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About the Role

We are seeking a Personal Assistant to support our Chairman, Killian Hurley, with personal, business, property, and philanthropic commitments. This role involves more than just diary management and travel booking; it requires someone who thrives on making things run smoothly, bringing order to complexity, and anticipating needs. You will become a trusted support, ensuring priorities advance, details are managed, and nothing important is overlooked. Your responsibilities will include gathering information, preparing for meetings, and following through on actions. You might research upcoming meetings, coordinate personal commitments, manage property matters, or proactively solve issues.

Responsibilities

Support the Chairman across personal, business, property, and philanthropic commitments.
Manage diary and book travel.
Make things run smoothly for the Chairman.
Bring order to complexity.
Stay one step ahead and anticipate needs.
Become a trusted support across a mix of commitments.
Ensure priorities keep moving forward.
Take care of details and ensure nothing important falls through the cracks.
Gather information.
Prepare for meetings.
Follow through on actions to completion.
Research upcoming meetings and prepare briefing notes.
Coordinate personal commitments.
Manage property matters.
Solve issues proactively.

Requirements

3–5 years' experience in a PA, EA, project coordination, office management, or similar role.
Potential to grow into a trusted long-term partner to the Chairman.
Curiosity, initiative, sound judgement, and a genuine willingness to take ownership.
Consistently goes beyond what's expected.
Takes responsibility for making things happen.
Enjoys staying one step ahead.
Enjoys taking ownership.
Enjoys making life run smoothly for someone else.

Skills

Diary management
Travel booking
Information gathering
Meeting preparation
Action follow-through
Research
Coordination
Problem-solving
Initiative
Judgement
Ownership

Location

London

Work Type

Full-time

Experience Level

3-5 years

Benefits

Private medical insurance through Vitality (including discounts on spa breaks, cinema tickets, food shopping, free Starbucks, 50% off Virgin Active Membership).
Income Protection Insurance.
Life Assurance equivalent to four times salary.
25 days annual leave & Bank Holidays.
Enhanced maternity and paternity leave.
Workplace nursery salary sacrifice.
Learning culture.
Opportunity to make a real difference.
Low hierarchy and politics.

About the Company

Mount Anvil has partnered for 31 years to create outstanding places in London.
The company is growing, with construction turnover doubling and a pipeline of new projects.
Mission: To pursue better, differently.
Recognized as one of The Sunday Times’ “100 Best Small Companies to Work For” for over a decade.
Award winner for people and home quality.
Culture is unusual: more transparent, direct feedback, rigorous goal setting with freedom to achieve.
Hires "learn-it-alls" over "know-it-alls".
Focuses on hiring individuals who thrive on context and responsibility, working like owner managers.