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Job Description
The Business Services Team Manager at Canonical oversees travel, logistics, event planning, and administrative services to support company operations and large-scale events, ensuring efficiency, safety, and compliance in a fast-paced, global tech environment.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead and manage travel, logistics, and event planning for company-wide events
- Oversee travel procurement, visas, and logistics to ensure efficient and safe operations
- Coordinate and approve expenses, ensuring fairness, transparency, and policy compliance
- Plan and execute large-scale company events, including venue selection and operational logistics
- Provide executive administrative services, including scheduling, report coordination, and delegated approvals
- Manage small projects and initiatives related to travel, events, and administration
- Ensure health, safety, and duty of care policies are implemented and maintained
- Participate in event planning, safety reviews, and operational management to ensure smooth execution
Requirements
- An exceptional academic track record from both high school and university
- An undergraduate degree in a technical or business subject
- Demonstrable good judgement in matters involving money, policy and in-person interactions
- Ability to work in a global, multicultural organisation
- Excellent interpersonal skills, curiosity, flexibility
- Responsibility, accountability, thoughtfulness and self-awareness
- Result-oriented, with a personal drive to meet commitments
- Ability to travel up to four times a year, for company events up to two weeks long
- Experience in travel industry, project management, event management and operations, or business and corporate administration (preferred but not mandatory)
- Drive and a track record of going above-and-beyond expectations
- Leadership and management skills
- Strong judgment and interpersonal skills, with the confidence to hold people accountable and defend positions of policy
- Work ethic to move quickly through a large volume of work
- Ability to participate in and contribute to every company event, including planning, venue selection, scheduling, operations and safety reviews
- Experience with planning and managing complex company events four times a year
- Ability to coordinate travel approvals, logistics, and operations
- Experience in expense review in line with policies
- Experience in managing or coordinating with suppliers
- Ability to handle delegated approvals for travel and expenses
- Experience in providing traditional EA services for company leads, including scheduling meetings and coordinating reports
- Excellent judgment and interpersonal skills
- Strong decision-making skills related to travel, logistics, expense policies, and event planning
- Ability to work independently in a home-based environment, with flexibility to work in locations with company offices such as London, Taipei, and Beijing
Benefits & Perks
Annual compensation review
Performance-driven annual bonus or commission
Distributed work environment with twice-yearly team sprints in person
Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year
Recognition rewards
Annual holiday leave
Maternity and paternity leave
Employee Assistance Programme
Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues
Priority Pass, and travel upgrades for long haul company events
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