WHAT YOU WILL NEED:

Experience of working in a fast-paced office environment with conflicting deadlines. Excellent organisational skills, ensuring tasks are completed accurately and with attention to detail. You will need to be a team player with strong communication skills with colleagues and customers, with the ability to prioritise your work and provide excellent customer service.

Why work for us? Our benefits include:

• annual leave entitlement of 25 days per annum (pro rata if part time) plus bank holidays, increasing to 29 days plus bank holidays after 5 years’ service (with an option to buy up to an additional 10 days annual leave each year subject to approval)
• a generous pension scheme (LGPS) including life assurance (a payment of three times your annual salary)
• flexible working options to enable work/life balance
• agile working (ability to work in the office and from home) with work being an activity we do, not a place we go
• access to a unique employee benefits package which includes discounts and cashback on supermarkets, high street shops, holidays, mobile phones, electrical goods, savings and loan schemes and many other products and services
• Salary sacrifice benefits including Cycle to Work scheme, Tusker Leased Car Scheme and SmartTech (buy the latest tech products interest free and spread the cost over your salary).
• Rail and bus staff discounts
• a range of Health and Wellbeing initiatives including an employee assistance programme
• discounted membership at Abbeycroft Leisure centres
• a culture of learning inspiring staff to focus on continuous learning
• Modern office accommodation

West Suffolk Markets are in the early stages of implementing the Markets Development Plan which takes a new approach to the delivery of market across the district.
You will be an integral part of this plan as the office contact for markets and providing a wrap a round support for the Market Development Officer and Market Officers.
You will be working closely with colleagues to deliver an administrative service that is both effective and efficient, whilst maintaining a high standard of customer service.
Your responsibilities will include responding to emails and phone calls, inputting data into a database, raising purchase orders, dealing with customer queries and organising tasks.