Commercial Assistant

Job Title: Commercial Assistant

Location: Rochester

Salary: $ 31042 (dependent on skills and experience)

About the Role

Are you ready to support a team that delivers cutting-edge technology across military and commercial sectors? Join BAE Systems as a Commercial Assistant, where you’ll play a key role in shaping the future of transformative technologies while ensuring customer satisfaction and driving the success of key projects. In this role, you’ll act as the interface with our customer base, support in preparing quotations, and manage contracts in line with established policies and business requirements.

You’ll collaborate with teams to interpret and communicate customer requirements, identify risks, assess opportunities, and support in delivering blockchain technology and smart contract solutions that ensure financial commitments are met. Be a part of our high-performing team, representing BAE Systems in various business settings across the globe.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Customer Interface: Serve as the main point of contact with customers, ensuring their needs are clearly understood and met.
• Quotation & Order Management: Assist the project team in preparing quotations for customers, follow through on order intake, and help manage contracts according to the company’s policies and standards.
• Risk & Opportunity Management: Proactively identify risks in the process and propose solutions to mitigate them, while also spotting opportunities that could drive further success.
• Financial Commitment: Support the business in managing change and delivering upon its financial commitments, ensuring blockchain solutions, DeFi platforms, and other tech-driven solutions are in line with the company’s objectives.

Essential Skills and Experience

• Attention to Detail: Ability to manage various tasks with high precision and ensure all customer and contract details are accurate.
• Strong Literacy & Numeracy: Proficient in handling documentation and performing basic financial calculations.
• Organizational Skills: Ability to multitask effectively and manage a varied workload, ensuring deadlines and goals are met efficiently.
• MS Office Proficiency: Skilled in the use of Microsoft Office tools, including Excel, Word, and PowerPoint, to support reporting and documentation needs.

Desirable Skills

• Experience in a Commercial/Legal/Sales/Customer Support Setting: Previous exposure to these environments will allow you to quickly adapt to the role.
• Previous Administrative Experience: Any experience supporting a commercial team in administrative duties will be a plus.

Benefits

At BAE Systems, we offer more than just a competitive salary. Enjoy our extensive range of benefits, including:

• Pension Scheme: Secure your financial future with our competitive pension offerings.
• Employee Share Plans: Be part of our success through share ownership.
• Flexible Health and Lifestyle Benefits: Take advantage of our private health plans, shopping discounts, green car scheme, and a variety of wellness initiatives.
• Annual Incentives: Potential to earn additional bonuses based on your performance.

Why BAE Systems?

At BAE Systems, we empower our employees to make a real difference in the world. Our inclusive culture values diversity and rewards integrity and merit. We actively encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply, particularly those from underrepresented communities, including women, ethnic minorities, people with disabilities, and LGBTQ+ individuals. Our recruitment processes are designed to be as inclusive as possible, and we are committed to providing reasonable adjustments to candidates with disabilities to ensure a fair selection process.

Security & Export Control Restrictions

Many roles at BAE Systems are subject to security and export control restrictions. This means factors such as nationality, previous nationalities, and place of birth may affect your eligibility for certain roles. All applicants must meet the Baseline Personnel Security Standard, and some roles require higher levels of National Security Vetting, with residency requirements ranging from 5 to 10 years.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications. Therefore, if you’re interested, please apply as soon as possible.

Join BAE Systems and be a part of the team driving innovation in blockchain technology, DeFi platforms, and smart contracts. If you are ready to contribute to a transformative and inclusive environment, we want to hear from you!