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Job title: Assistant Commercial Manager
Location: RAF - Bury St Edmunds - Mildenhall - Building
Role: Full Time
Mitie are looking for a motivated Assistant Commercial Manager to help support the delivery of excellent Customer Service through various channels of communication ensuring that business objectives are met in a professional and confident manner.
Main Duties
1. Act as the main commercial point of contact on site for any day-to-day commercial queries
2. Submit monthly core application and liaise with the client to action any queries and ensure prompt payment
3. Provide input to budgets/AOPs, highlight anomalies, and advise on necessary changes
4. Prepare and validate monthly accruals and develop monthly finance reports alongside the team
5. Review and develop procedures and financial controls to monitor labour, plant, material and sub-contractor costs
6. Monitor any budget variances and escalate or action changes where required
7. Monitor financial performance of the contract and inform the Commercial Manager of any emerging issues
8. Attend SIMM meetings and commercial meetings as the designated commercial lead
9. Monitor, action, and record any contract changes; provide pricing and documentation related to changes in the core price
10. Help maintain the Risk Register and advise on commercial impact of identified risks
11. Work with Procurement teams to ensure all necessary orders are in place for PPM works
12. Provide commercial advice on contractual queries and support drafting responses to the client or internal teams
13. Provide support when reviewing Failure Notices and assist with the wording and review of Potential Failure Notices (PFNs)Monitor contract costs (e.g. subcontractor spend, fleet charges) to ensure cost control and avoid unnecessary expenditure
14. Identify and lead cost-saving initiatives to improve contract margin
15. Update and maintain the Fraud Risk Register in line with internal governance requirements
16. Participate in lessons learned or post-project reviews to identify areas for commercial improvement
17. Support development of junior staff where applicable
18. Input and maintain all required commercial records in Maximo, Coupa, or any other IT system used
19. Build strong relationships with Core and Project teams to enable accurate reporting and appropriate contract administration.
What we are looking for
20. Experience of working preferably within a target driven role, or high pressure service delivery environment.
21. Keen sense of ownership, taking responsibility for their own performance and maintaining a positive attitude at all times.
22. Excellent organising and planning skills.
23. Confident decision maker who is competent and can make the right decision taking into account their knowledge, experience and analysis.
24. Commercial Awareness
25. Confident user of IT systems, including proficiency in MS word, MS Excel and MS Powerpoint.
26. Well organised, driven and flexible with the ability to multi-task.
27. Able to apply a logical approach to solving problems.
28. Able to remain calm under pressure and can communicate effectively across all levels.
29. Excellent attention to detail.
30. Skilful in dealing with challenging customer queries in a compassionate and sympathetic manner.
31. Able to embrace and adapt to change and learn from experience.
#FMH
Our market-leading offering provides you with benefits that suit your lifestyle.
We have a virtual GP on hand for you and members of your household. So you can get expert advice by video or phone without having to leave your home. We offer financial wellbeing assistance through our Salary Finance scheme. For example, you could access 50% of your earned pay before payday for a small fee. Salary Finance also offers competitive loans.
When you join us, we’ll give you a link to our flexible lifestyle benefits platform, Choices. You might choose to purchase up to five extra days’ holiday each year. You might buy critical illness insurance, seek dental treatment or buy technology products at an affordable cost. There are many choices!
We give you access to high street discounts from thousands of well-known retailers, gyms and more through our MiDeals platform. And we have a cycle-to-work scheme. Life cover of up to four times your salary is available. We also offer enhanced pension contributions, a save-as-you-earn scheme, and a Mitie Matching Share Plan (you could even be awarded free shares in Mitie).
We award our employees with Mitie Stars as recognition for their hard work. There are cash prizes up for grabs each month and at the end of the year there’s a chance to scoop a top prize of £10,!
Our success is a direct result of the experience and quality of our people. Progressing your career is therefore a top priority for us. We offer a diverse variety of training and development avenues via a wide selection of learning resources to suit you.
We are committed to ensuring our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible to all. If you have a disability or long-term condition (for example dyslexia, anxiety, autism, a mobility condition or hearing loss) and need us to make any reasonable adjustments, changes or do anything differently during the recruitment process, please let us know by emailing Jessica Mercel at .