Junior Business Partner
Theale
£Competitive + Excellent Benefits
Role Profile
Lockhart Catering Equipment specialise in supplying high calibre and unique products through their superior brands, providing customers with innovation, inspiration, and differentiation. A trading division of Bunzl UK Ltd, Lockhart Catering Equipment are one of the world’s finest suppliers of quality catering equipment and clothing. They are renowned for being a prestigious brand which is associated with the top catering and leisure establishments across the country.
As the exclusive recruitment partner for Lockhart Catering, Cast UK have been instructed to recruit a Junior Business Partner for their head office in Theale.
Key Skills and Responsibilities
*Support financial and commercial assessments for tenders, renewals, and retentions, including innovative solutions, pricing structure reviews, and written responses for all commercial elements of bids.
*Enhance internal data and reporting to improve accuracy, efficiency, and presentation of customer-specific reports.
*Provide commercial insights and performance analysis, identifying trends, investigating margin exceptions (high, low, or negative), and exploring margin improvement opportunities.
*Act as a point of contact for contractual reviews, ensuring contract changes are implemented, documented, and communicated while supporting Sales and Purchasing Managers on assigned contracts. Assist the sales team with new contract mobilisations.
*Ensure accurate reporting of customer contract commercial aspects, including appropriate provisions and Customer Rebate management.
*Assist in planning, organizing, and data entry for the annual Supplier Repricing exercise, ensuring timely implementation of all updates.
*Support the planning, calculation, and data entry for the bi-annual Customer Repricing exercise, ensuring all pricing changes are implemented promptly.
*Develop current systems, optimize their use, and create best-practice processes tailored to system workflows.
*Maintain Customer and Supplier pricing files and minimize manual data entry, streamlining processes across the team.
*Prepare monthly Customer KPI reports in line with customer requirements.
Skills and Experience
*Intermediate Excel knowledge
*Strong commercial awareness - numerical and analytical skills
*Strong system knowledge
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