Personal Assistant

About the role:

We have an exciting opportunity for a Personal Assistant to join our Risk and Disputes practice group working within the Construction team in Birmingham.

Within this role, you will be responsible for providing proactive and high-quality administrative support, helping deliver seamless legal services to clients. You will support the effective management of day-to-day workloads, build a strong understanding of client requirements, and develop trusted relationships to ensure exceptional service and support.

About you:

We're looking for someone who is organised, proactive and takes pride in delivering a high standard of support. You'll be confident using Microsoft Office applications and comfortable picking up new systems and processes.

You'll have excellent communication and organisational skills, strong attention to detail, and a professional but approachable manner. You'll be able to manage competing priorities, build effective working relationships and remain calm under pressure, even when working to tight deadlines.

The successful candidate will be someone who takes ownership, uses their initiative and approaches challenges with a practical, solutions-focused mindset. You'll be dependable, collaborative and adaptable, with the ability to quickly build trust and credibility with colleagues, clients and stakeholders.

What We Can Offer You:

The opportunity to work for a firm which has been recognised as one of the best places to work in the UK and has been ranked by Great Place to Work® for 26 consecutive years.

Excellent benefits, including:

• A hybrid approach to office and remote working
• 25 days annual leave plus Bank Holidays, with the option to buy up to a week's extra annual leave
• Free private medical insurance, and the option to add family members
• A generous pension allowance
• Life assurance covering four times your annual salary
• The chance of a three-month sabbatical every five years
• Maternity, paternity and adoption leave schemes
• A range of health and wellbeing programmes
• State of the art offices, in the heart of Birmingham City Centre, with an onsite restaurant
• Opportunities to flourish in your role through training and personal development

Equal Opportunities:

Gowling WLG is committed both to promoting equality and diversity in the firm and to Equal Opportunities in employment. The firm believes in equality of opportunity regardless of race or racial group (including colour, nationality, ethnicity, national origins), religion or belief, age, disability, sexual orientation, sex, gender re-assignment and gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, and pregnancy, maternity and paternity. This also includes any incidents of perceptive or associative discrimination and harassment.

At Gowling WLG we seek to attract and retain talented people from a diverse range of backgrounds and cultures, to create an exciting and rewarding place to work. Our aim is to fulfil everyone's potential and together to achieve personal and business goals.

If you have any queries in relation to this position or would like to see a full job description please contact Meg Astley at meg.astley@gowlingwlg.com