Business Support Administrator

Location : Witney

About Abbott Diabetes Care :

Bring your passion, ideas, and purpose to life in a company that can truly help you achieve your full potential.

Known globally for the development of revolutionary technologies, Abbott Diabetes Care designs, develops, and manufactures glucose monitoring systems for use in both home and hospital settings. Abbott has been around for 135+ years, developing solutions for the world’s health issues and creating a workplace that enables employees to live full lives.

We have a Centre of Excellence in Witney for the manufacture of electrodes and biosensors used by patients and healthcare professionals for the day-to-day management of diabetes. The site has been instrumental in the research, development, and manufacture of the FreeStyle Libre 2, Free Style Libre 3 and the Libre Sense system.

The Role :

We have an exciting opportunity for a Business Support Administrator to join our manufacturing and R&D facility in Witney, West Oxfordshire. Working in a small and friendly team, you will provide administrative support to the functional business area, directors and relevant management teams as appropriate across ADC Witney to meet the needs of the business and customers.

Responsibilities of a Business Support Administrator :

• Organising travel for client area members, including visas, flights, accommodation and transport.
• Diary management for Director and senior managers of the client area.
• Assist with the compilation of organisational charts and job descriptions.
• Tracking of all documents for approval.
• Ensuring continuous process for Performance Excellence, including scheduling and coordinating annual performance reviews, goals and growth plan reviews.
• Deploy systems for tracking headcount to ensure all details necessary to ensure staffing issues are managed monthly.

Responsibility for administrative tasks and support to the Division and wider ADC Witney site when required, holiday/absence etc.

Organising meeting schedules and logistics for visitors and visiting teams to the department.

Organising department events for goals alignment and reviews, including rooms, meals, supplies and poster preparation.

Responsibility for the smooth running of department including supervision of shared resources such as copiers and ordering general stationery supplies and sundries.

Management of office facilities and distribution of equipment for new starters within the group, including PPE and equipment appropriate for role.

Ensure all procurement responsibilities are carried out effectively and within budget.

Compile and coordinate the departmental monthly meeting data and monthly Highlight reports.

Manage expenses for the department

To be successful, you should ideally have excellent attention to detail skills, a logical and methodical approach to problem solving, the ability to prioritise and the flexibility to adapt to changing circumstances or new demands. A lot of your work will involve cross-functional teams, so you’ll also need the communication and inter-personal skills to be able to build relationships with colleagues in various departments across the business.

You will be expected to spend time in the manufacturing facility, so will need to have, or be able to develop, good hands-on practical skills. Good IT skills including Excel and PowerPoint are also required for this role.

Why Abbott?

Abbott offers a competitive salary and a comprehensive benefits package, including a pension scheme, share ownership, private healthcare, life assurance, and flexible benefits. Our Witney Centre of Excellence also offers various initiatives like couch to 5k campaigns, beekeeping, and yoga to help you live life to the fullest.