Commercial Administrator - Aylesbury, United Kingdom - Balfour Beatty

Balfour Beatty

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Aylesbury, United Kingdom

1 week ago

Posted by:

Tom O´Connor

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Description

About the role
Our projects are more than just your opportunity to make your mark. They're an opportunity to stretch, test and develop your expertise. Join our Living Places team as a Commercial Administrator in Aylesbury. You'll help to deliver complex work that really matters to our business, and the world around you.

Role purpose

Support the commercial function by providing clerical and administrative duties in accordance with the document management system.
Proactively working with the team, updating databases; downloading and manipulating data into spreadsheets, pivot tables and other electronic formats.
Assist with the reporting, creating and maintaining registers, trackers and schedules.
Responsible for creating and maintaining data in accordance with the approved filing structure and amending, revising, or updating this structure as required, coordinating and recording meetings.

What you'll be doing
As a Commercial Administrator, you will have the following accountabilities:

Measure, record & value work unsupervised in accordance with appropriate rules and procedures
Review administrative progress weekly & monthly
Plan commercial activities to meet requirements of the appropriate calendars for the business, project and/or contractual requirements.
Measure & interpret specifications & drawings
Build up estimates from first principle including net and gross estimates
Translate measurement from drawings and Specifications and help prepare Bills of Quantities and Schedules of Rates
Collation of Cost and Value Information
Preparation of Cost reconciliation statements
Provide the support necessary to inform the procurement & supply chain function
Record and document information including prequalification, registration of interest, tender lists, procurement schedules
Collation of cost and value information
Can logically order & manipulate data

Who we're looking for

You will have the following:

Similar experience would be advantageous
Industry appreciation
Appreciation of the role of the commercial function
Excellent communication skills
Ability to multitask and work independently as well as in a team;
Achievement focus (Achieving Results)
Analytical thinking & decision making
Highly motivated, proactive and practical administrator
Excellent interpersonal skills
Honest reliable and professional person

Why work for us

Day in, day out, our teams deliver amazing projects in challenging conditions; developing, managing and maintaining the vital infrastructure and public spaces that modern economies, societies and communities rely on.

About us

The way we live our lives is changing fast: where and how we live, work, travel, shop, relax and socialise.

The evolving nature of our society means we all need to shape our environment to meet a complex array of individual and collective needs.

Living Places works in partnership with Local Authorities to consult, finance, design, build and manage the essential place infrastructure that local communities and national economies need to prosper and grow.

We are right at the heart of a dynamic place shaping agenda that brings Local Authorities, local communities, Central Government, and the Private Sector together to create safe, sustainable, flexible and dynamic public spaces geared to community social need, economic growth and personal well-being as well as being environmentally sustainable.

As a Disability Confident Employer, we are committed to working with people who have disabilities and long-term health conditions to remove barriers for them in obtaining employment.

We are also committed to offering applicants with a disability an interview if they meet the minimum requirements for the role.

Job Reference:
BBUK05734