CEO Executive Assistant

As our CEO Executive Assistant, you'll act as a trusted strategic partner to the CEO, enabling effective decision-making by ensuring priorities are aligned, key actions are delivered, and executive activity runs seamlessly across the business. This is far more than a traditional Executive Assistant role; you'll operate as an extension of the CEO, providing strategic support, driving accountability, influencing senior stakeholders, and helping maintain momentum on critical business priorities.

You'll also play a key role in developing ways of working across the wider Executive Assistant and administrative support community, partnering with colleagues to build capability, improve processes, and drive the adoption of technology-enabled solutions.

In your role as CEO Executive Assistant you will:

Strategic Executive Support

• Act as a trusted partner to the CEO, managing priorities, actions and outcomes to support strategic business objectives.
• Drive follow-up actions with senior stakeholders to ensure commitments are delivered within agreed timelines.
• Anticipate challenges, identify risks and proactively resolve issues before they escalate.
• Maintain visibility of key strategic initiatives, removing blockers and ensuring momentum is maintained.
• Build strong relationships with senior internal and external stakeholders.
• Lead and coordinate small projects on behalf of the CEO and wider Executive team where required.

Stakeholder Management & Communication

• Prepare high-quality board, committee and leadership materials, ensuring information is accurate, concise and impactful.
• Draft executive-level communications, presentations, reports and briefings.
• Support end-to-end board and governance processes, including agendas, papers, actions and deadlines.
• Manage and prioritise requests directed to the CEO, ensuring focus remains on key strategic priorities.
• Build strong cross-functional relationships to facilitate collaboration and effective decision-making.
• Line manage and develop the function's Executive Assistants, ensuring high standards of support for senior leaders and their teams.

Executive Operations & Logistics

• Manage complex diaries, travel arrangements and logistical requirements, ensuring the CEO's time is optimised for maximum effectiveness.
• Ensure meetings are purposeful, well prepared and focused on delivering clear outcomes.
• Represent the CEO professionally across the business, acting as a credible extension of the executive office.
• Coordinate complex communications and information flows between the Executive Board, Leadership Group and external stakeholders.

Continuous Improvement & Team Development

• Partner with the Pub & Admin Support Manager to implement people, process and technology improvements across the wider administration community.
• Champion efficient, collaborative and technology-enabled ways of working.
• Support the development and adoption of best practice across Executive Assistants, Team Assistants and operational support teams.
• Contribute to building a unified support function that operates in the best interests of Greene King and our pub teams.

What we're looking for

• Significant experience supporting C-Suite or Executive-level leaders within a fast-paced organisation.
• Strong strategic planning and prioritisation skills with the ability to manage competing demands.
• Exceptional stakeholder management and influencing capability.
• Proven ability to operate with discretion, integrity and professionalism when handling confidential information.
• Excellent communication skills with experience producing executive-level presentations, reports and board materials.
• Strong organisational skills and attention to detail, with the ability to manage complex logistics and multiple priorities simultaneously.
• Experience leading, coaching or developing administrative support colleagues would be advantageous.
• A proactive, solutions-focused mindset with excellent judgement and decision-making skills.
• Strong digital capability and enthusiasm for leveraging technology to improve ways of working.

You’ll receive a competitive salary, pension contribution as well as:

• The chance to further your career across our well-known brands – as one of the industry's top apprenticeship providers, we can provide training and development at each level of your career.
• Discount of 33% for you and 15% for your loved ones on all of our brands – so you enjoy your favourite food and drink at a discount.
• Free employee assistance program – mental health, well-being, financial, and legal support because you matter!
• Discount of 50% for you and 25% for your loved ones at our Greene King Inns and hotels. – so you can enjoy a weekend away without breaking the bank.
• Refer a friend – who do you know who could be interested in a new role? When they are placed, you could earn £1,500 for referring them!
• Wagestream – access your wage before payday for when life happens.
• Retail discounts – Receive up to 30% off at Superdrug, exclusive discounts with three mobile along with many more…