Business Operations Support Specialist
Role overview
ManpowerGroup Ireland have an exciting new opportunity with our client SAP!
This is a 6-month contract role employed with ManpowerGroup Ireland.
This position is a Hybrid role based in Galway.
The Operations Support Specialist provides high-quality operational support to business leaders through ad-hoc requests, recurring reporting, meeting preparation, and day-to-day coordination.
This role is designed as an entry point into a future Operations Business Partner career path, with strong exposure to leadership routines, cross-functional collaboration, and core business operations responsibilities.
The role sits within the broader operations team and helps ensure leaders have reliable support, timely information, and well-run business processes.
The focus is on execution, responsiveness, organization, and service orientation; analytics is helpful but not a core requirement.
Key responsibilities
Leadership support
Provide ad-hoc operational support to business leaders, including follow-up on requests, coordination of inputs, and preparation of materials for reviews and meetings.
Support calendar-driven business activities by helping to organize agendas, track actions, and ensure deadlines are met.
Prepare draft communications, meeting notes, and action logs to help leaders and teams stay aligned.
Reporting support
Produce and maintain regular recurring reports using established templates, dashboards, and source files.
Consolidate inputs from different stakeholders and ensure reporting is accurate, complete, and delivered on time.
Highlight data gaps, inconsistencies, or overdue inputs and follow up with relevant teams to resolve them.
Business operations support
Support the smooth execution of core business routines such as forecast cycles, quarterly reviews, leadership meetings, and other operational cadences.
Maintain trackers, templates, and documentation that improve consistency and reduce administrative burden for leaders.
Help coordinate small operational improvement initiatives and contribute ideas to simplify processes and ways of working.
Stakeholder coordination
Work closely with business leaders, operations colleagues, and cross-functional teams to gather information and keep activities moving.
Build trusted working relationships through reliability, responsiveness, and attention to detail.
Escalate risks, blockers, or conflicting priorities early and clearly.
Required experience
1-5 years of experience in operations, business support, team coordination, project coordination, or a similar role.
Experience supporting recurring reporting, team processes, leadership meetings, or other structured business routines.
Experience working in a fast-paced environment with multiple stakeholders and changing priorities.
Skills and capabilities
Strong organization and follow-through, with the ability to manage multiple tasks at the same time.
Clear written and verbal communication skills, with confidence preparing slides, summaries, and follow-up notes.
Strong attention to detail and a service-oriented mindset.
Good working knowledge of Excel, PowerPoint, and collaboration tools.
Comfort working with reports and operational data; deeper analytics capability is a nice to have only.
Ability to work independently on defined tasks while collaborating effectively with a wider team.
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