Business Administration Apprentice – Chameleon Business Interiors
The Role:
This role of Business Administration Apprentice provides an opportunity for a school or college leaver with an interest in the workplace design industry to establish a career within a dynamic and growing company looking to nurture their career development long-term.
The ideal apprentice will gain skills and knowledge over a range of business areas, obtaining a good base knowledge of how the business operates and what is involved in different roles within the company, in turn enabling them to focus on a dedicated role post apprenticeship
Our Story so far:
Chameleon Business Interiors is experiencing substantial growth, operating throughout the United Kingdom and in North America. We provide commercial office design, office fit out and furniture to a wide range of clients, focusing on collaboration, agile working and team culture specific to each client’s needs.
Main Responsibilities of the Business Administration Apprentice:
- Handling telephone calls and making sure they are actioned / filtered accordingly.
- Organising enquiries that come in to the business
- Diary management for the team, including coordinating team meetings when required by checking availability
- Participate in meetings and team events. This includes the taking of minutes when requested.
- Stock control and ordering of stationery and office supplies
- General admin duties i.e. filing, photocopying, scanning, laminating and shredding
- Using a range of office equipment
- Preparation of presentation materials and documents
- Creating documents within the company guidelines and procedures
- Helping colleagues deliver working policies
- Sending information requests and collating returns of documents
- Data entry and the use of Excel spreadsheets to update information systems
- Using internal databases and computer systems for recording & retrieving information
- Digital archiving of documents
- Supporting the sales, marketing and project team with admin
- Saving electronic documents to the Project Record Centre
- Establish a contract documents library
- Document Control of Construction Drawings
- Compiling folders of site documents essential to the running of the project
- Opportunity to interact with clients and suppliers
Skills:
- 5 GCSE’s to include English & Maths grade 5 (C) or above
- High standard of verbal and written language capabilities
- Ability to develop a working relationship with colleagues
- Ability to study for NVQ independently and manage time to meet deadlines.
- Commitment to learning within the areas of business processes and systems
- IT competence through education
- User of MS Office
- High level of attention to detail and accuracy
- Confidence to develop professional communication channels
- Team player who is able to work independently
- Well presented to work in a profession office environment
- Punctual and reliable
- Excellent communication skills
- Self-motivated and willing to learn
- Enthusiasm to work in the commercial interior design industry
- Dedicated to developing a career within the business
