Business Support Manager- 12 month FTC in Bracknell

Company Description

Working at Allegis Global Solutions (AGS) is more than just a job. It’s a career. It’s a community of people who invest in your development and empower you to blaze your own trail. Each of us is here to create real, measurable impact that moves needles. We operate beyond "roles" or "jobs" to realize the opportunity to make meaningful contributions to a bigger idea. Because we believe that when you build a workforce that’s designed to harness human enterprise, you design a workforce that’s built for impact.

At AGS, we help companies all over the world transform their people into a competitive advantage. It’s not about filling seats. It’s about designing workforces to meet missions and unleash the most transformative power in business today: The power of human enterprise.

With services around the globe, we have a point of view on the future of work that enables us to be a transformative partner in the way work gets done for our clients’ organizations. Meeting clients where they are, we design a plan and guide them along a transformational journey, applying bold actions and diverse minds to solve the most complex challenges – from permanent and extended workforce management to services procurement, consulting, direct sourcing and our Universal Workforce Model™.

The Field Support team is responsible for the full contractor lifecycle including on/off-boarding, payroll, and customer support. The Business Support Manager (BSM) is a natural leader who is able to inspire others and drive results. The BSM oversees and ensures operational compliance to policies and procedures, maintains day to day management of, and provides development to, the Business Support Team. Serving as the primary point of contact for the Field and partnering with PMO, the BSM ensures ongoing quality and consistency of service as it relates to our candidates, contract employees, clients, and internal partners.

Core Responsibilities

• Internal Recruiting
  • Recruit, interview, hire, manage and offboard Field Support personnel for their assigned team
  • Conduct internal new hire orientation
  • Ensure the consistency, quality, and timeliness of new hire onboarding process, including ordering any necessary equipment/technology and ensuring it is ready prior to their start date
• Team Development
  • Accountable for the training and development of Field Support personnel, managed through regular performance assessments and goal setting
  • Drives results through day to day management of team, reviewing performance against targets and the success of, and compliance with operational processes.
  • Ensure FSG team’s daily execution of tasks/activities reflect our organizational philosophies (Guiding Principles, 1:24 Rule, Team Rule)
  • Evaluate talent and work with individual team members to build development plans, which align to individual and business goals
  • Inspire and motivate team to create a high-performance environment
  • Set clear performance expectations, ensure compliance and recognize success
  • Support ad-hoc duties
• Customer Service
  • Responsible for the delivery of the highest level of customer service, both internal and external
  • Partner with internal leaders and department managers to address escalated issues and/or special projects and ensure timely resolution with appropriate follow up
  • Build and maintain effective working relationships with PMO to support team and business objectives
  • Provide weekly performance updates to Head of Field Support
• Operational Excellence
  • Encourages a culture of accountability and open communication by setting realistic and personal stretch objectives to drive their team to achieve peak productivity
  • Manages, coaches and develops their team
  • Track and review individual, divisional and office performance on a regular basis against Scorecard. Identify areas of improvement and implement updates with training as needed.
  • Maintain a high-level overview of key systems and processes, acting as SME for the team and retain the capability to undertake BSA’s duties if required in order to maintain service delivery
  • Serve as an escalation point for complex enquiries and act as final point of escalation on issues relating to customer account issues
  • Able to quickly analyse and respond to multiple situations, ensuring prompt resolution
  • Supports Head of Field Support in creating the department’s strategic objectives and pro-actively communicates and drives the strategic vision with their team
  • Continually demonstrates and drives the value proposition of the Field Support programme
  • Engage with key stakeholders to drive process improvement and efficiency
  • Responsible for auditing business critical data
  • Special projects as assigned

Qualifications

• Ability to inspire and drive action
• Excellent leadership and interpersonal skills
• Confident, assertive and resilient
• Excellent written/oral communication
• Thinks and acts with perspective
• Strong problem solving and analytical skills
• Seeks growth and self-improvement through feedback
• Action and detail oriented; able to prioritize while handling multiple tasks
• Works with urgency where required and maintains a high level of customer focus
• Strong decision making ability; is looked to for direction in a crisis
• Strategically plans ways to demonstrate superior customer service
• Builds a network of professional partnerships by seeking out and strengthening relationships both internally and externally
• Ability to initiate action in order to accomplish goals or develop self without explicit instructions
• Ability to tackle complex issues and develop innovative, practical solutions
• Can effectively communicate the rationale for change and orchestrate the pace for change to maintain operating effectiveness
• Thorough knowledge of business policies and relevant human resource practices.
• Understanding of the Allegis organization; context, complexity, dynamics, key issues and drivers
• Experience of managing a small to medium sized team
• Creates an inclusive work environment that encourages, embraces, values and respects the unique talent, ideas and skills each employee contributes
• Ability to assess direct report performance. Identify areas of improvement and provide coaching/training when required
• Interpret business critical information and understand how this data is used to make decisions and drive action

Additional Information

At AGS we operate a hybrid working policy – we recognise individuals want the flexibility of working from home but with the option to be in an office when needed. Our UK AGS office locations are Bracknell, London and Birmingham with client site locations across the UK. If you’re lucky enough to be within a commutable distance of one of our AGS collaborative offices, this will be your allocated work home but you’ll still have the piece of mind to flex your working week accordingly.

We want everyone to be able to perform at their best during our recruitment process and as a Disability Confident Committed employer, we will offer an interview to applicants with a disability or long‑term condition who best meet the minimum or essential criteria for the role. We want our recruitment process to be inclusive and accessible to all, so if you have a disability or long‑term condition (for example dyslexia, anxiety, autism, a mobility condition or hearing loss) and need us to make any adjustments, changes or do anything differently, please let us know by emailing [email protected] and we will do our best to make suitable arrangements.