Overview
Personal Assistant – Leeds, LS11 5AD
Job Title
Personal Assistant
Location
Asda House
Employment Type
Full time
Contract Type
Permanent
Hours Per Week
37.5
Salary
Competitive salary plus benefits.
Category
Clerical Services
Closing Date
4 November 2025
“Find your role”
As a Personal Assistant supporting Vice Presidents here at Asda you will work closely with them to support in the delivery of their roles and help them to achieve their strategic priorities and business goals.
Extensive management of multiple diaries and organisation of meetings including, preparing papers ahead of meetings, ensuring actions are dealt with and general support
Liaising on behalf of your VP with suppliers and stakeholders both within the business and externally.
Build a network specifically with the Executive Assistants and other Personal Assistants to enable the delivery of great service to the Asda Exec Team.
Daily liaison with PAs and senior stakeholders, offering support for other PAs across the business and occasional cover for other PA’s.
Manage the content and flow of confidential and commercially sensitive information including reviewing and actioning emails (where possible) to enable timely decision-making.
Arranging logistics and itineraries associated with national & international travel including visa’s where relevant.
Work cross functionally with the events team to organise meetings, events & conferences to ensure all events are a success.
Managing key meetings by confirming agendas, attendance, minute taking and collating key actions and next steps.
“Let’s find out about you”
Significant experience as a PA, preferably in a large, complex organisation.
Highly organised and able to work at pace in a fast paced and constantly evolving environment.
Experience of complex diary management & interaction with multiple stakeholders.
Ability to build supportive, professional relationships with stakeholders at all levels
The ability to plan and organise, providing support with efficiency and effectiveness
MS Office / Outlook experience.
Trustworthy and maturity to maintain a high degree of confidentiality.
Energetic & self-reliant with a creative approach to solving problems / clashes / multiple commitments.
Pace and agility to react to changing business priorities
Be able to commit to be based out of our Leeds Head Office a minimum of 3 days a week, and flexibility to mirror your vice presidents ‘in office’ schedule.
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Everything you’ll love
To ensure we balance moments where we know we need to collaborate together and the need for flexibility, Asda has a hybrid way of working with a minimum 3 days a week in one of our Home Offices.Over and above this, each area of Asda may have additional requirements which may require spending more days in the office, visiting suppliers, stores or depots.
You will also get an excellent benefits package including:
- Discretionary company bonus
- Company pension up to 7% matched
- 15% colleague discount in store and online
- Free access to wellbeing services such as Wagestream, 24/7 virtual GP, counselling, health and dental cash plans and a 24/7 employee assistance helpline, alongside discounts across a range of services and activities, from airport parking, enhanced to theme parks and cinemas.
- Asda Allies Inclusion Networks – helping colleagues to make sure everybody is included and that our differences are recognised and celebrated
- Excellent parental leave policies, including maternity & adoption leave, paternity leave, shared parental leave, neonatal care leave, and support for those doing fertility treatments.
We want all colleagues to be able to bring their best and true selves to work, every day. Simply put, we want our colleagues to be Proud to be Asda and proud to be themselves
