Executive Assistant - Autocentres & Mobile Network

• Act as a trusted business partner to the Managing Director - Autocentres & Mobile Network, ensuring time and focus are directed towards the highest-priority activities.

• Proactively manage a complex diary, travel arrangements and shifting priorities, anticipating needs, planning ahead and making informed decisions to maximise effectiveness and adapt seamlessly to changing business demands.

• Drive accountability across the leadership team, ensuring actions, commitments and decisions are progressed and delivered.

• Build strong working relationships across the Autocentre & Mobile Network leadership team, wider support functions and operational network.

• Lead the coordination of leadership meetings, business planning cycles, governance activities and reporting, ensuring actions are tracked and priorities stay on course.

• Lead the coordination of key people initiatives, leadership events, colleague engagement activities and business communications that strengthen connection, alignment and culture across the Autocentres and Mobile Network business areas.

• Help identify risks, bottlenecks and opportunities, joining the dots across multiple workstreams and stakeholders.

• Support priority projects and initiatives, helping to maintain momentum and remove obstacles.

• Contribute to team culture, recognition and colleague engagement activities across the Autocentre and Mobile Network teams.

• Occasionally accompany the Managing Director on visits across the Autocentre and Mobile Network to strengthen understanding of the operation and build relationships with colleagues.

You'll be highly organised, commercially aware and comfortable operating at pace within a busy leadership environment. You naturally build credibility with senior stakeholders, anticipate what is needed and aren't afraid to challenge constructively when required.

We're open to considering candidates from a variety of backgrounds. Whilst Executive Assistant experience would be valuable, we're equally interested in individuals with transferable backgrounds who can demonstrate exceptional organisation, stakeholder management, commercial awareness and business partnering skills.

You'll bring:

• Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to quickly build trusted relationships.

• Exceptional organisational and planning capability, with strong attention to detail.

• Experience coordinating multiple priorities, complex schedules, meetings and events.

• The confidence to influence, challenge and hold others to account constructively.

• Excellent communication skills and the ability to bring clarity to complex situations.

• Strong commercial awareness and judgement when prioritising competing demands.

• A proactive mindset, anticipating needs and taking ownership with minimal direction.

• Discretion and professionalism when handling confidential or sensitive information.

• Strong Microsoft 365 skills, including PowerPoint, with an interest in using AI and digital tools to improve effectiveness and efficiency.

• A fair and competitive salary evaluated against market data, annual discretionary bonus scheme, pension, life assurance, 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays and enhanced family leave.

• Commitment and dedication to your ongoing personal and professional development. We help you to own and grow your potential so you can be at your best in your current role and to support your future career aspirations.

• You will have access to a wealth of employee discounts across the Halfords suite of products and services.

• Wellbeing and inclusion are at the heart of our colleague experience. We offer resources and ongoing support to enhance your wellbeing at work and active Colleague Networks supporting inclusion initiatives across Halfords.

Not sure you meet all the criteria? We'd encourage you to take the wheel and apply anyway! At Halfords we are committed to creating an inclusive workplace for our colleagues. We're an equal opportunities employer and proud to welcome applications from all backgrounds and embrace diversity within our one Halfords Family.

This is a hybrid role, with three days per week based at our Support Centre in Redditch. As a key partner to the Managing Director, you'll also spend time visiting garages / hubs and supporting events across the business, helping you build strong relationships, understand operational priorities and stay close to the colleagues and customers at the heart of our success.