Commercial Assistant/Contract Support Officer - HYBRID

Location: Gloucester GL3
Status: Contract - Inside IR35
Working: HYBRID - x2 days per week office attendance and x3 days per week remote/working from home
Duration: Approved until 31Dec27

Morson Edge are working with a major client in the Energy Sector who have contract requirements for Commercial Assistants to join their established Project team in Gloucester. This is a unique opportunity to consolidate your experience to date, whilst contributing to one of Europe’s largest infrastructure/construction Projects.

Typical Responsibilities

• You will support the business in administering the commercial activities for professional service contracts on the Project.
• You will provide 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.
• You will also provide 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.

Typical activities (but is not limited to):

• Raising purchase orders for 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
• Providing input when required, at progress meetings

Experience

• Established knowledge and skills related to the internal systems and tools used in the delivery of Commercial Management.
• 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.