Commercial Support Officer

PLEASE NOTE THIS IS A LONG TERM TEMPORARY POSITION WITH MANPOWER UK LTD ON BEHALF OF OUR CLIENT

Location: Somerset innovation centre, Bridgwater, Somerset. Hybrid, expectation to be at SEIC 2/3 days per week

Rate of pay: £129.00 per day

Holiday entitlement: 36 days per year (including bank holidays)

Contact: Chelsey Lindsay

Key Responsibilities

The role of the CSO supports the business in administering the commercial activities for professional service contracts on the HPC project. The CSO provides support to those managing packages of work by helping them with a variety of standard business processes / systems / tools and liaising with appropriate internal stakeholders. The CSO also provides management information to delivery teams to ensure that the current portfolio of work is matched to the internal and external resources and budgets available, and reallocated as effectively as possible when priorities change.

The support includes but is not limited to:-

• raising purchase orders for the spending of monies on goods and services,
• ensuring that accruals/goods receipts are in place,
• managing spend against budgets during the year, making changes where needed,
• securing changes to planned levels of internal resource,
• problem solving on behalf of those managing packages of work to ensure good control, wherever this is appropriate and
• input at progress meetings where required to provide supporting information to those managing the packages of work.
• Ad-hoc support, in line with Business need.

Experience

• Established knowledge and skills related to the internal systems and tools used in the delivery of Commercial Management.
• Able to provide guidance and advice about financial and contract management to help improve budget control and commercial awareness.
• Previous experience of providing high quality proactive support to others.
• Strong numerical skills, able to interrogate, analyse and report data.
• Good experiences of Microsoft Office software in general; in particular excel skills for reporting and analysis.
• Experience of SAP, CEMAR or Fieldglass would be beneficial

Personal skills

• Clear bias for action with healthy questioning attitude.
• Ability to complete tasks to deadline.
• Ability to work on own initiative, identify problems and solve them to drive performance improvements.
• Good interpersonal skills, able to actively build and develop strong working relationships across a variety of diverse teams.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Enthusiasm for provision of high quality support to others, with a proactive approach.
• Excellent team player with strong ability for collaborative working.
• High level of professionalism.
• Ability and enthusiasm to learn new processes and tools quickly, not afraid to be in the 'deep end' to start with.
• Flexible, adaptable and speedily reactive to urgent situations.
• Good attention to detail.
• Displays behaviours for success.