We’re thrilled that you’re interested in joining the British Board of Agrément.

The BBA is looking to hire an Assistant Commercial Manager to join our Commercial team on a fixed-term contract.

About Us:

The British Board of Agrément (BBA) provides services that help clients create accountability and mitigate risk. Through extensive research, auditing, inspection, testing and certification, we help to instil confidence in the entire Construction product supply chain. With a 60-year legacy as a trusted certification body, the BBA develops long-term partnerships with clients, assisting in the innovation and development of products and services, enabling continued commercial growth in both the UK and Global marketplaces, while remaining reassuringly impartial. As a for-profit organisation Limited by Guarantee, the BBA looks to reinvest in the industry for the benefit of all stakeholders.

Purpose of Job:

We’re growing demand for trusted product testing and certification. You’ll help convert that demand into sustainable revenue through the production of quotations as part of the sales acquisition cycle; forming a critical link between the Sales Team and the Technical Scoping Team, pulling together existing pricing models into a format that supports in building a healthy sales pipeline and delivering value to our clients. You will report into the Senior Commercial Manager and will be focussed on the day-to-day quotation activity, while supporting to prepare the business in digitising the process.

Main Duties/Responsibilities:

• Quotation support: gather inputs from sales/technical, complete compliance checklists, format proposals, track deadlines.
• Pricing assistance: build quote packs and simple models, apply catalogue pricing methodology based on existing service offerings, sanity-check with the Senior Commercial Manager and Technical Services teams.
• Coordinate quotation activity between the Scoping Team under the ‘Pathfinder’ Process, through regularly team calls to track progress, and provide feedback to the Sales Team.
• Contract admin: draft quotation documents from templates, log and record progress of each quotation, chase approvals, and file signed docs correctly. • Change control: raise variations and keep the commercial tracker current.
• Pipeline hygiene: update CRM stages/dates, prepare weekly reports, and flag risks or slippage early.
• Quotation handover: align quotation milestones with sales and sales support teams
• Governance & records: maintain necessary registers, exceptions logs, and version control for auditability, and create monthly overview reports on status of quotations.
• Market & competitor notes: capture win/loss reasons, rate moves, and lead times to inform pricing.
• Support the Senior Commercial Manager on any digitisation initiatives as part of the wider Commercial Transformation initiative.

What success looks like:

• Proposals on time, on template, and compliant
• Quoted vs. delivered margin within target (minimal erosion)
• Accurate pipeline and clean documentation
• Faster approvals and fewer contract exceptions
• Accurate output of quotations

General Responsibilities:

• Promote and adhere to all BBA policies and actively promote the BBA wherever possible.
• Responsible for your own health and safety and that of your colleagues and others on the BBA premises in accordance with relevant health and safety legislation and the BBA Health & Safety Handbook.
• Carry out tasks broadly similar to those in this job description.
• Conduct yourself in a professional manner at all times; acting with integrity, impartiality and honesty at all times.
• Endeavour to self-improve and develop.
  

What we offer:

We believe that our strength lies in our people; that’s why we invest heavily in them through providing training to maintain and develop the skills of all our teams, enabling us to serve our clients better. Because of this we offer a total reward package of a competitive salary and employee benefits, including:

• Employer Contributory Pension Scheme of 6%
• Life assurance
• Generous holiday allowance starting at 25 days and increasing to 30 after five years of service
• Health care cash plan scheme
• An Employee Assistance Programme – with up to 6 counselling sessions
• Flexible working hours to fit in with individual lifestyles opportunity to work from home

We’re a social group and when we’re not working, we love to get together socially, and support local community initiatives whenever possible.