Fancy working for a caring team committed to excellence?

We have a great position available working for a family run business. The Administrator/ Business Support Role covers a wide range of responsibilities from supporting our sites to dealing with customers. A 'can do' attitude is essential to this role, along with a professional approach. You will be a team player, whilst have the ability and motivation to work on your own. You will have exceptional written and verbal communication skills.

In summary this role requires an enthusiastic, hard-working team member who can handle and prioritise a variety of tasks with pace and ensure attention to detail/high levels of accuracy.

Specific Tasks and Responsibilities

* Take an active part of the buying function of building materials and hired in plant.

* Build strong supplier relationships, understand supply chain, and negotiate with suppliers.

* Professionally manage and process correspondence

* Generally support the sites and site managers with health and safety compliance

* Be responsible for our small fleet of van and trucks including maintenance and insurance.

* Take responsibility for the first contact for our IT and phone systems.

* Answer telephone calls professionally, politely and promptly; efficiently using the switchboard; screening and directing calls to the appropriate person

* Taking and relaying detailed and accurate messages as required

General Responsibilities

* Represent the company in a professional, safe and efficient manner at all times; ensure all duties are carried out in accordance with the company's policies and procedures

* Attend training courses, meetings and appraisals as and when required by the company and to assist with the training of other personnel where required

* Ensure the working environment is clean, tidy and that high standards of housekeeping and safety awareness are maintained at all times

* Ensure the systems and procedures of the company are maintained

* Working across all departments to ensure a smooth flow of materials, parts, consumables

* Reducing costs without compromising on quality or speed of supply

* Raising and issuing POs

* Assist with other company roles whose duties you might reasonably be expected to undertake during peak times or absence etc.

Person Specification

Essential

Proven experience in sales administration/business support

Excellent inter-personal skills

Ability to multitask, plan ahead and work using own initiative

Excellent IT skills with a good working knowledge and experience with Microsoft Office packages such as Word and Excel

Excellent communication skills both verbal and written

The ability to communicate at all levels

A polite and friendly manner with a good telephone voice

Professional personal presentation

Organisation and planning skills, with an attention to detail

Customer focused

Preferably been employed in the Construction Industry previously

Pro-active, flexible individual with the ability to demonstrate initiative

A reliable and dependable individual who has good time management

Able to maintain confidentiality, demonstrating trustworthiness and integrity

Produce accurate, high quality work, including when under pressure

Working within a purchasing environment - ideally construction - but not essential

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