Commercial Assistant

As a Commercial Assistant at National Highways, your role will involve providing vital administrative and organisational support to the Commercial teams. You will be responsible for assisting the commercial team to assess payment applications using National Highways 'Confirm' Enterprise Asset Management portal. Additionally, you will play a key role in the periodic payment assessment cycles, ensuring all payments are processed within contract timescales, and collating and distributing payment information. Your responsibilities will also include assisting with commercial administration, managing correspondence, and developing and maintaining commercial registers and operating systems to support efficient operations. The successful candidate will be based in our Birmingham or Nottinghamshire office, however here at National Highways we offer a flexible hybrid working approach, meaning the role will be a combination of office and agile home working

• Assisting the commercial team to assess payment applications using 'Confirm'
• Prepare and issue supply chain communications and monitor required responses
• Minute taking and distribution of documentation
• Manage own work according to business need, ensuring accuracy and attention to detail
• Accept personal responsibility for safety of self and others, reporting unsafe conditions and near miss incidents
  
  Ability to work effectively with others in an office environment and delivering an efficient customer service
• Previous experience of providing administrative support
• Functional / Technical Skills
• Ability to use office software products and databases to contribute to production / maintenance of a range of reports, documents and spreadsheets
• Ability to communicate effectively
  
  Here at National Highways, we manage and improve the strategic road network to make journeys safer, smoother and more reliable. Our priorities are safety, customers and delivery
There's never been a better time to join our Commercial Operations team. We're a growing, vibrant team helping to drive the most ambitious roads investment programme our country has ever seen. You'll be involved in the design of our modern, progressive contracts and partnerships, negotiating best commercial terms, galvanizing innovation and producing smart cost estimates and plans. Building in every opportunity to ensure that our customers and road workers get home safe and well every day while travelling or working on our road network. Why you should join us At National Highways we believe in a connected country. We are passionate about creating a culture where colleagues feel connected, included and enjoy greater wellbeing to achieve this. We're proud that as an organisation we are continually striving to do better and actively encourage and support our colleagues to do the same with their careers. So, if you put safety first, take ownership of your work, show passion for what you do, work effectively in a team, and demonstrate integrity in how you do it - then you'll be a great fit for our organisation. A connected and sustainable working approach has been adopted across National Highways. For some roles, this means being able to work in a hybrid way spending up to 60% of time working from a remote location such as home. Please wait until the interview stage before asking us about flexibility, and we will explore what is possible.

Our benefits package
• Our total reward package includes basic salary, the potential for a performance related bonus
• Contributory pension scheme with employer contribution of up to 10%
• Annual Leave starting at 26 days (plus Bank Holidays) rising by 1 day each year up to 31 days (plus Bank Holidays)
• Flexible hours and an approach driven by connected and sustainable working which includes hybrid working
• Life assurance of 4 times annual salary
• Health and wellbeing support, including an Employee Assistance Programme, available 24/7 365 days and network of mental health first aiders. Plus access to a wellbeing app to enhance your self-care 24/7, Occupational health service and flu vaccines
• A cycle to work scheme for the purchase of a bicycle and equipment for healthy, low carbon travel
• Significant investment in your career development, through learning and development, talent management, coaching, mentoring and on job experience
And we are
• Family friendly with enhanced maternity leave and pay, paternity leave (15 days), shared parental leave, adoption leave. Plus access to financial support for holiday play schemes and paid special leave (up to 5 days pa), eg for caring responsibilities
• Money friendly with access to a discounts platform including over 3000 discounts for supermarkets, eating out, leisure, holidays. Alongside a financial wellbeing programme
• Community friendly - offering paid leave to volunteer, 3 days basic/year
If you are successful, it is key to know all offers of employment are subject to satisfactory completion of our pre-employment checks which include:
• Right to work check
• 3 year employment history references
• DBS criminal record check
• Social media and adverse journalism check
• Driving licence check (if applicable)
• Fit to work questionnaire (for all), followed by a medical check (if applicable)
• Qualifications and/or professional membership check (if applicable)