Company:Mercer
Description:
Business Support Assistant (Office Secretary) - Glasgow, Bristol or Birmingham
We are looking for a Business Support Assistant to join our MMB Business. 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
We will count 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
Why join our team:
- We help you be your best through professional development opportunities, interesting work and supportive leaders.
- We foster a vibrant and inclusive culture where you can work with talented colleagues to create new solutions and have impact for colleagues, clients and communities.
- Our scale enables us to provide a range of career opportunities, as well as benefits and rewards to enhance your well-being.
Mercer, a business of Marsh McLennan (NYSE: MMC), is a global leader in helping clients realize their investment objectives, shape the future of work and enhance health and retirement outcomes for their people. Marsh McLennan is a global leader in risk, strategy and people, advising clients in 130 countries across four businesses: Marsh, Guy Carpenter, Mercer and Oliver Wyman. With annual revenue of $24 billion and more than 90,000 colleagues, Marsh McLennan helps build the confidence to thrive through the power of perspective. For more information, visit mercer.com, or follow on LinkedIn and X.Marsh McLennan is committed to embracing a diverse, inclusive and flexible work environment. We aim to attract and retain the best people and embrace diversity of age background, civil partnership status, disability, ethnic origin, family duties, gender orientation or expression, gender reassignment, marital status, nationality, parental status, personal or social status, political affiliation, race, religion and beliefs, sex/gender, sexual orientation or expression, skin color, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. We are an equal opportunities employer. We are committed to providing reasonable adjustments in accordance with applicable law to any candidate with a disability to allow them to fully participate in the recruitment process. If you have a disability that may require reasonable adjustments, please contact us at reasonableaccommodations@mmc.com.
Marsh McLennan is committed to hybrid work, which includes the flexibility of working remotely and the collaboration, connections and professional development benefits of working together in the office. All Marsh McLennan colleagues are expected to be in their local office or working onsite with clients at least three days per week. Office-based teams will identify at least one “anchor day” per week on which their full team will be together in person.
