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There will be a requirement to travel to National Highways locations to facilitate regional meetings, departmental awaydays and group activities.\nDiary Management including day-to-day meetings, travel planning and expenses.\nAct as the first point of contact for the Directors, assist managing mail and calls, ensuring that these are prioritised, deadlines are considered, and appropriate action is taken.\nUndertake ad hoc administrative duties as and when required, ensuring accurate, timely delivery.\nArrange meetings and events giving effective and efficient use of time and cost; maintain and update action logs for all meetings and ensure adherence to company policies. \nProactively manage personal workload in a way which is efficient and effective. \nAbout you.\nExperience of producing high-quality correspondence, reports, presentations and meeting minutes with accuracy.\nExperience of prioritising, planning and coordinating meetings, events, travel arrangements with changing deadlines. \nAbility to use office software products to produce and maintain a range of documents and spreadsheets.\nDemonstrable ability to handle confidential and sensitive information with discretion and professionalism. \nExperience of supporting senior managers, directors or senior leadership teams within a large and complex organisation. \nAbout us.\nHere at National Highways, we manage and improve England’s motorways and major A roads, helping our customers have safer, smoother and more reliable journeys. 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