Commercial Assistant

Job Introduction

We have an exciting opportunity for a Commercial Assistant within our Corporate Services segment working with a new corporate contract in Leeds.

This is an exceptional opportunity for someone who wants to progress and develop and utilise their commercial skills and business acumen.

Role Responsibility

• As a Commercial Assistant, you will be accountable for ensuring invoices are paid and accurate and transactional commentary is up to date whilst challenging suppliers around value and driving the supplier to enhance that value through benchmarking and cost analysis.
• Ensure contractual compliance of 3^rd party supplier invoices, complete value for money reviews of both reactive and Minor Works, challenging and making agreements as necessary on behalf of the client.
• Ensure that the supply chain is delivering the agreed standard of works and within budget constraints.
• Certify invoices for payment and facilitate those payments upon the client’s behalf.
• Provide knowledge and information based upon those desktop audits and highlight potential risk.
• Provide support to the Supply Chain Managers (internal/external), Head of Cost Management and other members of the team, aiding in the development of the account & function.

The Ideal Candidate

Essential

• Demonstrable Commercial acumen
• Demonstrable knowledge of Building Services
• Demonstrable knowledge of property, building fabric and M&E terminology
• Analytical with exceptional numerical skills
• Data analysis and trending skills – analysing Excel style data sets to identify trends
• Highly organised with strong attention to detail (create written/edit documents and run spread sheets)
• Motivated to continuously develop technical skills and knowledge
• Experience of using MS Office, including: Outlook – email and diary management, Excel – create and edit spread-sheets, Word – create and edit detailed documents

Desirable

• Graduate/working towards degree in Construction (Quantity Surveying, Project Management, Supply Chain Management, or similar)
• Ideally customer/supplier relationship management experience
• Experience of working within an M&E related role – heating engineer/electrician/similar
• Previous experience at working within an FM delivery model/Building services
• Experience of working with Maximo and SAP

Package Description

At Sodexo we are committed to continuing to improve our approach to diversity and inclusion in order to build Sodexo’s reputation as an employer of choice. As part of our commitment to increasing the diversity of our workforce, we will be piloting a new recruitment process for six months on a selection of our jobs. This process will involve ‘anonymising’ the CVs of applicants. This means that when our hiring managers receive your CV it will no longer contain any personal information relating to you, only your skills and career history. The profile created by our system for you will be considered rather than your CV. With this in mind please ensure that you complete your application fully.

About the Company

In the UK and Ireland, Sodexo employs some 35,000 employees to deliver integrated facilities management services to clients at over 2,000 locations in the corporate, healthcare, education, leisure, defence and justice sectors. With an annual turnover of over £1bn, we provide everything from catering, cleaning and reception to security, laboratory and grounds maintenance services, enabling our clients to focus on their core business.

We are building on our support to the Armed Forces community through the development of specific pathways within our recruitment process to  support ex-forces personnel and reservists, those applying for jobs with us who meet the ideal candidate criteria for the role advertised are guaranteed to progress to the selection process