Executive Assistant in London/Hybrid - National Employment Savings Trust (NEST)

London/Hybrid

£37,000 - £40,000 (depending on experience)

Permanent

Not Specified

37.5 Working Hours - (Flexible)

13 Jun 2025

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Role Overview

We’re looking for an experienced Executive Assistant, to provide and hands-on support to the Chief Technology and Operations Officer (CTOO) . You will responsible for complex diary management , and all the other bespoke administrative support that provides the essential basis to our CTOO's work (for example; preparing papers, screening and managing the CTOO's inbox). You will have excellent relationship building skills, handling internal and external queries in a timely manner and take responsibility for discrete pieces of work or projects on behalf of the senior management

The CTOO is a member of the Executive committee and play a key role in helping to deliver Nest purpose and strategy, taking on responsibility for enterprise-wide technology and data strategies, as well as the operational delivery of the customer experience through Tata Consultant Services (TCS) our outsourced scheme administrator while driving delivery of change activity across Nest.

We are open to discussing working patterns.

We welcome all internal applicants to apply for our roles, regardless of your current working pattern or hours. We will aim to accommodate your request and match your current working arrangements.

Don't worry if you think you don't have all the key skills, it might be worth taking the few minutes to apply as we're good at spotting potential and offer a generous training budget.

Please download a full job description to find a full scope, deliverables, experience and personal attributes required for this role.

Reward and recognition

A discretionary bonus scheme
Reward and recognition scheme
Enhanced auto enrolled pension – your contributions start at the default 5% while ours are higher at 8%. If you up your contributions to 6% we raise ours to 9%. If you contribute 7% or more we’ll contribute 10%.
Income protection scheme – is an insurance benefit that provides you with income if you cannot work due to illness or incapacity.

Click here to see the benefits we offer at Nest.

Flexible and agile working

Everyone's personal situation is different.

To make the most out of hybrid working, we've introduced different ways of working, which include (subject to role requirements):

hybrid of office (Canary Wharf, London) and home working (there will be an expectation to attend the office, once - twice a week, or more, as required)
reduce or vary working hours
reduce or vary the days worked
work compressed hours
job share

For more information about our recruitment process click here

Directorate/Department Overview

The CTOO area has approx. 100 employees across various teams including:

Operations and Delivery
Central Change, Facilities and Information Technology
Data Analytics and Customer Insight

Organisational Overview

Nest is an award-winning workplace pension scheme, the largest in the country.

Set up by the government to give every worker in the UK somewhere to save, our first-class responsible investment practice and governance are the backbone of what we do, supported by all the functions you’d expect to find in a thriving business. We’re committed to creating a workplace where you can be your authentic self and offer an inclusive and flexible working environment.

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

Everyone is welcome to apply for our roles, and we are determined to ensure that no applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment because of their age, disability, gender identity, marital status, national origin, pregnancy or caring responsibilities, race, religion/belief, sex, sexual orientation or socio economic background.

We also recognise the importance of diversity of thought and other forms of neurocognitive variation.

Nest is a Disability Confident Leader, which is the highest level of the Disability Confident Scheme. If you have disability, declare that you’re applying through the scheme and meet the minimum criteria for this role, we aim to invite you to an interview. However, there may be a few exceptions where we are not able to take all eligible candidates to the next stage due to the volume of applications.

Please note that this advert may close early if we receive a sufficient number of satisfactory applications.

If you have any difficulty in sending your application or need the application pack in an alternative format, or you require any reasonable adjustments please contact: [email protected].

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