Business Support Facilitator - 9 month fixed-term contract

If you are interested in supporting a variety of different teams throughout Aster group, then look no further. The Business Support Team has an exciting opportunity to recruit a Business Support Facilitator on a 9-month fixed term contract. The job role will see you giving an extensive range of impressive administrative support to our internal teams.

The Opportunity

To join a well-respected team as a Business Support Facilitator. The Business Support Team was formed in 2018 and has since seen great success and uptake from the business requesting our administrative support. As a team we pride ourselves on our enthusiasm and 'can-do' attitudes, and work collaboratively in providing the various directorates and teams with their support requirements.

We liaise with many colleagues, teams, and levels of seniority, providing us with an ever-growing perspective and profile within Aster.

What you'll be doing

As a Business Support Facilitator, you will be:

Providing effective coordination and support of the Operational Governance Panels.

Facilitating the signing and sealing process.

Raising purchase orders, managing credit card payments, using Concur and undertaking backlog / ad-hoc tasks.

Liaising with key leads across the business to collate timely and accurate Subject Access Request data.

Using and managing systems, and spreadsheet creation and upkeep.

Responding quickly and effectively to support requests via Service Now.

Ordering of prints, sundries, and maintaining relationships with suppliers.

Taking accurate minutes for various meetings including senior level meetings., We invest in our colleagues because we know if they have a better day at work, the service our customers receive will be better. The Aster Offer is our offer to our colleagues to ensure they have a great day at work and includes things like:

Flexible working - whilst some roles need to be carried out in a specific place at a specific time, where possible we encourage our colleagues to work to their own schedule at a location that suits them, their team and our business' needs

A focus on colleague wellbeing - workshops, an employee assistance programme offering counselling and support, mental health training and a health cash plan

We invest in colleagues' careers and development through our leader and colleague development frameworks

Defined Contribution Pension and attached life assurance

Volunteering hours available to all colleagues to enable them to give back

Savings at cinemas, gyms, holidays, days out, various shops and eateries and lots more

Enhanced leave

We celebrate colleagues who go above and beyond with a range of personalised recognition initiatives

You'll have excellent written and verbal communication skills and be comfortable working with people from all levels internally and externally.

You'll either possess previous minute-taking experience, or excellent spelling and grammar.

You'll have good computer literacy, especially in Microsoft software.

You'll work flexibly and manage your diverse workload effectively, both as an individual and collaboratively as a team.

You'll have experience of working towards tight deadlines effectively.

You'll have a full UK drivers' licence and will be happy to travel to our local offices across Hampshire and Wiltshire at least two times a month. There may be a requirement to travel further afield on an infrequent basis.

All candidates will be required to verify their right to work in the UK prior to commencement of employment with the Aster Group & it's subsidiary brands.