Commercial Assistant
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Occupation Type
Other administrative occupations not elsewhere classified.
Occupation Code Skill LevelMedium Skilled
Sponsorship EligibilityIneligible for Sponsorship
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Description
It's more than a job
As the Commercial Assistant you will enhance our ability to manage key customer accounts, drive revenue opportunities, and ensure commercial accuracy across our processes. With increasing demand and expanding customer expectations, we need dedicated support to maintain service excellence, improve commercial governance, and enable our teams to focus on strategic priorities. The Commercial Assistant will play a vital role in delivering high‑quality commercial support, safeguarding margin, and contributing to sustainable growth across the business.
The role requires strong commercial management experience, ideally with an accountancy background, and proven contract management skills in a client facing environment. The Commercial Assistant must confidently analyse complex issues, co-ordinate across multi‑disciplinary teams, and ensure compliance with contractual, financial and operational requirements. Excellent communication, stakeholder management and the ability to influence both internal teams and customers are essential. The role also demands strong organisation, meticulous record keeping, and the ability to manage contract changes, approvals and documentation. A collaborative working style and the ability to build trusted relationships are key to supporting bids, revenue opportunities and ongoing contract governance.
How you create impact
As the Commercial Assistant you will enhance our ability to manage key customer accounts, drive revenue opportunities, and ensure commercial accuracy across our processes. With increasing demand and expanding customer expectations, we need dedicated support to maintain service excellence, improve commercial governance, and enable our teams to focus on strategic priorities. The Commercial Assistant will play a vital role in delivering high‑quality commercial support, safeguarding margin, and contributing to sustainable growth across the business.
The role requires strong commercial management experience, ideally with an accountancy background, and proven contract management skills in a client facing environment. The Commercial Assistant must confidently analyse complex issues, co-ordinate across multi‑disciplinary teams, and ensure compliance with contractual, financial and operational requirements. Excellent communication, stakeholder management and the ability to influence both internal teams and customers are essential. The role also demands strong organisation, meticulous record keeping, and the ability to manage contract changes, approvals and documentation. A collaborative working style and the ability to build trusted relationships are key to supporting bids, revenue opportunities and ongoing contract governance.
How you create impact
- Working across multi-disciplined teams to ensure contractual obligations can be met.
- Work closely with the Commercial Manager to ensure funding is in place to proceed with new projects and/or additional scoped activity through liaison with Finance and Program teams as required.
- Engage requisite areas of the business to support business unit projects and initiatives, including revenue generation opportunities. Ensuring that these are reflected in associated contract documentation.
- Dealing with routine commercial queries from customers and from within KN.
- Commercial expereince would be advantageous
- Exposure in a client facing role, contract management experience required
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills at individual, team and group level and equally comfortable and effective in communicating with front line staff, managers and Directors
- Ability to systematically analyse complex problems, draw relevant conclusions and suggest solutions
- Comfortable when presenting to management and customers coupled with the ability to infulence
Please be aware that by applying for this role, you are agreeing to participate in the employment screening process. This process will include criminal record checking and identity validation. This means that KN will ask successful applicants to provide certain information and documentation to enable these checks to be conducted.
Any appointment will then be strictly conditional upon, and subject to, the receipt of satisfactory results of these checks
What's in it for you
If you would like to become a valued member of our team, we will ensure you are rewarded for your commitment and expertise. You will receive 26 days of annual leave plus bank holidays, with the opportunity to earn additional days through service. You can join the contributory Kuehne+Nagel pension plan and benefit from our Route 2 Rewards scheme, which offers discounts, benefit information, recognition, and access to a wellbeing centre. As proud holders of the Gold Covenant, we are a forces-friendly employer who recognise the skills, expertise and value service leavers bring to our organisation.
Who we are
Logistics shapes everyday life. At Kuehne+Nagel, your work goes beyond logistics; it enables both ordinary and special moments in the lives of people around the world.
As a global leader with a strong heritage and a vision to move the world forward, we offer a safe, stable environment where your career can make a real difference.
We kindly advise that placement agencies refrain from submitting unsolicited profiles. Any submissions of candidates without prior signed agreement will be considered our property and no fees will be paid.
Any appointment will then be strictly conditional upon, and subject to, the receipt of satisfactory results of these checks
What's in it for you
If you would like to become a valued member of our team, we will ensure you are rewarded for your commitment and expertise. You will receive 26 days of annual leave plus bank holidays, with the opportunity to earn additional days through service. You can join the contributory Kuehne+Nagel pension plan and benefit from our Route 2 Rewards scheme, which offers discounts, benefit information, recognition, and access to a wellbeing centre. As proud holders of the Gold Covenant, we are a forces-friendly employer who recognise the skills, expertise and value service leavers bring to our organisation.
Who we are
Logistics shapes everyday life. At Kuehne+Nagel, your work goes beyond logistics; it enables both ordinary and special moments in the lives of people around the world.
As a global leader with a strong heritage and a vision to move the world forward, we offer a safe, stable environment where your career can make a real difference.
We kindly advise that placement agencies refrain from submitting unsolicited profiles. Any submissions of candidates without prior signed agreement will be considered our property and no fees will be paid.