Career Opportunities
Listed below is a selection of our current vacancies. Please do not hesitate to contact us if you see a vacancy that would suit your career ambitions or to discuss ways in which we may help you if you do not see a suitable vacancy listed.
Current Vacancies
Human Resources
HR, Training and Payroll Assistant Ref: 0126
Our client is a leading company based near York University. They require an HR assistant to join the busy, friendly team of seven HR professionals to help support recruitment, training, payroll and development in this highly successful company.
Regular duties include
Providing basic HR / Training support and advice to managers and team members on policies and procedures.
Administration relating to new starters, transfers, promotions and leavers
Sending offer letters, terms and conditions of employment, pre-employment enquiries, recruitment offer packs and responding to incoming recruitment enquiries.
Maintenance of records for employee absence, personal files, HR statistics and training records.
Updating the company website with new vacancies,
Payroll preparation for the payroll bureau which includes providing accurate details of monthly pay including setting up new starters and leavers, and inputting overtime and allowances, updating changes of address and bank details.
To undertake administration relating to training courses including preparation of course materials for the trainer
Organisation of induction events
Successful candidates should have a good level of numeracy, be methodical with good organisational and communication skills as well as having some experience of payroll preparation. Other skills should include good computer literacy including Excel spreadsheets. In return the company offer good career prospects with excellent benefits that include 26 days holiday, Pension scheme, Private Healthcare, Share incentives, Season ticket loans with a salary of £18-20k per annum.
Human Resources Manager - UK and Europe Ref: 0073 - Slough
A varied and absorbing generalist role that will suit a "hands on" HR manager with good strategic and Employment Law knowledge. The role is to work for an expanding American owned, software company at their European head office based near Slough.
The scope of the role includes:
Writing and implementation of HR strategy in line with the company's business plan.
Maintenance of the HR budget and recruitment costs.
To create and implement resourcing plans to attract quality candidates to new vacancies and retain key talent.
To write and develop new HR policies in line with changing legislation, ensuring best practice.
To provide a comprehensive HR advice service for regional managers in the UK and Europe and will require experience of UK and European Employment Law.
Assisting managers to deal effectively with HR issues such as disciplinary, maternity/paternity, dismissal etc.
Management of the HR records system.
Development of training requirements.
Appraisals
Project Management.
The role report to the US based, Worldwide HR Director and is supported by an HR Administrator. It is likely that there will be travel in Europe one to two days per week. Suitable candidates should have several years working at HR Management level preferably an HR degree or equivalent with experience of recruiting for the software industries. Salary £55-60k . 25 days holiday. Pension Scheme
HR Officer Ref: 0064 - York
A truly varied, absorbing and rewarding role working in a forward thinking and innovative Human Resources department as part of a team. The role reports to the HR Manager.
Our clients are a leading York manufacturer with offices based throughout the UK. They require a proactive HR professional with excellent employment law knowledge and practical application. This expertise will be used to offer the branch managers advice on recruitment, disciplinary, maternity and paternity and dismissal. The role will require regular site visits to the branches resulting in long distance travel a couple of days each week with some stays away over night,
Other duties will include writing, development and updating of employment policies and ad hoc project work. This is very much a "hands on" role and will suit a proactive HR person who enjoys using their own initiative an every changing, progressive environment. CIPD qualification is preferred.
HR Officer Ref: 0078 - Slough
Our client is a well-established US owned software company based near to Slough with sales offices throughout Europe. They have an excellent reputation and have continued to grow over the last twenty years.
They require an HR professional preferably CIPD qualified to join their sizable and established team. The role will often concentrate on assisting with the UK and European recruitment of sales, technical and administrative personnel working with the line managers to recruit first class personnel with the goal of reducing staff turnover and retaining staff. This role will also encompass all HR administration and assisting the HR Manager in all aspects of Employment Law, Training, Disciplinary procedure, performance reviews and company policy to ensure "best practice".
There will be the requirement to submit timely and accurate reporting on a regular basis along with ad hoc HR projects.
Due to the nature of the work suitable candidates must be prepared and be confident to handle a broad variety of issues using their own initiative within the guidelines of the HR Manager.
This is very much a "hands on role" and would not require someone who wishes to expand their skills in strategy but enjoys full involvement day to day HR activity.
Salary is £25000 to 30000 with excellent benefits package, 24 days holiday and pension scheme.
Sales Vacancies
Business Development Manager/Sales Executive - Hire Services Reading, Warrington, Carlisle, North East region, East Midlands region
An excellent opportunity for an experienced sales account manager, sales executive or business development manager who enjoys building business opportunities, selling solutions and forging long term relationships with clients.
The role is to work for a well established and expanding hire product and services company based throughout the UK and Europe. The company have an excellent reputation for providing additional temporary work spaces and internal facilities for all types of businesses including offices, public services, hospitals, exhibitions, sports and hospitality events. Quality solutions are provided to meet the clients individual needs and range from basic to luxury environments.
In this key role you will be responsible for developing and promoting the Company's hire business by seeking out and developing sales opportunities from new and existing clients. As a well known brand name there a lot of good quality incoming inquiries. To succeed in this diverse and challenging environment, your ability to identify opportunities should be coupled with the ability to provide fast, quality solutions to varied customer requirements and build long term quality business relationships.
This is a varied and challenging role that encompasses customer liaison, the processing of enquiries, the preparation of quotations and some project management. The role is well supported by sales administrators and project managers. To succeed in the role you will need to be highly organised with an alert commercial mind and excellent analytical skills to enable you to assess the customer's needs and assist in providing the appropriate solution from the company's range of products.
Salary £25- 29k OTE £40k uncapped plus car allowance plus pension 23 days holiday, pension and other benefits including excellent training and career prospects.
Technical Sales Engineer, Windsor - Ref: 0079
Our client is a well-established US owned software company based near to Slough with sales offices throughout Europe. They have an excellent reputation and have continued to grow over the last twenty years.
The main goal of this role is to inspire applications developers, systems integrators and other prospective customers to adopt and to continue to use the company's range of software products and requires the preparation of technical inputs to tender responses and proposals such as architecture and configuration recommendations, description of product capabilities and reference site information. You will also be responsible for the education of customers and prospects through a mixture of formal technical training and mentoring to enable them to make the most effective use of the company's technology. Additionally you will manage the long-term technical account relationship with customers and identify new opportunities by exceeding customer expectations.
This is a very wide-ranging and challenging role , requiring a mixture of design skills, hands-on coding, presentation skills, sales awareness, technical architecture, business acumen, evangelism, mentoring and training.
The appointed person is likely to meet most of the following profile:
Degree qualified.
At least 10 years programming with demonstrable current hands-on expertise in object-oriented languages such as C#, C++ or Java.
Proven ongoing personal involvement in the design, development and deployment of complex applications.
Broad knowledge of the issues and trends in the IT industry generally with specific vertical market and technical knowledge in an area such as HealthCare, Telco, Financial Services, Public Sector Government.
Knowledge of competing application frameworks including .NET and JavaEE and practical experience of at least one major application server (.NET, WebSphere, WebLogic, TomCat, JBoss, Oracle AS 10g, or similar).
Experience of working with different software development processes such as XP, RAD, RUP or DSDM.
Extensive use of 2 or more industrial strength relational databases such as Caché, Oracle, SQLServer, Sybase, Informix or DB2/UDB, including designing logical and physical database schema, good SQL and JDBC/ODBC expertise, installation and configuration skills, and performance tuning.
Experience in most of the following: HTML, JavaScript, XML, XSLT, XPath, XSD, SAX, JSP/Servlets, ASP, SOAP, Web Services, Windows, Unix/Linux.
Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) experience including use of EAI tools from BEA Software, IBM, SeeBeyond, Microsoft or similar.
Should have the gravitas and expertise to be taken seriously as a trusted advisor by senior architects and delivery managers.
Outstanding interpersonal, communication and presentations skills.
Proven business analysis and problem solving skills
Project management skills are desirable with knowledge of one or more formal methodologies such as PRINCE2.
Salary £55k-70k depending on experience plus car allowance
Sales Executive Business Services, Thames Valley
A great opportunity for a dynamic and ambitious sales executive, business development person to work as part of a highly motivated, team-orientated business who offer plenty of support and back up with great rewards for concerted effort. The role is to sell highly sought after business services to all types of companies
Our client is a well established and highly successful business to business express courier, freight, and mail and logistics company. They have been supporting UK and international businesses for over 17 years and employ over 160 staff with offices at near Heathrow, Birmingham and Bristol. They seek an experienced sales executive to work cover the Thames Valley area. The role will be to sell their portfolio of services to all types of business such as publishing, software companies, high-tech companies, exhibition organizers, law firms, accountants, record companies, distribution and direct mailing houses, hotel groups, automotive companies and the pharmaceutical sector - in fact, EVERY sector of international business from the smallest firms to the largest. They ship tens of thousands of packages weekly from documents to pallet loads.
To support your daily activity there is a team of professional telesales executives, who help identify new leads, fully qualify the potential of the customer and make appointments for you. The role will suit "a hunter" with good, professional closing skills who has been selling services to business customers or from courier, logistics, facilities management or mail fulfilment and are used to selling to all levels of personnel from mailroom managers, directors, accountants and facilities managers.
The company have an excellent reputation for developing and supporting their staff and have very low staff turnover as a consequence. They can also offer good career prospects. In addition to offering an above average industry salary package, they offer special incentives, and company car. On target earnings are uncapped and should offer c£40k per annum
Sales Support
Sales Support Administrator Ref: St Albans, Stoke, Birmingham, Forest Hill SE21
This is an excellent role for a well organised administrator with a flair for good customer service, account management and some sales telesales ability. The company get a lot of good quality incoming sales enquiries. It will be your role to answer the telephone to customers and provide product and services information, arrange for literature to be sent out and follow through on this to answer any other questions the customer may have. After the business manager has met with the client you will help prepare quotes using quotation software, raise contracts which includes credit reference checking details, invoicing details and installation dates. You will also help project manage the installation of the products and services making sure that all installations are completed on time and to the customers' satisfaction. To resolve any problems you will have to liaise with the line manager and installation teams. There will be out going telephone sales calls required from time to time. The job is based in Forest Hill London SE23 and applicants should live close to the offices.
The company are a well established and expanding hire product and services company based throughout the UK and Europe. The company have an excellent reputation for providing additional temporary work spaces for offices, public services and hospitality events. This encompasses basic storage and work space requirements right through to luxury environments.
Suitable candidates should have a least a year’s experience in administration and enjoy dealing with customers on a daily basis. The company are renowned for offering quality training in all aspects of the job and on their software system. They offer good career prospects for those wishing to progress.
In addition to a generous salary the company offer 23 days holiday, pension scheme and other benefits
Internal Sales Executive Ref:0098 York
Our client is a small highly successful organisation who has carved an enviable niche in introducing business partners to each other to build stronger business and by providing business solutions to enable companies to marketing and promote their products and services more effectively.
The role will be 80% outbound calls to an existing database to enlighten them about new products and services and to build good quality business relationships. You will be talking to all levels of people from general marketing through to CEO.
To be successful in this role you will need an excellent telephone manner with enthusiasm and the tenacity to make a difference. If is preferable that candidates should have previous sales experience but the company are willing to train people that can demonstrate a natural flair for sales.
The company offer a realistic OTE which is uncapped with other many other benefits and good career prospects as a growing company.
Telesales Executive, Slough
Our client is a highly successful, expanding International Air Courier and mail company, based near Slough. They work on behalf of all types of companies, small and large, collecting urgent parcels and packages to be delivered world-wide. The company currently wish to expand their team of telesales professionals. Suitable candidates should enjoy using their own initiative and be comfortable working in a proactive sales environment. As a key member of the sales team you will work in tandem with a Field Sales Consultant, making and managing their qualified appointments. It is anticipated that you should make 5 to 8 appointments per day as well as building quality relationships with new and existing clients. There is also an element of sales administration to support the sales teams' activities. The company's aim is to put together the highest quality telephone sales team and to do this they need career orientated people that are dynamic, highly competitive by nature and results driven. Additionally suitable candidates should have a clear and concise telephone manner and the ability to build a rapport with clients and colleagues alike. While experience in telesales if preferable, the company are willing to offer full training for candidates that meet their criteria and also offer ongoing quality training. They offer a highly competitive salary of up to £22k plus commission, good career prospects and many other benefits
Project Management
Project Manager Facilities East Midlands, West Midlands, North East, North West, Hertfordshire, North London Ref: 0128
The role is to work for a well established and expanding hire product and services company based throughout the UK and Europe. The company have an excellent reputation for providing additional temporary work spaces and internal facilities for all types of businesses including offices, public services, hospitals, exhibitions, sports and hospitality events. Quality solutions are provided to meet the clients' individual needs and range from basic to luxury environments.
As project manager you will be responsible for co-ordinating small short term projects through to large long term projects from start to finish. This will involve visiting the sites where the facilities will be placed, assisting in the site survey to ensure the location is suitable, organising the company's electricians, plumbers, designers, carpenters and other specialist installers and instructing them on the customers requirements and deadlines that need to be meet. You will also liaise with the client on a regular basis to ensure as the customer they are totally satisfied and tell them about the large portfolio of solutions the company can offer, alerting them to potential changes that them need to be made and updating on the progress of the project. All details of the project need to be put onto the SAP system.
To be successful in this role you should be a good organiser and problem solver, computer literate, be used to multi-tasking and have good diplomacy and communication skills to ensure that everyone is kept happy and informed. The role requires regular travel which will require candidates to have a clean driving licence.
This is an excellent varied role offering good career prospects and working for company renown for excellent training. On top of a competitive salary of £25-27k you can earn up to 30% of your salary in bonuses paid for successful completion of projects with set time frames plus car allowance.
Beauty and Dentistry Practice Manager Ref: 0127
The role is to work for a high quality, prestigious dental and skin care centre based near to Golders Green. Your responsibilities with be to provide an efficient and effective administrative support service that will ensure the smooth and profitable running of the centre, good customer service and working closely with the business owner to develop strategy and new ideas to keep the business successful and growing. Daily duties will involve all banking and financial arrangements in the Practice to include posting of invoices onto the computer system, account reconciliations, credit control and monitoring of the cashflow. Other duties will include organising the maintenance and facilities of the centre, time and absence records, stock control and ordering of supplies, financial control of capital purchases and the inventory, monthly control of the business plan and Health and Safety. On the client side of the business you will make appointment, reminding customers when needed and provide the consultants with patient records for each appointment. Acting as the first point of contact by telephone and face to face you will deal with incoming enquiries, make appointments and general retain a good working relationship with the customers and professional consultants, Suitable candidates should have a combination of customer service and accounting skills, enjoy dealing with people with the ability to multi-task and manage time efficiently. This role would suit an experience practice manager, PA, Secretary or accounts administrator seeking a new type of challenge . Some accountancy experience is essential