**About the role**:
This is a newly created role to provide support to our team of Regional Asset Managers who look after the maintenance and development of our care homes across Australia. You will use your excellent administration and organisational skills to ensure the ongoing development and maintenance of our property asset register, co-ordinating the requests for purchases of items and services for the care home, the raising of purchase orders and following up quotes. This is a varied, fast-paced role, with the opportunity to develop relationships with many key stakeholders across our business. You will join a friendly and supportive team who are passionate about our industry! Be at the heart of it, knowing you make a difference every day in the lives of our residents!
**In this role, you will have the opportunity to**:
- Support the property team in managing our existing Care Homes and Villages property assets
- Continuous and Ongoing Development and maintenance of our Bupa Property asset register to include all equipment and assets (excluding IT)
- Co-ordinate the purchase of items and services for care homes and villages at the request of the property team, in a timely and cost-efficient manner, in partnership with the procurement function
- Raise PR/ PO's and coordinate appropriate payments including confirmation of receipt and delivery of the equipment and services being receipted
- Work with the Asset management team to support them in the sourcing and following up of quotes from contractors for works in our homes
- Support the reporting of assets and spend against the assets to the business
- Update asset registers with spend from maintenance on the assets for forward planning
- Support the Asset Management team on budgets for the annual maintenance of the asset register.
- Support the property team in the maintenance of key relationships with suppliers
- Support the property team to deliver on Bupa's sustainability goals relating to property, plant and equipment and team
- Be creative, suggesting improvements or solutions
- Hybrid role, with the opportunity to work from home some days once training completed
- Travel may be required from time to time across our homes
**To be successful in this role, it is likely you will have**
- Experience in supporting a busy team ideally in property, aged care or similar industry across multiple locations
- Strong administration skills, including the ability to prioritise
- Great time management!
- Passion or experience in aged care
- Demonstrated experience of building successful relationships with cross-functional stakeholder management, ideally in a complex environment
- A proactive, positive and flexible approach
- The ability to work collaboratively and effectively within a team environment
- The ability to take initiative and ownership and act with integrity to deliver results
- Confidence to think outside of the box and suggest creative solutions
- Demonstrated willingness and ability to learn