • Provide support for an extensive range of meetings, including providing location maps, preparing agendas, premeeting briefings and meeting papers, noting action points and following them up
  • Management of Board meetings including plotting dates for the year, management of Board pack and invitations, minute taking and distributions of minutes, organising travel arrangements of attendees
  • Planning, managing and organising client and staff events and providing administrative support such as sending invitations, booking venues and arranging transportation

Bid Support

  • Prepare bid submissions including formatting of documents, selecting images, identifying CVs and sourcing case studies
  • Production of bid presentation material
  • Ensure all bids are timely submitted and are of consistent quality as per client instructions
  • Follow Director's instructions on any other bid tasks

Qualifications:

Required Skills:

  • A minimum of five years admin experience in a highly pressurised environment requiring tact, judgment and discretion in handling internal and external contacts
  • Advanced Microsoft Office 365 suite skills (Word, PowerPoint and Excel, Teams)
  • Efficient and proficient in managing workload and tasks assigned to them
  • Excellent typing skills, good computer literacy speed and accuracy essential
  • Strong organisational skills with the ability to maintain balance among multiple priorities, with attention to detail and quality delivery
  • Proven ability to work under pressure and to tight deadlines
  • Excellent attention to detail, including proof reading skills, with the ability to maintain a high level of accuracy
  • Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to build relationships with all team members, Turner & Townsend stakeholders, Board members and external partners/vendors
  • Ability to deal with sensitive information with discretion and to maintain confidentiality at all times
  • Experience of diary management, researching and booking of travel and accommodation
  • Takeup additional responsibilities and challenges
  • Proactive and flexible in approach
  • Keen eye for compliance, aware of policy and ensuring the team adhere

Character Attributes

  • Trustworthy
  • Selfmotivated, proactive, a quick learner, highly organised and able to work on their own initiative with minimum supervision
  • Excellent communication, coordination skills and ability to deal confidentially with information are important
  • Familiarity working in a dynamic and demanding environment is necessary
  • Must be strong enough to push back on requests to manage their own workload
  • Must be willing to continuously learn and always willing to find the most effici

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