Group Business Manager

GROUP BUSINESS MANAGER
Job Description
Reports to: Group CEO

Contract: Permanent, Full-Time

Base: Glasgow, with occasional travel to regional offices (St Albans and Warrington)

Salary: Up to £60,000 per annum

Other benefits: Car allowance, annual performance-related bonus (30%), 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:

• Prime Secure Systems Ltd – security system and guarding services
• Trust Hire Solutions Ltd – solar powered CCTV systems
• Prime Workforce Solutions Ltd – recruitment services
• Catapult Marketing Solutions Ltd – marketing services
• 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 overseeing the project management and reporting of key initiatives and activities and ensuring 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.

To support the direct reporting line to the Group CEO, you will also hold a day-to-day reporting line for our Technology and People & Culture functions, ensuring traction is maintained in the delivery of agreed objectives. As such, you will play an important part in executing on our 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

• Integrity
• Customer Excellence
• Plain-Speaking
• Agility
• Courage & Conviction

Key Accountabilities
Leadership Team Effectiveness

• Ensure actions from the Group CEO's engagement with the Senior Leadership Team are proactively managed, coordinated and delivered within agreed timescales
• Ensure alignment on the strategic priorities.

Project Management

• Project management of team specific initiatives, holding action owners accountable for delivery against agreed objectives within agreed timescales
• Oversee and track progress in relation to the delivery of priorities
• Ensure regular meetings take place on key priorities and any associated reporting is kept up to date
• Be the eyes and ears for the Group CEO by connecting dots with activities across the various businesses within the Group.

Internal Communications and Administrative Support

• Attend and provide administrative support for regular Board and senior leadership meetings, including assigning, tracking and following up on key actions
• Coordinate communications across teams including internal communications to the organisation
• Communicate highly complex and sensitive information across the Group.

Requirements
Knowledge and Experience

• Strong Commercial 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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:

• Striving for excellence in all you do
• Being adaptable and flexible
• Liaising with colleagues to ensure controls and processes are maintained.
• Being business-minded and commercially aware
• Making astute decisions
• 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

• Additional leave
• Company pension
• Cycle to work scheme
• Employee discount
• Enhanced maternity leave
• Enhanced paternity leave
• Free or subsidised travel
• Health & wellbeing programme
• Life insurance
• On-site gym
• Paid volunteer time
• Profit sharing
• Referral programme
• Sick pay
• Work from home