Personal Assistant

Personal Assistant to Director

ScottishPower HQ, St Vincent Street, Glasgow

Salary from £30,400 - £38,000 per annum plus a range of flexible benefits

Fixed term for up to 12 months / Full Time

Working Pattern: 37 hours per week, Monday – Friday (hybrid)

Help us create a better future, quicker

At SP Energy Networks we’re working hard to deliver a smarter, cleaner and greener network for our customers, communities and stakeholders. We're helping to shape the future of energy and with a huge pipeline of projects to deliver over the next decade, we're looking for people who want to make a real difference. We have an exciting opportunity for a Personal Assistant (PA) to the Director of Network Planning and Regulation. Leading the strategic function, the Director is responsible for Asset Management, System Design and Planning, Process and System Development, Regulatory Economics, Governance and Reporting and Workforce Renewal. Accelerating Net Zero is at the heart of everything we do and each and every one of these areas plays a vital role in achieving this ambition. So join us now on our Net Zero journey!

What You’ll Be Doing

Working as a PA within Network Planning and Regulation gives you an amazing insight into the challenges of the energy industry. A varied and interesting role, no two days are the same. You’ll undertake typical PA activities such as monitoring the Director’s inbox, diary management, travel booking and preparing presentations and reports. In addition, you will be responsible for the administration and preparation of Senior Management Meetings including planning, preparation of agendas, collation and distribution of papers, minute taking and maintaining/updating action logs. But you’ll also contribute to key value-add activities that enable the smooth running of the department such as supporting the Director with setting and achieving the strategic objectives, budgeting and facilitating the performance management cycle. Whether you’re looking to develop in a PA role, or you’ve got longer-term ambitions to progress your career, this is an exciting opportunity to kick start your career at SP Energy Networks.

Working Monday to Friday, you’ll be based in our Glasgow office. Once you’re fully competent in the role, usually after around 6 months, you’ll have the opportunity of hybrid working which would allow home working 2 days a week, or more with agreement from your Line Manager.

What You’ll Bring

To succeed in this fast-paced role, you’ll have previous experience in a similar PA role, supporting senior stakeholders. And you’ll be exposed to extremely confidential and sensitive information so you’ll need to be respectful and discrete. With strong communication skills, you’ll be adept at building relationships and engaging with a range of stakeholders. Internally that could be engineers, accountants or communications specialists. Externally it might be regulators, cabinet ministers and CEOs. You’ll be able to adapt your communication style to your audience and be able to understand and deal with a range of complex information. And as you’ll be responsible for answering emails, preparing presentations and minute taking, you’ll also have excellent written communication skills. We’re looking for people with initiative and ambition, who’s keen to get involved and is always striving to make things better. Someone with a thirst for knowledge, who thrives on being the best that they can be.

What’s In It For You

As well as a competitive salary which is reviewed annually, you can also enjoy a number of other benefits. With our pension scheme, we’ll double match your contribution up to a company contribution of 10%.

Benefits

At ScottishPower, we believe it’s the little things we do in life that make a big difference. From helping you look after your family’s wellbeing, save for your future and take personal steps for climate action – our benefits are designed to help you do just that - so that you have everything you need to take care of your world – today and tomorrow. That’s why our benefits include:

• 36 days annual leave
• Holiday purchase – perfect your work/life balance with extra annual leave
• Share Incentive Plan and Sharesave Scheme
• Payroll giving and charity matched funding
• Technology Vouchers – save more and spread the cost of your technology purposes
• Count us in – pledge to reduce carbon emissions and help fight climate change
• Electric Vehicle Schemes – to help you transition to green/clean driving
• Cycle to Work scheme and public transport season ticket loans
• Options to purchase dental insurance, private medical insurance, health cash plan and annual health assessments
• Life Assurance (4x salary)
• Access to ‘nudge’ financial wellbeing support
• Plus shopping, leisure, restaurant and gym discounts, and unique employee deals on travel insurance and more

Why SP Energy Networks

SP Energy Networks is part of the Iberdrola Group, one of the world’s largest integrated utility companies and a world leader in wind energy. We keep electricity flowing to homes and businesses through Central and Southern Scotland, North Wales and in the North West of England. We operate over 4000km of cables and lines that make-up the transmission network – connecting infrastructure like wind farms into the electricity system. It’s a role that puts us right at the heart of Scotland’s ambition to be Net Zero by 2044. And we’re taking it very seriously. We’re investing £2 billion into our transmission network, directly supporting the rapid growth needed in renewable energy. With diverse opportunities across our businesses and a commitment to invest in our own internal talent, ScottishPower can offer people real career opportunities that meet personal and professional goals, in a global organisation.

Inclusion, diversity, and a social purpose are at the heart of everything we do. Together with our values, they bring us together into a stronger, more sustainable business with direct links to the communities we serve. It takes all kinds of people to build a large-scale business like ours, so whatever your background, you’ll fit right in.

We are committed to providing reasonable support or adjustments in our recruiting processes for candidates with disabilities, long term conditions, mental health conditions, or who are neurodivergent or require pregnancy-related support. If you need support, please reach out to careers@scottishpower.com.

Mobility

Please note that any applicant who is not a citizen of the country of the vacancy will be subject to compliance with the applicable immigration requirements to legally work in that country. If/when required, the Company will support the employee with the necessary Immigration requirements.

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December-18-2024