Secretary

Secretary - Valuation Services - Bristol/Leeds/Glasgow About Us

We are the leading specialist advisor in the sale and acquisition of businesses

across the hotel, pub, restaurant, childcare, healthcare, convenience retail, leisure, and medical sectors. With over 90 years of industry experience, we provide expert brokerage, valuation, and advisory services to clients across the UK and Europe. Supported by a network of 11 offices in the UK and 11 across Europe, we are committed to delivering exceptional service, maintaining the highest professional standards, and building lasting client relationships through tailored, client-centric solutions.

Purpose of the role

To provide support to the members of the Valuation Services team in the form of secretarial, administrative, PA and reception duties. This person can be based in the Bristol, Leeds or Glasgow office.

About the team

The successful candidate will join a team of nine Support Staff who work closely together to provide assistance to approximately 40 valuers located across the country. Each team member is allocated a small number of valuers; however, responsibilities are often shared across the team, and cross-collaboration is actively encouraged.

Responsibilities

In this role you will:

• Act as a point of contact for team members, senior management, clients and other external partners.
• Provide administrative support to management, including scheduling meetings, managing diaries, and making travel arrangements.
• Deal with telephone and email enquiries;
• Arrange in-house and offsite meetings
• Provide support to client facing team members assisting with client file set-up, compliance and valuation inspections
• Raise fee accounts, update pipelines;
• Maintaining information on the Salesforce system;
• Conducting statutory/regulatory enquiries for valuation instructions using Edozo and other online tools.
• Prepare, format and proof-read documents;
• Prepare presentations using Microsoft PowerPoint;
• Assist with the development of systems and document templates;

What we are looking for

The suitable candidate for this role would bring:

• Minimum of 2 years' experience in a secretarial or admin role.
• A background in the property or legal industry, coupled with experience providing administrative support to a team of valuers, would be highly beneficial.
• Excellent knowledge of Microsoft Office, numerate, audio typing and copy typing skills.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, highly organised, and self-motivated.
• Knowledge of Salesforce would be beneficial.

About you

At Christie & Co, we believe that strong personal relationships are key to creating a successful and supportive working environment. By working collaboratively and supporting one another, we achieve success as a team. Our people are:

• Professional and proactive
• Adaptable and autonomous
• Team-oriented and resilient

What we offer

• Discretionary company profitability bonus
• Holiday carryover & additional Christmas leave
• Life assurance
• Employee wellbeing assistance via Plumm
• "Recommend a Friend" employee referral bonus
• Enhanced family friendly leave
• Cycle to work scheme

Please note we will not be able to sponsor for this position and therefore only invite candidates permanently settled in the UK or not requiring sponsorship

We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified individuals regardless of age, disability, gender, gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, or sexual orientation.