Administrative Assistant

**Role**: Fixed Term 13-month contract
**Based**: Sheffield
**Salary**: £23,000 per annum
**Closing date: 1**6th December 2024
**Interviews**: Week commencing 9th December 2024
**Role to commence**: Middle of Jan 2025

**Job description and person specification**

**Purpose of Role**

British Glass represents the UK glass manufacturing industry, offering guidance to members on environmental, technical, trade, and legal policy issues; promoting glass and glass recycling; communicating the glass sector’s value and interests; and fostering innovation and collaboration to secure a sustainable future for glass.

**Main responsibilities**
- Building relationships with member companies and supporting the membership renewal process
- Organising meetings and events for members
- Taking minutes for member committee meetings
- Monitoring and answering information queries from member companies and the general public
- Researching information and keeping industry data updated
- Monitoring actions and tracking team KPIs

**Qualifications and experience**
- Experience working in an office/customer service environment (not essential)
- Excellent IT skills
- Enjoy working with spreadsheets, numbers and information
- Display excellent customer service skills
- 2 or more A-levels or equivalent is desirable

**Knowledge and abilities**

**Essential**
- Professional and approachable at all times
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Assertiveness and ability to work to deadlines
- Ability to work as part of teams and build relationships with internal and external stakeholders
- Ability to work independently using own initiative
- Flexible approach to work requirements

**Desirable**
- Driving license
- Prior knowledge or experience of the glass manufacturing sector

**Special features**
- During the course of these duties the post holder may have access to or witness commercially sensitive/confidential information. This must not be divulged to an unauthorised person at any time.
- Some out of normal office hours working, travel and over-night stays may be required.
- To ensure that health and safety standards are maintained and improved in accordance with the Health and Safety at Work Act etc 1974, and the health and safety policy statement, the post holder must ensure that safe systems of work are used within own area of responsibility.
- Flexible working including ability to work from home up to four days per week, in agreement with line manager.
- Employee benefits include flexible working practices, a company pension scheme, Westfield Health subscription, subsidised gym membership, paid birthday day off, paid volunteering leave for a cause of your choice and a company sports and social club.

**About the company**

British Glass is the trade association representing the UK Glass Industry, including the interests of the big glass melters and the wider glass supply chain. The industry contributes almost £2 billion to the UK economy annually and directly employs 6,000 people, with an estimated 150,000 indirect jobs.

The company operates from laboratories and offices based in Chapeltown, Sheffield.

Employees’ health and wellbeing is a priority for the organisation with initiatives including a workplace forum and a mental health first aiders group. The organisation won the Workplace Wellbeing Award at the 2019 Barnsley and Rotherham Business Awards.

**Job Types**: Full-time, Fixed term contract
Contract length: 13 months

Pay: £23,000.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- Casual dress
- Cycle to work scheme
- Free flu jabs
- Gym membership
- Paid volunteer time
- Sick pay
- Work from home

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday

Work authorisation:

- United Kingdom (required)

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Sheffield S35 2PY

Application deadline: 16/12/2024