ARE YOU LOOKING FOR A CHANGE OF DIRECTION? We are looking for a skilled hairdresser (who can colour, cut and style), to work directly for our CEO, as their personal hairdresser and personal assistant. You should be able to commute easily (by car) to the CEO's private home near Thatcham, West Berkshire, as you would expect to be flexi working - remote working where possible once you are fully comfortable with the duties and tasks.
Package Offered
- £20,000 - £26,000 gross per year
- Christmas Bonus
- Career Progression and Salary growth
Background
We provide a specialist service in domestic staff recruitment and domestic staff training. We work with a global network of clients in private homes, hotels, restaurants, chalets, and yachts. We approach our services from a unique and fresh perspective. It’s not the bottom line that drives us, but the desire to satisfy and provide the very best service we can to our clients.
Our much loved personal assistant is moving on to a new London based role, so we are looking to fill this position. You will be assisting the CEO, and then assisting with daily admin tasks in the company, such as digital marketing and daily recruitment administration.
Duties
If you are a quick learner (this would be assessed during the interview), then we are happy to hear from you! You MUST be excellent at computers/IT. You should also have an excellent phone manner and personal presentation. You will be given training and shadow the colleagues working.
You should be a hairdresser who can colour, cut and style the CEO when she is working in the video and film shoots for media which she regularly does. You would be expected to help stay on top of her hair needs each week.
- Assisting with hair for media, filming days (which is typically once or twice a month).
- Outside of the hairdressing, you will be expected to be a personal assistant for the CEO, dealing with all her personal administration and daily duties, dealing with payroll, all the personal tasks such as booking holidays and you should be excellent at administration and be very organised and flexible
- Teamwork with the other consultants and staff who work with Polo & Tweed
- Personal assistant to the CEO
- Tasks set by the CEO
- Research when needed by the CEO
- Problem-solving
- Replying to emails
- Research new online media opportunities that may benefit the business including mobile, social media, development of blogs and forums
- Communicate with users and follows on social media, affiliate networks and affiliate partners
- Contribute to social media engagement and brand awareness campaigns
- Keep up to date with current digital trends
Location
Once you have completed your training, you will be working Monday to Friday at the CEO's home office based near Thatcham, West Berkshire. With the option to work remotely two days a week as per diary allows (on Tuesday and Friday).
Days/Hours
Monday to Friday, 9am - 5:30pm. Plus 1 hour additional flexi time each day (including the weekends) to respond to comments and engage with users on our social media accounts (first thing, mid day, and late evenings). You will expect to commute each day to the CEO's home near Thatcham, West Berkshire. Once you are up and running you may drop down days to remote working, as the CEO is flexible as long as the duties are done, this can be remote if you can achieve the tasks. Typically you’ll be in the office with the CEO on Monday, Wednesday and Thursday, with remote working on Tuesday and Friday.
Languages
You should speak a very high standard of English and be able to communicate in both written and spoken language to the highest degree of professionalism. You will be assessed on your written and spoken communication skills as part of the assessment process.
Special Skills
You must have an excellent phone personality. You should speak clear English. You must be excellent at admin, and organisational paperwork, and dealing with daily admin. You should be able to cut, colour and style long hair.
Interview/Start date
We are interviewing now for an immediate start - we are recruiting safely within the COVID-19 regulations.