Total 3 Manager level Administrative / Clerical job vacancies in UK

About the Wales Office:

The Wales Office is the face of the UK Government in Wales and the voice of Wales in Westminster. We support the Secretary of State for Wales and the Ministerial team in representing Wales at the heart of Government. We work in partnership with other Government Departments and other stakeholders to deliver a stronger Wales within a strong United Kingdom.

Our departmental values are Commitment, Collaboration and Quality. These shape how we operate in a challenging, demanding, and fast paced environment which requires flexibility, transparency and professionalism.

The Office is based over two sites, with one base in Cardiff and another in London. As an accredited smarter working organisation, we offer considerable flexibility around ‘the way we work.’ We have great technology and an attractive employee benefits package which includes a commitment to investing in the learning & development of our staff.

Description:

We are looking for a motivated and outgoing individual to join the Private Office team in the Wales Office as Diary Manager and Assistant Private Secretary to the Secretary of State for Wales.

You will work at the heart of the Private Office and be responsible for effectively managing the Secretary of State’s diary. Liaising closely with the Secretary of State, Private Secretaries, Special Advisers and Officials, you will ensure Ministerial priorities are carefully planned and contribute to their successful delivery.

As a small Department the post holder will have unparalleled access to Ministers and work on issues that cut across Whitehall, Number 10, and the Welsh Government. You will be the face of the Private Office to external stakeholders and ensure appropriate balance between the Secretary of State’s departmental, constituency and parliamentary commitments.

The successful candidate will be assertive and confident with the ability to prioritise a busy workload. You will need to build good personal relationships with ministers and senior officials both in the department, across Whitehall and with Welsh Government. Excellent communication skills and the ability to remain calm and reliable under pressure are also essential.

Occasional travel (mostly to Wales) to support the Secretary of State will be required which may include overnight stays.

Given the nature of the role, it is London based and full time. You will need to be prepared to work some early mornings and evenings as part of a Private Office rota, and as such this role attracts a Private Office allowance of £2,562 in addition to the salary listed above.

Key Responsibilities:

This role is varied, challenging, and stimulating, working in a fast-paced, dynamic environment. Key responsibilities include:

Overall responsibility for the management of the Secretary of State’s diary, including arranging all internal and external meetings to ensure time is used effectively to achieve their priorities.
Liaison with UK and Welsh Government private offices, the Secretary of State’s constituency team, and external stakeholders to manage conflicting priorities and diary issues, exercising good judgement and flexibility.
Co-ordination and planning of the logistics for ministerial travel and visits.
Oversight of all invitations, seeking steers on which should be accepted, working with policy and communications colleagues to advise on these matters.
Building and maintaining positive relationships with teams at the Wales Office, across Government and externally.
Prepare diary cards and briefings packs for the Secretary of State.
Lead on a policy portfolio within the office as part of their ‘Assistant Private Secretary’ role, attending Ministerial visits and events.
The job description is not intended to be exhaustive, and it is likely that duties may be altered from time to time in the light of changing circumstances and after consultation with the postholder.

Person Specification

Please evidence in your Statement of Suitability, how closely you match the essential criteria:



Essential:

Excellent interpersonal, written, and oral communication skills
Comfortable working in a fast-paced and ever-changing environment and the ability to prioritise.
Attention to detail and perceptive judgement.
Resilience and adaptability when working under pressure.
Communication with senior stakeholders.
Strong ability to work within a team.


Desirable:

· Welsh Language skills.



Recruitment Process:

This campaign will be undertaken using the Civil Service Success Profile framework. You will need to provide evidence in your application to cover the following behaviours:

· Communicating and Influencing (Lead Behaviour) (Application & Interview)

· Delivering at Pace (Application & Interview)

· Making Effective Decisions (Interview Only)

· Managing a Quality Service (Interview Only)

In the event of a high volume of applicants, we will sift only on the lead behaviour to create a shortlist for interview.

Strengths may also be assessed at interview, but these are not shared in advance.

Candidates are also required to provide a Statement of Suitability (as stated above) which details how they match the essential criteria for the role.

Additional Information

The Wales Office is not an employer in its own right. Staff recruited to work at the Wales Office will be employees of the Ministry of Justice who provide employment services on our behalf.

This role requires CTC level clearance. Applicants for National Security Clearance (CTC) must be resident in the UK for 3 years immediately prior to their application for Security Clearance. If you have spent significant time abroad (a total of 6 months in the past 3 years), you would be required to give a reasonable account of the reasons why.

Location: UK mainland (hybrid mode with regular travel to clients' sites)

At Lineage, helping to feed the world is more than a job – it’s a purpose we live every day. Lineage is the world’s largest and most innovative provider of temperature-controlled logistics solutions; with +20,000 colleagues globally.

To support our expansion, we are looking for a Business Development Manager to work alongside our well respected and tenured business development team in the UK.

What will you be doing?

Our friendly team will help you immerse yourself in our business by supporting you to meet key colleagues and attending our sites; you will learn and understand how to articulate the value our business brings to its customers.

Once you have done this you will proactively make meaningful connections and build relationships with potential new customers/prospects (such as Supply Chain Directors) to understand their requirements and sell storage space and transportation service that meets their business needs; whilst managing their expectations to ensure that we deliver on those services as promised.

Tasks include:

• Maintaining proactive contact with prospect customers – arranging meetings and keeping in touch – whilst updating records in our sales database
• Dealing with inbound sales queries from potential customers
• Responding to formal tenders
• Creating individually tailored proposals for prospect customers, in line with their specific storage, distribution and ancillary service requirements

Many of our customers like to do business over the phone or on video calls but there is lots of value in meeting with the right customers face to face either on our site or theirs.

What do you need to be successful in this role?

As a market leader we are well known in our industry; and customers are often aware of the value of our services; but this is a relationship driven industry and you will enjoy getting to know potential customers and building longstanding relationships with them.

You will be a proactive person whose naturally inquisitive. If you like to ask questions and get energy from building productive relationships with people, then this is a role you will enjoy.

To thrive in this role, you'll ideally need:

• Experience selling palletised storage space, ideally to the food sector
• Business to business, face to face sales experience
• Sales experience in a structured and professional organisation
• Experience of working to individual targets
• Experience of generating sales leads

What's in it for you?

Aside from a competitive starting salary, company car and other benefits; you're set to gain so much from being part of team.

Our teams win together and do not compete with each other; we offer a friendly and supportive environment and will give you the platform to be successful by learning from seasoned sales professionals.

We are also a global company which is expanding quickly across Europe, and we are investing in our sales and account management capabilities in the region.

Our sales colleagues have access to diverse career paths and have lots of opportunities to collaborate in sharing sales opportunities but also developing their careers.

Want to know more about us?

If you open your fridge freezer around 20% of the products, you see have passed through a Lineage facility; we support customers who keep our schools and restaurants stocked and supplied; and with many of the UK’s leading retailers such as Tesco, Asda, Ocado and Lidl.

We have 14 sites across the UK; and our capacity is being significantly increased; for example, we recently invested in increased storage capacity from 25,500 to 70,000 pallet spaces in our Peterborough site; with the introduction of cutting-edge automation technologies which aim to drive customer value; whilst helping to eliminating waste.

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Interested? Apply now!

We are an equal opportunities employer and positively encourage applications from persons regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital status, or pregnancy and maternity.

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Why Lineage?

We are a global company with more than 22,000 employees spanning 20 countries and more than 400 locations across North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, and South America.

At Lineage Logistics, we have a shared purpose; we are transforming the food supply chain to eliminate waste and help feed the world. This means working at Lineage is not just a job – it’s an opportunity to innovate and put your mark on how food moves from the farm to dinner tables around the world. As a member of our team, you will be a critical link in the food supply chain.

Our shared purpose drives everything we do in all parts of our organisation, from the warehouse floor to the office. Our team members are passionate about the impact they make every single day.

We are an equal opportunities employer and positively encourage applications from persons regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital status, or pregnancy and maternity. At Lineage we also recognise that Ex-Military, veterans, and military families have great experience with transferable skills and core values that can add significant value to our organisation.

Benefits

 

As a Lineage team member, we aim to provide everything you and your family need to thrive. That’s why we offer competitive rates of pay, paid time off, skills training, and development opportunities to grow a long and fulfilling career with us – plus generous financial rewards when you successfully refer new employees. This is enhanced by recognition schemes (so that your hard work won’t go unnoticed), plus the chance to make your salary go even further with our cycle-to-work scheme and preferential rates for loans and savings courtesy of a leading credit union.

Your everyday wellbeing is also important to us, so we will provide you with all the protective equipment you need to be safe and comfortable at work, and you will have access to a free 24/7 employee assistance phone line, which offers confidential counselling and advice. With all of this offered against the backdrop of a fun and social environment in which you will be supported by a team who enjoy helping each other in achieving their goals, we are confident you will excel with us.

As Senior Account Manager, you will play a critical role in the customer experience, working to expand and retain the company’s largest and most strategic business relationships and work across business lines within your assigned accounts and cross functionally within the company.

Location: Any UK, not too remote (Home office with travel to sites and clients')

Having drastically increased our European footprint in a short period, we are looking to appoint a Senior Account Manager for the UK.

What you will be doing

As Senior Account Manager, you will play a critical role in the customer experience, working to expand and retain the company’s largest and most strategic business relationships and work across business lines within your assigned accounts and cross functionally within the company.

In this role, you will build relationships with our clients at senior and executive level, developing a global vision of partnership, including at European level.

You will

• Develop Continuous Improvement Roadmaps (CIR) and Strategic Growth Plans for your assigned accounts in partnership with the Sales Managers
• Identify and pursue new business opportunities and products not under contract with your assigned accounts
• Increase customer retention and profitability by identifying opportunities to reduce waste, seamlessly on-board new business, manage compliance to Key Performance Indicators that allow the right to grow with your assigned accounts
• Follow the appropriate methodologies for selling and account management strategy
• Focus on customer retention and satisfaction across all facilities and lines of business
• Conduct regular business reviews with assigned accounts and provide volume forecasts to operations business partners
• Act as single point of contact for your assigned accounts at senior level, working together on global solutions, and resolve any issue escalated to you.

Who we’re looking for

To be successful in this position, you will need a high-level understanding of our industry, systems and procedures and be able to communicate these effectively at all levels through our client’s business.

Many of our clients have an international presence so it is essential to be able to interact with them at senior/executive level, demonstrating your ability to build strong ties and support their vision with our global solutions.

We need you to:

• Be a respected industry leader with strong market credibility gained through integrity when interacting with key stakeholders
• Have experience with a regimented Continuous Improvement Structure
• Demonstrate experience in contract negotiation, navigating complex organizations, and being successful in meeting sales or equivalent goals
• Be ready to travel up to 50%

You will also have:

• 5 years account management, business development, or sales-related field in Logistics/Supply chain
• A good level of computer skills including Microsoft Office Suite

What's in it for you?

Aside from a competitive starting salary, you're set to gain so much from being part of high quality and collaborative team.

You will be part of a large multi country team with its supportive leader; and experienced colleagues to learn from – this is a great development opportunity to learn new skills. Our leadership culture focuses us on developing talent internally; this is a great opportunity to grow your career at a leading global company.

We are also expanding quickly across Europe, and you will feel the impact of your work, as the ‘tip of the spear’ playing a critical role in realising our purpose of transforming the supply-chain to eliminate waste and help feed the world

Why Lineage?

We are a global company with more than 22,000 employees spanning 20 countries and more than 400 locations across North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, and South America.

At Lineage Logistics, we have a shared purpose; we are transforming the food supply chain to eliminate waste and help feed the world. This means working at Lineage is not just a job – it’s an opportunity to innovate and put your mark on how food moves from the farm to dinner tables around the world. As a member of our team, you will be a critical link in the food supply chain.

Our shared purpose drives everything we do in all parts of our organisation, from the warehouse floor to the office. Our team members are passionate about the impact they make every single day.

We are an equal opportunities employer and positively encourage applications from persons regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital status, or pregnancy and maternity. At Lineage we also recognise that Ex-Military, veterans, and military families have great experience with transferable skills and core values that can add significant value to our organisation.

Benefits

 

As a Lineage team member, we aim to provide everything you and your family need to thrive. That’s why we offer competitive rates of pay, paid time off, skills training, and development opportunities to grow a long and fulfilling career with us – plus generous financial rewards when you successfully refer new employees. This is enhanced by recognition schemes (so that your hard work won’t go unnoticed), plus the chance to make your salary go even further with our cycle-to-work scheme and preferential rates for loans and savings courtesy of a leading credit union.

Your everyday wellbeing is also important to us, so we will provide you with all the protective equipment you need to be safe and comfortable at work, and you will have access to a free 24/7 employee assistance phone line, which offers confidential counselling and advice. With all of this offered against the backdrop of a fun and social environment in which you will be supported by a team who enjoy helping each other in achieving their goals, we are confident you will excel with us.