Commercial Assistant

**Your new role**

Commercial Assistant

**What you’ll be doing**
- Collate enquiry information and task order information and produce relevant paperwork for checking prior to issue
- Participate in the periodic payment assessment cycles adhering to contract timescales including collating and distributing payment information.
- Assisting in commercial administration and correspondence as required
- Developing and maintaining commercial registers and operating systems, producing monthly reports and statistics as required.
- Processing and completing benchmarking reports
- Perform filing & archiving duties as and when required
- Prepare and issue supply chain communications and monitor required responses
- Minute taking and distribution of documentation
- Manage own work according to business need, ensuring accuracy and attention to detail
- Collect, retrieve, and collate data through effective liaison.
- Contribute to an engaged, efficient team.
- Accept personal responsibility for safety of self and others, reporting unsafe conditions and near miss incidents
- Operation of other administration tools as and when required.

**To be successful**
- Ability to work effectively with others in an office environment or delivering an efficient customer service
- Previous experience of providing administrative support
- Ability to use office software products to contribute to production and maintenance of a range of reports, documents and spreadsheets
- Ability to communicate effectively

**A bit about us**

National Highways are responsible for operating, maintaining and improving England’s motorways and major A roads. Over recent years, investment in our highways has increased, this has led to advances in technology, such as smart motorways; enabling traffic to flow better. However, even more is yet to be done. Considering that a third of all traffic, two thirds of heavy goods vehicles, and 98% of UK businesses rely on them, and you can see why our roads, and what we do, matters so much.

It’s an exciting time to begin a career with National Highways as we invest £11 billion in our motorways and A Roads boosting capacity, tackling congestion and improving safety which is why we’re so grateful to our c 4,500 employees around the country. At the same time, we’ll improve how we work. That means we will be able to; plan roadworks better to minimise disruption; clear incidents more quickly; and save more than £1 billion by working more efficiently. When you work with us, you're helping to connect communities, sustain business and support the economy.

**Want to know more?**

**Why you should join us**

An informal blended working approach has been adopted for many of our roles across National Highways. We offer many different ways to work flexibly and we’re open to discuss part-time working, job shares, and flexible start and finish times.

Please wait until the interview stage before asking us about flexibility, and we will explore what is possible.

Our benefits package
- Our total reward package includes basic salary, the potential for a performance related bonus, and employer pension contributions of up to 10%.
- Annual Leave starting at 26 days (plus Bank Holidays) rising by 1 day each year up to 31 days (plus Bank Holidays)
- Flexible hours and blended working between base location/home
- Life assurance of 4 times annual salary
- Health and wellbeing support, including an Employee Assistance Programme, available 24/7 365 days and network of mental health first aiders. Plus, access to a wellbeing app to enhance your self-care 24/7, Occupational health service and flu vaccines
- A cycle to work scheme for the purchase of a bicycle and equipment for healthy, low carbon travel
- Significant investment in your career development, through learning and development, talent management, coaching, mentoring and on job experience

And we are:

- Family friendly with enhanced maternity leave and pay, paternity leave (15 days), shared parental leave, adoption leave. Plus access to financial support for holiday play schemes and paid special leave (up to 5 days pa), eg for caring responsibilities
- Money friendly with access to a discounts platform including over 3000 discounts for supermarkets, eating out, leisure, holidays. Alongside a financial wellbeing programme
- Community friendly - offering paid leave to volunteer, 3 days basic/year plus an extra 3 days to support the national Covid effort

**And finally