Commercial Support Assistant

Job summary

The role involves providing comprehensive administrative support to the Commercial department, ensuring effective communication with colleagues and stakeholders. Key responsibilities include coordinating system data, performing data entry, collating data from stakeholders, and maintaining data integrity and quality through collaboration. Additional duties include diary management, data collation, and reporting. The ideal candidate should have proficiency in Microsoft Office tools, particularly Excel, along with strong attention to detail and the ability to prioritize tasks effectively. Previous experience working with systems, excellent written and verbal communication skills, and prior office environment experience are desirable. The role also requires a willingness to learn and an interest in working with spreadsheets and systems. Occasional travel may be required with prior notice, demonstrating the need for flexibility and adaptability.

Main duties of the job

In this role you will provide office administrative service to the Commercial department nationally. Your day to day responsibilities will include:- Liaising and communicate effectively with colleagues and other departments, outside agencies, and professional bodies, in a mature and professional manner, recording and communicating difficult information by telephone, email or paper correspondence, always ensuring confidentiality of information. Co-ordinating multi-disciplined projects or meetings, collecting, collating, and circulating relevant information. Managing schedule of reports, audits, and other key activities, alerting manger to urgent priorities and deadlines. Collating data from variety of sources and manipulating and reporting as required. Co-ordinating and manage one or more diaries either electronic or paper based. Organising training events, i.e. book room, speakers, and lunch. Prioritising own work using precedents and guidance from the manager. On occasions, you will be required to travel and spend time away from base, with appropriate prior notice.

About us

It takes all types of people to deliver the kind of service that saves and improves lives. At NHS Blood and Transplant, youll join a team of more than 6,000 people who are making a genuine difference to communities, families, friends, relatives and more across the UK. We play a unique and special role in the NHS by helping people do something extraordinary- donate blood, blood products, organs, tissues, or stem cells to save someone in need. Our three core values are what set us apart. They guide and inspire everything we do. By being caring, expertly meeting the needs of our patients and our people, and accepting nothing less than the best quality, we can do extraordinary work and help our people to do something extraordinary in their career, too. Three small words, one big difference - Caring, Expert and Quality. Together we'll save and improve more lives than ever. You will join us on our journey to create an inclusive workplace and aim to reflect the diverse communities we work with, and we positively encourage applications from all sectors of the community.