Commercial Assistant - Guildford, United Kingdom - K2 Corporate Mobility

Description

Commercial Assistant
Location - Guildford, Surrey, UK

Job type - Permanent

Contract type - Full time 40 hours per week

Hybrid working - Two days office, three days remote (after successful probation)

Salary Range - £30,000 - £35,000 depending on experience

Do you want to kick start a career in Relocation? Would you love to be part of a company that is leading in Global Mobility? Are you enthusiastic, proactive, a people person and an excellent team player? Do you thrive in working in a highly pressurised and extremely busy working environment with continual change and continue to meet deadlines and maintain attention to detail? If so, we have the role for you


About us

K2 Corporate Mobility is a leading B2B provider of comprehensive global mobility services to multi-national companies relocating their most valued employees.

We manage and broker services through our global partner network and operate as a true business partner - an extension of our clients' HR functions.

We uniquely provide genuine single point of contact accountability for HR teams and assignees throughout the international relocation process.

Headquartered in Guildford, UK, K2 serves every location worldwide via our regional hubs located in North America, Europe, Scandinavia, Middle East, Africa, Asia and Australia.

Managing a global network of over 1,000 specialist approved partners worldwide, K2 specialises in delivering an extraordinarily high standard of service on every assignment.

Our skilled teams deliver international mobility support to blue chip clients across all continents, supporting HR teams in over 15 industries
- from financial services to global retailers.

We're independent, ambitious, entrepreneurial, diligent go-getters and we believe in delivering only the best for our customers. What sets us apart is our people. We employ the best and allow them to be the best they can be.


If you want to know more about our people and culture visit our LinkedIn and Twitter pages #K2corporatemobility

The Role

To support the Group Commercial Team working on major clients and new potential clients (RFP) for all aspects of Household Goods and Relocation.

To assist with data gathering and analysis in order to build and, or update pricing matrices.

To provide reports and analysis to help the Commercial Teams manage the K2 Partner Network efficiently.


Hours of work
Monday to Friday 8.30am - 5.30pm. Hybrid working applies after successful completion of probation, two days based in our Guildford or Sweden office as needed to perform the role and build relationships which is an integral part of the K2 culture within the business
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Main Duties and Responsibilities

• Assisting with collating and processing RFP rates.
• Prepare Ad hoc rate request.
• Profit margin analysis and understanding of commercial processes.
• Assist Prepare benchmarking reports and any data as and when required.
• Build and maintain relationships with global partner network.
• Support with the management, tracking, resolution of escalation/issues in a timely manner.
• Assist with preparing data for partner reviews.
• Assist with preparing content for regular client and partner updates.
• Costing of K2 UK / Europe moves and assisting K2 overseas offices with rates.
• Processing vendor invoices, queries and follow ups.
• Purchase Orders and following up or adding the billing of these additional costs.
• Regularly update internal data bases in a timely manner.
• Project work as and when required.
• General support to the Group Commercial Team, whether ad hoc or planned.
• Any other tasks as required by the needs of the business.

Company

• Project the company's image to all customers and partners.
• Maintain close relationships with other members of Operations, Management, Sales and Accounts staff.

Experience:
Skills /Abilities & Knowledge

• Selfconfident and motivated, works on own initiative and as a part of the team.
• Strong attention to detail.
• Strong analytic skills.
• Commercial awareness.
• Effective time management and organisational skills and ability to multi task.
• Ability to prioritise.
• Able to be flexible in a changing working environment.
• Work well under pressure.
• Advanced skills in Microsoft Office Excel.
• Ability to learn and understand a multitude of data bases.
• Ability to focus on a task.
• Good written and verbal communication skills.
• An inquisitive mind and ability to problem solve.
• Be able to think quickly and creatively.
• Ability to learn tasks quickly with mínimal support.

Accountability

• As part of the role, the job holder will be responsible for the processing of information, which may be special category data by nature. The job holder is obliged to follow the company Data Protection, Information Security Polices.
• Full compliance and understanding whilst demonstrating full principles of all accredited ISO regulations.

K2 Benefits

• Company pension
• 25 days