About the Role
The Commercial Team Coordinator will serve as the operational backbone for a large and fast-moving commercial organization, supporting the Chief Commercial Officer and leadership team to ensure smooth operations, clarity, and discipline. This hands-on role offers an opportunity to learn about modern commercial operations and provides a launchpad for career progression.
Responsibilities
- Run the commercial team's operating rhythm, including scheduling and logistics for recurring meetings.
- Prepare agendas, circulate pre-reads, take notes, and follow up on actions for meetings.
- Maintain a shared view of commercial team milestones, events, and key dates.
- Manage the CCO's commercial-related diary and prepare meeting packs and briefings.
- Coordinate CCO's input into executive meetings and board reviews, and arrange travel and expenses for Commercial SLT.
- Run the internal communications cadence, including weekly updates, newsletters, and announcements.
- Ensure colleagues across geographically dispersed sites are informed, included, and engaged.
- Pull together regular commercial reporting packs by collaborating with Revenue Operations, Finance, and team leads.
- Maintain trackers for OKRs, key projects, and team priorities.
- Format and proofread documents, decks, and reports to a high standard.
- Plan and run logistics for commercial team events, including off-sites, sales kick-offs, and customer-facing events.
- Manage budgets, vendors, venues, travel, and on-the-day delivery for events.
- Keep shared drives, document libraries, Asana boards, Slack channels, and team AI libraries organized.
- Maintain distribution lists, org charts, onboarding materials, and team directories.
- Identify small process improvements within operations and ways of working.
Requirements
- 3+ years of relevant experience in a coordination, operations, EA, team operations, project coordination, or business support role.
- Highly organized with a knack for keeping lists, running tight processes, and bringing order to a busy environment.
- Strong written communication skills for drafting team updates, meeting notes, and briefings.
- Comfortable with tools like Google Workspace or Microsoft 365, Slack/Teams.
- Quick to learn CRM/reporting tools (e.g., Salesforce, HubSpot).
- Strong attention to detail and a calm demeanor under pressure when juggling competing priorities.
- Discretion and good judgment when exposed to sensitive commercial, people, and customer information.
- Curious about how commercial teams work and keen to build commercial awareness.
- Low ego, high standards, and happy being the person who makes everyone else look good.
Skills
- Coordination
- Operations
- Executive Assistance
- Team Operations
- Project Coordination
- Business Support
- Written Communication
- Google Workspace
- Microsoft 365
- Slack
- Teams
- CRM tools
- Reporting tools
- Salesforce
- HubSpot
- Attention to detail
- Event planning
- Budget management
- Vendor management
- Document management
- Process improvement
- AI tooling
Location
- Leeds
- London
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- 3+ years relevant experience
Salary/Compensations
- £45,000 per year
Benefits
- Dedicated wellbeing team
- 32 days holiday (plus Bank Holidays)
- Life Assurance (3x annual salary)
- Comprehensive wellness benefit (AIG Smart Health - virtual GP, mental health support, counselling, health checks)
- Private Dental Insurance (Bupa)
- Salary sacrifice Pension (Scottish Widows)
- Enhanced maternity and adoption leave (20 weeks full pay)
- Enhanced paternity leave (6 weeks full pay)
- 5 free return to work maternity coaching sessions
- Access to Calm and Bippit (financial wellbeing coaching)
- Flexible working
- Social committees
- Dedicated professional development training budget (CPD courses, upskilling resources, professional memberships)
- Volunteer day with a charity
About the Company
- Arbor's mission is to transform the way schools work for the better, creating a future where staff are not burnt out and overworked, data guides progress without overwhelming, and everyone is reminded of their passion for education.
- Arbor's MIS and school management tools are used in over 12,500 schools and trusts, empowering staff, providing actionable insights, and supporting happier working days.
- The company focuses on creating happier working lives for education staff and making schools more joyful places to work and learn.
Equal Opportunity
- Arbor Education is an equal opportunities organisation.
- Arbor aims to be a workplace that represents, celebrates, and supports people from all backgrounds, providing tools for them to thrive.
- The company supports and promotes diversity and equality, actively encouraging applications from people of all backgrounds.
- Arbor is unable to provide visa sponsorship at this time.
