Administration Assistant - Manchester Administration Assistant 40 Hours per week Monday to Friday, 09:00 to 16:30 24,071 PA Central Manchester Hospital, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9WL Join our team at Central Manchester Hospital as an Administration Assistant and play a key role in supporting the smooth operation of our facilities. You will be instrumental in maintaining high standards of governance, compliance, and operational performance, ensuring that all Sodexo and Trust policies are seamlessly followed. This role offers a unique opportunity to foster strong communication and collaboration between onsite operations, the Trust, and ProjectCo, helping to deliver exceptional soft services and uphold our commitment to excellence. What You'll Do: Provide comprehensive administrative support to the operational team onsite, ensuring smooth daily operations. Assist team members with meeting deadlines, cover duties as needed, and support various administrative tasks such as diary management, appointment booking, and follow up activities. Manage visitor coordination, including liaising with internal and external guests, hosting visitors, and ensuring high standards of site hospitality. Handle travel and hotel bookings for team members and coordinate the ordering and return of IT hardware, stationery, and other supplies. Maintain accurate records, databases, and documentation systems (e.g., SharePoint, Power BI), including compiling reports, presentations, and contact details. Ensure compliance with company policies through audits and highlight any gaps to the Line Manager; support communication tasks to cascade information internally and externally. Attend meetings and training, complete mandatory training requirements, and support the team in maintaining efficient administrative processes. What You Bring: NVQ Level 2 Business Administration or equivalent. Previous experience of having managed a range of administration support functions. Proficient with Microsoft office applications (including Outlook, Teams, Word, Excel, PowerPoint) Excellent numerical and verbal skills. Excellent communication, organisational and administration skills, including editing and a keen attention to detail. Have worked in an environment where confidentiality is important. Articulate and thorough, showing attention to detail. Ability to be resilient and adaptable. Ability to work both independently and as part of a team. Proactive, demonstrating initiative and anticipates needs. Proven experience within a similar role, working with an extremely busy team and with very high standards. Previous experience in multi country or multicultural teams would be an advantage. Constantly raises the standard and quality of work, benchmarking against best practice. Demonstrates discretion and ability to deal with confidential issues. 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. Sodexo Disability, Ability network, So Together, Generations and Origins.