Business Administrative Apprentice

CBRE Global Workplace Solutions is hiring a Business Administrative Apprentice in London to support the NE & EM Regional Coordinator. This high-demand role involves working under pressure, liaising with senior stakeholders across multiple regions, and requires flexibility for occasional travel and outside-hours work.

What you'll do

Key Responsibilities

Operational Support & Governance

• Coordinate the governance rhythm for Country Operations, including scheduling meetings, preparing agendas, distributing papers, and recording minutes
• Ensure document control standards across SharePoint/Teams
• Manage distribution lists, calendars, meeting invites, and communication channels
• Support preparation of weekly/monthly reporting inputs

Business Administration

• Coordinate the diary for the Senior Vice President of the NE & EM Region, including scheduling face-to-face and virtual meetings and ensuring all appointments are up to date
• Arrange ad hoc travel and event management upon request
• Process expenses for Senior Vice President and UKI Enterprise Executive Director
• Manage the assignment of work phones for new and existing EA Ireland-based employees, including reassignment and cancellations
• Manage Fleet & Vehicle monthly bills
• Keeping country information slides up to date on a quarterly basis

People

• Create and distribute monthly new hires communications and newsletters detailing business updates and relevant information
• Support onboarding, inductions, training logs, and organisation charts

Finance

• Raise and update purchase requisitions and purchase orders (adhoc)
• Systems, Data & Documentation Management
• Manage operational data across systems SharePoints and multi-platform apps such as Microsoft Teams
• Run reports and maintain dashboards
• Enforce naming conventions, metadata tagging, and version control
• Transition Support (Mobilisation & Demobilisation)
• Provide administrative support to mobilisation and demobilisation workstreams

Culture & Values

• Promote and maintain the core RISE Values of CBRE (Respect, Integrity, Service & Excellence)

Training

• Business administrator Level 3

After the apprenticeship

• A permanent, full-time role is available for the right person

Skills

• Attention to detail
• Organisation skills
• Administrative skills
• Customer care skills

Qualifications

• Essential: GCSE, English (grade 4)
• Essential: GCSE, Maths (grade 4)

Things to consider

The role is a hybrid role, and the candidate can choose to work from the office five days per week but may prefer to work from home when the rest of the team do as well, meaning a work from home setup would be required.

About the employer

CBRE builds real estate solutions of the future to help our clients, professionals and business partners realise their potential.

From instilling confidence in today's decisions to re-imagining tomorrow's spaces, we thrive in complex and ever-changing environments.

Apprenticeship details

• Course: Business administrator (level 3), Business and administration
• Apprenticeship level: Advanced (level 3)
• Training provider: CAPITAL CITY COLLEGE
• Expected duration: 1 Year 6 Months
• Hours: 35 hours a week. Working week: Monday- Friday- 9am- 5pm
• Start date: 3 November 2026
• Positions available: 1
• Wage: £25,000 a year