Senior Personal Assistant

About The Role:

We have a great opportunity for an experienced Personal Assistant to join our Corporate, Finance & Tax Group's ETIP Team (Energy, Transition, Infrastructure & Projects) Team in Birmingham as a Senior Personal Assistant. 

You will be responsible for supporting our lawyers with the day-to-day administration, client management and financial responsibilities. 

As a key support figure in client relationship management, you’ll take ownership of administrative tasks, coordinate meetings and events, and ensure smooth communication across teams. You’ll manage diaries, travel, and documentation, support fee earners with billing and marketing, and maintain service standards. With a proactive and organised approach, you’ll keep operations running efficiently, contribute to team development, and help drive client care excellence.

About You:

We’re looking for a proactive and dependable professional with advanced skills in Microsoft Office and research tools, excellent communication and organisational abilities, and a confident telephone manner. You’ll be comfortable handling routine client queries, prioritising tasks under pressure, and taking initiative when needed. Attention to detail, flexibility, and enthusiasm are key, along with being a strong team player. Experience in a similar role within a Legal Corporate Team is preferred.

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 25 consecutive years. 

Excellent Benefits, Including:

• A hybrid approach to office and remote working.
• 25 days annual leave, 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 Birmingham, 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 

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