Team PA

Behind every effective leadership team is exceptional coordination, organisation, and support.

At BRE, we’re looking for a Team PA to play a key role in supporting senior stakeholders and ensuring the smooth day-to-day running of our Leadership Team activities. This is a dynamic and varied position at the heart of the organisation, where strong organisation, communication, and attention to detail make a real difference.

From managing complex diaries and coordinating meetings to supporting projects and handling sensitive information, this role is central to maintaining efficiency, enabling productivity, and ensuring everything runs seamlessly behind the scenes.

Help BRE make buildings safer and more sustainable!

BRE aims to be the world’s leading innovation, science and data hub for the built environment. For more than a century, we have provided government and industry with cutting-edge research and testing. Join us to help deliver products, advice, services, standards and qualifications used around the globe to make buildings better for people and the environment. Through science-led solutions to urgent challenges, we will build a thriving and sustainable world.

Your role at BRE

The Team PA provides comprehensive administrative and operational support to Leadership Team members within BRE, ensuring effective coordination, organisation, and delivery of day-to-day activities.

Key Responsibilities and Tasks

• Manage complex diaries, scheduling meetings and coordinating multiple stakeholders

• Prepare meeting agendas, collate materials, and ensure participants are briefed in advance

• Coordinate domestic and international travel arrangements

• Provide general office and operational support, including meeting logistics and resource management

• Support the preparation of leadership reports, review packs, and departmental updates

• Organise and manage team meetings and events from planning through to delivery

• Draft, review, and format documents, reports, and communications

• Attend meetings where required, take minutes, and track actions to completion

• Manage shared inboxes and respond to communications on behalf of the team where appropriate

• Provide administrative support for expenses, invoices, and purchase requisitions

• Maintain organised documentation, filing systems, and shared drives

• Track actions, deadlines, and deliverables, ensuring timely follow-up

• Support onboarding activities for new team members

• Coordinate cross-functional activities and support internal stakeholder engagement

• Handle confidential and sensitive information in line with organisational requirements

• Identify and support improvements to processes and administrative efficiency

What we are looking for

• Proven experience providing administrative or PA support to teams or senior stakeholders in a professional environment

• Strong organisational and coordination skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines

• Experience managing complex diaries, meetings, and travel arrangements

• Ability to prepare, format, and proofread high-quality documents, reports, and communications

• Strong attention to detail, ensuring accuracy and consistency across all outputs

• Experience supporting meetings, including agenda preparation, minute taking, and action tracking

• Ability to manage shared inboxes and coordinate timely and accurate communications

• Experience supporting operational tasks such as expenses, invoices, and purchase requisitions

• Strong stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability to build effective working relationships

• Experience coordinating events, projects, or cross-functional activities

• Ability to maintain organised documentation, filing systems, and shared drives

• Strong written and verbal communication skills

• Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications, including Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint

• Ability to support continuous improvement and enhance administrative efficiency

• Commitment to maintaining professionalism, discretion, and operational excellence within

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BRE Benefits

At BRE, we offer a competitive salary, reviewed annually, along with a comprehensive benefits package designed to support your financial security, well-being, and career development.

Financial & Security Benefits

• Pension scheme – 5% employer-matched contribution

• Life assurance – 4x your basic salary

• Enhanced maternity package

Health & Wellbeing

• HealthPartners cashback scheme – Reclaim costs on prescriptions, physiotherapy, dental care, and more

• Onsite facilities – Restaurant, nursery, and free parking, including at-cost EV charging points

Career Development

• Learning & development – Free access to BRE Academy and our online learning platform

• Professional membership reimbursement

For full details on our benefits, visit: BRE Employee Benefits

Work Location Options

Hybrid – This role offers a mix of home and office working. You will need to be within commuting distance of our Watford or Glasgow office, as you will be expected to attend in person (1-2 times per week).

Our Recruitment Process

As part of our recruitment process we will be conducting 10-30 minute phone screening calls via an AI recruiter called Ryan with all shortlisted candidates. The information gathered from this screening will be used to help assess your suitability for the position.

Note to Employment Agencies

At BRE, we value the relationships we have built with our preferred recruitment partners. We do not accept unsolicited CVs from employment agencies. Any CVs submitted directly to a BRE employee or hiring manager without a signed BRE Employment Agency Agreement and an active engagement for the specific role will be considered unsolicited. In such cases, no fees will be payable should the candidate be hired through this or any other means.

Equal Opportunities Statement

BRE is an equal opportunities employer. We assess all qualified applicants based on merit and do not discriminate on the grounds of race, colour, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other legally protected characteristics.

Department

Executive team

Locations

Watford

Remote status

Hybrid

Yearly salary

£35,000 - £40,000

About BRE

BRE contributes to a thriving and sustainable world by developing science-led solutions to built environment challenges. Our vision is to be the world-leading innovation, science, and data hub for the built environment. We’re ambitious in terms of quality and global scope. We want governments and commercial markets to recognise us and demand our services, products and solutions. We want to be world-class, innovative, science-led and provide solutions.