Commercial Administrator in Bristol

About The Role

Right across infrastructure, there’s a requirement to not only maintain, but also renew and reimagine. Whatever stage you’re at in your career, with us you’ll have an opportunity to grow and develop. Delivering essential infrastructure services for life, while being safety first, and client and customer centric in a friendly, fun and respectful environment where you are encouraged to thrive.

Where will you be working? At M Group Highways, we’re supporting the safe transportation and movement of people across the UK. We don’t just build roads and bridges - we’re building a better future, creating lasting social value that gives back to the communities in which we work. You’ll be joining our Civils projects team. We deliver specialist civil engineering for the private and public sectors across the UK, building strong relationships based on a collaborative approach.

The Commercial Administrator role is designed for candidates without industry experience or qualifications, providing exposure to commercial activities and opportunities to progress within the Administration team or into entry-level roles in Commercial, Procurement or Cost Management. In this role you will support the implementation and compliance of commercial management systems and processes while gaining skills that open several career pathways. M Group is committed to professional development and offers support for those wishing to gain formal qualifications as you build your knowledge and experience in the industry.

What will you be doing?

• You’ll complete administrative tasks by extracting information from electronic and paper site returns and entering it into commercial management systems.
• You’ll process applications submitted to clients, along with identifying and raising queries where data is missing, unclear, or contradictory.
• We’ll ask you to maintain data schedules to capture key project or programme information as directed by your line manager or commercial lead.
• In the role you’ll communicate with operational staff to submit requests and follow up on overdue returns.
• Learning and following governance requirements outlined in M Group policy documents.
• We’ll ask you to sometimes carry out ad hoc administrative tasks assigned by your line manager.
• In this role you’ll learn and adapt to new tasks as required throughout each project phase.
• You’ll need to work to agreed timescales and manage deadlines, raising any workload issues to your line manager promptly.
• It’s vital you complete all mandatory training on the M Group training portal and stay up to date with new or refresher courses.
• Understanding the different phases of projects and programmes, recognising how your responsibilities change as they progress.

What you’ll bring:

• No prior industry experience required.
• Good standard of general education (for example, GCSEs or equivalent).
• Strong IT skills, especially Microsoft Office, with a focus on Excel.
• Ability to manage tasks, learn new systems, and adapt to changing project phases.
• Previous work in infrastructure or construction environments desirable.
• Experience or familiarity with any of the following systems is desirable: Finance systems, Purchasing systems, Stock management systems, Commercial management systems.

What’s in it for you?

We offer a range of benefits designed to support your life in and out of work, some of which include:

• Matched or contributory pension scheme.
• Online GP service, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
• Employee assistance programme.
• My Rewards portal, access to 1000s of retail discounts.
• Life assurance.
• Cycle to work, salary finance and give as you earn schemes.
• Enhanced maternity, paternity leave and adoption leave.
• Reward and recognition scheme.

In addition, this role offers; 28 days annual leave plus.