Eastbourne
Full Time - 37.5 hours per week
Monday to Friday - 8.30am - 5pm
Competitive Salary Plus Pension And Benefits
We have an excellent opportunity for a Premises Administrator to join our Premises team based at our Head Office – Albany House in central Eastbourne. This is a key role supporting our network of over 280 branches nationwide by providing essential administrative, compliance and systems support to a busy and varied operation. Working across property, maintenance and contractor activity, you will provide essential day to day administrative and coordination support, helping to keep our business safe, compliant and well managed. This is a hands‑on, fast‑paced role that would suit someone who is highly organised, proactive and enjoys working with systems and data. If you thrive on organisation, take pride in keeping things running smoothly behind the scenes and are looking for a role where no two days are the same, then we would love to hear from you.
We are a family‑owned business with a wonderful heritage of almost 120 years, leading the UK marketplace for the supply of decorating materials across the country. We are one of the Sunday Times Top Track 250 largest private companies and, despite the present global challenges, we have a bold vision to grow further. We know that our people make our business unique, our mantra is to ‘help one another succeed’ and we want to see all our colleagues flourish in their roles and reach their full potential.
We understand that neurodiverse candidates or candidates with a disability may need adjustments or extra support throughout the application or interview process – we are committed to providing every candidate the opportunity and environment in which to succeed and we will support any reasonable request where we can.
Responsibilities
- Preparing agendas, taking minutes, and following up actions from branch visits
- Maintaining accurate records, reports, and databases across multiple systems
- Acting as a key point of contact for internal colleagues and external contractors
- Processing invoices, tracking costs, and supporting budget and board reporting
- Managing contractor records, insurance documentation and compliance checks
- Supporting health & safety and CDM documentation and record keeping
- Updating and maintaining our property management system – Propman
- Issuing regular reports and updates to senior stakeholders and regional teams
- Supporting branch and investment property maintenance activity and audits
- Coordinating meetings, appointments and accommodation for the Premises Team
Qualifications
- A strong background and experience in an administrative role supporting multiple stakeholders
- Experience maintaining databases/systems and processing invoices
- Exceptional organisational skills with confidence to plan and organise workload effectively and accurately, at times working on your own initiative and to deadlines
- Accuracy with an excellent eye for detail and ability to produce work to a high standard
- Initiative to make decisions and problem‑solve on a daily basis
- Confident communicator at all levels, able to demonstrate excellent people skills and a professional telephone manner
- Intermediate to advanced Microsoft Word, Excel and Outlook skills
Benefits
- Competitive salary
- 33 days holiday including bank holidays, increasing with service
- Free life assurance
- 5% of your salary employer contribution to the pension plan (subject to employee contributions)
- Stream – a money management app that gives you access to a percentage of your pay as you earn it
- Employee Assistance Programme – accessible to colleagues, partner/spouse and dependents
- Virtual GP service – unlimited medical advice for you and any dependent children
- Medicash – optional funded scheme where you can claim money back for routine healthcare treatments
- Brewers Colleague discounts – savings on home improvements
- Discounts and rewards with selected partners – major high‑street brands, supermarkets, etc.
- Additional financial assistance such as Cycle‑to‑Work Scheme, Season Ticket Loans and Helping Hand Loan Scheme for times of crisis
- Staff uniform and uniform cleaning tax relief
- Comprehensive induction programme and ongoing development
- After a qualifying period, you will also be eligible for additional benefits such as profit‑related pay, enhanced maternity/paternity pay and a chance to use our holiday homes in Cornwall or the Lake District
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