Senior Administrator
This is a Full Time/Flexible Working, Fixed Term Contract vacancy that will close in {x} days at {xx:xx} BST.
The Vacancy
Are you an exceptionally organised, proactive and confident administrator looking to take the next step in your career?
We are looking for a Senior Administrator on a 14 month fixed term contract to provide administration support to our Regional Managing Director and wider leadership team, and manage all office tasks, someone who thrives in a fast‑paced environment, loves making things run smoothly, and can anticipate what’s needed before it’s asked.
As Senior Administrator, you will deliver seamless administrative and organisational support, ensuring schedules, meetings and commitments are prioritised and well prepared. Your ability to manage complex diaries, coordinate events, and oversee key leadership activities will directly support the smooth running of the region.
This role is ideal for someone who enjoys variety, takes initiative, and can work discreetly with business‑critical information.
As a Senior Administrator you will:
- Provide proactive administrative support to the Regional Managing Director.
- Manage diaries, events, and understanding director movements at all times.
- Coordinate meetings and site visits, anticipating needs and ensuring everything is prepared in advance.
- Manage agendas for Regional Board and Weekly Board meetings, taking accurate minutes and tracking actions through to completion.
- Coordinate travel arrangements and processing Directors’ online expenses (Concur).
- Handle confidential and sensitive information with professionalism and discretion.
- Produce high‑quality minutes, reports and presentations.
- Support diary management for the wider regional leadership team as required.
- The co-ordinating and managing all office activities.
WHAT WE OFFER
- Competitive salary
- Flexible working
- Travel covered to any of our sites (subject to HMRC advisory rates)
- Extensive corporate benefits including, Private Medical, Pension 8% employers’ contribution, Health and Wellness programme, 26 days holidays + bank holidays and much more…
- One of the best learning and development programmes which is customizable to support your career progression goals. (c.7000 training sessions delivered year to date across the WATES Group)
To find out more about LIFE AT WATES please click on the following link https://www.wates.co.uk/careers/
Work for Wates
Wates is one of the UK’s leading family-owned development, building and property maintenance companies. Founded over 125 years ago, we have a proud legacy in the built environment.
We are driven by our purpose, ‘reimagining places for people to thrive’ and our three promises:
Thriving places – working with customers, partners and communities to create places that are more sustainable, inclusive, and full of opportunity.
Thriving planet – protecting nature and taking action on climate change by collaborating and innovating with our partners.
Thriving people – creating opportunities and relationships so that everyone who works for and with us feels included, invested in, and treated with care.
We are proud to be recognised as Gold Investors in People and as a Disability Confident employer. We also ensure that our recruitment processes do not treat anyone less favourably due to an offending background.
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