Business Support Assistant

Business Support Assistant

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Negotiable
Inside
Remote
Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
Business Support Assistant (Office Secretary) - Bristol/Glasgow or Birmingham

We are looking for a Business Support Assistant to join our MMB Business on a 12 Month Fixed Term Contract. You will be an essential part of a highly skilled team by collaborating with our client facing colleagues, providing administrative support to consultants and teams.

You will provide administrative support services to professional and management staff, scheduling meetings, travel and creating documents using PowerPoint, Excel, and Word to ensure all documents produced adhere to established standards.

This is a great role for an experienced administrator looking to progress into a Secretarial role to gain invaluable experience within a large Corporate employer.

What can you expect?

  • An opportunity to join an established team
  • A platform to build on existing knowledge and an opportunity to learn new skills in a continuous improvement environment
  • To build and maintain an excellent rapport with our clients, providers and colleagues across the Group

What you will be rewarded with?

  • We offer competitive salaries and comprehensive benefits.
  • We also support programmes including: health & welfare, tuition assistance, pension, employee assistance program, career mobility, employee network groups and volunteer opportunities.

We will rely on you to:

  • To create documentation using PowerPoint, Excel and Word
  • To schedule Zoom meetings, including the co-ordination of set up requirements to optimize management workflow
  • To process expenses, book meetings, and format documentation
  • Be highly professional with a proven ability to work in a consultative and collaborative manner
  • Team player with strong interpersonal skills
  • Self-starter
  • Results-driven with the persistence to get things done
  • Takes ownership by focusing on quality and timeliness of delivery
  • Aptitude for problem solving, with the ability to apply logic and experience to assist with the development of solutions for clients
  • Intellectual curiosity and commitment to learning and growth
  • Articulate and well organised

What you need to have:

  • Intermediate Microsoft Office proficiency. You will mainly use Word, PowerPoint, Excel and Outlook.
  • Strong communication skills. You will collaborate with colleagues who are remote so the ability to communicate effectively is key.
  • Exceptional time management skills. Although this role is highly collaborative, your work is also self-directed so you will need to effectively manage your time.
  • Ability to multi-task to meet deadlines.
  • Attention to detail is critical to ensure we re providing accurate information to stakeholders

What makes you stand out:

  • Proficiency with Microsoft Office products
  • Organisational and time management skills
  • Ability to multi-task
  • Attention to detail

About Us

Mercer provides insights, advice and technology-driven solutions to help build brighter futures for our clients, colleagues and communities. Together, we re redefining the world of work, reshaping retirement and investment outcomes, and unlocking real health and well-being.

Mercer s more than 25,000 employees are based in 44 countries, and the firm operates in over 130 countries.

Mercer is a business of Marsh & McLennan Companies (NYSE: MMC), the world s leading professional services firm in the areas of risk, strategy and people, with 76,000 colleagues and annualized revenue approaching $17 billion. Through its market-leading businesses, including Marsh, Guy Carpenter and Oliver Wyman, Marsh & McLennan helps clients navigate an increasingly dynamic and complex environment.

Marsh & McLennan Companies and its affiliates aim to attract and retain the best people regardless of their gender expression or identity, marital and civil partnership status, ethnic origin, nationality, age, background, disability, sexual orientation or beliefs.

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