Description About the job. As a Commercial Assistant at National Highways, you will provide vital administrative and organisational support to the Commercial teams. You will be responsible for assisting the commercial team with a variety of commercial activities using National Highways systems, including but not limited to Confirm and CEMAR. Additionally, you will support the periodic payment assessment cycles, ensuring all payments are processed within contract timescales, and collating and distributing payment information. You will also assist with commercial administration, managing correspondence, and developing and maintaining commercial registers and operating systems to support efficient operations. Please note that this is a hybrid position (minimum of 40% working in the office) and will be based from our Darlington office. You will: Assist the commercial team to assess payment applications. Prepare and issue supply chain communications and monitor required responses. Complete administrative tasks such as minute taking and distribution of documentation. Manage own work according to business need, ensuring accuracy and attention to detail. Be personally responsible for the safety of self and others, reporting unsafe conditions and near miss incidents. About you. Ability to work effectively with others in an office environment and delivering an efficient customer service Previous experience of providing commercial administrative support Ability to use office software products, spreadsheets and databases Ability to produce and maintain of a range of registers, reports, documents Ability to communicate effectively About us. Here at National Highways, we manage and improve England’s motorways and major A roads, helping our customers have safer, smoother and more reliable journeys. Our priorities are safety, customers and delivery, and at the core of this, are our values of passion, integrity, safety, teamwork and ownership. Operations is at the heart of keeping the strategic road network moving and ensuring our customers get the best possible experience when using our roads. We address over 39,000 customer enquiries every month, plan and deliver all maintenance activities on the network, drive efficiencies and improvements across our systems and roads, and respond to incidents across 4,500 miles of motorways and major A-roads that we manage. All to make sure National Highways customers have safer, smoother, and more reliable journeys. External candidates will be offered a starting salary at the lower end of the pay scale, while current employees will be appointed in accordance with our established pay policy. We are committed to creating a diverse environment and welcome applicants from all backgrounds.