Acorn Insurance and Financial Services Limited
Liverpool
We are looking for an innovative, broadly experienced all round developer with demonstrable business acumen and team leadership skills, to act as the main technical point to drive forward technical solutions as required for our Private Lines division (Private Car and Commercial Vehicle). Much of this will be web based and / or mobile solutions.
The Technical Lead requires direct working relationships with key business owners, their proxies and project managers responsible for driving forward a particular business division
A successful candidate may be more highly front end or more back end experienced – which is OK, but you must have actively contributed to complex product development solutions with full engagement across multiple areas of technical specialism so is able to fully understand the roles, relationships and dependencies that each of each of these disciplines characterise.
Job Title: Technical Business Lead
Working Hours: 37.5 hours per week, Monday to Friday
Location: Liverpool City Centre, Hybrid working available
Salary: £70,000-£85,000 DOE
What you will be doing:
Developing new and enhancing existing user-facing solutions
Providing technical guidance, decision making and leadership of a delivery team comprising product owners, BA’s, PM’s, front end devs, back end dev, database developers, digital analysts, QA technicians
Ensuring DevOps Epics, pbi’s, tasks, feature flagging, Assurance criteria and all testing strategies align with company standards
Ensuring system are well documented and tested for resilience / failover / auto scaling as specified
Building reusable components and front-end libraries for future use.
Ensuring high quality software product delivery to timescales with reliable estimates and actual effort recorded
Work with multiple internal stakeholders to ensure common understanding of technical approaches to architecture and implementation
Collaborating with all other technical teams proactively and with consideration of priorities and workloads, working collaboratively in a multi disciplinary team to reach team goals
Ensure mandated ‘core systems’ upgrades are appropriately managed
Liaise with 3rd parties as appropriate depending on product requirements
Provide BAU bug handling, hot fix deployment as and when required
Putting security and performance at the heart of all products and processes
What we are looking for:
Capable of advising on modern, secure, technical solutions to achieve product owner goals
Highly proficient in either front end or back end modern technology tooling and coding standards, especially react, react Native, Next JS, C# dot Net, Event driven systems, Azure Devops, SOLID and clean architecture patterns
Ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical requirements
Backed C#, dotNET, VS Core development
Thorough understanding of front end typescript frameworks and core principles
Solid understanding of modern specifications when developing components.
Experience with the React Material UI Framework and an eye for design and understanding UI/UX practices
Experience working with REST APIs and webhooks
Knowledge of Docker and Docker Compose
Strong development experience in microservice based enterprise architecture, SOLID principles, clean architecture, Azure service Bus, RabbitMQ, Mass transit, MediatR
Knowledge of modern authorization mechanisms, such as JSON Web Token, OAuth etc
Familiarity with modern front-end build pipelines and tools
Understanding of popular front-end development tools such as Yarn, Webpack, Vitjs, StoryBook, Jest, Eslint, Prettier, Husky, etc.
Good awareness of logging and alerting strategies and tooling (e.g. loki/Grafana)
Familiarity with code versioning tools such as Git
Good understanding of Google Adwords, GLCID’s, Tag Manager for tracking conversion
Solid experience of CI/CD pipelines in DevOps
About Acorn Insurance With over 40 years of experience, Acorn Insurance is a specialist provider dedicated to helping individuals secure motor insurance across the UK. We proudly serve more than 50,000 customers, ensuring they find policies that meet their needs and provide the peace of mind that comes with high-quality cover.
At Acorn Insurance, we offer comprehensive training and continuous in-house coaching. You'll receive in-depth, FCA-regulated industry knowledge and all the tools necessary to grow your career with us.
We celebrate diversity and are committed to fostering a culture where everyone feels respected and valued. As a Disability Confident Level 1 and Level 2 employer, we ensure our workplace is accessible and inclusive, encouraging our people to bring their best selves to work every day.
The Acorn Group has been recognised as a Great Place to Work for 2024/5. A record number of employees participated in our survey, overwhelmingly highlighting our welcoming and supportive atmosphere as an excellent place to build a career. We are committed to continuous improvement and have ambitious plans for 2025.
Why Acorn Insurance? Acorn Insurance want to give you more than a job, we want to give you a purpose and a career. So, what can we offer you as an employer? Some of the "your tomorrow" benefits you will receive include: Wellbeing:
Enhanced Annual Leave entitlement starting at 31 days and potentially increasing to 35 days per year depending on grade & length of service (including bank holidays)
Enhanced paternity pay and 16 weeks full maternity pay.
Colleague Assistance programme offers a suite of wellbeing services such as:
6 Free Counselling sessions per year
Unlimited access to a telephone councillor 24/7
Access to a free 4-week programme of cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) with a trained therapist mentor.
Network of internal qualified mental health first aiders are available to provide support to colleagues.
Financial:
A core level of life assurance with the option to increase cover via salary sacrifice and add your spouse/partner
Ability to access your earnings before payday via Dayforce Wallet.
Company pension scheme
Refer a friend scheme with a £250 bonus for every colleague recommended on passing their probation period.
Access to a flexible benefits platform including an annual flex pot allowance to spend on over 15 benefits of your choice.
Ability to give back. You can opt into donating money to charity to climate positive organisations directly from your salary.
Reward, Recognition and Culture :
Long Service Award paid on 5,10- and 15-years’ service
A reward and recognition hub to celebrate and reward colleagues and peers.
Consistent and engaging company events including company awards, competitions and charity fundraisers.
Budgets for department leaders to use for social and engagement events. Please visit out website to view more of our excellent work benefits!
All roles are subject to DBS and Financial checks, any offer made will be conditional until checks are completed to a satisfactory standard. Unfortunately, due to the length of training and complexity of the role, we can only accept applications from candidates who have at least one year remaining on their (Graduate/ Post study work) visa. Unfortunately, we are unable to provide visa sponsorships. At Acorn, we are committed to creating an inclusive and supportive work environment. We recognise that candidates may have specific needs and are happy to consider reasonable adjustments to the recruitment process and working environment to accommodate individual requirements. Whether it’s modifying equipment, adjusting working hours, or providing additional support, we aim to ensure all employees can perform at their best. If you require any reasonable adjustments, please let us know during the application or interview process, and we will work with you to ensure your needs are met.
25/04/2025
Full time
We are looking for an innovative, broadly experienced all round developer with demonstrable business acumen and team leadership skills, to act as the main technical point to drive forward technical solutions as required for our Private Lines division (Private Car and Commercial Vehicle). Much of this will be web based and / or mobile solutions.
The Technical Lead requires direct working relationships with key business owners, their proxies and project managers responsible for driving forward a particular business division
A successful candidate may be more highly front end or more back end experienced – which is OK, but you must have actively contributed to complex product development solutions with full engagement across multiple areas of technical specialism so is able to fully understand the roles, relationships and dependencies that each of each of these disciplines characterise.
Job Title: Technical Business Lead
Working Hours: 37.5 hours per week, Monday to Friday
Location: Liverpool City Centre, Hybrid working available
Salary: £70,000-£85,000 DOE
What you will be doing:
Developing new and enhancing existing user-facing solutions
Providing technical guidance, decision making and leadership of a delivery team comprising product owners, BA’s, PM’s, front end devs, back end dev, database developers, digital analysts, QA technicians
Ensuring DevOps Epics, pbi’s, tasks, feature flagging, Assurance criteria and all testing strategies align with company standards
Ensuring system are well documented and tested for resilience / failover / auto scaling as specified
Building reusable components and front-end libraries for future use.
Ensuring high quality software product delivery to timescales with reliable estimates and actual effort recorded
Work with multiple internal stakeholders to ensure common understanding of technical approaches to architecture and implementation
Collaborating with all other technical teams proactively and with consideration of priorities and workloads, working collaboratively in a multi disciplinary team to reach team goals
Ensure mandated ‘core systems’ upgrades are appropriately managed
Liaise with 3rd parties as appropriate depending on product requirements
Provide BAU bug handling, hot fix deployment as and when required
Putting security and performance at the heart of all products and processes
What we are looking for:
Capable of advising on modern, secure, technical solutions to achieve product owner goals
Highly proficient in either front end or back end modern technology tooling and coding standards, especially react, react Native, Next JS, C# dot Net, Event driven systems, Azure Devops, SOLID and clean architecture patterns
Ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical requirements
Backed C#, dotNET, VS Core development
Thorough understanding of front end typescript frameworks and core principles
Solid understanding of modern specifications when developing components.
Experience with the React Material UI Framework and an eye for design and understanding UI/UX practices
Experience working with REST APIs and webhooks
Knowledge of Docker and Docker Compose
Strong development experience in microservice based enterprise architecture, SOLID principles, clean architecture, Azure service Bus, RabbitMQ, Mass transit, MediatR
Knowledge of modern authorization mechanisms, such as JSON Web Token, OAuth etc
Familiarity with modern front-end build pipelines and tools
Understanding of popular front-end development tools such as Yarn, Webpack, Vitjs, StoryBook, Jest, Eslint, Prettier, Husky, etc.
Good awareness of logging and alerting strategies and tooling (e.g. loki/Grafana)
Familiarity with code versioning tools such as Git
Good understanding of Google Adwords, GLCID’s, Tag Manager for tracking conversion
Solid experience of CI/CD pipelines in DevOps
About Acorn Insurance With over 40 years of experience, Acorn Insurance is a specialist provider dedicated to helping individuals secure motor insurance across the UK. We proudly serve more than 50,000 customers, ensuring they find policies that meet their needs and provide the peace of mind that comes with high-quality cover.
At Acorn Insurance, we offer comprehensive training and continuous in-house coaching. You'll receive in-depth, FCA-regulated industry knowledge and all the tools necessary to grow your career with us.
We celebrate diversity and are committed to fostering a culture where everyone feels respected and valued. As a Disability Confident Level 1 and Level 2 employer, we ensure our workplace is accessible and inclusive, encouraging our people to bring their best selves to work every day.
The Acorn Group has been recognised as a Great Place to Work for 2024/5. A record number of employees participated in our survey, overwhelmingly highlighting our welcoming and supportive atmosphere as an excellent place to build a career. We are committed to continuous improvement and have ambitious plans for 2025.
Why Acorn Insurance? Acorn Insurance want to give you more than a job, we want to give you a purpose and a career. So, what can we offer you as an employer? Some of the "your tomorrow" benefits you will receive include: Wellbeing:
Enhanced Annual Leave entitlement starting at 31 days and potentially increasing to 35 days per year depending on grade & length of service (including bank holidays)
Enhanced paternity pay and 16 weeks full maternity pay.
Colleague Assistance programme offers a suite of wellbeing services such as:
6 Free Counselling sessions per year
Unlimited access to a telephone councillor 24/7
Access to a free 4-week programme of cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) with a trained therapist mentor.
Network of internal qualified mental health first aiders are available to provide support to colleagues.
Financial:
A core level of life assurance with the option to increase cover via salary sacrifice and add your spouse/partner
Ability to access your earnings before payday via Dayforce Wallet.
Company pension scheme
Refer a friend scheme with a £250 bonus for every colleague recommended on passing their probation period.
Access to a flexible benefits platform including an annual flex pot allowance to spend on over 15 benefits of your choice.
Ability to give back. You can opt into donating money to charity to climate positive organisations directly from your salary.
Reward, Recognition and Culture :
Long Service Award paid on 5,10- and 15-years’ service
A reward and recognition hub to celebrate and reward colleagues and peers.
Consistent and engaging company events including company awards, competitions and charity fundraisers.
Budgets for department leaders to use for social and engagement events. Please visit out website to view more of our excellent work benefits!
All roles are subject to DBS and Financial checks, any offer made will be conditional until checks are completed to a satisfactory standard. Unfortunately, due to the length of training and complexity of the role, we can only accept applications from candidates who have at least one year remaining on their (Graduate/ Post study work) visa. Unfortunately, we are unable to provide visa sponsorships. At Acorn, we are committed to creating an inclusive and supportive work environment. We recognise that candidates may have specific needs and are happy to consider reasonable adjustments to the recruitment process and working environment to accommodate individual requirements. Whether it’s modifying equipment, adjusting working hours, or providing additional support, we aim to ensure all employees can perform at their best. If you require any reasonable adjustments, please let us know during the application or interview process, and we will work with you to ensure your needs are met.
Derbyshire Fire & Rescue Service
Derbyshire Fire & Rescue Service Headquarters, Ripley, UK
3rd Line ICT Support Engineer
Salary £50,000* per annum - *the salary includes a market supplement (reviewed annually), base pay band Grade F (£36,124 - £40,476).
Based at Derbyshire Fire & Rescue Service Headquarters, Butterley Hall, Ripley, Derbyshire.
Agile working arrangements can be discussed with the successful candidate.
Derbyshire Fire & Rescue Service is looking to recruit a 3rd Line ICT Support Engineer to assist in ensuring the IT infrastructure, Systems and Data are fit for purpose, secure, subject to continual improvement, and that our end-users are provided excellent support and customer service.
As a 3rd Line ICT Support Engineer, you will be responsible for providing support for a range of infrastructure technologies, including networking, switches, firewalls, windows servers, end user systems, station end equipment (mobile devices, pagers, alerters), supporting system administrators and troubleshooting issues across the ICT estate.
Known for your customer-focused approach, you will support the Service’s users, assisting in diagnosing and solving issues across our ICT infrastructure, systems and data including physical, virtual and cloud environments.
You will assist the ICT Service Delivery Manager in providing excellent support to business-critical applications, requiring you to possess excellent time management and organisational skills, communications skills, alongside a broad technical knowledge.
You will be able to demonstrate:
Excellent ICT Problem solving in a mission critical environment.
A strong understanding of networking technologies, including switches & firewalls.
A strong understanding of Microsoft Windows operating system technologies.
A strong understanding of virtualised server and desktop provision.
A strong understanding of cloud-based infrastructure.
An excellent all-round ICT support understanding and working as part of a busy technical team.
Can we count on you to deliver a customer-focused service that is consistent, reliable and focused on excellence?
There will be a requirement for some travel for which a pool car will be provided.
The normal working week is 37 hours, usually worked Monday to Friday, however you may occasionally need to work beyond normal office hours, evenings and weekends as required. The postholder will also be required to provide rota cover on the Recall to Duty Scheme.
In return we offer;
Flexible working hours.
Family friendly policies.
Annual Leave entitlement of 27 days, increasing to 32 days after 5 years’ service.
Free, secure on-site car parking.
Health & wellbeing services, including free access to gyms at Derbyshire Fire & Rescue Service locations.
Employee discount scheme (Boost).
Employee support networks.
Enhanced Maternity Pay (subject to meeting eligibility criteria).
Occupational Sick Pay subject to length of service, increasing up to 6 months’ full & 6 months’ half after 5 years’ service.
Ongoing training and development opportunities.
Eligibility to join the Local Government Pension Scheme with generous employer contributions.
Eligibility to join Additional Voluntary Contributions (AVC) offering highly beneficial tax advantages.
We are committed to equality and fairness at work. Applications are encouraged from all diverse communities. Under the Disability Confident scheme, we will offer an interview to a fair and proportionate number of applicants with a disability that meet the essential criteria for the role.
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of Adults, Children and Young People. Our recruitment and selection procedures reflect this, and all staff are expected to share this commitment.
Police security vetting procedures at the appropriate level will be requested for the successful applicant. Please note that, due to the nature of security checks undertaken, applicants must have 3 years continuous residency in the UK up to the date of the application and Home Office approval for indefinite leave to remain within the UK.
To apply please visit: https://www.jobtrain.co.uk/derbyshirefire/Job/JobDetail?JobId=931
The closing date for completed applications is midnight on 20.04.2025 . Interviews will be held in the week commencing 12.05.2025.
For an informal chat regarding the role please contact the ICT Service Delivery Manager Brett Clements on 01773 305344 or email bclements@derbys-fire.gov.uk.
If you have a disability and need assistance completing the application form, please contact the Service Centre on 01773 305441.
03/04/2025
Full time
3rd Line ICT Support Engineer
Salary £50,000* per annum - *the salary includes a market supplement (reviewed annually), base pay band Grade F (£36,124 - £40,476).
Based at Derbyshire Fire & Rescue Service Headquarters, Butterley Hall, Ripley, Derbyshire.
Agile working arrangements can be discussed with the successful candidate.
Derbyshire Fire & Rescue Service is looking to recruit a 3rd Line ICT Support Engineer to assist in ensuring the IT infrastructure, Systems and Data are fit for purpose, secure, subject to continual improvement, and that our end-users are provided excellent support and customer service.
As a 3rd Line ICT Support Engineer, you will be responsible for providing support for a range of infrastructure technologies, including networking, switches, firewalls, windows servers, end user systems, station end equipment (mobile devices, pagers, alerters), supporting system administrators and troubleshooting issues across the ICT estate.
Known for your customer-focused approach, you will support the Service’s users, assisting in diagnosing and solving issues across our ICT infrastructure, systems and data including physical, virtual and cloud environments.
You will assist the ICT Service Delivery Manager in providing excellent support to business-critical applications, requiring you to possess excellent time management and organisational skills, communications skills, alongside a broad technical knowledge.
You will be able to demonstrate:
Excellent ICT Problem solving in a mission critical environment.
A strong understanding of networking technologies, including switches & firewalls.
A strong understanding of Microsoft Windows operating system technologies.
A strong understanding of virtualised server and desktop provision.
A strong understanding of cloud-based infrastructure.
An excellent all-round ICT support understanding and working as part of a busy technical team.
Can we count on you to deliver a customer-focused service that is consistent, reliable and focused on excellence?
There will be a requirement for some travel for which a pool car will be provided.
The normal working week is 37 hours, usually worked Monday to Friday, however you may occasionally need to work beyond normal office hours, evenings and weekends as required. The postholder will also be required to provide rota cover on the Recall to Duty Scheme.
In return we offer;
Flexible working hours.
Family friendly policies.
Annual Leave entitlement of 27 days, increasing to 32 days after 5 years’ service.
Free, secure on-site car parking.
Health & wellbeing services, including free access to gyms at Derbyshire Fire & Rescue Service locations.
Employee discount scheme (Boost).
Employee support networks.
Enhanced Maternity Pay (subject to meeting eligibility criteria).
Occupational Sick Pay subject to length of service, increasing up to 6 months’ full & 6 months’ half after 5 years’ service.
Ongoing training and development opportunities.
Eligibility to join the Local Government Pension Scheme with generous employer contributions.
Eligibility to join Additional Voluntary Contributions (AVC) offering highly beneficial tax advantages.
We are committed to equality and fairness at work. Applications are encouraged from all diverse communities. Under the Disability Confident scheme, we will offer an interview to a fair and proportionate number of applicants with a disability that meet the essential criteria for the role.
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of Adults, Children and Young People. Our recruitment and selection procedures reflect this, and all staff are expected to share this commitment.
Police security vetting procedures at the appropriate level will be requested for the successful applicant. Please note that, due to the nature of security checks undertaken, applicants must have 3 years continuous residency in the UK up to the date of the application and Home Office approval for indefinite leave to remain within the UK.
To apply please visit: https://www.jobtrain.co.uk/derbyshirefire/Job/JobDetail?JobId=931
The closing date for completed applications is midnight on 20.04.2025 . Interviews will be held in the week commencing 12.05.2025.
For an informal chat regarding the role please contact the ICT Service Delivery Manager Brett Clements on 01773 305344 or email bclements@derbys-fire.gov.uk.
If you have a disability and need assistance completing the application form, please contact the Service Centre on 01773 305441.
Students’ Union UCL is an organisation that exists to make more happen. We are the representative body for University College London’s (UCL) students, one of the most diverse student communities in the world. We are one of the largest student-led organisations in the UK and a charity with over 48,000 members. We provide opportunities for 300 staff and have an annual turnover of more than £12m.We are a registered charity employing over 100 career staff and 300 student staff, with an annual turnover of more than £12m, delivering a wide range of services and representative functions for UCL students. We have the widest portfolio of services of any student organisation in the country, managing UCL’s extracurricular programmes for sport, music, drama, dance, media, volunteering, academic societies and intercultural engagement; providing a wide range of fantastic social spaces; leading on student democracy and representation across UCL; and offering excellent student support services.
It's an exciting time to join our growing organisation as we lead the delivery of UCL’s groundbreaking Student Life Strategy. This is enabling us to build more programmes to improve students’ mental and physical wellbeing, promote genuine equity for all, build students’ skills and confidence, develop their international connections and intercultural skills, and make a real contribution to our local community.
We support hybrid working. Excellent benefits including defined benefit pension scheme and generous holiday entitlement. We are proud of high levels of staff engagement and pride ourselves on being a great place to work.
Job description
Do you have experience leading the delivery of IT & digital projects? Do you have experience managing a team? If so, we want to hear from you.
The IT & Digital Manager is responsible for ensuring the effective operational delivery and continuous improvement of IT and digital services at Students' Union UCL. The role is responsible for the management of the IT & Digital team, supervising and supporting their day-to-day work and professional development. Reporting to the Head of IT & Digital, the role will work with them and stakeholders across the organisation to collaboratively design, plan and implement innovative solutions that enhance operational efficiency and elevate user experience. They will ensure high levels of quality and customer satisfaction, enabling the Union to deliver more for our members through secure, stable and effective IT and digital tools.
Please view the Job Pack below for more details on our organisation and the role, including the full job description and person specification.
How to Apply
Please apply directly through our website using the apply button.
Applicants should note that CVs will not be accepted and that the statement of support for application should address the selection criteria in the person specification and outline your reasons for applying.
Please note, unfortunately Students’ Union UCL are not in the position to sponsor any work visas at this time.
26/02/2025
Full time
Students’ Union UCL is an organisation that exists to make more happen. We are the representative body for University College London’s (UCL) students, one of the most diverse student communities in the world. We are one of the largest student-led organisations in the UK and a charity with over 48,000 members. We provide opportunities for 300 staff and have an annual turnover of more than £12m.We are a registered charity employing over 100 career staff and 300 student staff, with an annual turnover of more than £12m, delivering a wide range of services and representative functions for UCL students. We have the widest portfolio of services of any student organisation in the country, managing UCL’s extracurricular programmes for sport, music, drama, dance, media, volunteering, academic societies and intercultural engagement; providing a wide range of fantastic social spaces; leading on student democracy and representation across UCL; and offering excellent student support services.
It's an exciting time to join our growing organisation as we lead the delivery of UCL’s groundbreaking Student Life Strategy. This is enabling us to build more programmes to improve students’ mental and physical wellbeing, promote genuine equity for all, build students’ skills and confidence, develop their international connections and intercultural skills, and make a real contribution to our local community.
We support hybrid working. Excellent benefits including defined benefit pension scheme and generous holiday entitlement. We are proud of high levels of staff engagement and pride ourselves on being a great place to work.
Job description
Do you have experience leading the delivery of IT & digital projects? Do you have experience managing a team? If so, we want to hear from you.
The IT & Digital Manager is responsible for ensuring the effective operational delivery and continuous improvement of IT and digital services at Students' Union UCL. The role is responsible for the management of the IT & Digital team, supervising and supporting their day-to-day work and professional development. Reporting to the Head of IT & Digital, the role will work with them and stakeholders across the organisation to collaboratively design, plan and implement innovative solutions that enhance operational efficiency and elevate user experience. They will ensure high levels of quality and customer satisfaction, enabling the Union to deliver more for our members through secure, stable and effective IT and digital tools.
Please view the Job Pack below for more details on our organisation and the role, including the full job description and person specification.
How to Apply
Please apply directly through our website using the apply button.
Applicants should note that CVs will not be accepted and that the statement of support for application should address the selection criteria in the person specification and outline your reasons for applying.
Please note, unfortunately Students’ Union UCL are not in the position to sponsor any work visas at this time.
College of Medical, Veterinary and Life Sciences
School of Psychology & Neuroscience
IT Infrastructure Manager
Vacancy Ref: 158172
Salary: Grade 8 £49,320 - £56,921 per annum
This post is full time and open ended (permanent). Relocation assistance will be provided where appropriate.
The University of Glasgow is seeking to appoint a talented and highly motivated IT Infrastructure Manager.
Reporting to the Computing Support Manager, the post holder will take a leading role in managing and maintaining the school’s IT Infrastructure, which is essential for the research, teaching and professional services of Psychology and Neuroscience. Your primary responsibility will be to collaborate with the Computing Support Manager, to manage and maintain the specialised core IT infrastructure, as well as provide user support and system development.
The post holder will work closely with the Computing Support Manager to ensure that infrastructure investments align with departmental needs and strategic priorities, optimizing resource allocation and financial planning. In addition, the successful candidate will be required to oversee the management and development of support staff, fostering a culture of excellence through the implementation of best practices, strategic talent development initiatives, and the execution of annual performance reviews.
For more information about the infrastructure and the scope of the job or for informal enquiries, please contact Raymond Elma, Raymond.Elma@glasgow.ac.uk
Job Purpose
Reporting to the Computing Support Manager, you will take a leading role in managing and maintaining the school’s IT Infrastructure, which is essential for the research, teaching and professional services of Psychology and Neuroscience. Your primary responsibility will be to collaborate with the Computing Support Manager, to manage and maintain the specialised core IT infrastructure, as well as provide user support and system development.
Main Duties and Responsibilities
Lead in evaluating and enhancing the effectiveness of the School’s IT Infrastructure, maximising service quality, efficiency and continuity.
Lead the management of infrastructure, data centres and server hardware across the product lifecycle.
Provide and manage core Linux and Microsoft Windows systems to ensure vital DNS, directory, desktop, and storage services remain available, secure and patched.
Lead the management of web services and Content Management Systems running Apache, PHP, Tomcat, MySQL/MariaDB, Python.
"Investigate new and emerging technologies through innovative design of complex systems and usage of specialist IT equipment for use in Psychology and Neuroscience teaching and research, to deliver strategic and operational benefits. Manage the allocated portion of the IT budget, ensuring an effective split between end-user and infrastructure management, and regularly present findings and budget impacts at the board level to align with organizational strategy and support informed decision-making."
Represent Psychology and Neuroscience at Campus and College IT forums, liaising with staff in Computing Service, and providing specialist advice in areas such as security, data storage and governance to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of IT provision in the University.
"Manage the allocated portion of the IT budget, ensuring an effective split between end-user and infrastructure management. Collaborate with the Computing Support Manager to contribute to the Computing Support Department's budget from an infrastructure perspective, including costing for upgrades, maintenance, and other related expenses. Work closely to ensure that infrastructure investments align with departmental needs and strategic priorities, optimizing resource allocation and financial planning."
Oversee the management and development of support staff, fostering a culture of excellence through the implementation of best practices, strategic talent development initiatives, and the execution of annual performance reviews.
Lead end-to-end project management with a high degree of autonomy, ensuring successful project delivery from inception to completion. Oversee the creation of comprehensive documentation and provide training to colleagues as needed to support project objectives and knowledge transfer
Partner with the University Central IT to design and implement advanced IT security policies, ensuring alignment with institutional standards and enhancing the overall cybersecurity framework
Knowledge, Qualifications, Skills, and Experience Knowledge/Qualifications
Essential:
A1 Scottish Credit and Qualification Framework Level 9 (Ordinary Degree, Scottish Vocational Qualification level 4), or equivalent experience of personal development in a similar role or related role. A2 Ability to undertake the duties associated with this level of post A3 Comprehensive, expert current knowledge of IT standards, systems, and provision to support delivery of research and teaching.
Desirable:
B1 Microsoft Certified: Windows Server Hybrid Administrator Associate certification is highly desirable, with a strong emphasis on proficiency in managing local Active Directory environments.
B2 Proficiency in macOS management with JAMF certification is highly desirable.
B3 Experience of working in a Higher Education environment.
Skills Essential:
C1 Skills in LAMP platforms (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP).
C2Extensive experience in Linux/Unix administration, including user management (NIS Domain), monitoring, optimizing system performance, system updates, backups (ZFS) and network storage (NFS).
C2 Skill in managing and maintaining networking services (DNS, DHCP), which includes diagnosing and troubleshooting network problems.
C3 Expertise in Microsoft on prem Active Directory and Window Server 2019 and above.
C4 Ability to take a problem/project from conception to completion, interpreting and integrating technical and user needs appropriately.
C5 Ability to develop innovative solutions and to influence others to adopt them.
C6 Excellent interpersonal and communication (oral and written) skills.
C7 Demonstrable people/time/budget/project management skills of an appropriate level.
C8 Ability to work effectively with a high level of independence but also within a team.
C9 Strong analytical and innovative problem-solving skills.
C10 Ability to multitask successfully in a busy role with competing demands
C11 Ability to work flexibly and adapt to changing environments.
C12 Ability to collaborate with teams within our ogranisation (e.g Information Services Security Team and Network Infrastructure Team)
Desirable:
D1 Understanding of cybersecurity principles to protect data and computational resources. D2 Compliance with data privacy regulations and institutional IT policies. D3 Ability to implement and maintain secure access protocols. D4 Support for software installations, updates, and troubleshooting. D5 Ability to provide technical support to faculty and students. D6 Conducting training sessions on best practices for using the computing grid.
D7 Expertise in managing and maintaining high-performance computing (HPC) systems, Rocks Clusters or similar.
D8 Skills in Enterprise server software and storage technologies such as, Isilon, iDrac, Microsoft failover clusters and VMware VCenter.
F9 Proficiency in virtualisation and containerisation technologies (e.g., Docker, singularity).
Experience
Essential:
E1 Experience in leading a highly specialised infrastructure team.
E2 Substantial experience in server management and systems administration in a heterogeneous environment with a mix of Linux, Unix and MS Windows server technologies providing general services, such as backup, mail, DNS, DHCP, printing and user accounts.
E4 Installation and administration of enterprise level server hardware and software. Including, server management, virtualisation, and storage management.
E5 Significant experience of a higher-level programming or scripting language such as Shell Script, Python or PowerShell.
E6 Experience managing projects in a complex multidisciplinary organisation.
E7 Experience of taking responsibility for actions that can have considerable impact on the user community.
E8 Experience of negotiating with colleagues.
Desirable:
F1 Supporting Research in an academic environment.
F2 Supporting MySQL/MariaDB relational database servers.
F3 Security with network penetration testing, diagnosis, and patching.
F4 Experience of GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation), Caldecott and the processing of personal and medical data.
E5 Knowledge of libraries needed for GPU clusters and distributed computing frameworks
25/11/2024
Full time
College of Medical, Veterinary and Life Sciences
School of Psychology & Neuroscience
IT Infrastructure Manager
Vacancy Ref: 158172
Salary: Grade 8 £49,320 - £56,921 per annum
This post is full time and open ended (permanent). Relocation assistance will be provided where appropriate.
The University of Glasgow is seeking to appoint a talented and highly motivated IT Infrastructure Manager.
Reporting to the Computing Support Manager, the post holder will take a leading role in managing and maintaining the school’s IT Infrastructure, which is essential for the research, teaching and professional services of Psychology and Neuroscience. Your primary responsibility will be to collaborate with the Computing Support Manager, to manage and maintain the specialised core IT infrastructure, as well as provide user support and system development.
The post holder will work closely with the Computing Support Manager to ensure that infrastructure investments align with departmental needs and strategic priorities, optimizing resource allocation and financial planning. In addition, the successful candidate will be required to oversee the management and development of support staff, fostering a culture of excellence through the implementation of best practices, strategic talent development initiatives, and the execution of annual performance reviews.
For more information about the infrastructure and the scope of the job or for informal enquiries, please contact Raymond Elma, Raymond.Elma@glasgow.ac.uk
Job Purpose
Reporting to the Computing Support Manager, you will take a leading role in managing and maintaining the school’s IT Infrastructure, which is essential for the research, teaching and professional services of Psychology and Neuroscience. Your primary responsibility will be to collaborate with the Computing Support Manager, to manage and maintain the specialised core IT infrastructure, as well as provide user support and system development.
Main Duties and Responsibilities
Lead in evaluating and enhancing the effectiveness of the School’s IT Infrastructure, maximising service quality, efficiency and continuity.
Lead the management of infrastructure, data centres and server hardware across the product lifecycle.
Provide and manage core Linux and Microsoft Windows systems to ensure vital DNS, directory, desktop, and storage services remain available, secure and patched.
Lead the management of web services and Content Management Systems running Apache, PHP, Tomcat, MySQL/MariaDB, Python.
"Investigate new and emerging technologies through innovative design of complex systems and usage of specialist IT equipment for use in Psychology and Neuroscience teaching and research, to deliver strategic and operational benefits. Manage the allocated portion of the IT budget, ensuring an effective split between end-user and infrastructure management, and regularly present findings and budget impacts at the board level to align with organizational strategy and support informed decision-making."
Represent Psychology and Neuroscience at Campus and College IT forums, liaising with staff in Computing Service, and providing specialist advice in areas such as security, data storage and governance to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of IT provision in the University.
"Manage the allocated portion of the IT budget, ensuring an effective split between end-user and infrastructure management. Collaborate with the Computing Support Manager to contribute to the Computing Support Department's budget from an infrastructure perspective, including costing for upgrades, maintenance, and other related expenses. Work closely to ensure that infrastructure investments align with departmental needs and strategic priorities, optimizing resource allocation and financial planning."
Oversee the management and development of support staff, fostering a culture of excellence through the implementation of best practices, strategic talent development initiatives, and the execution of annual performance reviews.
Lead end-to-end project management with a high degree of autonomy, ensuring successful project delivery from inception to completion. Oversee the creation of comprehensive documentation and provide training to colleagues as needed to support project objectives and knowledge transfer
Partner with the University Central IT to design and implement advanced IT security policies, ensuring alignment with institutional standards and enhancing the overall cybersecurity framework
Knowledge, Qualifications, Skills, and Experience Knowledge/Qualifications
Essential:
A1 Scottish Credit and Qualification Framework Level 9 (Ordinary Degree, Scottish Vocational Qualification level 4), or equivalent experience of personal development in a similar role or related role. A2 Ability to undertake the duties associated with this level of post A3 Comprehensive, expert current knowledge of IT standards, systems, and provision to support delivery of research and teaching.
Desirable:
B1 Microsoft Certified: Windows Server Hybrid Administrator Associate certification is highly desirable, with a strong emphasis on proficiency in managing local Active Directory environments.
B2 Proficiency in macOS management with JAMF certification is highly desirable.
B3 Experience of working in a Higher Education environment.
Skills Essential:
C1 Skills in LAMP platforms (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP).
C2Extensive experience in Linux/Unix administration, including user management (NIS Domain), monitoring, optimizing system performance, system updates, backups (ZFS) and network storage (NFS).
C2 Skill in managing and maintaining networking services (DNS, DHCP), which includes diagnosing and troubleshooting network problems.
C3 Expertise in Microsoft on prem Active Directory and Window Server 2019 and above.
C4 Ability to take a problem/project from conception to completion, interpreting and integrating technical and user needs appropriately.
C5 Ability to develop innovative solutions and to influence others to adopt them.
C6 Excellent interpersonal and communication (oral and written) skills.
C7 Demonstrable people/time/budget/project management skills of an appropriate level.
C8 Ability to work effectively with a high level of independence but also within a team.
C9 Strong analytical and innovative problem-solving skills.
C10 Ability to multitask successfully in a busy role with competing demands
C11 Ability to work flexibly and adapt to changing environments.
C12 Ability to collaborate with teams within our ogranisation (e.g Information Services Security Team and Network Infrastructure Team)
Desirable:
D1 Understanding of cybersecurity principles to protect data and computational resources. D2 Compliance with data privacy regulations and institutional IT policies. D3 Ability to implement and maintain secure access protocols. D4 Support for software installations, updates, and troubleshooting. D5 Ability to provide technical support to faculty and students. D6 Conducting training sessions on best practices for using the computing grid.
D7 Expertise in managing and maintaining high-performance computing (HPC) systems, Rocks Clusters or similar.
D8 Skills in Enterprise server software and storage technologies such as, Isilon, iDrac, Microsoft failover clusters and VMware VCenter.
F9 Proficiency in virtualisation and containerisation technologies (e.g., Docker, singularity).
Experience
Essential:
E1 Experience in leading a highly specialised infrastructure team.
E2 Substantial experience in server management and systems administration in a heterogeneous environment with a mix of Linux, Unix and MS Windows server technologies providing general services, such as backup, mail, DNS, DHCP, printing and user accounts.
E4 Installation and administration of enterprise level server hardware and software. Including, server management, virtualisation, and storage management.
E5 Significant experience of a higher-level programming or scripting language such as Shell Script, Python or PowerShell.
E6 Experience managing projects in a complex multidisciplinary organisation.
E7 Experience of taking responsibility for actions that can have considerable impact on the user community.
E8 Experience of negotiating with colleagues.
Desirable:
F1 Supporting Research in an academic environment.
F2 Supporting MySQL/MariaDB relational database servers.
F3 Security with network penetration testing, diagnosis, and patching.
F4 Experience of GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation), Caldecott and the processing of personal and medical data.
E5 Knowledge of libraries needed for GPU clusters and distributed computing frameworks
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24/10/2025
Full time
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Senior Digital Service Owner - Government, SLA, KPI, Strategy, SC Cleared, Hybrid, £875 per day Our client within the public sector is seeking a SC Cleared highly experienced Senior Digital Service Owner to lead and oversee the development and execution of our digital service strategy. You will be responsible for managing a diverse portfolio of digital services, ensuring their end-to-end delivery, governance, and alignment with business needs. Key Responsibilities: Develop and implement a comprehensive multi-service digital strategy that aligns with current and future business requirements. Collaborate with technical teams and project managers to ensure services are effectively developed, deployed, and continuously enhanced. Oversee the full life cycle management and governance of all digital services within your portfolio. Ensure the successful operation of services, meeting agreed standards and adapting to evolving business demands. Serve as the escalation point for issues related to digital services. Monitor, evaluate, and report on service performance, identifying opportunities for ongoing improvement. Build and maintain strong relationships with stakeholders through effective communication and influence strategies. Manage service change priorities in an agile manner, responding to changing business requirements. Essential Skills and Experience: Extensive experience in developing and executing digital service strategies that address both current and future business needs. A strategic thinker capable of translating stakeholder requirements into operational solutions. Proven experience managing digital services throughout their entire life cycle-from inception to decommissioning. Demonstrated success in managing multiple IT digital services while meeting quality standards, KPIs, and SLAs. Experience delivering digital services through various resource models, including internal teams, contractors, and third-party providers. Skilled in negotiating and managing Service Level Agreements to ensure optimal team and vendor performance. Strong leadership capabilities complemented by excellent interpersonal and communication skills. Ability to handle conflicting priorities and adapt to changing project requirements. E xperience working across digital teams to develop roadmaps and initiatives that generate tangible business value. ITIL Level 3 certification (or equivalent experience). Familiarity with Agile methodologies, such as PMI-Agile, Scrum Master certifications, or similar. Minorities, women, LGBTQ+ candidates, and individuals with disabilities are encouraged to apply. Interviews will take place shortly, so please apply immediately to be considered for this contract role.
24/10/2025
Contractor
Senior Digital Service Owner - Government, SLA, KPI, Strategy, SC Cleared, Hybrid, £875 per day Our client within the public sector is seeking a SC Cleared highly experienced Senior Digital Service Owner to lead and oversee the development and execution of our digital service strategy. You will be responsible for managing a diverse portfolio of digital services, ensuring their end-to-end delivery, governance, and alignment with business needs. Key Responsibilities: Develop and implement a comprehensive multi-service digital strategy that aligns with current and future business requirements. Collaborate with technical teams and project managers to ensure services are effectively developed, deployed, and continuously enhanced. Oversee the full life cycle management and governance of all digital services within your portfolio. Ensure the successful operation of services, meeting agreed standards and adapting to evolving business demands. Serve as the escalation point for issues related to digital services. Monitor, evaluate, and report on service performance, identifying opportunities for ongoing improvement. Build and maintain strong relationships with stakeholders through effective communication and influence strategies. Manage service change priorities in an agile manner, responding to changing business requirements. Essential Skills and Experience: Extensive experience in developing and executing digital service strategies that address both current and future business needs. A strategic thinker capable of translating stakeholder requirements into operational solutions. Proven experience managing digital services throughout their entire life cycle-from inception to decommissioning. Demonstrated success in managing multiple IT digital services while meeting quality standards, KPIs, and SLAs. Experience delivering digital services through various resource models, including internal teams, contractors, and third-party providers. Skilled in negotiating and managing Service Level Agreements to ensure optimal team and vendor performance. Strong leadership capabilities complemented by excellent interpersonal and communication skills. Ability to handle conflicting priorities and adapt to changing project requirements. E xperience working across digital teams to develop roadmaps and initiatives that generate tangible business value. ITIL Level 3 certification (or equivalent experience). Familiarity with Agile methodologies, such as PMI-Agile, Scrum Master certifications, or similar. Minorities, women, LGBTQ+ candidates, and individuals with disabilities are encouraged to apply. Interviews will take place shortly, so please apply immediately to be considered for this contract role.
Purpose of the Job: Design, build, and maintain robust data systems and pipelines that support data storage, processing, and analysis on the Cloud. Work with large datasets, ensuring data quality, scalability, and performance, while collaborating. closely with data scientists, analysts, and other engineering teams to understand their data needs and provide them with high-quality, accessible data. They are responsible for ensuring that the underlying data infrastructure supports the organizations broader data and business goals, enabling more effective data-driven decision-making. Key Accountabilities: Design and implement scalable, efficient, and secure data architectures, ensuring optimal data flow across systems in order to achieve high service levels of support, maintenance and development You will own development and change projects to ensure requirements are met in the most cost-effective manner while minimising associated risk to expected standards. Responsibly for cloud data platform development, data modelling, shaping and technical planning You will be a mentor among the owning decision making and evaluation of requirement suitability, facilitate reliable estimates, technical project management, stakeholder management with a project Ensure that resource requirements are understood and planned/estimated effectively against demand, including identification of additional temporary resource capability within projects Maintain appropriate process procedures, compliance and service level monitoring, performance reporting and vendor management. Implementing best practices around data security, privacy, and compliance for the teams compliance with cyber security and data protection and supporting along with BI lead Strong stakeholder management will be required for maintaining relationships with our business users to clarify and influence requirements. Including liaising with internal business departments and functions to manage the service level expected from the data team. Collaborating with external organisations and third-party software/service suppliers for ongoing support, maintenance and development of systems. You will be able to demonstrate you are quality focused to ensure that they solutions are built to an appropriate standard whilst being balanced with a drive to deliver against tight deadlines. Support in developing and implementing best practices and process across the team along with BI lead. Influence the evolution of business and system requirements and contribute to the design of technical solutions to feed a delivery pipeline that increasingly employs Agile methods such as SCRUM and Kanban You will be required to develop unit tested code and then support test cycles including post implementation validation. You will be required to contribute to the transition into service and ongoing support of the applications in the area which provides the opportunity to reduce technical debt and rationalise our technical footprint Mentor data engineers, supporting their professional growth and development Outcome, Results and Key Performance Indicators: Delivery of projects to expected timely, cost and quality standards Excellent levels of application availability and resilience as required by business operations. Necessary governance and control requirements defined - design, code and test standards and guidelines. Ensure data systems comply with necessary governance and control requirements. Internally-developed data solutions are fit for purpose and fit correctly within the data architecture. Built and tested to user requirements, performing to defined performance and capacity requirements. Company data is secure, accurate, maintained and available according to requirements. Technical risks and issues correctly mitigated and managed on Projects and Production support. High quality software delivered in to production - zero critical and high defects before production release. Dimensions of Job: This role is part of a well-established data team, the role offers a great opportunity for the right candidate to hone their modern data management skills in a friendly and supportive environment. This role requires attendance to a Leeds based office as often as needed with a minimum 2 days a week. Able to work effectively as part of a remote team. A great opportunity for a motivated data engineer seeking a new opportunity with a friendly, newly formed data team and able to contribute to the team's growth with their technical expertise Key Relationships: Internal: Wider technical teams (including apps, test, dev ops and more), Project managers, business SME's, data teams and communities, Data scientists, BI Lead, Head of Data External: software & service suppliers, consultants. Knowledge and Skills: Knowledge - Broad data management technical knowledge so as to be able to work across full data cycle. - Proven Experience working with AWS data technologies (S3, Redshift, Glue, Lambda, Lake formation, Cloud Formation), GitHub, CI/CD - Coding experience in Apache Spark, Iceberg or Python (Pandas) - Experience in change and release management. - Experience in Database Warehouse design and data modelling - Experience managing Data Migration projects. - Cloud data platform development and deployment. - Experience of performance tuning in a variery of database settings. - Experience of Infrastructure as code practises. - Proven ability to organise and produce work within deadlines. Skills - Good project and people management skills. - Excellent data development skills. - Excellent data manipulation and analysis skills using a variety of tools including SQL, Phyton, AWS services and the MSBI stack. - Ability to prioritise and be flexible to change those priorities at short notice. - Commercial acumen. - Able to demonstrate a practical approach to problem solving. - Able to provide appropriate and understandable data to a wide ranging audience. - Well-developed and professional communication skills. - Strong analytical skills - ability to create models and analyse data in order to solve complex problems or reinforce commercial decisions. - Able to understand business processes and how this is achieved/influenced by technology. - Must be able to work as part of a collaborative team to solve problems and assist other colleagues. - Ability to learn new technologies, programs and procedures. Technical Essentials: - Expertise across data warehouse and ETL/ELT development in AWS preferred with experience in the following: - Strong experience in some of the AWS services like Redshift, Lambda,S3,Step Functions, Batch, Cloud formation, Lake Formation, Code Build, CI/CD, GitHub, IAM, SQS, SNS, Aurora DB - Good experience with DBT, Apache Iceberg, Docker, Microsoft BI stack (nice to have) - Experience in data warehouse design (Kimball and lake house, medallion and data vault) is a definite preference as is knowledge of other data tools and programming languages such as Python & Spark and Strong SQL experience. - Experience is building Data lake and building CI/CD data pipelines - A candidate is expected to understand and can demonstrate experience across the delivery life cycle and understand both Agile and Waterfall methods and when to apply these. Experience: This position requires several years of practical experience in a similar environment. We require a good balance of technical and personal/softer skills so successful candidates can be fully effective immediately. - Proven experience in developing, delivering and maintaining tactical and enterprise data management solutions. - Proven experience in delivering data solutions using cloud platform tools. - Proven experience in assessing the impact of proposed changes on production solutions. - Proven experience in managing and developing a team of technical experts to deliver business outcomes and meet performance criteria. - Exposure to Energy markets, Energy Supply industry sector - Developing and implementing operational processes and procedures.
24/10/2025
Full time
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Responsibly for cloud data platform development, data modelling, shaping and technical planning You will be a mentor among the owning decision making and evaluation of requirement suitability, facilitate reliable estimates, technical project management, stakeholder management with a project Ensure that resource requirements are understood and planned/estimated effectively against demand, including identification of additional temporary resource capability within projects Maintain appropriate process procedures, compliance and service level monitoring, performance reporting and vendor management. Implementing best practices around data security, privacy, and compliance for the teams compliance with cyber security and data protection and supporting along with BI lead Strong stakeholder management will be required for maintaining relationships with our business users to clarify and influence requirements. Including liaising with internal business departments and functions to manage the service level expected from the data team. Collaborating with external organisations and third-party software/service suppliers for ongoing support, maintenance and development of systems. You will be able to demonstrate you are quality focused to ensure that they solutions are built to an appropriate standard whilst being balanced with a drive to deliver against tight deadlines. Support in developing and implementing best practices and process across the team along with BI lead. Influence the evolution of business and system requirements and contribute to the design of technical solutions to feed a delivery pipeline that increasingly employs Agile methods such as SCRUM and Kanban You will be required to develop unit tested code and then support test cycles including post implementation validation. You will be required to contribute to the transition into service and ongoing support of the applications in the area which provides the opportunity to reduce technical debt and rationalise our technical footprint Mentor data engineers, supporting their professional growth and development Outcome, Results and Key Performance Indicators: Delivery of projects to expected timely, cost and quality standards Excellent levels of application availability and resilience as required by business operations. Necessary governance and control requirements defined - design, code and test standards and guidelines. Ensure data systems comply with necessary governance and control requirements. Internally-developed data solutions are fit for purpose and fit correctly within the data architecture. Built and tested to user requirements, performing to defined performance and capacity requirements. Company data is secure, accurate, maintained and available according to requirements. Technical risks and issues correctly mitigated and managed on Projects and Production support. High quality software delivered in to production - zero critical and high defects before production release. Dimensions of Job: This role is part of a well-established data team, the role offers a great opportunity for the right candidate to hone their modern data management skills in a friendly and supportive environment. This role requires attendance to a Leeds based office as often as needed with a minimum 2 days a week. Able to work effectively as part of a remote team. A great opportunity for a motivated data engineer seeking a new opportunity with a friendly, newly formed data team and able to contribute to the team's growth with their technical expertise Key Relationships: Internal: Wider technical teams (including apps, test, dev ops and more), Project managers, business SME's, data teams and communities, Data scientists, BI Lead, Head of Data External: software & service suppliers, consultants. Knowledge and Skills: Knowledge - Broad data management technical knowledge so as to be able to work across full data cycle. - Proven Experience working with AWS data technologies (S3, Redshift, Glue, Lambda, Lake formation, Cloud Formation), GitHub, CI/CD - Coding experience in Apache Spark, Iceberg or Python (Pandas) - Experience in change and release management. - Experience in Database Warehouse design and data modelling - Experience managing Data Migration projects. - Cloud data platform development and deployment. - Experience of performance tuning in a variery of database settings. - Experience of Infrastructure as code practises. - Proven ability to organise and produce work within deadlines. Skills - Good project and people management skills. - Excellent data development skills. - Excellent data manipulation and analysis skills using a variety of tools including SQL, Phyton, AWS services and the MSBI stack. - Ability to prioritise and be flexible to change those priorities at short notice. - Commercial acumen. - Able to demonstrate a practical approach to problem solving. - Able to provide appropriate and understandable data to a wide ranging audience. - Well-developed and professional communication skills. - Strong analytical skills - ability to create models and analyse data in order to solve complex problems or reinforce commercial decisions. - Able to understand business processes and how this is achieved/influenced by technology. - Must be able to work as part of a collaborative team to solve problems and assist other colleagues. - Ability to learn new technologies, programs and procedures. Technical Essentials: - Expertise across data warehouse and ETL/ELT development in AWS preferred with experience in the following: - Strong experience in some of the AWS services like Redshift, Lambda,S3,Step Functions, Batch, Cloud formation, Lake Formation, Code Build, CI/CD, GitHub, IAM, SQS, SNS, Aurora DB - Good experience with DBT, Apache Iceberg, Docker, Microsoft BI stack (nice to have) - Experience in data warehouse design (Kimball and lake house, medallion and data vault) is a definite preference as is knowledge of other data tools and programming languages such as Python & Spark and Strong SQL experience. - Experience is building Data lake and building CI/CD data pipelines - A candidate is expected to understand and can demonstrate experience across the delivery life cycle and understand both Agile and Waterfall methods and when to apply these. Experience: This position requires several years of practical experience in a similar environment. We require a good balance of technical and personal/softer skills so successful candidates can be fully effective immediately. - Proven experience in developing, delivering and maintaining tactical and enterprise data management solutions. - Proven experience in delivering data solutions using cloud platform tools. - Proven experience in assessing the impact of proposed changes on production solutions. - Proven experience in managing and developing a team of technical experts to deliver business outcomes and meet performance criteria. - Exposure to Energy markets, Energy Supply industry sector - Developing and implementing operational processes and procedures.
We are currently recruiting for a Senior Digital Service Owner to work a 12-month contract occasionally on-site in either Salisbury or Fareham for our client. As a Senior Digital Service Owner, you will lead and be accountable for establishing and implementing the strategy of the digital service portfolio. The six service portfolios are as follows - Cloud and Hosting, Communications and Collaboration, Engineering and Research, Enterprise IT, Software, and Workplace IT. You will ensure the end-to-end delivery, governance and quality of these services to agreed service levels. Establish and implement a fully functioning multi-service strategy, containing a suite of digital services that deliver against the future and current business needs. Work with teams (technical experts and programme, portfolio and project managers) to ensure services are developed, implemented and continually improved in line with business needs. Be responsible for the end-to-end management and governance of these services. Be responsible for the successful operation and continuous improvement of the services to the required standards and changing needs of the business. Act as the escalation point of contact for your IT Digital services. Continually monitor, evaluate and report on quality-of-service levels to inform continual improvement plans. Create and maintain a supportive stakeholder network using effective communication and influencing them to buy into the strategy. Work in an agile manor to manage service change priorities within the service portfolio based on changing requirements. Essential: Significant experience of developing IT digital service strategies that identify (and meet) current and future business needs. A strategic mindset who can work with stakeholders and teams to understand business requirements and then deliver into operational reality. Demonstrable experience of leading IT services through the entirety of their life cycle, from inception through to adoption, continual improvement and decommissioning. Clear experience of leading and managing multiple IT Digital services meeting quality, contractual, KPI and Service Level Agreement-based standards. Experience of delivering IT digital services via varying resource models eg internal, contracted workers and third-party contracts. Experience of negotiating Service Level Agreements, ensuring effective performance of teams and third parties. Strong leadership experience with effective interpersonal and communication skills Experience and ability to handle conflicting priorities whilst adapting to changing requirements and delivering successfully. Ability to work across digital teams, developing roadmaps and translating into initiatives that deliver business value and impact. ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library) level 3 certified (or equivalent experience) Agile working eg PMI-Agile Certified Practitioner, Professional Scrum Master I (PSM I) or similar If you feel you have the skills and experience needed for this role; please do apply now.
24/10/2025
Contractor
We are currently recruiting for a Senior Digital Service Owner to work a 12-month contract occasionally on-site in either Salisbury or Fareham for our client. As a Senior Digital Service Owner, you will lead and be accountable for establishing and implementing the strategy of the digital service portfolio. The six service portfolios are as follows - Cloud and Hosting, Communications and Collaboration, Engineering and Research, Enterprise IT, Software, and Workplace IT. You will ensure the end-to-end delivery, governance and quality of these services to agreed service levels. Establish and implement a fully functioning multi-service strategy, containing a suite of digital services that deliver against the future and current business needs. Work with teams (technical experts and programme, portfolio and project managers) to ensure services are developed, implemented and continually improved in line with business needs. Be responsible for the end-to-end management and governance of these services. Be responsible for the successful operation and continuous improvement of the services to the required standards and changing needs of the business. Act as the escalation point of contact for your IT Digital services. Continually monitor, evaluate and report on quality-of-service levels to inform continual improvement plans. Create and maintain a supportive stakeholder network using effective communication and influencing them to buy into the strategy. Work in an agile manor to manage service change priorities within the service portfolio based on changing requirements. Essential: Significant experience of developing IT digital service strategies that identify (and meet) current and future business needs. A strategic mindset who can work with stakeholders and teams to understand business requirements and then deliver into operational reality. Demonstrable experience of leading IT services through the entirety of their life cycle, from inception through to adoption, continual improvement and decommissioning. Clear experience of leading and managing multiple IT Digital services meeting quality, contractual, KPI and Service Level Agreement-based standards. Experience of delivering IT digital services via varying resource models eg internal, contracted workers and third-party contracts. Experience of negotiating Service Level Agreements, ensuring effective performance of teams and third parties. Strong leadership experience with effective interpersonal and communication skills Experience and ability to handle conflicting priorities whilst adapting to changing requirements and delivering successfully. Ability to work across digital teams, developing roadmaps and translating into initiatives that deliver business value and impact. ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library) level 3 certified (or equivalent experience) Agile working eg PMI-Agile Certified Practitioner, Professional Scrum Master I (PSM I) or similar If you feel you have the skills and experience needed for this role; please do apply now.
About docs24 docs24 is a leading provider of intelligent document and content solutions tailored to the life sciences sector. We support pharmaceutical, biotech, and clinical research organizations by streamlining the creation, management, and distribution of critical documentation with a focus on compliance, speed, and precision. The Role We are seeking a dynamic and commercially minded Internal Business Development Manager to join our growing team. This hybrid role combines strategic account management, focusing on both nurturing existing client relationships and identifying new opportunities within current clients and providing account management support during busy operational periods. You will play a key role in driving growth by ensuring exceptional service delivery to current clients while expanding our footprint through targeted outreach, relationship building, and solution-led selling. Key Responsibilities Act as the primary point of contact for a portfolio of life sciences clients, ensuring high levels of satisfaction, retention, and growth. Identify and pursue new business opportunities within our client portfolio, while also connecting with potential new clients, utilising current client contacts and targeted outreach. Develop tailored proposals and presentations that align docs24's solutions with client needs and industry challenges Monitor project milestones, proactively resolve issues, and provide regular status updates to stakeholders Collaborate with internal teams to ensure alignment with client expectations and industry standards Maintain accurate records and documentation in line with SOPs and GxP requirements Represent docs24 at industry events, conferences, and client meetings to promote our capabilities and build relationships Required Experience & Skills Proven experience in existing business development, account management, or client services within the life sciences, clinical trials, or healthcare documentation sector Strong understanding of clinical trial documentation workflows and regulatory requirements Demonstrated ability to manage document supply chains and coordinate with third-party vendors Track record of identifying and converting new business opportunities Excellent communication, presentation, and negotiation skills Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously in a fast-paced, regulated environment Proficiency with CRM and project management tools Desirable Experience working with global clinical trial sponsors or CROs Knowledge of ISO 9001 or similar quality management systems Familiarity with Salesforce Job Type : Full-time, Permanent Location : Office-based in Edinburgh Benefits : Company pension Private medical insurance
24/10/2025
Full time
About docs24 docs24 is a leading provider of intelligent document and content solutions tailored to the life sciences sector. We support pharmaceutical, biotech, and clinical research organizations by streamlining the creation, management, and distribution of critical documentation with a focus on compliance, speed, and precision. The Role We are seeking a dynamic and commercially minded Internal Business Development Manager to join our growing team. This hybrid role combines strategic account management, focusing on both nurturing existing client relationships and identifying new opportunities within current clients and providing account management support during busy operational periods. You will play a key role in driving growth by ensuring exceptional service delivery to current clients while expanding our footprint through targeted outreach, relationship building, and solution-led selling. Key Responsibilities Act as the primary point of contact for a portfolio of life sciences clients, ensuring high levels of satisfaction, retention, and growth. Identify and pursue new business opportunities within our client portfolio, while also connecting with potential new clients, utilising current client contacts and targeted outreach. Develop tailored proposals and presentations that align docs24's solutions with client needs and industry challenges Monitor project milestones, proactively resolve issues, and provide regular status updates to stakeholders Collaborate with internal teams to ensure alignment with client expectations and industry standards Maintain accurate records and documentation in line with SOPs and GxP requirements Represent docs24 at industry events, conferences, and client meetings to promote our capabilities and build relationships Required Experience & Skills Proven experience in existing business development, account management, or client services within the life sciences, clinical trials, or healthcare documentation sector Strong understanding of clinical trial documentation workflows and regulatory requirements Demonstrated ability to manage document supply chains and coordinate with third-party vendors Track record of identifying and converting new business opportunities Excellent communication, presentation, and negotiation skills Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously in a fast-paced, regulated environment Proficiency with CRM and project management tools Desirable Experience working with global clinical trial sponsors or CROs Knowledge of ISO 9001 or similar quality management systems Familiarity with Salesforce Job Type : Full-time, Permanent Location : Office-based in Edinburgh Benefits : Company pension Private medical insurance
Working for an established, expanding and successful company whose products are highly visible and supplied globally, this is a great opportunity for an Business Development Manager with experience of supplying engineered products into clients both in the UK and internationally. As a highly effective communicator with the ability to engage at all levels, your responsibilities will include; Strategic development of sales territories (domestic and global) to achieve targets Managing existing clients and engaging, supporting and developing new customers Travelling to customers to develop and strengthen relationships Identifying and seeking new sales opportunities Creating marketing strategies to generate opportunities and growth Technical sales and support to end users, OEMs and distributors Working closely with engineering to ensure products are developed to suit customer technical specifications Ensure correct initial product specification and tracking projects through to manufacture and delivery Your strengths will include combining an analytical approach with strong commercial acumen and a strategic approach to growing business. Strong interpersonal, negotiation and communication skills are a must as you will be building robust relationships at all levels to create success. Highly organised with strong presentation skills, you will be a confident team player with strong influencing skills and comfortable with regular travelling as required. Experience of supplying successfully into highly regulated sectors such as defence, instrumentation, aerospace, communications or similar would be advantageous. You will ideally be based within a reasonable commute from Heathrow as will be office based when not travelling. If you are looking for an interesting and challenging role which offers a highly attractive package and opportunity, please contact me asap to find out more! This role may interest you if you have worked previously as a Business Development Manager, International Business Development Manager, Global Business Development Manager, Technical Sales Manager, Field Sales Manager, National Account Manager, Sales Account Manager, Area Sales Manager, Sales Manager, Technical Sales Representative or similar.
24/10/2025
Full time
Working for an established, expanding and successful company whose products are highly visible and supplied globally, this is a great opportunity for an Business Development Manager with experience of supplying engineered products into clients both in the UK and internationally. As a highly effective communicator with the ability to engage at all levels, your responsibilities will include; Strategic development of sales territories (domestic and global) to achieve targets Managing existing clients and engaging, supporting and developing new customers Travelling to customers to develop and strengthen relationships Identifying and seeking new sales opportunities Creating marketing strategies to generate opportunities and growth Technical sales and support to end users, OEMs and distributors Working closely with engineering to ensure products are developed to suit customer technical specifications Ensure correct initial product specification and tracking projects through to manufacture and delivery Your strengths will include combining an analytical approach with strong commercial acumen and a strategic approach to growing business. Strong interpersonal, negotiation and communication skills are a must as you will be building robust relationships at all levels to create success. Highly organised with strong presentation skills, you will be a confident team player with strong influencing skills and comfortable with regular travelling as required. Experience of supplying successfully into highly regulated sectors such as defence, instrumentation, aerospace, communications or similar would be advantageous. You will ideally be based within a reasonable commute from Heathrow as will be office based when not travelling. If you are looking for an interesting and challenging role which offers a highly attractive package and opportunity, please contact me asap to find out more! This role may interest you if you have worked previously as a Business Development Manager, International Business Development Manager, Global Business Development Manager, Technical Sales Manager, Field Sales Manager, National Account Manager, Sales Account Manager, Area Sales Manager, Sales Manager, Technical Sales Representative or similar.
Senior IT Infrastructure Leader Strategic & Resilience-Focus Are you ready to take the reins of enterprise infrastructure in a complex, multi-entity environment? This is a rare opportunity to lead from the front-driving innovation, resilience, and client satisfaction in a regulated sector where technology underpins every business decision.This leadership role centres around shaping and executing infrastructure strategy across a diverse technology estate. You'll be the go-to expert for high-level technical escalations, ensuring systems are secure, scalable, and aligned to business needs. From disaster recovery planning to capacity management, your influence will span both operational delivery and strategic foresight.You'll also act as a trusted deputy to senior leadership, stepping in when needed and collaborating across internal teams and external partners to maintain service excellence. What makes this role stand out? Strategic Ownership: Define and deliver infrastructure roadmaps that support growth and resilience. Client-Facing Impact: Build trusted relationships with stakeholders, ensuring service levels are met and exceeded. Leadership Influence: Develop and mentor a skilled technical team, fostering a culture of accountability and innovation. Security & Continuity: Champion robust cybersecurity practices and ensure readiness for disruption through tested recovery frameworks. Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with project managers, vendors, and internal teams to deliver seamless infrastructure solutions. This is a high-trust, high-impact role for someone who thrives in a fast-paced, regulated environment and wants to shape the future of enterprise IT. Core Responsibilities: Architect and deliver infrastructure strategies that support business agility and long-term growth. Evaluate emerging technologies and drive adoption where they enhance performance and security. Lead and develop a high-performing technical team, ensuring continuous improvement and capability uplift. Manage relationships with clients and vendors, ensuring alignment with service expectations and governance standards. Oversee infrastructure-related projects, ensuring timely delivery and technical integrity. Maintain and evolve disaster recovery and business continuity frameworks. Ensure compliance with regulatory and security standards across all infrastructure domains. Essential Experience & Skills: Proven expertise in enterprise infrastructure (cloud, networks, virtualisation, storage). Strong understanding of cybersecurity frameworks and threat mitigation. Experience designing and maintaining resilient systems with high availability. Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills. Background in regulated industries (e.g., financial services, insurance, healthcare). Strategic mindset with hands-on technical credibility. If you're a senior infrastructure leader with deep technical expertise and a passion for client service, resilience, and strategic delivery-this role could be for you. If you have the above and are looking for a lead transformation role which blends technical depth and business influence then apply now
24/10/2025
Full time
Senior IT Infrastructure Leader Strategic & Resilience-Focus Are you ready to take the reins of enterprise infrastructure in a complex, multi-entity environment? This is a rare opportunity to lead from the front-driving innovation, resilience, and client satisfaction in a regulated sector where technology underpins every business decision.This leadership role centres around shaping and executing infrastructure strategy across a diverse technology estate. You'll be the go-to expert for high-level technical escalations, ensuring systems are secure, scalable, and aligned to business needs. From disaster recovery planning to capacity management, your influence will span both operational delivery and strategic foresight.You'll also act as a trusted deputy to senior leadership, stepping in when needed and collaborating across internal teams and external partners to maintain service excellence. What makes this role stand out? Strategic Ownership: Define and deliver infrastructure roadmaps that support growth and resilience. Client-Facing Impact: Build trusted relationships with stakeholders, ensuring service levels are met and exceeded. Leadership Influence: Develop and mentor a skilled technical team, fostering a culture of accountability and innovation. Security & Continuity: Champion robust cybersecurity practices and ensure readiness for disruption through tested recovery frameworks. Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with project managers, vendors, and internal teams to deliver seamless infrastructure solutions. This is a high-trust, high-impact role for someone who thrives in a fast-paced, regulated environment and wants to shape the future of enterprise IT. Core Responsibilities: Architect and deliver infrastructure strategies that support business agility and long-term growth. Evaluate emerging technologies and drive adoption where they enhance performance and security. Lead and develop a high-performing technical team, ensuring continuous improvement and capability uplift. Manage relationships with clients and vendors, ensuring alignment with service expectations and governance standards. Oversee infrastructure-related projects, ensuring timely delivery and technical integrity. Maintain and evolve disaster recovery and business continuity frameworks. Ensure compliance with regulatory and security standards across all infrastructure domains. Essential Experience & Skills: Proven expertise in enterprise infrastructure (cloud, networks, virtualisation, storage). Strong understanding of cybersecurity frameworks and threat mitigation. Experience designing and maintaining resilient systems with high availability. Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills. Background in regulated industries (e.g., financial services, insurance, healthcare). Strategic mindset with hands-on technical credibility. If you're a senior infrastructure leader with deep technical expertise and a passion for client service, resilience, and strategic delivery-this role could be for you. If you have the above and are looking for a lead transformation role which blends technical depth and business influence then apply now
Genuine innovation. Visionary solutions. Surprising results. Lead CRM Engineer - Salesforce £74,000 - £79,000 plus benefits Reports to: Head of Engineering Grade: P3 Directorate : Chief Operating Office Contract : Permanent Hours: Full time 35 hours per week Location : Stratford, London . Office-based with high flexibility (1-2 days per week in the office) Visa sponsorship: You must be eligible to work in the UK to apply for this vacancy. Cancer Research UK is not able to offer visa sponsorship. Closing date: 16 November 2025, 23:55 This vacancy may close earlier if a high volume of applications is received or once a suitable candidate is found, therefore we strongly recommend that you apply early to avoid disappointment. If you require more time to apply as part of a reasonable adjustment, please contact as soon as possible. Recruitment process: 2 stage interview process which will involve competency and technical assessment. At Cancer Research UK, we exist to beat cancer. We are professionals with purpose, beating cancer every day. But we need to go much further and much faster. That's why we're looking for someone talented, someone who wants to develop their skills, someone like you. The Lead CRM Engineer is responsible for taking a leading role in the CRM engineering capability team to identify and share good practice, develop standards, patterns, automation & tools, reduce technical debt and operational risks. In addition the Lead CRM Engineer should design and develop enhancements to our CRM platform, supporting the delivery of our CRM Engineering strategy; apply specialist knowledge to identify improvements. What will I be doing? Lead in all aspects of the software development life cycle e.g., requirements, analysis, design, implementation, testing and documentation Apply Lean and Agile principles to develop high quality code that has minimal bugs, adheres to CRUK standards and is highly supportable Work either independently or in collaboration with Solution Architects to design new solutions in line with the CRM Engineering strategy Start the development of new products from scratch, leading on all the technical decisions this entails Work in collaboration with Product Managers, Service Designers, UX Designers, Business Analysts etc to identify user needs, discuss capabilities and iteratively design solutions Take a leading role in the CRM engineering capability team to identify and share good practice, develop standards, patterns, automation & tools, and reduce technical debt and operational risks Design and develop enhancements to our CRM platform, supporting the delivery of our CRM Engineering strategy; applying specialist knowledge to identify improvements Apply Site Reliability Engineering principles to track and improve the availability, performance, and security of CRM products. Support the resolution of incidents impacting our products. Responsible for release management and line management of 2-5 CRM engineers, coaching them to develop their skills, behaviours and develop their careers. What are you looking for? Essential: Ability to write clean, readable, and properly tested code based on tried and tested design patterns. Experience building applications on our existing CRM platform (Siebel) and/or future CRM (Salesforce), including data model design, custom UIs, custom logic, inbound and outbound integration logic Experience running critical services in production and designing highly available, scalable, and secure solutions Acted as a Senior or Lead within an Engineering team, starting the development of new features from scratch, defining the overall solutions, and reviewing more junior engineers' work.' Desirable: Understands business problems and able to translate them into solution designs using creativity and pragmatism. Knowledge of modern software development methods (SCRUM, Kanban) and approaches (test-driven development, behaviour driven development, continuous integration, continuous delivery) Can communicate complex information and concepts to technical and business colleagues, influencing others effectively Worked in a complex technical environment with multiple types of business operations and conflicting priorities Able to cope with continual change and contribute constructively to improvement cycles Our organisation values are designed to guide all that we do. Bold: Act with ambition, courage and determination Credible: Act with rigour and professionalism Human: Act to have a positive impact on people Together: Act inclusively and collaboratively We're looking for people who can believe in and embody these organisation values and can use them to drive forward progress against our mission to beat cancer. If you're interested in applying and excited about working with us but are unsure if you have the right skills and experience we'd still love to hear from you. What will I gain? We create a working environment that supports your wellbeing and provide a generous benefits package, a wide range of career and personal development opportunities and high-quality tools. Our policies and processes enable you to improve your work-life balance, take positive steps in your career and achieve your personal wellbeing goals. You can explore our benefits by visiting our careers web page. How do I apply? We operate an anonymised shortlisting process in our commitment to equality, diversity, and inclusion. CVs are required for all applications; but we won't be able to view them until we invite you for an interview. Instead, we ask you to fully complete the work history section of the online application form for us to be able to assess you quickly, fairly, and objectively. Additional information For more information about working with us please visit our website or contact us at . For more updates on our work and careers, follow us on: LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, X and YouTube.
24/10/2025
Full time
Genuine innovation. Visionary solutions. Surprising results. Lead CRM Engineer - Salesforce £74,000 - £79,000 plus benefits Reports to: Head of Engineering Grade: P3 Directorate : Chief Operating Office Contract : Permanent Hours: Full time 35 hours per week Location : Stratford, London . Office-based with high flexibility (1-2 days per week in the office) Visa sponsorship: You must be eligible to work in the UK to apply for this vacancy. Cancer Research UK is not able to offer visa sponsorship. Closing date: 16 November 2025, 23:55 This vacancy may close earlier if a high volume of applications is received or once a suitable candidate is found, therefore we strongly recommend that you apply early to avoid disappointment. If you require more time to apply as part of a reasonable adjustment, please contact as soon as possible. Recruitment process: 2 stage interview process which will involve competency and technical assessment. At Cancer Research UK, we exist to beat cancer. We are professionals with purpose, beating cancer every day. But we need to go much further and much faster. That's why we're looking for someone talented, someone who wants to develop their skills, someone like you. The Lead CRM Engineer is responsible for taking a leading role in the CRM engineering capability team to identify and share good practice, develop standards, patterns, automation & tools, reduce technical debt and operational risks. In addition the Lead CRM Engineer should design and develop enhancements to our CRM platform, supporting the delivery of our CRM Engineering strategy; apply specialist knowledge to identify improvements. What will I be doing? Lead in all aspects of the software development life cycle e.g., requirements, analysis, design, implementation, testing and documentation Apply Lean and Agile principles to develop high quality code that has minimal bugs, adheres to CRUK standards and is highly supportable Work either independently or in collaboration with Solution Architects to design new solutions in line with the CRM Engineering strategy Start the development of new products from scratch, leading on all the technical decisions this entails Work in collaboration with Product Managers, Service Designers, UX Designers, Business Analysts etc to identify user needs, discuss capabilities and iteratively design solutions Take a leading role in the CRM engineering capability team to identify and share good practice, develop standards, patterns, automation & tools, and reduce technical debt and operational risks Design and develop enhancements to our CRM platform, supporting the delivery of our CRM Engineering strategy; applying specialist knowledge to identify improvements Apply Site Reliability Engineering principles to track and improve the availability, performance, and security of CRM products. Support the resolution of incidents impacting our products. Responsible for release management and line management of 2-5 CRM engineers, coaching them to develop their skills, behaviours and develop their careers. What are you looking for? Essential: Ability to write clean, readable, and properly tested code based on tried and tested design patterns. Experience building applications on our existing CRM platform (Siebel) and/or future CRM (Salesforce), including data model design, custom UIs, custom logic, inbound and outbound integration logic Experience running critical services in production and designing highly available, scalable, and secure solutions Acted as a Senior or Lead within an Engineering team, starting the development of new features from scratch, defining the overall solutions, and reviewing more junior engineers' work.' Desirable: Understands business problems and able to translate them into solution designs using creativity and pragmatism. Knowledge of modern software development methods (SCRUM, Kanban) and approaches (test-driven development, behaviour driven development, continuous integration, continuous delivery) Can communicate complex information and concepts to technical and business colleagues, influencing others effectively Worked in a complex technical environment with multiple types of business operations and conflicting priorities Able to cope with continual change and contribute constructively to improvement cycles Our organisation values are designed to guide all that we do. Bold: Act with ambition, courage and determination Credible: Act with rigour and professionalism Human: Act to have a positive impact on people Together: Act inclusively and collaboratively We're looking for people who can believe in and embody these organisation values and can use them to drive forward progress against our mission to beat cancer. If you're interested in applying and excited about working with us but are unsure if you have the right skills and experience we'd still love to hear from you. What will I gain? We create a working environment that supports your wellbeing and provide a generous benefits package, a wide range of career and personal development opportunities and high-quality tools. Our policies and processes enable you to improve your work-life balance, take positive steps in your career and achieve your personal wellbeing goals. You can explore our benefits by visiting our careers web page. How do I apply? We operate an anonymised shortlisting process in our commitment to equality, diversity, and inclusion. CVs are required for all applications; but we won't be able to view them until we invite you for an interview. Instead, we ask you to fully complete the work history section of the online application form for us to be able to assess you quickly, fairly, and objectively. Additional information For more information about working with us please visit our website or contact us at . For more updates on our work and careers, follow us on: LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, X and YouTube.
Astute's Nuclear Team are exclusively partnered with an industry leader in industrial services solutions and hazardous waste management across the UK to recruit a Business Development Manager to join their Industrial Services division in the Midlands. The Business Development Manager role comes with a salary of up to 55,000 per annum plus a car allowance, bonus and many other benefits. In this role, you will drive business development from securing new enquiries to handover to operations, ensuring high-quality service delivery across the UK, with particular emphasis in the Midlands. If you're a Business Development Manager with experience within the Industrial Services sector (particiularly jet vac's, high pressure water jetting, disab's, tank cleaning etc), then submit your CV to apply today. Responsibilities and duties: Reporting to the Regional Commercial Manager you will: Key Responsibilities: Drive business development for key business growth within the industrial services sector, targeting both new and existing clients, using proactive techniques like cold calling and outreach to offer a broad range of industrial services, including waste removal and infrastructure cleaning solutions. Maintain a strong pipeline of new business opportunities and contribute to the company business plan. Foster strong customer relationships by ensuring high service standards, addressing non-conformances, and providing timely feedback. Maximise margins on projects and ensure continuity of work for the business teams. Collaborate across divisions to identify other opportunities, especially within waste treatment and disposal through other sites across the business group. Collaborate with Account Managers, Admin Staff, and Operations to ensure seamless service delivery and contract management. Manage the tender process, including document reviews, financial analysis, and ensuring compliance with Tender Governance procedures. Monitor market trends, competitors, and relevant industry developments to inform business strategy. Manage projects, inquiries, and customer communications while ensuring compliance with health, safety, and environmental standards. Promote a safety-first culture and actively contribute to the company's health, safety, and environmental initiatives. Represent the business at stakeholder events and ensure compliance with company policies, including security, data protection, and equal opportunities. This is an exciting opportunity for a driven professional with experience in industrial services and business development to join a dynamic and growing team. Professional qualifications: We are looking for someone with the following: Technical expertise in industrial services and hazardous/chemical waste solutions, with previous experience in the sector. Proven ability to manage customer accounts and their associated sales revenue. Strong commercial acumen, a track record of profitable new business, and a commitment to high levels of customer service, along with a full UK driving licence. Degree qualified or proven sector experience in business development and sales in industrial services or hazardous wastes management. Personal skills The Business Development Manager role would suit someone who has: Flexibility to accommodate overnight stays, early starts, and late finishes to meet client and business needs. Proven track record in driving profitable new business while maintaining high levels of customer service. Strong logistics knowledge, including experience with transport booking and vehicle requirements for contracts. Expertise in H&S industry regulations, environmental compliance, and managing contaminated soils within construction waste. Skilled in cold calling, negotiating, and executing deals at both strategic and tactical levels, with experience in managing projects and business processes. Salary and benefits of the Business Development Manager role Salary up to 55,000 DOE Car allowance Bonus based on company and personal performance Life assurance Pension Progression plan Astute People are acting as an employment agency in relation to this vacancy. We do not discriminate on the grounds of age, race, gender, disability, creed or sexual orientation and comply with all relevant UK legislation. We encourage applications from individuals from all backgrounds but candidates must be able to demonstrate their ability to work in the UK. Astute is also committed to the government's Disability Confident Employer initiative. We endeavour to get back to everyone, however, if you have not heard anything after 7 days, please consider your application unsuccessful.
24/10/2025
Full time
Astute's Nuclear Team are exclusively partnered with an industry leader in industrial services solutions and hazardous waste management across the UK to recruit a Business Development Manager to join their Industrial Services division in the Midlands. The Business Development Manager role comes with a salary of up to 55,000 per annum plus a car allowance, bonus and many other benefits. In this role, you will drive business development from securing new enquiries to handover to operations, ensuring high-quality service delivery across the UK, with particular emphasis in the Midlands. If you're a Business Development Manager with experience within the Industrial Services sector (particiularly jet vac's, high pressure water jetting, disab's, tank cleaning etc), then submit your CV to apply today. Responsibilities and duties: Reporting to the Regional Commercial Manager you will: Key Responsibilities: Drive business development for key business growth within the industrial services sector, targeting both new and existing clients, using proactive techniques like cold calling and outreach to offer a broad range of industrial services, including waste removal and infrastructure cleaning solutions. Maintain a strong pipeline of new business opportunities and contribute to the company business plan. Foster strong customer relationships by ensuring high service standards, addressing non-conformances, and providing timely feedback. Maximise margins on projects and ensure continuity of work for the business teams. Collaborate across divisions to identify other opportunities, especially within waste treatment and disposal through other sites across the business group. Collaborate with Account Managers, Admin Staff, and Operations to ensure seamless service delivery and contract management. Manage the tender process, including document reviews, financial analysis, and ensuring compliance with Tender Governance procedures. Monitor market trends, competitors, and relevant industry developments to inform business strategy. Manage projects, inquiries, and customer communications while ensuring compliance with health, safety, and environmental standards. Promote a safety-first culture and actively contribute to the company's health, safety, and environmental initiatives. Represent the business at stakeholder events and ensure compliance with company policies, including security, data protection, and equal opportunities. This is an exciting opportunity for a driven professional with experience in industrial services and business development to join a dynamic and growing team. Professional qualifications: We are looking for someone with the following: Technical expertise in industrial services and hazardous/chemical waste solutions, with previous experience in the sector. Proven ability to manage customer accounts and their associated sales revenue. Strong commercial acumen, a track record of profitable new business, and a commitment to high levels of customer service, along with a full UK driving licence. Degree qualified or proven sector experience in business development and sales in industrial services or hazardous wastes management. Personal skills The Business Development Manager role would suit someone who has: Flexibility to accommodate overnight stays, early starts, and late finishes to meet client and business needs. Proven track record in driving profitable new business while maintaining high levels of customer service. Strong logistics knowledge, including experience with transport booking and vehicle requirements for contracts. Expertise in H&S industry regulations, environmental compliance, and managing contaminated soils within construction waste. Skilled in cold calling, negotiating, and executing deals at both strategic and tactical levels, with experience in managing projects and business processes. Salary and benefits of the Business Development Manager role Salary up to 55,000 DOE Car allowance Bonus based on company and personal performance Life assurance Pension Progression plan Astute People are acting as an employment agency in relation to this vacancy. We do not discriminate on the grounds of age, race, gender, disability, creed or sexual orientation and comply with all relevant UK legislation. We encourage applications from individuals from all backgrounds but candidates must be able to demonstrate their ability to work in the UK. Astute is also committed to the government's Disability Confident Employer initiative. We endeavour to get back to everyone, however, if you have not heard anything after 7 days, please consider your application unsuccessful.
Technical Product Manager (SaaS) - SC Cleared Stevenage (Hybrid) Up to 70,000 High-impact programme - Revolutionary platform I am looking for a Security-Cleared Technical Product Manager to take the reins on a hugely ambitious Product Roadmap supporting a range of truly high-impact programmes across the UK. This isn't your average Product Roadmap either. You'll be overseeing a variety of scalable, next-generation digital ecosystems, part of a revolutionary platform - One of which has never been delivered at this size or scale within this sector. Trust me - It's something you'll want to be part of, if you're looking for a role that offers the scope to deliver true, transformative technology programmes across the UK! This is a unique opportunity to work on cutting-edge cloud, software, and infrastructure projects that shape the future of technology in both public and private sectors. You'll be part of a collaborative team delivering scalable, next-generation digital ecosystems. What You'll Be Doing: Define and communicate product vision, strategy, and roadmap aligned with business goals. Translate customer and stakeholder needs into actionable user stories and features. Collaborate with engineering, DevOps, and architecture teams to ensure timely, high-quality delivery. Act as Product Owner in Agile ceremonies, balancing scope, quality, and timelines. Use data-driven insights to monitor product performance and inform decisions. Ensure compliance with security, regulatory, and operational standards. Lead stakeholder engagement and support go-to-market planning. What You'll Bring: Proven experience as a Product Manager or Product Owner in software, SaaS, cloud, or enterprise systems. Strong grasp of Agile/Scrum methodologies. Experience with cloud-native development, DevOps, and enterprise SaaS. Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills. Analytical mindset with a focus on customer outcomes. Familiarity with AWS/Azure and modern DevOps toolchains is a plus. Relevant degree or equivalent experience; Agile/Product certifications desirable. Security Clearance: Due to the nature of the work, SC Clearance is required or candidates must be eligible to obtain it. Salary up to 70,000 plus wider benefits - Contact me today for further insight on (phone number removed) or (url removed). Modis International Ltd acts as an employment agency for permanent recruitment and an employment business for the supply of temporary workers in the UK. Modis Europe Ltd provide a variety of international solutions that connect clients to the best talent in the world. For all positions based in Switzerland, Modis Europe Ltd works with its licensed Swiss partner Accurity GmbH to ensure that candidate applications are handled in accordance with Swiss law. Both Modis International Ltd and Modis Europe Ltd are Equal Opportunities Employers. By applying for this role your details will be submitted to Modis International Ltd and/ or Modis Europe Ltd. Our Candidate Privacy Information Statement which explains how we will use your information is available on the Modis website.
24/10/2025
Full time
Technical Product Manager (SaaS) - SC Cleared Stevenage (Hybrid) Up to 70,000 High-impact programme - Revolutionary platform I am looking for a Security-Cleared Technical Product Manager to take the reins on a hugely ambitious Product Roadmap supporting a range of truly high-impact programmes across the UK. This isn't your average Product Roadmap either. You'll be overseeing a variety of scalable, next-generation digital ecosystems, part of a revolutionary platform - One of which has never been delivered at this size or scale within this sector. Trust me - It's something you'll want to be part of, if you're looking for a role that offers the scope to deliver true, transformative technology programmes across the UK! This is a unique opportunity to work on cutting-edge cloud, software, and infrastructure projects that shape the future of technology in both public and private sectors. You'll be part of a collaborative team delivering scalable, next-generation digital ecosystems. What You'll Be Doing: Define and communicate product vision, strategy, and roadmap aligned with business goals. Translate customer and stakeholder needs into actionable user stories and features. Collaborate with engineering, DevOps, and architecture teams to ensure timely, high-quality delivery. Act as Product Owner in Agile ceremonies, balancing scope, quality, and timelines. Use data-driven insights to monitor product performance and inform decisions. Ensure compliance with security, regulatory, and operational standards. Lead stakeholder engagement and support go-to-market planning. What You'll Bring: Proven experience as a Product Manager or Product Owner in software, SaaS, cloud, or enterprise systems. Strong grasp of Agile/Scrum methodologies. Experience with cloud-native development, DevOps, and enterprise SaaS. Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills. Analytical mindset with a focus on customer outcomes. Familiarity with AWS/Azure and modern DevOps toolchains is a plus. Relevant degree or equivalent experience; Agile/Product certifications desirable. Security Clearance: Due to the nature of the work, SC Clearance is required or candidates must be eligible to obtain it. Salary up to 70,000 plus wider benefits - Contact me today for further insight on (phone number removed) or (url removed). Modis International Ltd acts as an employment agency for permanent recruitment and an employment business for the supply of temporary workers in the UK. Modis Europe Ltd provide a variety of international solutions that connect clients to the best talent in the world. For all positions based in Switzerland, Modis Europe Ltd works with its licensed Swiss partner Accurity GmbH to ensure that candidate applications are handled in accordance with Swiss law. Both Modis International Ltd and Modis Europe Ltd are Equal Opportunities Employers. By applying for this role your details will be submitted to Modis International Ltd and/ or Modis Europe Ltd. Our Candidate Privacy Information Statement which explains how we will use your information is available on the Modis website.
Your new company This organisation is a powerhouse in enterprise technology, delivering secure, scalable, and innovative solutions across voice, data, wireless, and cloud networking. With a rich legacy of excellence and a forward-thinking approach, they empower businesses of all sizes, from global enterprises to agile startups, to thrive in a connected world. Their culture champions collaboration, diversity, and continuous learning, offering world-class training and development opportunities. Employees are encouraged to lead with impact, innovate boldly, and build meaningful relationships with customers and colleagues alike. If you're passionate about shaping the future of network architecture and want to be part of a team that values your expertise and ambition, this is the place to be. Your new role Are you ready to lead the design and delivery of cutting-edge network solutions across enterprise environments? Join a dynamic team that's shaping the future of secure connectivity, cloud networking, and wireless innovation.We're looking for a Network Designer with deep expertise in Juniper technologies and a passion for translating complex requirements into elegant, scalable solutions. If you thrive in high-impact environments and enjoy mentoring others while keeping customers at the heart of everything you do, this is your next big move. Lead the technical design of enterprise-grade network solutions, from high-level architecture to detailed low-level implementation. Act as the single point of contact for technical delivery, guiding internal teams and external stakeholders through the solution lifecycle. Collaborate with pre-sales, project managers, and support teams to ensure seamless delivery and customer satisfaction. Own the creation of low-level design documentation, migration plans, and testing strategies. Resolve complex service issues, lead root cause analysis, and drive continuous improvement. Influence customer strategy through technical leadership and trusted advisory relationships. What you'll need to succeed Proven experience designing and implementing Juniper LAN/WLAN solutions, including Juniper Mist. Strong hands-on expertise in Fortinet SD-WAN routing and configuration. Solid understanding of Azure cloud networking and hybrid connectivity. Exceptional stakeholder management and leadership skills. Ability to mentor and motivate technical teams through challenging projects. A collaborative mindset and a customer-first approach to solution delivery. What you'll get in return 10% performance bonus Generous pension scheme with up to 10% employer contribution 25+ days annual leave plus bank holidays, increasing with service Flexible benefits including healthcare, cycle to work, and season ticket loans World-class training & development to grow your career Retail discounts and perks across hundreds of brands What you need to do now If you're interested in this role, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or call us now. If this job isn't quite right for you, but you are looking for a new position, please contact us for a confidential discussion about your career. Hays Specialist Recruitment Limited acts as an employment agency for permanent recruitment and employment business for the supply of temporary workers. By applying for this job you accept the T&C's, Privacy Policy and Disclaimers which can be found at (url removed)
24/10/2025
Full time
Your new company This organisation is a powerhouse in enterprise technology, delivering secure, scalable, and innovative solutions across voice, data, wireless, and cloud networking. With a rich legacy of excellence and a forward-thinking approach, they empower businesses of all sizes, from global enterprises to agile startups, to thrive in a connected world. Their culture champions collaboration, diversity, and continuous learning, offering world-class training and development opportunities. Employees are encouraged to lead with impact, innovate boldly, and build meaningful relationships with customers and colleagues alike. If you're passionate about shaping the future of network architecture and want to be part of a team that values your expertise and ambition, this is the place to be. Your new role Are you ready to lead the design and delivery of cutting-edge network solutions across enterprise environments? Join a dynamic team that's shaping the future of secure connectivity, cloud networking, and wireless innovation.We're looking for a Network Designer with deep expertise in Juniper technologies and a passion for translating complex requirements into elegant, scalable solutions. If you thrive in high-impact environments and enjoy mentoring others while keeping customers at the heart of everything you do, this is your next big move. Lead the technical design of enterprise-grade network solutions, from high-level architecture to detailed low-level implementation. Act as the single point of contact for technical delivery, guiding internal teams and external stakeholders through the solution lifecycle. Collaborate with pre-sales, project managers, and support teams to ensure seamless delivery and customer satisfaction. Own the creation of low-level design documentation, migration plans, and testing strategies. Resolve complex service issues, lead root cause analysis, and drive continuous improvement. Influence customer strategy through technical leadership and trusted advisory relationships. What you'll need to succeed Proven experience designing and implementing Juniper LAN/WLAN solutions, including Juniper Mist. Strong hands-on expertise in Fortinet SD-WAN routing and configuration. Solid understanding of Azure cloud networking and hybrid connectivity. Exceptional stakeholder management and leadership skills. Ability to mentor and motivate technical teams through challenging projects. A collaborative mindset and a customer-first approach to solution delivery. What you'll get in return 10% performance bonus Generous pension scheme with up to 10% employer contribution 25+ days annual leave plus bank holidays, increasing with service Flexible benefits including healthcare, cycle to work, and season ticket loans World-class training & development to grow your career Retail discounts and perks across hundreds of brands What you need to do now If you're interested in this role, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or call us now. If this job isn't quite right for you, but you are looking for a new position, please contact us for a confidential discussion about your career. Hays Specialist Recruitment Limited acts as an employment agency for permanent recruitment and employment business for the supply of temporary workers. By applying for this job you accept the T&C's, Privacy Policy and Disclaimers which can be found at (url removed)
Job Title: Business Analyst (Transformation) Job Type: Contract, Remote Duration: 6 Months Industry: FMCG/IT Job Location: Homebased (some travel required) Rate: £500 to £600/day Ltd (Outside IR35) Profile Business Analyst (Transformation) Our client is a leading figurehead in the UK food sector, with an unparalleled pedigree dating back to the early 18th century. Job Role Business Analyst (Transformation) Reporting to the Director of Business Partnering the IT Business Analyst will be focused on the business requirements around Business Simplification and the build out of detailed specifications which can be handed to our development teams to complete. This role will entail strong communication between business stakeholders and the IT teams to ensure delivery of these requirements is met in the agreed timescales given. Duties Business Analyst (Transformation) • Develop knowledge of relevant business areas within the organisation and the effect of the requested changes. • Liaise with key stakeholders, business managers and users to understand and document analytics requirements. • Work with business owners and IT Business Partners & analytics developers to develop optimal solutions. • Develop complete and accurate business models including process, data and organisation documentation. • Deliver and present a quality business requirements document for a given change. • Support the continuous innovation, development, governance & support of business processes and systems around business reporting. • Key to success will be the quality of the working relationships with the IT Teams, Business Teams and our solutions partners. • Identifying opportunities to drive benefit and cost reduction from & for I.T in the Supply Chain Experience/Qualifications Business Analyst (Transformation) • Experience of delivering SAP & Information based projects • Strong Business Requirements gathering and Analysis Skills • Consumer Products Industry experience Candidates who are currently a Business Partner, Business Analyst, Analyst, IT Analyst, Supply Chain Business Analyst, SAP Analyst, System Analyst could be suitable for this position. To make an application for this role please submit your CV to (url removed) For details of other opportunities available within your chose field please visit our website (url removed) Omega is an employment agency specialising in opportunities at all levels within the Engineering, Manufacturing, Aerospace, Automotive, Electronics, Defence, Scientific, Energy & Renewables and Tech sectors.
23/10/2025
Contractor
Job Title: Business Analyst (Transformation) Job Type: Contract, Remote Duration: 6 Months Industry: FMCG/IT Job Location: Homebased (some travel required) Rate: £500 to £600/day Ltd (Outside IR35) Profile Business Analyst (Transformation) Our client is a leading figurehead in the UK food sector, with an unparalleled pedigree dating back to the early 18th century. Job Role Business Analyst (Transformation) Reporting to the Director of Business Partnering the IT Business Analyst will be focused on the business requirements around Business Simplification and the build out of detailed specifications which can be handed to our development teams to complete. This role will entail strong communication between business stakeholders and the IT teams to ensure delivery of these requirements is met in the agreed timescales given. Duties Business Analyst (Transformation) • Develop knowledge of relevant business areas within the organisation and the effect of the requested changes. • Liaise with key stakeholders, business managers and users to understand and document analytics requirements. • Work with business owners and IT Business Partners & analytics developers to develop optimal solutions. • Develop complete and accurate business models including process, data and organisation documentation. • Deliver and present a quality business requirements document for a given change. • Support the continuous innovation, development, governance & support of business processes and systems around business reporting. • Key to success will be the quality of the working relationships with the IT Teams, Business Teams and our solutions partners. • Identifying opportunities to drive benefit and cost reduction from & for I.T in the Supply Chain Experience/Qualifications Business Analyst (Transformation) • Experience of delivering SAP & Information based projects • Strong Business Requirements gathering and Analysis Skills • Consumer Products Industry experience Candidates who are currently a Business Partner, Business Analyst, Analyst, IT Analyst, Supply Chain Business Analyst, SAP Analyst, System Analyst could be suitable for this position. To make an application for this role please submit your CV to (url removed) For details of other opportunities available within your chose field please visit our website (url removed) Omega is an employment agency specialising in opportunities at all levels within the Engineering, Manufacturing, Aerospace, Automotive, Electronics, Defence, Scientific, Energy & Renewables and Tech sectors.
Job Title: Senior Busniess Development Manager Department: New Business Sales Reporting to: Head of Sales Location: Home Based, but must live in the North West area of Manchester, Warrington, Runcorn, Stockport, Blackburn, Bolton, Preston, Bury, Burnley or Liverpool Contract: Permanent Hours: 37.5, Monday-Friday Salary: 50,000 (OTE 75,000) Our client are one of the UK's leading carrier management companies, who work with major brands, with an obsession for driving carrier performance for the benefit of their customers. They are looking for an established Business Development professional based in the Manchester or Liverpool and surrounding area of the North West, Cheshire, Merseyside and Lancashire. You will have several years new business parcel sales experience to join and be part of the growth of their friendly sales team. The ideal candidate will be self-driven and have a demonstrated history of achieving new business targets. They will be reliable and hardworking with a clear focus on implementing new business opportunities for our client whilst maximising revenues and have superb communication skills at all levels and a strong ability to impact and influence. They have exciting growth plans, providing real opportunity for career progression for ambitious individuals. This role has the opportunity to double the salary in commission due to their uncapped structure! Main areas of responsibility - To develop a portfolio of prospects through agreed channels - Gain and implement new business opportunities for our client whilst maximising revenue and margin - Develop and implement an approach to secure competitors in the shortest time possible. - Develop and implement a sales plan and call cycle that incorporates initiatives for identifying and gaining new business and maximises growth of existing major account customers to achieve the individual sales (volume and profitability) targets - Continuously develop company knowledge, commercial awareness and own skills and abilities in order to provide the best possible standard of sales practices and maximise own contribution to selling process. - Promote our clients brand image and values through own appearance and behaviour so that it reflects our clients high standards and develops customers' relationship - Ability to understand customers IT and despatch infrastructure in order to mould solutions to support appropriately. Education & Experience Essential: - Minimum 3+ years new business sales background within the parcel delivery/ logistics sector - Proven track record of hitting new business sales targets - Business/commercial acumen - Ability to source own opportunities through a variety of prospecting techniques - Live in the North West Desirable: - Experience of relationship building and management - Extensive knowledge and experience of selling into retail and Ecommerce - Good understanding of IT / Ecommerce / WMS platforms & integrations Personal: - Self-motivated, ambition to succeed - Ability to communicate at all levels - Problem solving - Decision making - Planning/organisation Salary - 50,000 plus car allowance 9,300, 25 days holiday, pension and High OTE
23/10/2025
Full time
Job Title: Senior Busniess Development Manager Department: New Business Sales Reporting to: Head of Sales Location: Home Based, but must live in the North West area of Manchester, Warrington, Runcorn, Stockport, Blackburn, Bolton, Preston, Bury, Burnley or Liverpool Contract: Permanent Hours: 37.5, Monday-Friday Salary: 50,000 (OTE 75,000) Our client are one of the UK's leading carrier management companies, who work with major brands, with an obsession for driving carrier performance for the benefit of their customers. They are looking for an established Business Development professional based in the Manchester or Liverpool and surrounding area of the North West, Cheshire, Merseyside and Lancashire. You will have several years new business parcel sales experience to join and be part of the growth of their friendly sales team. The ideal candidate will be self-driven and have a demonstrated history of achieving new business targets. They will be reliable and hardworking with a clear focus on implementing new business opportunities for our client whilst maximising revenues and have superb communication skills at all levels and a strong ability to impact and influence. They have exciting growth plans, providing real opportunity for career progression for ambitious individuals. This role has the opportunity to double the salary in commission due to their uncapped structure! Main areas of responsibility - To develop a portfolio of prospects through agreed channels - Gain and implement new business opportunities for our client whilst maximising revenue and margin - Develop and implement an approach to secure competitors in the shortest time possible. - Develop and implement a sales plan and call cycle that incorporates initiatives for identifying and gaining new business and maximises growth of existing major account customers to achieve the individual sales (volume and profitability) targets - Continuously develop company knowledge, commercial awareness and own skills and abilities in order to provide the best possible standard of sales practices and maximise own contribution to selling process. - Promote our clients brand image and values through own appearance and behaviour so that it reflects our clients high standards and develops customers' relationship - Ability to understand customers IT and despatch infrastructure in order to mould solutions to support appropriately. Education & Experience Essential: - Minimum 3+ years new business sales background within the parcel delivery/ logistics sector - Proven track record of hitting new business sales targets - Business/commercial acumen - Ability to source own opportunities through a variety of prospecting techniques - Live in the North West Desirable: - Experience of relationship building and management - Extensive knowledge and experience of selling into retail and Ecommerce - Good understanding of IT / Ecommerce / WMS platforms & integrations Personal: - Self-motivated, ambition to succeed - Ability to communicate at all levels - Problem solving - Decision making - Planning/organisation Salary - 50,000 plus car allowance 9,300, 25 days holiday, pension and High OTE
Our client is a fast expanding independent express parcels specialist offering UK domestic next day, Sameday, International and premium PARCEL and PALLET delivery solutions. An exciting opportunity has arisen for a BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT MANAGER / FIELD SALES EXECUTIVE based directly out of the clients Birmingham site. Reporting directly to the Sales Manager you will be responsible for all new business covering all of the B, DY and WR postcodes of Birmingham, Dudley, Worcester and surrounding Birmingham / West Midlands area. You will be required to generate, qualify & appoint all new business leads. Achievement of all company K.PI'S is expected including a new business target which will be agreed upon appointment. The Ideal candidate will be able to develop & maintain a comprehensive knowledge of all services, rates & operational processes. Applicant must be Enthusiastic, dedicated, self motivated, pro active in all aspects of their work, able to use their own initiative, most importantly they must be of strong character & personality with the will to drive the business forward. Finally applicants must have FIELD SALES experience within the EXPRESS PARCELS/COURIER, PALLET, Sameday, International Courier, eCommerce or Freight Forwrding industry. Other similar service related industries may be considered ie: PALLETS, FREIGHT, HAULAGE, LOGISTICS, SAMEDAY, PACKETS and PARCELS. Salary circa 40,000 plus car allowance of 7,200, plus commission and other benefits
23/10/2025
Full time
Our client is a fast expanding independent express parcels specialist offering UK domestic next day, Sameday, International and premium PARCEL and PALLET delivery solutions. An exciting opportunity has arisen for a BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT MANAGER / FIELD SALES EXECUTIVE based directly out of the clients Birmingham site. Reporting directly to the Sales Manager you will be responsible for all new business covering all of the B, DY and WR postcodes of Birmingham, Dudley, Worcester and surrounding Birmingham / West Midlands area. You will be required to generate, qualify & appoint all new business leads. Achievement of all company K.PI'S is expected including a new business target which will be agreed upon appointment. The Ideal candidate will be able to develop & maintain a comprehensive knowledge of all services, rates & operational processes. Applicant must be Enthusiastic, dedicated, self motivated, pro active in all aspects of their work, able to use their own initiative, most importantly they must be of strong character & personality with the will to drive the business forward. Finally applicants must have FIELD SALES experience within the EXPRESS PARCELS/COURIER, PALLET, Sameday, International Courier, eCommerce or Freight Forwrding industry. Other similar service related industries may be considered ie: PALLETS, FREIGHT, HAULAGE, LOGISTICS, SAMEDAY, PACKETS and PARCELS. Salary circa 40,000 plus car allowance of 7,200, plus commission and other benefits
The Organisation James Clay & Sons is the UK's leading importer and distributor of world-class beers from Europe, the USA, and Japan. They aren't just moving boxes-they are building brands, curating culture, and delivering flavour experiences that excite and inspire. With a turnover of over £35m, a 51,000ft distribution centre and a further 4 regional sites for national distribution, a fleet delivering to over 1,250 accounts monthly, they're scaling fast and staying true to their roots. Rarter Bond is a subsidiary of James Clay & Sons and is a bonded warehousing powerhouse offering duty-suspended storage, ecommerce fulfilment, and freight forwarding from a secure site at Leeds Bradford Airport. A growing hub of innovation and efficiency.Together, these businesses are guided by values that matter: Professional in our standards and delivery; Honest in our communication and relationships; Caring in how we support our people, customers, and partners; and Positive in our mindset and ambition. About the opportunity We are delighted to partner with James Clay & Sons in the search for a Business Systems Manager, an exciting opportunity and a stand-alone role taking ownership for digital systems and IT strategy of the organisation. This role will be responsible for analysing current processes and IT systems before implementing new technical solutions. You will also be required to help manage external vendors related to IT Infrastructure. This role is pivotal in helping the business utilise technology to achieve their goals and provide efficiency gains. If you are interested in working for an SME where your contribution is valued, this is an exciting role for you. Key ResponsibilitiesStrategy - Digital Systems and IT infrastructure Ownership of the systems infrastructure across the business Developing and executing a digital roadmap for the business, aligning digital initiatives with business goals Respond and support system development requests from departments while managing prioritisation with the board Champion opportunities to automate processes through digital solutions and lead the adoption of AI across the business Digital Transformation and Project Scoping Analyse business needs from departments to understand problems, gather requirements and identify technology solutions Evaluate software providers to make recommendations for partnerships and investments where required Translate business requirements into clear, functional and technical specifications for developers. Formulate new, or enhance existing, systems to meet the identified business needs. Project Management Manage projects to digitise business processes and improve systems to deliver efficiency and customer experience gains Implementation & Maintenance Support department heads to align business processes with software and digital solutions Lead the relationship with third party technology providers to maintain, update and develop digital systems Manage IT budgets, forecasts and cost controls Other duties Work with third party vendors to maintain security and infrastructure services What you'll bring Strong understanding of IT systems - such as ERP, CRM Ideally operated as a Business Systems Manager or IT Manager previously - or worked as a stand alone Business Systems Analyst in an SME. Experience of project management Solutions orientated, self-starter Confident at relaying technical information to non-technical stakeholders Why you'll love the role Impact: Your ideas will shape the future of two thriving businesses. Culture: A family business with a big heart and bold ambitions. Challenge: No two days are the same. Growth: You'll lead transformation and leave a legacy. Competitive salary and benefits.All 3rd Party CVs and applications will be forwarded to Nigel Wright
23/10/2025
Full time
The Organisation James Clay & Sons is the UK's leading importer and distributor of world-class beers from Europe, the USA, and Japan. They aren't just moving boxes-they are building brands, curating culture, and delivering flavour experiences that excite and inspire. With a turnover of over £35m, a 51,000ft distribution centre and a further 4 regional sites for national distribution, a fleet delivering to over 1,250 accounts monthly, they're scaling fast and staying true to their roots. Rarter Bond is a subsidiary of James Clay & Sons and is a bonded warehousing powerhouse offering duty-suspended storage, ecommerce fulfilment, and freight forwarding from a secure site at Leeds Bradford Airport. A growing hub of innovation and efficiency.Together, these businesses are guided by values that matter: Professional in our standards and delivery; Honest in our communication and relationships; Caring in how we support our people, customers, and partners; and Positive in our mindset and ambition. About the opportunity We are delighted to partner with James Clay & Sons in the search for a Business Systems Manager, an exciting opportunity and a stand-alone role taking ownership for digital systems and IT strategy of the organisation. This role will be responsible for analysing current processes and IT systems before implementing new technical solutions. You will also be required to help manage external vendors related to IT Infrastructure. This role is pivotal in helping the business utilise technology to achieve their goals and provide efficiency gains. If you are interested in working for an SME where your contribution is valued, this is an exciting role for you. Key ResponsibilitiesStrategy - Digital Systems and IT infrastructure Ownership of the systems infrastructure across the business Developing and executing a digital roadmap for the business, aligning digital initiatives with business goals Respond and support system development requests from departments while managing prioritisation with the board Champion opportunities to automate processes through digital solutions and lead the adoption of AI across the business Digital Transformation and Project Scoping Analyse business needs from departments to understand problems, gather requirements and identify technology solutions Evaluate software providers to make recommendations for partnerships and investments where required Translate business requirements into clear, functional and technical specifications for developers. Formulate new, or enhance existing, systems to meet the identified business needs. Project Management Manage projects to digitise business processes and improve systems to deliver efficiency and customer experience gains Implementation & Maintenance Support department heads to align business processes with software and digital solutions Lead the relationship with third party technology providers to maintain, update and develop digital systems Manage IT budgets, forecasts and cost controls Other duties Work with third party vendors to maintain security and infrastructure services What you'll bring Strong understanding of IT systems - such as ERP, CRM Ideally operated as a Business Systems Manager or IT Manager previously - or worked as a stand alone Business Systems Analyst in an SME. Experience of project management Solutions orientated, self-starter Confident at relaying technical information to non-technical stakeholders Why you'll love the role Impact: Your ideas will shape the future of two thriving businesses. Culture: A family business with a big heart and bold ambitions. Challenge: No two days are the same. Growth: You'll lead transformation and leave a legacy. Competitive salary and benefits.All 3rd Party CVs and applications will be forwarded to Nigel Wright
Your new company A property organisation specialising in the ownership and management of some of the UK's best and most sustainable real estate. They have a portfolio of high-quality commercial properties across London. They are passionate about managing their business in an environmentally and socially responsible way. Leveraging on their best-in-class platform and proven expertise in development, repositioning and active asset management to create and manage the best possible outcomes for their stakeholders on a long-term basis. Your new role An opportunity has arisen to work within Technology, to lead the Technology Business Partner team to identify opportunities for improving business output and performance through the strategic use of technology. The roleholder will be instrumental in helping to shift the business culture towards greater technology awareness and adoption. The role involves leading a team of Tech Business Partners and the QA team, working closely with the Senior Leadership team. Leadership and Team Management: Lead, mentor, and develop a team of Tech Business Partners and QA professionals; fostering a collaborative and high-performance team culture. Strategic Partnership: Act as a liaison between the technology department and other business units, collaborating with senior leadership to identify and prioritise technology initiatives that drive business growth and efficiency. Provide deep strategic insights and recommendations to enhance business processes through technology, ensuring alignment with long-term business goals. This role requires a visionary approach to technology integration, focusing on transformative business impact and strategic value. Change Management: Drive initiatives to increase tech awareness and adoption across the organisation. Develop and deliver training materials and programmes to enhance technology proficiency amongst employees Technology Change Requests: Lead the Tech Business Partner team to translate business needs into technical requirements, design optimal solutions with software teams, and manage the Technology Change Plan for timely project delivery Quality Assurance: Work with the Senior Test Analyst to ensure the highest standards of quality in technology solutions, implement best practices in QA processes and methodologies, and ensure timely and effective testing of technology solutions. What you'll need to succeed : You will have a strategic mindset with the ability to identify and analyse potential opportunities to improve processes, technology etc. Experience of working within a Technology Business Partner role previously or equivalent Knowledge of the software development lifecycle methodologies, system testing and software QA best practices. Experience in a leadership capacity - able to motivate and inspire team members and manage their development and progression. Experienced people manager with a proven track record of leading and developing teams. Customer service orientation: experience in a customer service environment, with a strong appreciation for delivering excellent customer service. Technology proficiency with software applications, including MS Word, Excel and PowerPoint. What you'll get in return £80K basic salary 15% pension 25% discretionary bonus Hybrid working - 4 days in the office 25 days of annual leave Group Income Protection Several others What you need to do now If you're interested in this role, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or call us now.If this job isn't quite right for you, but you are looking for a new position, please contact us for a confidential discussion about your career. Hays Specialist Recruitment Limited acts as an employment agency for permanent recruitment and employment business for the supply of temporary workers. By applying for this job you accept the T&C's, Privacy Policy and Disclaimers which can be found at hays.co.uk
23/10/2025
Full time
Your new company A property organisation specialising in the ownership and management of some of the UK's best and most sustainable real estate. They have a portfolio of high-quality commercial properties across London. They are passionate about managing their business in an environmentally and socially responsible way. Leveraging on their best-in-class platform and proven expertise in development, repositioning and active asset management to create and manage the best possible outcomes for their stakeholders on a long-term basis. Your new role An opportunity has arisen to work within Technology, to lead the Technology Business Partner team to identify opportunities for improving business output and performance through the strategic use of technology. The roleholder will be instrumental in helping to shift the business culture towards greater technology awareness and adoption. The role involves leading a team of Tech Business Partners and the QA team, working closely with the Senior Leadership team. Leadership and Team Management: Lead, mentor, and develop a team of Tech Business Partners and QA professionals; fostering a collaborative and high-performance team culture. Strategic Partnership: Act as a liaison between the technology department and other business units, collaborating with senior leadership to identify and prioritise technology initiatives that drive business growth and efficiency. Provide deep strategic insights and recommendations to enhance business processes through technology, ensuring alignment with long-term business goals. This role requires a visionary approach to technology integration, focusing on transformative business impact and strategic value. Change Management: Drive initiatives to increase tech awareness and adoption across the organisation. Develop and deliver training materials and programmes to enhance technology proficiency amongst employees Technology Change Requests: Lead the Tech Business Partner team to translate business needs into technical requirements, design optimal solutions with software teams, and manage the Technology Change Plan for timely project delivery Quality Assurance: Work with the Senior Test Analyst to ensure the highest standards of quality in technology solutions, implement best practices in QA processes and methodologies, and ensure timely and effective testing of technology solutions. What you'll need to succeed : You will have a strategic mindset with the ability to identify and analyse potential opportunities to improve processes, technology etc. Experience of working within a Technology Business Partner role previously or equivalent Knowledge of the software development lifecycle methodologies, system testing and software QA best practices. Experience in a leadership capacity - able to motivate and inspire team members and manage their development and progression. Experienced people manager with a proven track record of leading and developing teams. Customer service orientation: experience in a customer service environment, with a strong appreciation for delivering excellent customer service. Technology proficiency with software applications, including MS Word, Excel and PowerPoint. What you'll get in return £80K basic salary 15% pension 25% discretionary bonus Hybrid working - 4 days in the office 25 days of annual leave Group Income Protection Several others What you need to do now If you're interested in this role, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or call us now.If this job isn't quite right for you, but you are looking for a new position, please contact us for a confidential discussion about your career. Hays Specialist Recruitment Limited acts as an employment agency for permanent recruitment and employment business for the supply of temporary workers. By applying for this job you accept the T&C's, Privacy Policy and Disclaimers which can be found at hays.co.uk
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