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Commercial Assistant

May 26, 2023 | Comments Off on Commercial Assistant

We're looking for a Commercial Assistant to join our Highways team based in Northamptonshire. 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 roads or bridges? Nor can we! Your journey is our journey, come and join us at Kier Highways and make a difference. Connecting roads, connecting people.



Location: Brixworth, Northamptonshire

Contract: Full time, part time and flexible

Salary: £competitive + 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 can:

  • Demonstrate a good understanding of Microsoft Excel at an intermediate level (Pivot Tables, lookup formula, SUMIF)
  • Work across different teams, accurately to tight deadlines
We're all about finding potential here at Kier, and transferable skills are always welcome! So even if you don't tick every box, please apply and we can have a chat. We want to hear from candidates from all backgrounds and experiences, and we especially encourage those from underrepresented communities to get in touch with us.

If you require any reasonable adjustments during any part of the application process, please get in touch at InclusiveRecruitment@kier.co.uk to discuss and arrange these.

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
  • Share in the success you help to create by investing in Kier through our sharesave and share incentive plans
  • Kier's Green Car Scheme
  • A huge range of deals and discounts at many your favourite brands
And so much more! You can read the full details of all of our benefits on our website: kier.co.uk/careers/rewards-benefits

Who is Kier?

We're made up of six business units, Group Functions, Construction, Highways, Infrastructure, Utilities and Property, and as a group, our purpose is to sustainably deliver construction and infrastructure services which are vital to the UK. Take a look at our sustainability objectives: kier.co.uk/sustainability/

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.

You can see more about our D&I action plan here: kier.co.uk/media/6668/di-roadmap-2021.pdf



Closing date: 19 June 2023

Please note, interviews may take place before the closing date, and we reserve the right to close applications early.


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