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Senior Talent Acquisition Executive @ JD Sports | Recruitment for UK & Europe
Established in 1981 with a single store in the Northwest of England, the JD Group is a leading omni-channel retailer of Sports Fashion, Outdoors and Gyms with our colleagues working in stores across several retail fascias in many markets around the world.
JD Sports Fashion Plc was listed on the London Stock Exchange in 1996 and has been a FTSE100 publicly quoted company since 2019 and continues to grow in the UK and internationally.
We want to be the leading global omnichannel retailer in the sports and outdoor industry. To be a part of this successful company and help us to achieve this you will have the desire to ingrain our strategic goals of being a people-led, innovative and customer-focused organisation which provides operational excellence whilst identifying new areas of growth as part of our day to day objectives.
Key Duties/Responsibilities
* Diary management for the CEO of JD’s Outdoors Estate
* General administration duties for the CEO – I.e. typing, filing etc.
* Responsible for all UK and International travel as and when required.
* Maintain all holidays’ requests and absences.
* Responsible for monitoring all cost centre charges and ensuring all information is correct and charge to the correct cost centre.
* Booking meetings both internally and externally.
* Responsible for the organisation of all new employee stationary and equipment i.e. company laptop/phone/PC.
* Ensuring staff expenses are recording and submitted on time.
* Responsible for ordering and returning of foreign currency for all overseas travel.
* Responsible for ensuring all DHL orders are collected and distributed accordingly to the relevant teams.
* Be the main point of contact for all IT and Maintenance queries.
* Responsible for the distribution of all invoices for the accounts department to ensure they are distributed to the correct departments accordingly.
* Dealing with both e-mail and phone queries from both customers and suppliers.
* Provide cover for other PA’s when necessary.
Skills/Experience/Knowledge Needed
* Strong communication skills, both written and oral.
* Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Office – Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Publisher.
* Ability to work on own initiative as well as part of a team.
* Previous experience within a similar role is advantageous.
* Previous experience working with Directors/Senior Management is advantageous, however, not essential.
* Willingness to make working relationships both internally as well as externally.
We know our colleagues work tirelessly to make JD Sports the success it is today and in turn, we offer them some amazing benefits including staff Discount On JD Group and other brands within the organisation and personal development opportunities to learn and develop at work.
Thank you for your time
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Seniority level
* Seniority level
Executive
Employment type
* Employment type
Full-time
Job function
* Job function
Administrative
* Industries
Retail
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