Senior Commercial Administrator

Working on the Cheshire East Highways Term Service Contract, in partnership with Cheshire East Council. The role is responsible for maintaining commercial records, managing key trackers and registers, supporting reporting requirements, co-ordinating subcontract and purchase order administration, and ensuring commercial information is accurate, up to date and readily available to support decision-making. The successful candidate will be organised, detail-orientated, IT proficient, and able to work effectively to deadlines in a fast-paced environment.

• Provide support to the Senior Quantity Surveyors, Commercial Team, Operations Team and Finance Team to ensure compliance with commercial processes and successful contract delivery.
• Process, generate, monitor and administer subcontractor purchase orders, including tracking outstanding or missing orders to meet reporting requirements.
• Maintain finance, commercial and performance trackers, ensuring information is accurate, complete and up to date, incorporating use of Dynamics and CEMAR.
• Maintain and manage commercial registers, including subcontract account register, contractual correspondence, task order issues, corporate social responsibility, efficiencies and other contract records.
• Prepare, maintain and distribute commercial reports and management information for Operational Board meetings, commercial reviews and Head Office reporting requirements.
• Co-ordinate reports on Target Costs, Green Claims, efficiencies and other key commercial performance measures.

This role will be a good fit for you if:

• Intermediate Microsoft Office skills (Word, PowerPoint and Outlook)
• Highly proficient in Excel
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to work well within a team and contribute and support achievement of mutual goals and deadlines
• Experience of Microsoft Dynamics and CEMAR (beneficial)
• Experience with in construction industry
• Commercial / account experience desirable but not essential

At Ringway Jacobs we recognise that our people make the difference, and in order to do what we do well, particular care is taken in nurturing and investing in our people. That’s why you will always be given the opportunity to utilise your expertise and develop your career.

Ringway Jacobs recognises the importance of helping our employees balance their work and home life by offering flexible working arrangements across many of our roles. We therefore welcome applications from people looking for an alternative working pattern e.g. part-time hours, job share etc. Please let us know on your CV or cover letter if this is what you are looking for.

• Sick Pay
• Competitive salary
• Opportunity to purchase up to 5 days extra leave
• A variety of discounts through our “RJ Rewards” app, including restaurants, holidays, days out etc
• Life Assurance
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Pension scheme

We are Ringway Jacobs, a leading highways service provider working with local authorities across the UK. Formed in 2005, specifically to provide road network management solutions to local government, our unique blend of engineering capability, innovation and customer care make us the best in class. We support over 10,000 miles of highways, 10,000 miles of footway, almost 7,800 miles of public rights of way and 242,000 street lights.

We excel in delivering safe, sustainable service excellence, through our passion, integrity and collaborative culture.

Ringway Jacobs is an equal opportunities employer. We wish to ensure equality of opportunity in employment and the fair treatment of all our employees. As part of this commitment, we proudly support the Armed Forces Community by identifying roles for which we can offer a guaranteed interview to service leavers, veterans, reservists,…