Leadership Team Assistant - 12 month FTC

What’s in it for you

We’re all about the little helps. That’s why we make sure our Tesco colleague benefits package takes care of you – both in and out of work. Click Here to find out more!

• Annual bonus scheme of up to 10% of base salary
• Holiday starting at 25 days plus a personal day (plus Bank holidays)
• 26 weeks maternity and adoption leave (after 1 years’ service) at full pay, followed by 13 weeks of Statutory Maternity Pay or Statutory Adoption Pay, we also offer 6 weeks fully paid paternity leave
• Free 24/7 virtual GP service, Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) for you and your family, free access to a range of experts to support your mental wellbeing

About the role

As a Leadership Team Assistant, you will support multiple Tesco Business Leaders and Directors to achieve their priorities through proactive and effective diary management. You will also provide flexible, cross‑functional support to colleagues, ensuring that all Business Leaders and Directors receive a consistent, high‑quality level of service.

You will be responsible for

• Proactively and efficiently managing the diaries of multiple Business Leaders and Directors, organising and prioritising their time to maximise efficiency and support business priorities.
• Prioritising and completing tasks in a fast‑paced, ever‑changing environment, ensuring all stakeholders receive a prompt, accurate, and high‑quality service.
• Arranging meetings ranging from 1:1s to complex, multi‑stakeholder sessions, taking full accountability for locations and ensuring all required details are accurately recorded in diaries.
• Identifying and flagging critical emails where lack of response could pose a business or operational risk.
• Encouraging and fostering a culture of self‑service, enabling Business Leaders and Directors to operate confidently while allowing focus on core LTA responsibilities.
• Coordinating national and international travel with third‑party providers, always seeking the most cost‑effective, simple, and efficient options.
• Partnering with the Events team to support the planning and delivery of large‑scale events for supported Business Leaders and Directors.
• Managing administrative tasks, including raising purchase orders, processing visa applications, and submitting expense claims on behalf of leaders.
• Identifying, sourcing, and working with external agencies, ensuring strong value for money and quality of service.

Flexible, cross‑functional support

• Providing capacity to support Business Leaders and Directors across all office functions, including absence and peak‑time cover for colleagues.
• Operating within a dynamic support model that enables the reallocation of services across divisions as required, ensuring efficient use of resources in line with changing business priorities and demands.

You will need

• Strong relationship‑building skills, with the ability to work effectively with senior stakeholders and build trust quickly.
• Excellent organisational skills, including forward planning and a high level of attention to detail.
• The ability to prioritise and complete multiple tasks in an ever‑changing, fast‑paced environment.
• Strong, clear, and effective communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Confident and efficient administrative skills, with experience handling a wide range of support tasks.
• Proficiency in MS Office and Outlook, with extensive experience in complex diary management.
• Extensive experience supporting multiple senior Directors is essential

About us

You might know us as a supermarket, technology company or even for our award-winning mobile network. Truth is, we’re all of those things, and much more. Our colleagues work with one goal in mind, helping to make every day a little better for our customers, colleagues and communities all over the world. No two customers are the same, neither are our colleagues.

At Tesco, we champion a balance that lets you thrive both in and out of work. Spend 60% of your week collaborating with colleagues at our office locations or local sites and the rest remotely. Whether you're just kicking off your career, juggling passions, or navigating big life events, we're here to support you. We always welcome a conversation about flexible working, so talk to us throughout your application about how we can support.

We're proud to be an accredited Disability Confident Leader, where everyone’s welcome. That’s why we commit to providing a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process. If you need support with your application, click here for more information. And if you're interested in joining our team but don't tick every box, don't let that hold you back from applying