Michael Page Business Support jobs

Business Development Specialist position based in Birmingham city centre. This role is working for a financial services organisation and offers hybrid working, Client Details A growing financial services business based in Birmingham city centre are looking for a confident Business Development Specialist to join their business. Description - Coordinate and manage the sales pipeline across multiple Sales Managers, ensuring opportunities progress and follow-up actions are completed. - Maintain accurate CRM records, monitor pipeline performance, identify stalled opportunities, and support sales forecasting and reporting. - Provide end-to-end sales support, including prospect outreach, booking customer meetings, preparing presentations, proposals, quotations, contracts, and onboarding activities. - Manage meeting logistics by coordinating diaries, preparing agendas, recording actions, and supporting contract renewals and customer retention initiatives. - Drive business development by researching new markets, building prospect lists, and conducting targeted outreach to generate new opportunities. - Collaborate with Marketing and key stakeholders on campaigns, events, go-to-market plans, partnership development, and competitor and market analysis. Profile A successful Sales professional should have: - Strong communication and relationship-building skills. - Enjoys pro-active selling - Ability to work collaboratively across teams. - Organisational skills to manage multiple tasks effectively. - A proactive and results-driven approach to sales activities. - Can commute to Birmingham city centre Job Offer - Flexible salary depending upon experience - Hybrid working two days at home - Base salary + commission - 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays - Progression to management role - Business Development Specialist

As an Interim Business Services Coordinator in Richmond, you'll play a key role in supporting the smooth running of daily operations within the financial services industry. From handling administrative tasks to coordinating essential business activities, your work will help ensure everything stays on track. Client Details An organisation based in Richmond operating within the financial services industry. Description - Calculating early settlement requests - Delivering exceptional service via timely responses to Business Services inbox (including financial changes, ad-hoc invoices) - Managing end of lease/HP administration - Assisting with Risk admin duties on Lease Administration System - Managing the daily invoice run to check for discrepancies - Responsible for HPI queues, updating and making changes as necessary - Managing the registration/release of Charges at Companies House - Investigating and amending discrepancies in agreements. - Managing the reconciliation and payment of maintenance, VAT, Secondary Rental share to third parties - Taking ownership of processes and putting forward improvements to management - Collaboratively working with other departments such as Customer Services, with title clearance, copy documents and any other necessary tasks - Training new members of the team once probation has been passed and personal training plan complete Profile - Excellent verbal and written communicator - Excellent interpersonal skills - Good knowledge and confidence in using MS Office - Good time management and organisational skills - Focused on providing excellent service to internal customers - Ability to work under pressure and on own initiative - Positive attitude - Problem solving - Ability to identify and put forward new ideas for improvements - Methodical and good attention to detail - A strong team player - Pro-active and willingness to be flexible in work required - Conscientious and open to suggestions/ideas - Willingness to learn and adapt to change - Committed to and demonstrate Company values particularly relating to levels of professionalism and teamwork. - Act with integrity at all times and embrace the philosophy of treating customers fairly Job Offer - Hourly rate between £14.00 and £16.00, dependent on the level of experience. - Temporary role offering flexibility in Richmond. If you're interested in this role, apply now.

The role of Business Planning Specialist in the industrial/manufacturing industry involves supporting the sales department by creating and analysing strategic business plans. Based in Warwick, this temporary position requires a detail-oriented professional with strong Microsoft Excel skills capable of delivering insights to drive business success. Client Details This organisation is a well-established entity within the industrial/manufacturing sector. Operating as part of a large organisation, it offers a structured environment where employees collaborate to support key business functions. They are now seeking a Business Planning Specialist to join their team in Warwick on an interim basis for 3-6 Months. Description - Maintain accurate documentation and records related to business planning activities.o Prepare weekly Landing Point (LP) and Sales Planning in coordination with the LSCM team, ensuring customer delivery reliability and enabling performance management to support the achievement of company targets. - Ensure monthly input to Central Demand Planning team to secure demand signal quality, facilitating accurate supply planning. Ensure coordination and alignment across pricing strategy, marketing, logistics & supply chain (LSCM) and Go-To-Market (GTM) plans. - Identify gaps in performance and convert insights into concrete action plans to support sales target achievement together with Sales Directors. - Monitor sales performance, proactively identify deviations from plan and conduct root-cause analyses to initiate corrective actions - In alignment with HQ's guidelines coordinate and support the preparation of Sales Performance Business Reviews, Executive Review meetings and handle ad-hoc requests from VPs, central teams or local Sales Directors. - Consolidate market performance results and trends, highlighting key drivers, risks & opportunities. - Ensure alignment of all business performance materials with HQ templates and standards. - Consolidate high-level DUMS input for OB and contribute to financial simulations and what-if scenarios in alignment with HQ demand planning, Business Planning and Sales team. - Coordinate the preparation and maintenance of the field sales budget in alignment with HQ guidelines and local Sales team, which underpins the Sales Incentive Plan (SIP). - Coordinate and manage customer targets in collaboration with the local organization to support performance goals, following HQ policies, granting follow-up and alignment with Pricing team. - Promote strong engagement with local Sales teams through kick-off meetings, alignment sessions and interactions with key customers. - Contribute to sales enablement and execution efforts through close contact with the Sales teams, ensure continuous market feedback, explain the guidelines and provide operational tools and presentations to effectively activate and support the Sales force. - Ensure regional coordination and execute company's priorities incorporating local market insight into overall sales GTM plans to ensure customer centricity and market needs. - Collaborate closely with Sales Leaders, Finance, Marketing and LSCM to ensure aligned assumptions, realistic targets and timely information flow. - Support coordination between Consumer and Commercial planning activities to ensure continuity, standardization and mutual backup when required. - Contribute to simplification and standardization of planning and reporting processes in line with HQ guidance. - Support automation and digitalization initiatives aimed at improving forecasting accuracy and operational efficiency. Profile A successful Business Planning Specialist should have: - Strong Microsoft Excel skills, including the ability to analyse large data sets, build forecasts, create reports and present commercial insights. - Previous experience in sales planning, business planning, commercial analysis or sales operations. - Proven ability to produce accurate sales forecasts, budgets and performance reports. - Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to identify performance gaps and recommend corrective actions. - Experience working closely with cross-functional teams, including Sales, Finance, Marketing and Supply Chain. - Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, with confidence presenting information to senior management. - A proactive and commercially minded approach, with the ability to turn data into actionable business recommendations. Job Offer - Competitive annual salary on offer between £45000 and £50000 per annum, depending on experience. - Temporary role offering flexibility and valuable industry experience in Warwick. - Free parking on site. - Hybrid working, 3 days in office and 2 from home. - Opportunities to work within a large organisation in the industrial/manufacturing sector. - Engaging and collaborative work environment. - Potential to contribute to impactful business strategies. If you are ready to bring your expertise as a Business Planning Specialist to this exciting opportunity in Warwick, apply today!

Fully remote role sits within a central systems team, supporting the day-to-day operation and continuous improvement of Practice Management and Document Management processes through ticket support, data cleansing, reporting, templates, training and process documentation. Client Details The client is a UK-wide professional services business with a central systems team responsible for supporting and improving core Practice Management and Document Management processes. Description You will be responsible for: - Provide day-to-day support for Practice Management and Document Management system queries - Assist with ticket support, troubleshooting and resolving user issues across the business. - Support the creation, documentation and improvement of standard processes. - Help deliver training and induction sessions for new and existing users. - Assist with data cleansing, data quality checks and KPI alert reviews. - Support reporting activity, including creating or adapting system reports. - Help create, update and upload document and billing templates. - Support month-end system processes, disbursement imports and database-related tasks. - Monitor adherence to agreed processes and work with users to resolve issues. - Contribute to wider improvement projects, including system integrations and acquisition-related activity where required. Profile The successful candidate will have: - Experience within accountancy practice, professional services, or financial services environment. - Strong Excel skills and confidence working with data. - The ability to learn new systems and processes quickly. - Excellent attention to detail, particularly around data quality and process accuracy. - Strong written and verbal communication skills. - A logical, curious and improvement-focused mindset. - The confidence to support users, answer queries and explain processes clearly. - The ability to work independently in a fully remote environment with minimal supervision. - A proactive, self-motivated approach and willingness to get involved in wider team projects. - An interest in systems, process improvement, training and business support. Job Offer What's on offer? - Fully remote position - work from anywhere in the UK. - Competitive salary ranging from £25,000 to £30,000 per annum. - A permanent position within a growing technology department. - An opportunity to work in the professional services industry. - A supportive environment focused on skill development. - Potential for career progression within the organisation. If you are ready to take on this exciting role as a Core Software Assistant, we encourage you to apply today!