Commercial Administration Manager

Location: Bury, Manchester
Salary: £40,000
Contract Type: Permanent, Full-Time

Job Description
We’re looking for a Commercial Administration Manager to take ownership of the day-to-day operations within our busy Commercial Department. This is a hands-on role, ideal for someone who thrives on organisation, accuracy, and driving smooth processes from quote to completion.

Key Responsibilities

• Oversee all Commercial Department activities within Sage 200, including raising and managing Sales Orders and Purchase Orders.
• Ensure all orders are processed, dispatched, and receipted in a timely and accurate manner.
• Create, issue, and follow up on customer quotations, ensuring prompt responses and maintaining strong customer relationships.
• Coordinate installations and deliveries with customers, ensuring clear communication and scheduling.
• Work closely with suppliers, engineers, and internal teams to support commercial activity and resolve any order or invoicing discrepancies.
• Monitor commercial administration KPIs and identify process improvements across the department.
• Support the wider team with reporting, documentation, and data integrity within Sage 200.

We’re looking for someone who is:

• Proven experience using Sage 200 (2 years minimum) – this is essential.
• Strong organisational skills and attention to detail.
• Confident communicator who can liaise professionally with both customers and suppliers.
• Experience in a commercial, administrative, or operations environment.
• Able to manage competing priorities and deadlines in a fast-paced setting.

What We Offer:

• A supportive and friendly working environment
• Opportunities to expand your skill set in web content and digital retail
• The chance to make a visible impact on a growing e-commerce site

Company Information

Who are we?
Miller’s Vanguard are proud to have been supporting all the UK’s Supermarket chains for over 40 years, in brief, we are the people in the background ensuring that supermarkets keep the Nation fed! Maintaining a wide and varied range of assets from food production equipment through to loading bay lifts.

Our service are as follows: 

• Nationwide reactive maintenance
• Hygienic Deep cleaning & Planned maintenance services
• Refurbishment, logistics and installation of equipment

We do all of this with the firm foundations of being owned by the global Ali Group, whose turnover is in excess of £4 billion p.a.

Our people
Despite being a large operation here at Miller’s Vanguard we still firmly believe in running the business like we have done for the last 40 years, by valuing our biggest asset we have YOU…the employee.

Our team of over 500 employees have the advantage of working in state-of-the-art working environments:

• New (2021) Technical response centre
• Award Winning research, Innovation, and recycling facility
• Industry leading Mercedes Benz fleet

We believe in providing you with the very best environment and tools to do the job.

Career Development
Training is also a huge part of our culture here at Miller’s Vanguard and our City and Guilds accredited training centre is where we coach and develop our employees regardless of your position or your length of service, we want to make sure that our staff can progress and keep pace with ever changing equipment technologies.

Why Join Us

• Training in our City & Guilds accredited academy
• Job Specific Uniform & tooling for all roles
• Company wide fun days and charity events
• Company Pension
• Incremental holiday allowance (up to 32 days per year)
• Regular staff ‘treats’ for employees and their families