Role: Commercial Assistant
Location: Barnsley, S75 1JN (Min. 2 days onsite)
Salary: circa £28,000 dependent on experience
Role Type: Permanent, 37 hours per week, Monday to Friday
Benefits: 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays, paid birthday day off, charitable giving, annual bonus scheme, Westfield health cashback plan, generous pension scheme, flexible working hours, life assurance, enhanced parental benefits and much, much more!
Ancala Water Services is a private utilities company providing clean and wastewater services to over 1,000 Ministry of Defence establishments across England and Wales. In this newly created role, we’re seeking a seasoned Commercial Assistant to provide a valuable coordination and administration support service across the Commercial team. You’ll support the team in areas such as contractual obligations, commercial issues, contractual interpretation and commercial risk management. You’ll have the confidence to forge strong working relationships with ease and become a pivotal member of the Commercial team and wider business.
What You’ll Be Doing:
- Preparing formal and informal documentation
- Log and maintain communications to and from AWS, including managing the Commercial inbox
- Working with internal and external stakeholders to ensure that opportunities derived from the Developer Services team are progressed appropriately
- Coordinate redesign of the Commercial SharePoint whilst maintaining user access
- Help prepare formal applications to key stakeholders for opportunities under the PFI agreement
- Point of contact for client and contractor queries relating to Additional Services
- Support the team in general administrative and coordination support, such as meeting minutes and ad-hoc duties
What You’ll Bring:
- Demonstrable commercial administration experience, preferably in a highly regulated environment
- Experience of a fast-paced role with changing priorities and deadlines
- Excellent communication skills, particularly with written communications
- An awareness or previous experience working with legal documentation
- Strong level of IT literacy, including Intermediate MS Office skills and an ability to learn new software packages with ease
- Excellent customer service skills with the ability to engage positively with internal and external stakeholders
- Commercial awareness with an understanding of risk
About you:
Due to the nature of sites on which we operate, the successful candidate must:
- Meet the security clearance requirements for the role which includes, but is not limited to, the successful candidate being a full-time resident of the UK for the past 5 years’
Ancala Water Services reserves the right to close the vacancy earlier than advertised should a suitable candidate be appointed.