Commercial Assistant - Northampton, United Kingdom - Kier Group

Kier Group

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Northampton, United Kingdom

6 days ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

We're looking for a Commercial Assistant to join our Transportation team based in Northamptonshire to assist the Commercial Department with administrative duties whilst gaining an insight into how the Commercial and Finance teams operate.

You must be enthusiastic, willing to learn and looking for progression. Within this role, you can enjoy competitive annual holiday entitlement with opportunities to buy/sell leave, a fantastic, matched pension scheme, a share in the success you help to create by investing in Kier through our Sharesave and Share Incentive Plans and even more

Can you imagine a world without transportation links via land, sea or air? Nor can we Your journey is our journey, come and join us at Kier Transportation and make a difference.

Supporting the movement of people, goods and equipment.

Location:
Brixworth, Northamptonshire - office-based role 5 days per week

Contract:
Permanent, flexible and part-time hours available if desired, just let us know

Salary:
£24k - £28k + Pension + Benefits

Responsibilities
As Commercial Administrator, you'll be working within the commercial team, supporting with administrative duties relating to the contract.

Your day to day will include:

Sending out and managing subcontract enquiries
Assisting the estimators in preparing quotations
Downloading and managing documents from client to Kier systems
Inputting subcontractor payments and liabilities into the costing system (Causeway)
Supporting Quantity Surveyors with general administrative tasks, with a great focus on Microsoft Excel usage, producing and maintaining data tables / trackers, as well as data analysis and cost value reconciliations (CVR's)

Who are we looking for?
This role of Commercial Administrator is great for you if you have:

Microsoft Excel to an intermediate level
Pivot Tables, Vlookup, formula, SUMIF.
Ability to work to work under pressure and to tight deadlines
Willingness to progress

Benefits at Kier

We're proud to be able to offer our fantastic employees a wide variety of benefits that you can tailor to your needs.

Some of our favourites include:

New and enhanced family friendly policies, including eight weeks paternity leave, 26 weeks maternity leave, pregnancy loss leave, surrogacy leave, menopause guidance and more
Life Assurance
24/7 GP Service
Wellbeing resources
A huge range of deals and discounts at many your favourite brands

Who is Kier?

At the core of all our projects is technical excellence, utilising the latest building methods and innovations to ensure we offer the best value to our clients as sustainably as possible.

Our projects are those that support the local communities we work in, helping them thrive and progress.

We are collaborative, trusted and focussed in all that we do, and our people are essential in helping us achieve our goals.

Diversity and inclusion
Making Kier a diverse and inclusive place to work is a huge priority for us. We're proud of the steps we've taken so far, but we know we must always do more.

Our employees are key in shaping Kier's diversity and inclusion (D&I) initiatives, and our people have made a huge impact on how we work, by using their experiences to shape our policies and initiatives.

Closing date: 1 September 2023