About this role

Job ID: 42111

Assistant Specialist

Lloyd’s Register

Location: Chennai, India

What we’re looking for

We are looking for an assistant specialist who can provide operational and technical administrative support across a range of business systems and services. The role is responsible for system administration activities, customer and user support, data maintenance, reporting, and service request management, ensuring the accuracy, integrity, and availability of critical business information. The position contributes to the effective operation of customer-facing and internal systems, supports continuous improvement initiatives, and, over time, develops deeper technical knowledge to assist with system enhancements, testing, reporting and process optimisation.

What we offer you

- The opportunity to work for an organization that has a genuine sense of purpose, is values driven and helps colleagues to develop professionally and personally through our range of people development programmes

- A Full-time fixed term role

The role

- Provide first-line support for business applications and digital platforms, ensuring timely resolution of user queries and service requests.

- Oversee user account management processes for internal and external clients for multiple systems in accordance with established processes and controls.

- Manage support requests, resolve routine issues, and coordinate escalation of complex incidents.

- Produce reports, perform data analysis, and support data quality and governance activities.

- Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to deliver a high standard of customer service and operational support.

- Maintain process documentation, procedures, and knowledge resources.

- Contribute to system enhancements, process improvements, and continuous improvement initiatives.

- Ensure all activities are conducted in line with internal procedures, contractual requirements, cost structures, and budget constraints.

- Assess the risks and work in a safe manner at all times, robustly implementing health and safety rules, instructions and systems and refusing to undertake work that compromises your safety or health.

- Report in a timely manner all incidents, including near misses and safety observations (NMSO), accidents and injuries and raise any health and safety concerns with your line manager.

What you bring

- Bachelor’s degree in business administration, Commerce, Engineering, or a related discipline.

- Certification or training in business systems, data analysis, reporting tools, IT service management, or application support.

- Significant experience in providing administrative and technical support in a business environment.

- PC literate, specifically, proficient in MS Office.

- Solid organizational skills, with the ability to manage and prioritize multiple tasks.

- Well-developed learning, problem-solving abilities and a structured approach to resolving issues.

- Ability to work effectively and as part of a multi-cultural team in a fast-paced environment.

Nice to have

- Experience in the Maritime industry

- Knowledge of ServiceNow, Salesforce Case Management, Power BI, MySQL, or similar business applications

You are someone who

- Is keen to take accountability and ownership for delivering customer needs

- Is able to manage tasks and prioritize them toward meeting goals

- Is effective at solving problems, fixing issues and making timely decisions

- Is motivated and willing to take initiatives

- Communicates in a structured way and has ability to present technical ideas in user-friendly language

- Displays a team spirit, particularly in a multicultural environment

- Responds positively to learning opportunities and is comfortable stepping out of own comfort zone

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About us

We are a leading international technical professional service provider and a leader in classification, compliance, and consultancy services to the marine and offshore industry, a trusted advisor to our customers helping to design, construct and operate their assets to the highest levels of safety and performance. We are shaping the industry’s future through the development of novel and innovative technology for the next generation of assets, while continuing to deliver solutions for our customers every day.

Be a part of

Lloyd’s Register is wholly owned by the Lloyd’s Register Foundation, a politically and financially independent global charity that aims to engineer a safer world through promoting safety and education. For a thriving ocean economy, Lloyd’s Register colleagues and Lloyd’s Register Foundation work together to fund research, foster industry collaboration and develop action-oriented solutions to make the world a safer place.

Want to apply.

Here at Lloyd’s Register, we care, we share and we do the right thing in every situation. It’s ingrained in our culture and everything we do. We are committed, and continually strive, to lead with our values that empower and enable an inclusive environment conducive to your growth, development and engagement. It doesn’t matter who you are, what you have experienced, how you identify, how old you are, where you are from, what your beliefs are or how your brain or body works – the diversity of our colleagues is fundamental to our futures and the changes we can make together. Our inclusive culture allows us to connect together authentically and to be courageous and bold. We don’t just talk about our differences, we celebrate them!

We are committed to making all stages of our recruitment process accessible to all candidates. Please let us know if you need any assistance or reasonable adjustments throughout your application and we will do everything we possibly can to support you.

If you don't tick every box in these ads, please don't rule yourself out. We focus on hiring people who share our goal of working together for a safer, sustainable, thriving ocean economy.

We care, we share, we do the right thing.

If you have further questions about this role, please contact us at [email protected] and we will respond to you as soon as possible.

Diversity and Inclusion at Lloyd's Register:

Together we are one Lloyd’s Register, committed to developing an inclusive and safe workplace that embraces and celebrates diversity. We strive to ensure that all applicants to LR experience equality of opportunity and fair treatment, because we believe it is the right thing to do. We hope you do too.

As a Disability Confident Committed Employer, we have committed to:

- ensure our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible.

- communicating and promoting vacancies offering an interview to disabled people who meet the minimum criteria for the job.

- anticipating and providing reasonable adjustments as required

- supporting any existing employee who acquires a disability or long-term health condition, enabling them to stay in work.

- at least one activity that will make a difference for disabled people.

Find out more about Disability Confident at: www.gov.uk/disability-confident

The Lloyd's Register Group comprises charities and non-charitable companies, with the latter supporting the charities in their main goal of enhancing the safety of life and property, at sea, on land and in the air - for the benefit of the public and the environment. ( Group entities ).