Commercial Administrator

**About You**

You will have exceptional planning and organisational skills, with the ability to manage your own time and workload. The role requires initiative, flexibility, tenacity, and a high level of dedication, to ensure the appropriate level of proactive coordinative support is provided across a broad spectrum of tasks to provide proficient and professional support.

As an effective communicator you are able to rapidly forge collaborative working relationships, you can confidently organise, plan, and prioritise across many tasks at once, ensuring key deadlines are met and clearly communicate with colleague’s progress and outcomes.

You will provide a professional, confidential, and efficient service within an environment of continuously developing demands. You will be a self-motivated, dependable individual who is able to work effectively with mínimal supervision and can quickly learn to pre-empt the needs of the Commercial Manager and wider team.

Accounting experience is essential. Competence in Microsoft Office packages is desirable, and familiarity with Agresso Software would be advantageous.

**The Role**

As a Commercial Coordinator, you will play a crucial role in providing an administrative support service to the Commercial Department as required under the direction of the Commercial Manager.

Reporting to the Commercial Manager key responsibilities will include:

- Tender Enquiries
- Contractor Vetting
- Contractor Relations
- Supply Chain
- Payment Support
- Data Management
- General Administrative support

This is a Part Time position, 22.5 hour week, and you will be expected to work from our Southern Divisional Head Office in Ringwood.

**Benefits**

**Financial**:

- Competitive salary and bonus scheme
- Competitive Company pension scheme
- Life Assurance
- Professional Subscriptions paid for

**Lifestyle/Health & Wellbeing**:

- 24 days holiday (rising to 28) plus Bank Holidays
- 2 fully paid volunteering days per year (supported by the McCarthy Stone Foundation)
- Health benefits such as Remote GP, 24/7 access to EAP Services (including counsellors and legal advisors) and eyecare voucher
- Colleagues Benefit Booklet with a range of store offers discounts and promotions
- Family Friendly Policies

**Your Attributes**

**You will have**:

- GCSE standard or equivalent is required.
- Competence in the use of a range of Microsoft Office packages is desirable although some training will be given.
- Accounting experience is essential
- Agresso Software experience is a benefit, but not essential

**You will bring**:

- Composure and operate effectively in a pressurised environment.
- Personally accountable - self-motivated individual who can make things happen.
- Approachable and dependable - able to rapidly forge effective and collaborative working relationship with others, both internal and external.
- Good negotiation, influencing and communication skills across all levels of organisation.
- Good verbal and written communication skills.As the UK’s leading developer and manager of retirement communities, we provide high quality homes to exacting specifications. As of November 2021, McCarthy Stone operates 475 developments across the UK for more than 20,000 people.

We believe in championing the role, wellbeing and happiness of older people in society. We help our customers have a better later life, so they feel more connected, recognised and valued than ever. In late 2020 we launched the McCarthy Stone Charitable Foundation to support local causes that help older people in need across Britain.

We are proud to have been certified as a Great Place to Work 2022 as well as making the Great Place to Work Wellbeing list