Commercial Assistant

3 weeks ago


St Martin's, United Kingdom Sage Homes Full time

As a Commercial Assistant for the largest provider of affordable homes in England, you will perform a key role, responsible for supporting the Commercial Governance Lead in the commercial and contractual management of the entire annual project delivery programme. You will support the engagement with external Employer's Agent (EA) and Clerk of Works (CoW) teams to ensure that commercial activities are completed in accordance with Sage's contractual obligations.

You will support the Project Managers and liaise with the Programme Management Office function over matters including payments, cost reporting, progress, risks, issues, and opportunities; and will be responsible for the collation of all supporting data and documentation that is created through the Commercial Governance workstreams. You will play a key supporting role in the transformation of the Delivery team that it may provide more consistent programme information to satisfy other downstream Sage stakeholder teams, in particular Sales and Lettings.

**Key duties include**:

- First point of contact and screening with EA and CoW teams to ensure that commercial deliverables are produced to suit Sage's governance programme.
- Under the guidance of the Commercial Governance Lead, analyse and provide initial commentary on the accuracy and adequacy of project deliverables
- Assisting other Project Managers with collating information to inform other workstreams and the PMO
- Tracking site progress against contract sum analyses
- Ensuring that development invoices are contractually due and adequately supported by accurate documentation to enable timely settlement
- Be a point of liaison for Project Managers and other key stakeholders for payment queries
- Be a point of liaison for other Sage operational teams
- Respond to ad-hoc tasks and requests for support across all workstreams

About you
- Commercial background and experience of managing contracts
- Proactive and able to prioritise effectively and manage a busy workload
- Able to build effective working relationships, a self-starter and a team player.
- Welcome and embrace continuous improvement and change
- Possess excellent attention to detail
- A high level of organisation skills and the ability to assess the criticality of tasks in response to changing business priorities
- Possess strong communication skills
- Embrace working in a dynamic, fast-paced, and challenging development client team environment
- Able to plan and manage own workload to achieve deadlines.

**Qualifications**

Relevant experience - i.e. commercial contracts/quantity surveying/document control/legal

We are committed to ensuring you have the best career here at Sage. As well as regular support and guidance from your manager you can expect to receive a variety of learning and development opportunities to support you as you grow within our business. This includes internally and externally delivered development programmes and opportunities to study for professional accreditations and qualifications.

About the culture

We truly care about the outcomes we deliver; creating safe and environmentally friendly places for people to flourish. And we're curious, passionate and inventive in the way we create social change.

Sage is a fast-paced and supportive environment where ambitious and proactive employees thrive. People are empowered to use their pioneering efforts to grow themselves and our business.

We are proudly committed to creating an inclusive workplace, where the diversity of our people and their ideas are truly valued and we love to see applicants from diverse backgrounds and different walks of life.

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

**Salary**: £33,000.00-£40,000.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- Company pension
- Cycle to work scheme

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday

Work Location: Hybrid remote in 5 Upper St Martin's Lane, WC2H 9EA



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