Contract Support Administrator

6 months ago


Darwen, United Kingdom John Lewis Full time

Herbert Parkinson is a Subsidiary Company of the John Lewis Partnership since 1953, provides an exclusive range of soft furnishing products. With an experienced design team and extensive flexible manufacturing facilities, offering a full development and manufacturing service for soft furnishing products, including cushions, pillows, duvets, curtains & blinds.

**At a glance**:
This role is based at our Herbert Parkinson Textile Factory in Darwen, Lancashire.

The salary range for this role is set at £23,500 - £30,900 per annum.

This is a permanent position.

**About the role**

This role is a great opportunity to join the Contract team at Herbert Parkinson and to be part of the John Lewis Partnership. The Contract team is responsible for providing exceptional products and end to end service to B2B customers in various sectors, by supplying soft furnishings made at Herbert Parkinson and outworkers. The team has ambitious growth targets and is an exciting, fast paced working environment. Within this role you will be completing non-project specific administrative tasks to support the project teams and the Contract management team. This includes organising events and meetings, collating information for the project teams, proofreading documents and any other tasks to support the team.

As a Contract Support Administrator you will be responsible for completing administrative tasks which support the growth of the Contract division.

**Essential skills you’ll need**
- Experience in an administrative role
- Good time management skills and experience of working to deadlines
- Great organisational skills
- A good eye for detail

**Other skills you could bring**
- Experience working in the têxtiles industry
- Experience working in the Contracts furnishings sector
- Experience with events management / managing meeting agendas

**We believe in rewarding our Partners for their time and energy. After all, they’re the ones that make the John Lewis Partnership special. Benefits include**:

- Once you’ve been with us for three months, you’ll get Partnership discount in store and online. That’s 25% off in John Lewis & Partners (12% electrical products, some exclusions apply) and 20% in Waitrose & Partners. You’ll also be able to nominate someone you live with to share your discount.
- Discounted cinema tickets & VIP suites with discounted tickets at the O2 arena
- Discounted rates on holidays at the John Lewis Partnerships hotels, where only Partners and their guests can stay
- Excellent work life balance, including focus on well being and flexible working and our marketing leading equal parenthood leave Policy

**Next Steps**

You'll be asked about any adjustments you might need to support the recruitment process. Let us know, and we'll be sure to discuss it with you.

Thanks for your patience in the meantime and for showing an interest in joining the Partnership.

LI-JLPJL

LI-HEADOFFICE



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