Company Description

Informa is a leading international events, intelligence and scholarly research group.
We’re the specialist’s specialist. Through hundreds of powerful brands, we work with businesses and professionals in specialist markets, providing the connections, intelligence and opportunities that help customers grow, do business, make breakthroughs and take better informed decisions.

Informa is listed on London Stock Exchange and a member of FTSE 100, with over 11,000 colleagues working in more than 30 countries.

Job Description

The Markets Technology Division is at the forefront of our organization's evolution, driving change and innovation to enhance our commercial value. As part of the Commercial Value & Insights Team, we are committed to maximizing efficiency, reducing costs, and ensuring the delivery of high-quality services to our stakeholders. 

We are seeking a motivated and ambitious Commercial Administrator for our team. This role will support the commercial function by carrying out fulfilment of Markets Technology platform license requests, responsibility to ensure prompt payment and allocation of vendor costs and support the team as required with adhoc commercial information analysis and gathering.  

JOB ACCOUNTABILITIES: 

Main Duties & Responsibilities: 

• Support and deliver against team and portfolio objectives.  

• Fulfil license requests in line with team SLA’s  

• Work with relevant teams to code technology vendor invoices 

• Carry out analysis as required on license utilisation 

• Support procurement pillar in carrying out renewals and vendor management.  

• Carry out discovery exercises as required across divisional portfolios technology estate.  

• Work with stakeholders to implement controls and processes as required to carry out duties. 

• Proactively identify activities and implement change as needed. 

• Support implementation business initiatives and projects.  

• Manage license requests and controls across various Divisional Technology vendors.  

• Perform adhoc analysis to support the business as required.  

Qualifications

Essential Skills Desired 

• Effective time management. 

• Familiarity with technology products and services. 

• Strong communication skills and stakeholder management.  

• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite, especially Excel. 

Personal Skills 

• Strong problem-solving abilities and analytical thinking. 

• Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail. 

• Ability to work well in a team and independently. 

• Strong interpersonal skills and ability to build relationships. 

This post will automatically expire on April 8, 2024

Additional Information

Why work at Informa?

Employee experience is very important to us at Informa. On top of joining a supportive, diverse and ambitious team that welcomes all types of candidates. We are also flexible with different working patterns and prioritize promotions internally. Our benefits include:

• Freedom & flexibility: colleagues rate us highly for the flexibility and trust they receive and most of us balance time in the office with time working remotely

• Great community: a welcoming culture with in-person and online social events, our fantastic Walk the World charity day and active diversity and inclusion networks

• Broader impact: take up to four days per year to volunteer, with charity match funding available too

• Career opportunity: the opportunity to develop your career with bespoke training and learning, mentoring platforms and on-demand access to thousands of courses on LinkedIn Learning. When it’s time for the next step, we encourage and support internal job moves

• Time out: 25 days annual leave, rising to 27 days after two years, plus a birthday leave day and the chance to work from (almost!) anywhere for up to four weeks a year

• A flexible range of personal benefits to choose from, plus company funded private medical cover

• A ShareMatch scheme that allows you to become an Informa shareholder with free matching shares

• Strong wellbeing support through EAP assistance, mental health first aiders, a healthy living subsidy, access to health apps and more

• Recognition for great work, with global awards and kudos programmes

• As an international company, the chance to collaborate with teams around the world

We know that sometimes the 'perfect candidate' doesn't exist, and that people can be put off applying for a job if they don't fit all the requirements. If you're excited about working for us and have most of the skills or experience we're looking for, please go ahead and apply. You could be just what we need! We believe strongly in the value of diversity and creating supportive, inclusive environments where our colleagues can succeed.  As such, Informa is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer.  We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, or religious creed, mental or physical disability, medical condition, genetic information, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, and related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, military or veteran status, citizenship, or other protected characteristics under federal, state or local law.

Please let us know of any adjustments we need to make for you to show us your best self. We want all of our candidates to shine in the recruitment process!

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