Job Description
GROUP BUSINESS MANAGER
JOB DESCRIPTION
Reports to: Group CEO
Contract: Permanent, Full-Time
Base: Glasgow, with occasional travel to regional offices (St Albans and Altrincham)
Salary: £60,000 - £75,000 dependent on experience
Other benefits: Car allowance, annual performance-related bonus (30%), significant six figure long term incentive plan, pension (8%, rising to 10%), health cover, life assurance
Flexible working: Flexibility, subject to business needs, following completion of probation
ABOUT PRIME TRADING GROUP (UK)
We are an ambitious, entrepreneurial group of businesses comprises:
1. Prime Secure Systems Ltd – security system and guarding services
2. Trust Hire Solutions Ltd – solar powered CCTV systems
3. Prime Workforce Solutions Ltd – recruitment services
4. Catapult Marketing Solutions Ltd – marketing services
5. V360 Systems Ltd – technology research and development and build services
We are growing quickly and have ambitious plans to achieve a turnover of £50m per annum by 2030. We embrace new ideas and change and value everyone’s input into how we continue to thrive and grow.
ROLE PURPOSE
In this role, you will drive the effectiveness of our executive team by coordinating and delivering strategic actions from the Group CEO within agreed timescales, while proactively managing them to meet business needs. You will align strategic and performance-based priorities with the Senior Leadership Team, oversee project management of key initiatives, and ensure accountability for delivering against objectives.
Liaising with the Group CEO, you will connect the dots across business activities, ensuring the prompt communication of critical performance information. This role demands exceptional organisational skills, project management expertise, and the ability to ensure effective communication and alignment across the Group.
You will play an important part in executing on our 50-30-15 vision (achieving £50 million per annum turnover by 2030, at a blended margin of 15%), supporting our core values as we grow.
OUR CORE VALUES
6. Integrity
7. Customer Excellence
8. Plain-Speaking
9. Agility
10. Courage & Conviction
KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES
Leadership Team Effectiveness
11. Ensure actions from the Group CEO’s engagement with Senior Leadership Team are coordinated, delivered within agreed timescales and proactively managed
12. Ensure alignment on the strategic priorities of the Executive Team.
Project Management
13. Project management of team specific initiatives, holding action owners accountable for delivery against agreed priorities and objectives within agreed timescales.
14. Project management of team specific initiatives, holding action owners accountable for delivery against agreed objectives within agreed timescales
15. Ensure regular meetings take place on key priorities and trackers are kept up to date
16. Agree and build a set of timebound priorities and track progress in relation to the delivery of priorities
17. Be the eyes and ears for the Group CEO by connecting dots with activities across the business and ensure they are appraised on time critical performance-based information.
Internal Communications and Administrative Support
18. Attend and provide administrative support for regular executive and senior leadership meetings, including assigning, tracking and following up on key actions
19. Coordinate communications across teams including internal communications to the organisation
20. Communicate highly complex and sensitive information across the Group.
REQUIREMENTS
Knowledge and Experience
21. Strong Financial Acumen: Advanced knowledge of financial analysis, budgeting and forecasting with the ability to interpret complex financial data and provide actionable insights from P&L statements, as well as being very comfortable with tracking and managing financial performance.
22. Extensive experience in executive support: Proven track record in providing high-level administrative and strategic support to senior executives or leadership teams, demonstrating an ability to manage complex schedules, coordinate critical initiatives and handle sensitive information with discretion.
23. Strong project management skills: Demonstrate expertise in managing and delivering on multiple, concurrent projects, with the gravitas to influence and hold stakeholders accountable, track progress against objectives and ensure timely completion of key priorities.
24. Excellent communication skills: Superior verbal and written communication skills, with experience in crafting and conveying complex and sensitive information clearly to both internal and external stakeholders.
25. Strategic thinking and alignment: Proven ability to align strategic and performance-based priorities within executive teams, demonstrating strong analytical and problem-solving skills to support business objectives effectively.
26. Organisational and coordination expertise: Exceptional organisational skills with experience in coordinating internal communications, facilitating meetings, and maintaining comprehensive tracking systems to manage multiple priorities efficiently.
27. Proficiency in administrative tools: Advanced proficiency with administrative and project management tools (e.g., Microsoft Office Suite, project management software) and a solid understanding of business operations and best practices.
28. Confidentiality and integrity: A strong track record of handling confidential and sensitive information with the highest level of integrity and professionalism.
Your performance will be driven by a mindset built on:
29. Striving for excellence in all you do
30. Being adaptable and flexible
31. Liaising with colleagues to ensure controls and processes are maintained.
32. Being business-minded and commercially aware
33. Making astute decisions
34. Courage of your convictions to do the right thing.
As a fair and ethical employer, in accordance with guidelines taken from the 2010 Equality Act, Prime Trading Group (UK) is committed to promoting equal opportunities for all; irrespective of colour, race, religion or belief, ethnic or national origins, gender, marital/civil partnership status, sexuality, disability or age.
Benefits
35. Free or subsidised travel
36. On-site gym
37. Paid volunteer time
38. Private medical insurance
39. Referral programme
40. Work from home
Requirements
Microsoft Office Suite, high confidentiality, communication skills, administrative support, executive level support.