Business Support Manager

• Business Support Manager
• Salary is £38,000 to £42,000, Dependant on Experience
• 37.5 Hours Per Week
• Monday to Friday
• This is a Hybrid role in the London area with the office in Hemel Hampstead

Are you an organised and proactive business support professional who thrives in a fast paced environment and enjoys working across multiple business functions? We are looking for an experienced Business Support Manager to provide high level support to our Chief Operating Officers and wider leadership team, playing a key role in the smooth running of our growing healthcare business.

This is a varied and rewarding position suited to someone with a strong background in business support, executive administration, project coordination, bids and tenders, compliance, and stakeholder management. You will be confident managing competing priorities, coordinating senior leadership and board activities, supporting quality and health and safety processes, overseeing framework renewals, and producing high quality business documentation.

With exceptional attention to detail, strong Microsoft Office skills, and the ability to work independently, you will act as a trusted central point of coordination across the organisation, helping to drive operational excellence and support strategic business objectives.

What You'll Do

• Support the Chief Operating Officers with significant projects
• Support the preparation, formatting and submission of tender and bid responses using standard templates and procurement portals.
• Coordinate Health and Safety, Quality Management and compliance activities, including meeting organisation, minute taking and document control.
• Coordinate Senior Leadership Team, Management Review and Board meetings, including preparation of papers and supporting documentation.
• Oversee onboarding of new employees
• Support marketing and communications activities, including event coordination, website updates, presentations and branded materials.
• Prepare, format and quality check business reports, proposals and other key documentation.
• Coordinate framework renewals, compliance submissions and business governance requirements, ensuring all documentation is completed within agreed timescales.
• Manage the out source IT relationships

What You Bring

• Previous experience in an administrative role, experience in a busy environment.
• Experience of being proactive and reactive
• Attention to detail and accuracy with the ability to coordinate workloads
• Good IT skills with the ability to produce excel spreadsheets, including excellent MS Office Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook
• Ability to prioritise own workload and work to strict deadlines
• A flexible “can do” attitude is required for this role.
• Self starter and self motivated with ability to prioritise and schedule work under conflicting pressures
• Previous experience using SharePoint

What we offer

Working with Sodexo is more than a job; it’s a chance to be part of something greater. You’ll belong in a company and team that values you for you; you’ll act with purpose and have an impact through your everyday actions; and you’ll be able to thrive in your own way. In addition, we also offer a range of resources, rewards and benefits for our colleagues and their families:

• Unlimited access to an online platform offering mental health and wellbeing support.
• Employee Assistance Programme to help with everyday issues or larger problems where you may need additional support, including legal and financial advice, support with work related issues or personal issues such as bereavement.
• Access to a free health and wellbeing app that provides rewards for maintaining a healthy lifestyle and includes access to a 24hr virtual GP and various other services.
• The Sodexo Discounts Scheme, offering great deals 24/7 (also open to friends and family) and/or the prepayment cashback card.
• Money Insights and financial benefits via the Salary Finance Platform.
• Save for your future by becoming a member of the Sodexo Retirement Plan
• A Death in Service benefit for colleagues who pass away whilst employed by Sodexo
• Opportunities to enable colleagues to grow and succeed throughout their career at Sodexo, including a variety of learning and development tools.
• Cycle to Work Scheme to help colleagues to do their bit for the environment whilst keeping fit.
• Volunteering Opportunities to enable all colleagues to help support worthwhile causes in our communities.
• Flexible and dynamic work environment
• Competitive compensation
• Full training and full protective uniform supplied.

Ready to be part of something greater? Apply today! Career progression for the caring profession.

Sodexo reserves the right to close this advertisement early if we are in receipt of a high volume of applications.

About Sodexo

At Sodexo, our purpose is to create a better every day for everyone to build a better life for all. As the global leader in services that improve the Quality of Life, we operate in 55 countries, serving over 100 million consumers each day through our unique combination of Onsite Food and FM Services, Benefits and Rewards Services and Personal and Home Services.

We are committed to being an inclusive employer. We are a forces friendly employer. We welcome and encourage applications from people with a diverse variety of experiences, backgrounds, and identities. We encourage our employees to get involved with our Employee Networks such as Pride, Sodexo Parents and Carers, Sodexo Disability, Ability network, So Together, Generations and Origins.

We’re a Disability Confident Leader employer. We’re committed to changing attitudes towards disability, and making sure disabled people have the chance to fulfil their aspirations. We run a Disability Confident interview scheme for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria for the job.

Click here to read more about what we do to promote an inclusive culture.

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