Commercial Assistant

Your new role

Commercial Assistant

To provide administrative and organisational support to the Commercial and Procurement Asset Delivery team.

What you’ll be leading on
- 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 use office software products to contribute to production / maintenance of a range of reports, documents and spreadsheets
- Ability to communicate effectively

Why you should join us
At National Highways we believe in a connected country. We are passionate about creating a culture where colleagues feel connected and included to enable them to enjoy a great sense of wellbeing. We’re proud that as an organisation we are continually strivingto do better and actively encourage and support our colleagues to do the same with their careers.

So, if you put safety first, take ownership of your work, show passion for what you do, work effectively in a team, and demonstrate integrity in how you do it - then you’ll be a great fit for our organisation.

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,
- Contributory pension scheme with employer contribution 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 discount offers for supermarkets, eating out, leisure, holidays, alongside a financial wellbeing programme
- Community friendly - offering paid leave to volunteer, 3 days basic/year
- Right to work check
- 3 year employment history references
- DBS criminal record check
- Social media and adverse journalism check
- Driving licence check (if applicable)
- Fit to work questionnaire (for all), followed by a medical check (if applicable)

And finally