Contract Administrator

**Job title : Contract Administrator**

**Location : Chester - Hybrid**

**Salary : £23,500**

As Contract Administrator you will be responsible for ensuring that all components are entered and maintained accurately and efficiently into the inhouse system, enabling maximum revenue protection and cost control for accurate and fast access across all departments maximising all opportunities to achieve targeted revenue and profit.

**Key responsibilities**:

- Create and maintain internal information in an accurate, timely manner and in line with company processes.
- Be able to read, understand and interpret a contract and its offers and inclusions in order to use the most efficient and accurate process to load into the inhouse systems back office.
- To load and maintain contracted rates, allocations and special offers for contracted suppliers into the company’s inhouse system.
- Support Contract Operations Manager in carrying out an audit of loaded contracts as required.
- Support the Sales team with any manual costings and contractual queries to ensure the company are quoting the best price in accordance with departmental processes.
- Support internal departments with any system related queries.
- Support the Contract Operations Manager with regular quote checks to ensure accuracy of information loaded.
- Support team members seeking solutions to system challenges as and when they arise.
- Work with a degree of flexibility to ensure that new tasks / responsibilities can be undertaken when required.
- Be a committed, enthusiastic and supportive team member.
- Aim to improve by recommendation any Company working practices where need for improvement can be identified and is necessary or applicable.
- Be aware of the Company’s goals and aims and strive to achieve as per the mission statement.
- Attend and contribute in a positive and objective manner to team meetings or any relevant departmental/company forums.
- Provide accurate and timely support to all departments. Develop excellent working practices and relations with all departments to allow effective selling
- Attend supplier training, presentations, functions and promotions as required; represent the Company in a professional manner at all times.

**Skills and experience**:

- Good interpersonal skills, including verbal and written communication.
- Adaptable and dependable
- Excellent analytical and numerical skills with an acute eye for detail - able to work with different currencies, rates and conversions.
- Logical approach to problem solving.
- High level of personal organisation, time management and administration.
- A good working knowledge of MS Office Outlook programmes. (Word, Excel, Outlook)
- Positive and helpful attitude with a commitment to excellent customer service
- Ability to prioritise workloads.
- Ability to work well under pressure
- Team player able to work alongside colleagues and share workload
- Flexible approach to working arrangements
- Enthusiastic and Positive outlook
- Confident, sociable, approachable and enthusiastic communication and behaviour

Company benefits:

- Holiday allowance starting at 25 days plus bank holidays, increasing with length of service
- Hybrid and flexible working opportunities
- Paid volunteering days
- Ongoing training and development including overseas educational trips
- Access to discounts and offers on your own holidays
- Enhanced family friendly benefits
- Unfortunately, due to time restrictions we cannot respond to every applicant, in the event that we haven’t contacted you within 48 hours please take it you have not been successful for this particular role, but your details will be kept on file and considered for all future vacancies._
- We are an equal opportunities agency and welcome applicants from all backgrounds._
- We are acting on behalf of the client as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy._

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

Pay: £23,500.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- Company pension
- Work from home

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday

**Experience**:

- Procurement: 1 year (preferred)
- Purchasing: 1 year (preferred)

Work Location: In person