Commercial Support Administrator

**Your Impact**:
At Jacobs, we'll inspire and empower you to deliver your best work so you can evolve, grow and succeed - today and into tomorrow. With more than 55,000 people in 40+ countries, working at Jacobs offers an exciting range of opportunities to develop your career within a supportive and diverse team who always strive to do the right thing for our people, clients and communities.

People are Jacobs’ greatest asset, and we offer a competitive package to retain and attract the best talent.
In addition to the benefits you’d expect, UK employees also receive free single medical cover and digital GP service, family-friendly benefits such as enhanced parental leave pay and free membership of employee assistance and parental programmes, plus reimbursement towards relevant professional development and memberships. We also give back to our communities through our Collectively program which incorporates matched-funding, paid volunteering time and charitable donations.

Work-life balance and flexibility is a key focus area for Jacobs. We’re happy to discuss hybrid, part-time and flexible working hours, patterns and locations to suit you and our business.

**About the Opportunity**
We are currently recruiting for Commercial Support Administrator; the role will be based at our Westlake’s Office.

The role will include but not limited to the following:

- Work with the Commercial Lead in ensuring consistency and best practice ways of working across the business unit to achieve continuous improvement.
- Review, understand and communicate Contract requirements to the Delivery Team.
- Work with the Cost Engineer in the production of the monthly project cost reports.
- Ensure effective change control process and management of, is embedded within the relevant projects you are responsible for.
- Ensure Sub-Contract arrangements are put in place when required using the NEC suite of Contract Documents.
- Ensure correct administrative processes are put in place for management of these Sub-Contracts paying attention to change controls, early warning, compensation events, changes to scope of works and payment.
- Support the Project Manager in resolving commercial issues
- Submit cost reports for review by the Commercial Manager, to enable the utilisation of the data for cost forecasts, revenue and gross margin assumptions/submissions.
- Manage subcontracts from initial placement of order to final account including close liaison with procurement, planning and delivery teams to ensure that the order meets project requirements.
- Maintain effective, accurate cost control.
- Work with project teams to develop innovative solutions, that respond to client challenges.

**Here’s What You’ll Need**: Experience / Skills**:

- Experience of cost forecasting and reporting, cost control, cost risk management, contract documentation preparation, contract administration.
- Commercial awareness.
- Highly organised with meticulous attention to detail
- Ability to work well under pressure
- Ability to communicate confidently
- Hands on with a can-do attitude
- Excellent work ethic
- Ability to work autonomously

**Our Culture**

Our values stand on a foundation of safety, integrity, inclusion and diversity. We put people at the heart of our business and we truly believe that by supporting one another through our culture of caring, we all succeed. We value positive mental health and a sense of belonging for all employees. Find out more about life at Jacobs.

We aim to embed inclusion and diversity in everything we do. We know that if we are inclusive, we’re more connected, and if we are diverse, we’re more creative. We accept people for who they are, regardless of age, disability, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, mental health, race, faith or belief, sexual orientation, socioeconomic background, and whether you’re pregnant or on family leave. This is reflected in our wide range of Global Employee Networks centred on inclusion and diversity - ACE, Careers, Enlace, Harambee, OneWorld, Prism, Vetnet, and Women’s - find out more about our employee networks here.