Administration Manager

Location: Wellingborough
Salary: Not specified
Job Type: Perm
Date Posted: 13 October 2026
Reference: 56042

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Sundeep Kaur

Sundeep Kaur

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About The Role

The One Group

Administration Manager

Salary: Competitive, dependent on experience
Contract: Full-time, Permanent
Hours: Monday to Friday, with an early finish on Fridays!

Are you an experienced Administration Manager who loves leading people, improving processes and making a real difference?

The ONE Group is delighted to be partnering with an established, successful and growing business to recruit an experienced Administration Manager.

This is a fantastic opportunity to join a business that genuinely values its people, encourages collaboration and is passionate about continuous improvement.

We’re looking for a confident, hands-on leader who enjoys developing people, bringing structure to busy environments and finding smarter, more efficient ways of working.

Reporting directly to the Head of Operations, you’ll take ownership of a busy Administration Department, ensuring the team delivers exceptional service whilst supporting the continued growth and success of the wider business.

What will you be doing?

  • Leading, motivating and developing a busy administration team, creating a positive and high-performing working environment.

  • Taking ownership of departmental performance, ensuring workloads, priorities and service standards are effectively managed.

  • Reviewing and improving processes, systems and procedures to drive efficiency, accuracy and productivity.

  • Managing team performance, including coaching, development, appraisals and resource planning.

  • Working closely with other departments to ensure seamless communication and operational delivery.

  • Monitoring departmental KPIs, producing management reports and identifying opportunities for improvement.

  • Overseeing customer enquiries, operational challenges and escalations, ensuring issues are resolved effectively.

  • Supporting purchasing, supplier relationships and administrative controls where required.

  • Working alongside the Head of Operations on business improvements and wider operational projects.

What are we looking for?

We’re keen to speak with experienced managers who have a background in administration, customer service, service coordination or operational support, ideally within a busy B2B environment.

You’ll bring:

  • Proven experience managing and developing a team within a fast-paced environment.

  • Strong leadership skills with the confidence to manage performance, delegate and support others.

  • Experience implementing process improvements and driving operational efficiencies.

  • A proactive, solutions-focused approach with excellent organisational skills.

  • Experience working with KPIs, reporting and departmental performance measures.

  • Strong communication skills and the ability to build relationships across different departments.

  • A hands-on management style, with the ability to balance strategic improvements with day-to-day operations.

Experience within a technical, service-led, distribution or operational environment would be advantageous, but we’re equally interested in candidates who can demonstrate strong transferable management skills.

What’s in it for you?

You’ll be joining an established and ambitious business that is continuing to grow, offering the opportunity to make a genuine difference to how the department operates.

Alongside a competitive salary, benefits include:

  • 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays

  • Early finish on Fridays!

  • Health Cash Plan

  • Employee Assistance Programme

  • Company Sick Pay (subject to eligibility)

  • Life Assurance following successful probation

  • Workplace pension

Interested?

If you’re an experienced people manager who enjoys creating structure, developing teams and driving positive change, we’d love to hear from you.

Apply today or get in touch with The ONE Group for a confidential conversation about this exciting opportunity.

To apply for this job email your details to skaur@theonegroup.co.uk

About The ONE Group

The ONE Group is a specialist recruitment consultancy with offices in Cambridge, Peterborough, Northampton, and Hertfordshire.

We recruit across Technology, Engineering & Manufacturing, Scientific, Sales, and Marketing, with consultants who specialise in their sector rather than trying to cover everything. This focused approach allows us to provide deeper market knowledge, stronger networks, and better hiring outcomes for both clients and candidates.

Our expertise spans permanent, contract, and senior-level appointments. Most importantly, the majority of our business comes from repeat clients and referrals, reflecting the long-term relationships we build and the trust we earn through consistently delivering results.

What Happens Next

1

One of our consultants will review your application within one working day.

2

If your experience looks like a fit, we'll be in touch for a quick conversation to understand what you're looking for.

3

From there, we'll talk you through the role properly, prepare you for interview, and stay alongside you through to your start date.

4

Whatever happens with this role, we'll keep your details on file, with your permission, so we can flag other opportunities that suit you.

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THE ONE GROUP

Where we're from,
and how we got here

Twenty years of specialist recruitment in the East – and a lot of small decisions that added up.

TOG started in Peterborough in 2004 with a small team and a simple idea: that recruitment is a people business, done best by specialists who stay in their sector long enough to know it properly.

More than two decades on, we've grown into four offices across the East of England and Home Counties. We recruit for finance leaders, HR directors, engineering managers, tech founders, scientists, and the commercial teams that keep businesses running day to day. Between us, we've built up over 258 years of collective recruitment experience across our specialist divisions, and a network of more than 150,000 candidates we've placed, coached, or come to know across two decades in the region.

The founding principle hasn't changed. Recruitment as it should be.

OUR STORY

Key events timeline

2004

Doors open in Peterborough.

Our first office launches with a team of six on Lynch Wood. Cambridge follows the same year, giving us two offices before our first anniversary.

2015

Northampton makes it three.

Our third office opens with a team of five, quickly growing to eleven consultants covering the wider Midlands region.

2017

Peterborough moves across the road.

The team has outgrown the founding office. We move into Arena House on Lynch Wood, big enough for a growing consultant base and the back-office team that supports the whole group.

2018

Cambridge moves too.

Our second office relocates to Cambourne Business Park, giving the growing Cambridge team the space it now needs.

2023

Four offices, three counties, one very good year.

The Hertfordshire & Essex office opens in Potters Bar, extending our footprint into the Home Counties.

In the same year, we're named Business of the Year in Northamptonshire, and Employer of the Year in both Cambridgeshire and Hertfordshire at the regional SME Business Awards. Three counties, three panels.

TODAY

Still growing.

Four offices, more than 258 years of collective recruitment experience across our specialist divisions, and a network of over 150,000 candidates.

Same founding principle.

SPECIALISTS BY DESIGN

What we do

We're specialists, not generalists. Every consultant at TOG focuses on one sector and stays in it. Not because it's the only way to do recruitment, but because it's how you build the depth to spot the difference between a strong CV and a strong hire.

It's also why so many of our clients come back to us years, even decades, after a first placement.

Beyond the recruitment itself, we produce annual salary guides, regional market reports, and the practical resources our clients and candidates turn to when they want a clearer view of what's happening in their sector.

THE WAY WE WORK

How we work

Four principles show up in every conversation and every process.
01

Be curious.

We stay interested in the market we work in, and in the people who work in it.

02

Keep it human.

We remember your kids' names and know how you take your coffee. That's just how we work here.

03

Make a difference.

We're here to help people build careers they love and businesses they're proud of.

04

Enjoy the ride.

Recruitment is a career, but it should be fun too. If it isn't, we've done something wrong.

WHAT COMES NEXT?

Recruitment
as it should be.

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