Personal Assistant Apprentice

Job Title:  Personal Assistant Apprentice

Location: Peterborough / Hybrid (2-3 days in the office, flexible)

Are you looking to take the first step onto a career ladder? Do you want to work within an office environment, whilst studying a Business Administration qualification? If so, this newly appointed Personal Assistant Apprentice vacancy is the perfect opportunity for you to gain valuable work experience, supporting an executive level team within a forward thinking, adaptable and global but local thinking business. This is a varied and interesting role offering the opportunity to develop administrative & PA skills, reporting into our Executive Assistant. We offer fully funded study support.

What you'll be doing: 

• Supporting with the smooth and efficient running of the executive office by providing administrative support. 
• Diary management, scheduling meetings, booking meeting rooms and organising travel.
• Working with and understanding the business priorities of the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) & Chief Financial Officer (CFO) to ensure effective time management.
• Note taking during meetings and share where required to.
• Producing documents, reports and presentations.
• Taking internal and external calls and handling these professionally and as appropriate dependent on the subject matter.
• Supporting the organisation of large off-site conferences or events and supporting these on the day.
• You will also be working closely with other PAs within AB Agri and the wider ABF group to ensure all of the above is managed well.

What you'll bring: 

• You will have achieved GCSE Maths and English A*-C/4-9 or equivalent.
• Be prepared and willing to complete the Level 3 Business Administrator Apprenticeship and be comfortable with on-line learning.
• Applicants are required to be familiar with Microsoft Office packages such as Word, Excel and Outlook. Further training and development in these packages will also be available to the role holder.
• Attention to detail is an essential skill for this role as you may be dealing with a variety of tasks at once.
• Good customer service, communication, and interpersonal skills, with the confidence to deal appropriately with a range of people.
• You will also have/be able to develop excellent time management and prioritisation skills.
• The ability to remain calm and professional, and respect confidentiality is essential and will also be developed through the apprenticeship.
• Previous experience within a customer facing role will be an advantage but not essential.

Please note, the apprenticeship will only be open to applicants who can demonstrate that it will add substantive new learning in business administration. Those with qualifications in business administration (or similar) at Level 3 or above will not be eligible. This is a fantastic learning, development and training opportunity with the chance to continue growing your career with AB Agri once you have completed your qualification. You will be working with a very friendly and supportive team that want to set you up for success in the future, if this sounds interesting please don't hesitate to apply.

Rewarding your passion

When you join us, you'll do meaningful work and be rewarded fairly for it. From annual salary reviews and incentive bonus, ongoing career development and enhanced family, financial and wellbeing benefits – these are just some of the ways we reward you - from day one. 

About us

We’re AB Agri, part of Associated British Foods (ABF plc) and we’re passionate about feeding the world responsibly and affordably by making quality animal feed, creating nutrition and technology-based products, and offering data services for the agri-food industry.  What sets us apart is how we delight our customers - and that’s because of great people like you.  People with different life experiences who share common values. Together we’re building a fair, innovative and inclusive culture. 

As a Disability Confident employer, we’re committed to ensuring our application and recruitment processes work for everyone so if you need any additional support (like alternative formats for your application, bringing a support dog to the offices, a sign language interpreter - or anything else) just let us know.

Application Notes

We hope you feel that AB Agri is somewhere you can thrive and so we’d love to hear from you. We get a lot of applications for our roles and sometimes need to close the process early so register your details and upload your CV via our careers website as soon as you can – it will only take a few minutes.

When you do, we’ll ask you some equal opportunities questions just to ensure our recruitment process is inclusive – or show us areas we can improve. This information is anonymised, separate from your application and is never seen by the hiring panel. You can choose not to answer these questions and this won’t affect your application.

Apply today or contact our recruitment team for more information.

Agencies and media sales

AB Agri group politely requests no contact from recruitment agencies or media sales. We don’t accept speculative CVs from recruitment agencies nor accept the fees associated with them.