Business Manager

  • Pentagon Technical Services
  • 17/08/2026
Full time Construction Quantity Surveyor Management Architect and Design Commercial Manager

Job Description

We are currently recruiting for an experienced Business Manager to join a busy and fast-paced project environment, providing high-level operational and administrative support to a senior leadership team and wider project organisation.

This is a varied, hands-on position that would suit someone who is highly organised, proactive, confident with technology and comfortable managing multiple priorities.

You will play a key role in keeping the day-to-day operation running smoothly, coordinating across different teams and stakeholders, managing business processes, and ensuring actions and deliverables are progressed effectively.

Key Responsibilities

  • Provide high-quality day-to-day operational and administrative support to the senior leadership team.
  • Proactively manage priorities, actions, meetings and wider business requirements.
  • Build strong working relationships with internal stakeholders and act as a trusted point of contact.
  • Work across multiple internal IT, workflow and ticketing systems, raising and tracking requests through to completion.
  • Coordinate the onboarding of new suppliers, working with procurement, finance and supply-chain teams.
  • Raise, track and maintain Purchase Requisitions (PRs) and Purchase Orders (POs), ensuring approvals and records are kept up to date.
  • Plan and coordinate leadership workshops, including venues, scheduling, agendas, logistics, materials and follow-up actions.
  • Coordinate the weekly project reporting process, gathering updates from project teams and ensuring information is accurate and submitted on time.
  • Organise weekly leadership and wider team meetings, including agendas, attendance, supporting materials, actions and follow-ups.
  • Maintain trackers, documentation, action logs and other governance records.
  • Follow up with stakeholders and project teams to ensure agreed actions and deliverables are completed on time.

Skills & Experience

We are looking for someone who is:

  • Highly IT proficient and confident learning and working across multiple internal systems and software platforms.
  • Highly organised and able to manage multiple activities, deadlines and competing priorities.
  • A strong communicator with excellent stakeholder-management and interpersonal skills.
  • Proactive, resourceful and comfortable taking ownership of tasks.
  • Confident communicating with and following up with senior stakeholders.
  • Experienced in meeting coordination, reporting, document management and general business administration.
  • Familiar with procurement, supplier onboarding and PR/PO processes, or similar corporate purchasing workflows.
  • Detail-oriented, dependable and comfortable handling confidential or sensitive information.
  • Able to work independently while collaborating effectively with a wider team.

About You

This opportunity would suit an experienced Business Manager, Executive Assistant, Senior PA, Project Administrator or Project Coordinator who enjoys creating structure and keeping a busy organisation moving.

You will combine strong administrative and organisational skills with an operational mindset, taking ownership of activities and becoming a trusted member of the leadership team.

If you are a proactive, organised and technology-confident professional looking for a varied Business Manager opportunity within a fast-paced project environment, we would be keen to hear from you.