Commercial Assistant
Job Introduction
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.
Role Responsibility
Ensure contractual compliance of 3rd 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 Verisae/Accruent
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