Commercial Administrator

  • ARC Group
  • Needham, Norfolk
  • Sep 08, 2025
Full time Construction

Job Description

Job Opportunity: Commercial Administrator Social Housing Contracts
Location: Needham Market
Type: Part Time Permanent
Salary: £28,000 per annum pro rata

Our client, a well-established family-run contractor with a strong reputation in delivering high-quality social housing projects, is seeking an organised and detail-driven Commercial Administrator to join their growing commercial team.

To provide administrative support to our Commercial Team to help ensure that FPM values its works promptly, accurately and in a timely manner thus generating excellent cashflow performance. Similarly the role may encompass the administration of sub-contractor/supplier invoices.

About the Role:

As a Commercial Administrator, you will play a vital role in supporting the commercial and operational teams. Your focus will be to ensure the smooth and efficient management of contractual, financial, and administrative processes across a range of social housing maintenance and refurbishment contracts.

Key Responsibilities:
    • Maintenance of financial excel spreadsheets to accurately monitor the value of works completed
    • Use/reference to FPM s operational data ( OWM s ) to understand flow of works on a client-by-Client basis
    • Processing of pre-works assessments of £value by reference to FPM survey information and contract rates and prices (known as SMP s )
    • Processing of completed works assessments of £value by reference to Property Handover Packs and contract rates and prices (known as AMP s )
    • Liaison with site teams/operations to ensure that all necessary pricing information is received in a prompt, clear and comprehensive way
    • Batching/processing of sub-contractor/supplier information, liaison with FPM Quantity Surveyor to assess validity of such invoices and further liaison/communication with FPM Accounts department to ensure that suppliers are paid in accordance with our trading terms.
    • Working closely with FPM s Commercial staff, it is likely that there will periodically be other general administrative tasks adjoined to this role
Requirements:
  • Commercial/Financial experience i.e. understanding of/ability to use rates and prices together with information/quantities to create £values
  • Experience in a sales/invoicing environment
  • Experience of planned housing refurbishment works, services and products and how they are delivered
  • General experience of construction and/or construction related activities a distinct advantage

To apply or for more information regarding this commercial assistant position email (url removed)