Executive Assistant

Tayto Group are the UK's largest, privately-owned Crisp and Snack manufacturer, and the 3rd largest player in savoury snacks in the UK, with a turnover of more than £250. We’re home to iconic brands including Golden Wonder, Mr Porky, REAL Crisps and Tayto. We’re also the UK’s leading supplier of private label snacks – maybe even your supermarket favourite! Our brand heritage spans over 75 years, and we’re always committed to delivering the lunchbox staples, pub favourites, and ‘who ate the last pack?’ moments that we all remember.

We're looking for an exceptional Executive Assistant to provide proactive, confidential and professional support to our CEO and senior leadership team.

This is a fantastic opportunity for a highly organised, commercially aware and polished professional who thrives in a fast-paced environment and enjoys being at the heart of business operations. You'll play a critical role in helping senior leaders maximise their effectiveness, ensuring priorities are managed efficiently and key business activities run smoothly.

Let’s get a flavour of the role

As Executive Assistant, you'll act as a trusted partner to the CEO and leadership team, managing complex schedules, coordinating key meetings and supporting strategic business initiatives. You'll be a central point of contact for both internal and external stakeholders, handling sensitive information with discretion while maintaining the highest professional standards.

• Proactively manage complex diaries, schedules and inboxes, ensuring executive time is aligned to business priorities
• Coordinate leadership and executive meetings, including agenda preparation, meeting logistics, minute taking and action tracking
• Prepare, review and format reports, presentations, briefing packs and board papers to a high professional standard, and transforming complex information into clear, engaging and executive-level content
• Draft correspondence and communications on behalf of senior leaders
• Support business projects by maintaining action logs, tracking milestones and coordinating stakeholder inputs
• Arrange travel, accommodation, itineraries, expenses and hospitality in line with company policy
• Build effective working relationships with stakeholders across all levels of the organisation
• Support executive office administration, events, site visits and visitor management
• Handle confidential and commercially sensitive information with professionalism and sound judgement

Key Ingredients (what we’d like to see)

• Experience within an Executive Assistant, Personal Assistant or senior administrative support role, so comfortable working with senior stakeholders up to board level and supporting leadership meetings
• Highly organised with exceptional diary management and prioritisation skills
• An excellent communicator with outstanding written and verbal communication skills
• Skilled in producing agendas, minutes, reports and executive-level presentations by using your advanced skills in Microsoft Office/MS365, particularly Outlook, Word, Excel and PowerPoint, and if you have experience in using MS Business Central, we’d be happy to see it, even if it’s not essential
• Proactive, solutions-focused and able to work independently.
• Detail-oriented, adaptable and calm under pressure
• Exposure to project coordination, PMO support, action tracking and milestone reporting.
• Experience working within a fast-paced manufacturing, FMCG or corporate environment.

Nutritional Information (our benefits)

In addition to your salary, you’ll have access to the following benefits:

• Company shop membership*
• Subsidised Canteen
• Free onsite parking
• Employee Assistance Program providing mental health, financial and practical support to our employees through Grocery Aid
• Company Pension Scheme
• Life Assurance
• 25 days annual leave plus the option to purchase up to 5 additional days each year once your probation period is complete

*proof of employment required

Here at Tayto, we know it takes every flavour to make a decent variety pack, and the more the better! We want you to feel welcome to be your authentic self, so you and your application will be treated with respect in line with our commitment to privacy, diversity, equity, and inclusion. We’ll also seek to provide reasonable adjustments for interview should they be needed – please contact our recruitment team on Sign in to view email to discuss this.

Ready to make an impact in a role with bags of opportunity? We'd love to hear from you. Apply today to take your first bite!