Role: Commercial Assistant
Salary: Competitive dependant on skills and experience with company benefits
Hours: 37.5 hours per week - Monday to Friday with flexibility
Location: Hybrid - Home Based & from our depot in Salford, Retford and Scunthorpe when required.
This is a great opportunity to join a successful and high performing team, with the added bonus of the flexibility to work from home a few days per week!

Benefits:

• Highly competitive salary
• Company Laptop and Phone
• 26 days holiday plus Bank Holidays
• Job Security
• Company Pension
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Life Assurance with a range of other amazing benefits available through an app
• Paternity Leave - paid at full salary for 2 weeks*
• Maternity Leave - paid at full salary for 3 months and /2 salary for a further 3 months *
• Fill Your Boots Rewards - saving an average of £400 per year
• Access to our Internal Academy
• Career Development and Progression

About the role of Commercial Assistant:
The Commercial Assistant role is a pivotal role within the Commercial Low Speed division of Chevron Traffic Management and is responsible for timely and accurate billing of all work carried out within the region, ensuring that client specified application/invoice dates are met, along with contributing to the management of commercial aspects of all contracts, including ensuring costs and revenue in correct periods.
The role reports to the Senior Commercial Manager - Low Speed North and is part of a small Commercial team function supporting the Low-Speed business in the north of England.
The role holder is a key member of the Commercial team within a Low-Speed region(s), led by a Senior Commercial Manager, working alongside Depots & Operations Managers and Commercial team members.

Key tasks vary, but will include:

• Contracts invoicing
• Monitor and maintain the data in Company’s in-house TM Work system
• Lead the invoicing process, ensuring timely and accurate billing of all work carried out within the region, ensuring that client specified application/invoice dates are met
• Liaising with projects/planning teams responsible of building up the jobs on system, ensuring the standard process is followed and allows an accurate invoicing process
• Timely responses to Client enquiries, communication falling in line with the company ethos
• Participate in regional review meetings with other departments, taking the lead where required to explain any issues encountered within Commercial invoicing process
• Liaising with Finance team when required to resolve client’s queries post invoicing

Other
Any other suitable duties as per management requests to support the business
Contribute to process improvement and implementation across the region Identify systems improvements
Process
Review and challenge internal commercial processes and adherence thereof, identifying weaknesses and opportunities to improve
Cash management
Assist the Quantity Surveyors and Senior Commercial Manager with Age Debt, Cash collection and escalation if needed Liaise with Finance team when required to identify and resolve stoppers in payment allocation process
Contracts applications for payment
Help the Quantity Surveyors and Senior Commercial Manager to prepare applications for payment on small purchase orders/short form of subcontracts When required, collect and submit the evidence to the clients Use and maintain trackers implemented within the commercial process

What good looks like for a Commercial Assistant:

• Excellent attention to details and analytical skills
• Strong Microsoft Excel skills
• Confident to work with different IT/Digital systems
• Good interpersonal skills, able to communicate easily with, and influence all levels within the organisation
• Self-motivated, driven and able to work under own initiative
• Inquisitive, persistent, resilient, organised, flexible and pragmatic
• Able to manage own time, work under pressure and deliver to deadlines
• Comfortable in a high change environment

What else looks good as a Commercial Administrator (Desirable):

• Working knowledge of Traffic Management.
• Experience gained within a similar commercial administration role
• Previous demonstrable, experience in quantity surveying
• After qualifying period of 2 years

So, if you want to join a winning team and be part of an innovative organisation which is focussed on company growth and employee progression, click on the apply button today.

• Contracts invoicing
• Monitor and maintain the data in Company’s in-house TM Work system
• Lead the invoicing process, ensuring timely and accurate billing of all work carried out within the region, ensuring that client specified application/invoice dates are met
• Liaising with projects/planning teams responsible of building up the jobs on system, ensuring the standard process is followed and allows an accurate invoicing process
• Timely responses to Client enquiries, communication falling in line with the company ethos
• Participate in regional review meetings with other departments, taking the lead where required to explain any issues encountered within Commercial invoicing process
• Liaising with Finance team when required to resolve client’s queries post invoicin