Business Services Co-ordinator in Bedford

'Business Services Co-ordinator role in National Highways East region'

'Supporting regional Operations directorate with administrative activities'

'Essential skills: communication, time management, adaptability'

'Requirements include experience with Microsoft Office and Oracle applications'

'Diverse and inclusive organisation with competitive salary'

About the job.

Here at National Highways, we are looking to recruit a Business Services Co-ordinator to join our Business Services Team in the East region. This role encompasses the delivery of a broad range of administrative activities to support our regional Operations directorate. Working across administration teams, you will provide regional customer communication and correspondence, routine business-as-usual support, alongside ad hoc requests and PA cover, including diary and inbox management, meeting coordination and ensuring meeting rooms are prepared and ready for use. Because of this, excellent communication skills, time management, adaptability, prioritisation, flexibility and organisation are crucial.

• Engage with customers, both verbally and in writing, in response to enquiries and complaints.
• Ensure that customer contacts and correspondence are drafted and completed to the required performance standards for quality and timeliness. Customer contacts & correspondence includes Customer Enquiries, Complaints, and Ministerial Correspondence.
• Build and maintain relationships with internal and external stakeholders to facilitate collaborative working.
• Provide ad hoc PA cover as required, including diary and inbox management, meeting coordination and ensuring meeting rooms are prepared and ready for use
• Processing of invoice payments in accordance with National Highways Policies and Procedures.
• Provision of effective administrative support to the business. A broad ranging accountability which may include executive and project support, support to meetings and conferences, and management of supplies and consumables.

About you.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Excellent time management and organisational skills
• Flexibility and adaptable to changing priorities - ability to work in a fast-moving environment to tight deadlines
• Experience in the use of business information and document management systems - Microsoft Office packages - mainly Outlook, Word, PowerPoint and Excel (essential) and Oracle applications or similar
• Previous experience within an administration environment.

About us.

Here at National Highways, we manage and improve England's motorways and major A roads, helping our customers have safer, smoother and more reliable journeys. Our priorities are safety, customers and delivery, and at the core of this, are our values of passion, integrity, safety, teamwork and ownership.

Operations is at the heart of keeping the strategic road network moving and ensuring our customers get the best possible experience when using our roads.

We address over 39,000 customer enquiries every month, plan and deliver all maintenance activities on the network, drive efficiencies and improvements across our systems and roads, and respond to incidents across 4,500 miles of motorways and major A-roads that we manage. All to make sure National Highways customers have safer, smoother, and more reliable journeys.

External candidates will be offered a starting salary at the lower end of the pay scale, while current employees will be appointed in accordance with our established pay policy.

We are committed to creating a diverse environment and welcome applicants from all backgrounds.

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