German Speaking Personal Assistant

Location: UK - Hatfield, UK - London, UK - Reading, UK - Manchester | Job-ID: 209430 | Contract type: Standard | Business Unit: Business Operations & Administration

Life on the team 
 
We are excited to announce we are now looking to hire a PA into our thriving Group Managed Services (GMS) organisation within Computacenter.  You will be working closely with our Head of Service Delivery both in the UK and Germany.

You will engage with a network of other PAs throughout the company and critical functions ensuring the leader and team are as effective as possible in their missions across the group. 

You will be forward thinking, highly organised and have a “can do” attitude in this highly dynamic team.

So who are we? 
Service Delivery Leadership is the representative of our services to key internal and external stakeholders.  Working within Group Managed Services and collaborating with our Services colleagues, Service Delivery Leadership are accountable for the quality of the service delivered to our customers.   That the cost to serve is in alignment with the agreed baseline and that through challenging positively our services remain relevant and competitive.  
   
What you’ll do

 
You will get involved with diary management, travel co-ordination, through to administrative duties with opportunity to get involved in interesting projects and creative task. This opportunity will be varied and exciting with new challenges every day.  

• Extensive Diary Management 
• Booking and arranging meetings; ensuring meeting rooms, catering requirements are taken care of 
• Meeting Preparation; producing agendas, producing minutes, and following up on actions. 
• Assisting with Presentations for Internal and External Stakeholders 
• Representing the director, ensuring they are kept up to date with all relevant information. 
• Management and vetting of emails, creating suitable responses on behalf of the Director where appropriate. 
• Prioritisation of emails and categorisation 
• Responsible for the management of ad-hoc projects 
• Organising and assisting with Events
• Arranging and hosting monthly Live Events, as well as ad-hoc Live Events 
• Assist with wider Communications.
• Administration of direct reports’ personnel issues, including holiday, pay review submission, etc.
• Monitoring expenditure approvals, finding out additional information if required.
• Completing and submitting the Directors expenses and mileage logs on a timely basis 
• National and International travel arrangements 
• Manage several Approval systems, ensuring all information is gathered before processing.
• The role may require some travel.

What you’ll need

• Solid administrative and or PA experience
• Fluent in both English and German
• Experience of relevant business system eg.SAP
• Good knowledge of MS Applications
• Good administrative experience, attention to detail, ensures accuracy of data, provides data for reporting and processing of information.
• Personable and able to liaise at all levels of the business.
• Excellent interpersonal, literacy and numeracy skills and ability to build relationships at all levels.
• Proven ability to work independently.
• Proven planning, organisational and prioritisation skills.
• Ability to meet deadlines.
• Self-motivated and able to maintain confidentiality.

Current information for our applicants

We have made our application and recruitment process virtual, we are excited to bring talent like you on board to join our growing teams within Computacenter. Our recruiters remain available to you should you have any questions. We are looking forward to getting to know you!

About us

Computacenter is a leading independent provider of IT infrastructure services, with about 20,000 employees worldwide. We work at the heart of digitisation, advising organisations on IT strategy, implementing the most appropriate technology and managing our customers’ infrastructures.

We offer a friendly, open working environment without too much fuss about hierarchy. We are looking for professionals with diverse competencies, personalities and strengths who want to live our shared value of teamwork and performance.

Interested in joining a company with a strong sense of community?

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