Additional Resource - All Vacancies

Sales Specialist - Laboratory Division

Wed, 28 Jul 2010 12:22:15 GMT

An opportunity has become available in a Field Sales role for a Product Specialist within the Laboratory Division of a Laboratory Instruments manufacturer.

Covering the North East/Central East areas of the UK cutting south to Leicestershire and across the North Eastern territory, you will take responsibility for selling a range of products within the Laboratory instrument portfolio.

Your role will be to manage all sales activities for Laboratory products in your area actively developing new and driving sales through existing accounts. Working as part of a UK Sales team, you should be technically minded to develop customer applications through demonstration, installation support and ongoing field based support for the full product range. You will ideally be based within easy access of the M1 and/or A1.

The ideal candidate will have a science degree in Chemistry or closely related subject and should have experience in sales of laboratory capital products to key markets chemical, pharmaceutical and food areas. You will be a self starter with personal qualities to work well within a team environment, be fully conversant with Microsoft office and possess excellent communication skills.

Marketing Administrator

Tue, 27 Jul 2010 16:06:42 GMT

A very busy marketing campaign team based in Leicester city need a great right hand person to support them in a whole host of administration tasks.

From routine admin support to checking proofs on artwork, arranging meetings, progress chasing on projects and generally proving yourself invaluable, your passion for marketing and your efficiency in project co-ordination and administration will be valued!

This is initially a 3 month fixed contract, is available for an immediate start and would suit someone who has either worked in a marketing team before or who has marketing qualifications and administration experience and is keen to use them both.

Digital Marketing Manager

Tue, 27 Jul 2010 12:05:41 GMT

We are looking for an experienced Digital Marketing Manager with strength in planning and executing on-line marketing strategy and a background of working with global brands.

You will need extensive expertise in marketing on-line including website, e-commerce and new media and will enjoy leading a small team managing very diverse projects.

There is a permanent opportunity potentially available following a restructure and re-positioning of this role within this impressive group of companies.

Branch Sales and Operations Manager

Mon, 26 Jul 2010 17:27:33 GMT

An opportunity has become available for an experienced, switched on and commercially focused Sales Operations Manager with a background of managing a team in a Customer focused sales and operations team ideally from a Branch or Trade Counter environment. Your focus will be across all areas of the branch from internal sales and all associated aspects of customer service to stock management and deliveries. With p&l responsibility for your branch, your total head-count is around 10 people in all disciplines in the branch.

Strong commercial skills are essential with a focus on daily financial management and budget control whilst focusing the team to deliver sales and a first class service. Defining clear business strategies, ensuring accurate and cost effective stock holding and mentoring and training your team will have already been demonstrated in the success of your career to date.

Account Manager - Retail POS Design Solutions

Thu, 22 Jul 2010 14:28:34 GMT

Business Development skills gained in Marketing and Retail POS Design with a passion for Graphic Design and Branding is a good foundation to apply for this opportunity as an Account Manager.

This Account Management role has commercial accountability for 2 UK retail accounts and is all about managing the relationship currently in existence to supply bespoke Point of Sale units. Regular meetings with your client to understand goals and needs seasonally and for one off specials means you will take a range of concepts through the design and costings stage to prototype and final sign off for production.

Client facing to ensure clarity of brief and continuation of the business relationship needs to be complimented by internal relationships with design, development, procurement and a million and one other stake holders!

Understanding the need, translating this into the right creative solution to budget and securing on-going orders is what this contract needs.

Senior Account Manager - Retail Merchandise

Sun, 18 Jul 2010 16:08:40 GMT

This opportunity working for a supplier of fashion goods sold to high street retailers, needs an organised, efficient and effective Account Manager with first class Project Management skills.

You will be the lynch pin between the buyers for the likes of River Island, Debenhams and Next and the suppliers in the Far East, India and Brazil. Your talent will lie in taking control of and managing orders from approval stage through to specification changes, final sign off and agreeing shipment and delivery dates. Equally you will project manage the delivery of repeat orders and will need to be comfortable in looking at sales and buying patterns when talking to your retail customers.

Your day can be reactive, hectic and always with time restraints as you juggle a million and one balls to ensure all orders, adhoc projects and enquiries are Account Managed. Your communication skills and ability to pick up a phone and build relationships with cross functional decision makers in the supply chain will need to be top quality.

In a nutshell, if you are organised, love taking control and positively making things happen, thrive on talking to a diversity of people, tight administratively and last but not least, fun loving and fashion conscious, you will love this!!!

Senior Merchandise Demand Planner - Fashion Retail

Sat, 17 Jul 2010 17:22:08 GMT

This role is a perfect step up for an experienced retail merchandiser, talented at maximising sales by ensuring correct stock availability to deliver sales and profit objectives.

Effective analysis of sales patterns and a commercial awareness of likely future needs will see you leading stock buying decisions whilst keeping tight control of budgets.

Working closely with all commercial teams to include marketing and visual merchandising, your skill in forecasting, and meeting supply chain demand across multiple channels, is your strength.

With a small team reporting to you, leadership skills are key as you inspire confidence and grow the skills of 2 reports.

If you are frustrated in being held back in your current role as a Retail Merchandiser and your Demand Planning and Supply Chain expertise is 2^nd to none, this hugely impressive fashion retailer could offer the solution!

Buyer - Engineering

Sat, 17 Jul 2010 16:46:44 GMT

This privately owned bespoke design and manufacture engineering company are looking to find an experienced buyer with a background in procurement in a manufacturing environment. The need has arisen due to on-going growth and now with a team of close to 70 people working in a high tech, high demand engineering environment with new projects coming in, the work load of the Purchasing Manager is just a bit too much!!

Managing supplier relationships, and specifically focused on buying and expediting established production parts, you will need to enjoy taking ownership of your own area of responsibility and be comfortable making commercial decisions on behalf of the business.

Analysing and planning the supply chain and inventory requirements through on-going communication with production planning and taking an active part in future new product development strategies, does need a commercially switched on buyer who thrives in a smaller company where you are recognised for adding value.

Sales Engineer Process Analytics

Sat, 17 Jul 2010 16:16:20 GMT

An impressive sales professional with experience in selling complex technical products into the process areas of Pharmaceutical, Chemical and Food and Beverage industries could join a global manufacturer with a strong worldwide leadership position.

This field sales role specialises in managing the sale of Process Analytical measurement solutions for manufacturing processes and has a 50/50% mix of managing existing accounts and new business focus.

Your area will be the North East region up to and including Scotland. Managing your time, focusing your activities and working closely with your colleagues in other regions to ensure you fully understand and maximise on the potential in your area goes without saying

Sales Engineer Process Analytics

Sat, 17 Jul 2010 16:07:58 GMT

Your area will be the North West region from the West Midlands up to the North West Scottish borders. Managing your time, focusing your activities and working closely with your colleagues in other regions to ensure you fully understand and maximise on the potential in your area goes without saying.

International Trade Marketing Co-ordinator

Mon, 12 Jul 2010 16:28:26 GMT

This is a great job for a Trade Marketing professional who loves retail, fashion and multi-channel brand marketing activities.

Working alongside the Trade Marketing Manager you will be involved from strategic planning to full execution of all marketing activities for International trade sales channels.

Developing brand power and driving brand presence through keeping abreast of trends and working closely with designers to ensure all support for trade channels is appropriate, the latest, the most effective and impressive - all of course to budget!!

You will need to make yourself available to visit fashion trade shows both in the UK and Internationally alongside the 'day job' of handling all and everything coming your way as you project manage on-going and new season launches!!

This job is a beauty!

Sales Engineer

Mon, 12 Jul 2010 16:10:24 GMT

An additional person is being added to the sales support team of an impressive global engineering company.

They are looking to appoint the right calibre individual who would work partly from offices in Leicester and in the future, partly in the field. You will provide strategic support and assistance to the European Sales team across all activities linked to developing business across the regions. With specific responsibility for key account relationships and defined customer activities, you are likely to have previously managed business relationships in a sales team and will be familiar with the tasks associated in managing key business opportunities.

Ideally educated to degree level within a business discipline and with the ability to transfer your current skills and experience into a challenging commercially rounded role, this opportunity could see you progressing into a European customer facing Sales Engineer.

HR Officer

Mon, 12 Jul 2010 15:53:54 GMT

An experienced HR Officer looking for the next step up, working in a small and very busy HR team supporting an HR Director, has the opportunity to work at the UK Head Office of a multi-billion $ global organisation who employ around 250 people in the UK.

Your role will cover generic HR support to line management but will additionally expose you to working on projects specific to HR strategy and implementation of policies. Additionally a knowledge of payroll procedures would be useful to support a colleague as needed who specifically manages payroll.

It is likely you will be IPD qualified or certainly well on the way with your studies. If you are experienced working in Human Resources and are keen to stretch your abilities as a Personnel Officer, this role could match your goals.

Business Development Director

Mon, 12 Jul 2010 15:02:39 GMT

This opportunity does not manage people but does manage the generation of major contracts in the retail industry associated with the maintenance of equipment across each retail estates.

You will be securing contracts for service and maintenance and will need to have a good understanding of selling into the property/estates management side of multiple retailers and a firm appreciation of where to go looking for business.

Your customers could vary from Tesco to Phones4U on the high street to Santander and Nat West bank through to Wetherspoons and McDonalds - in fact any location where the consumer shops and the buildings facilities are maintained.

Your experience could be in selling signage, refrigeration aftermarket, fire and security alarms, air conditioning, storage and racking and more.

This role reports to the board and takes ownership of the Business Development activities within the UK.

Business Development Sales Manager - POP

Tue, 06 Jul 2010 11:37:35 GMT

An ambitious and talented Business Development Sales professional from within POP Retail Design has the opportunity to join a business that is hugely talented and making a big impression quickly in the UK markets.

This innovative privately owned global Retail Display manufacturer moved key personnel into the UK 2 years ago. They have subsequently secured impressive work as a subcontract manufacturer to Retail Design houses and their portfolio of trade accounts sit with some of the most impressive POP suppliers in the UK. Additionally they have secured major contracts for direct development of POP into Unilever, Toyota, Games Workshop and more.

They are now looking to appoint an experienced POP Sales professional who has the ability to oversee one other person in sales and to take ownership of the sales function within the business reporting to the General Manager.

If you have the talent to forge your career with a company where you will become a significant player in their UK operations, reaping the rewards, this opportunity spearheading their Sales and Marketing has got to be appealing.

Customer Service Manager

Tue, 29 Jun 2010 15:32:21 GMT

Customer Service Manager - International Retail Trade Contact Centre

This is a really interesting role for a pro-active Customer Service Manager with a good 5 years plus experience of managing a customer service team that has a wide range of responsibilities.

Your team, although not huge, is busy. They manage orders and enquiries from distributors, sales agents and direct overseas retail accounts on a daily basis. Their job is to process orders, check stock availability, up sell and cross sell appropriate lines, check pricing and organise shipment of goods overseas.

You equally will need to have experience of managing a cross functional team, have active involvement in business planning, experience of forecasting sales and planning stock holding and carrying out sales and stock management analysis.

Recruiting, motivating, training and developing your team as needed to ensure a first class service across all areas of International Customer Service will be an integral part of your role. Developing and implementing Customer Service policies and practices that achieve state of the art delivery of best in practice, will be your challenge.

Senior Brand Manager

Tue, 29 Jun 2010 14:25:02 GMT

A Brand Manager with a solid background in Category Development is being sought to cover a 12 month contract in a Brand Management team of a major manufacturer within the FMCG markets.

You will inherit work around managing Brand portfolio to continue to drive profitable sales through retail and wholesale channels to include brand planning and execution alongside extension of existing and potentially new and exciting new brand development.

Brand promotional activity, pricing policies and overall strategy is an inherit part of your responsibility and you will need to have developed brand and category management skills previously in a competitive retail environment. Appreciation of the full marketing and media mix to include TV, Press, Outdoor, Radio and Trade Marketing is a must have.

This is a rounded, hugely interesting 12 month contract that could lead to more permanent employment.

Web Designer

Tue, 29 Jun 2010 13:49:41 GMT

Great role as a Web Designer for an impressive global business who can take responsibility for working as part of a Web Development team with responsibility for designing and building online marketing campaigns.

Looking at site functionality, new and innovative media ideas for online campaigns and developing emedia programmes, this Web Design role is truly Sales and Marketing focused.

The ability to write search-engine friendly HTML pages, familiarity with Photoshop and a strong understanding of Search Engine Optimisation, this Web Designer role is a good one!

Senior Buyer - Engineering

Tue, 29 Jun 2010 13:33:58 GMT

An experienced buyer with a track record of successful procurement within a technical engineering environment is needed to work as the most senior buyer in a team of 3. You will set procurement strategy, manage supplier performance and pro-actively influence and improve buying performance within this impressive engineering group.

Ecommerce Co-ordinator

Tue, 29 Jun 2010 13:14:12 GMT

We are looking for a Marketing Ecommerce specialist with a passion for the web who is available for an initial 6 month contract with a strong possibility of a permanent role after this period.

Working on a transactional website your skill will be in assisting in all aspects of content management. From updating content on a daily basis to active involvement in site developments and creative alongside regular reporting and analysis in all areas of web effectiveness, you will not get bored in this job. Additionally, senior management will look to you for researching innovations and possible improvements to the sites alongside keeping abreast of competitor activities to include emarketing.

You do not need to be a web technical wiz kid as you will be working alongside these guys. You do need to understand the key principles of Ecommerce web sites, have worked on transactional sites that involve customer journey's and can demonstrate how you can add value with your skills and ideas on ensuring these sites stay one step ahead of their competition.

Field Service and Calibration Engineer

Sun, 27 Jun 2010 21:35:45 GMT

An Electronics Engineer with experience in customer facing field service is needed to join this global specialist in electronic instruments.

Your role will be to provide field service and calibration to customers mainly in the UK from the Midlands up to Scotland and across to Ireland. You may occasionally be asked to assist colleagues globally but this would be a bonus rather than the norm!

Reporting to a Service Manager, your job will be varied covering the usual repair and troubleshooting to field calibration and testing, installation and training on application software and general enquiry support and advice. Involvement in UK exhibitions may also be part of a working year.

The role of a Field Service Engineer in this business is one that plays a key role in managing aftersales relationships and is seen as needing someone who is not just technically competent, but who equally enjoys extensive customer contact.

Business Development Manager - Technology Division

Sun, 27 Jun 2010 20:15:26 GMT

An experienced Sales professional, ideally with a strong appreciation of technology markets such as electronics, engineering, IT/business computing or the like, is needed to develop business opportunities across both private and public sector customers.

This is a superb opportunity where you will work as part of a specialist team of Business Development Managers representing an extremely prestigious organisation based in Leicester. Our client sells amongst other services, business support, consultancy, insight and intelligence and publications to a very broad base of customers across diverse industries.

The Business Development Manager who joins them will undoubtedly have a rounded commercial career in sales and marketing with a track record of 'conceptual selling and an astute strategic approach to Business Development. This opportunity allows you to take ownership of your focused area, reporting in at Director level. You will be instrumental in influencing the future development of service and product offering and using the leverage of impressive credentials, drive focus and activities to build on the solid foundations already in place.

In exchange for your talents, our client offers an attractive package and the opportunity to work in a high profile role both locally and across the UK.

Senior Market Research Executive

Fri, 11 Jun 2010 06:10:21 GMT

An experienced Market Researcher is needed to cover a maternity leave to support projects linked to B2B customer insight.

You will work on both qualitative and quantitative either directly or through the management of external 3^rd party research agencies. Equally a hands on approach in one to one or focus groups for primary research will fall under your remit.

A solid appreciation of primary research and a good understanding of secondary research and competitor insight is needed here as are skills in SPSS and Excel.

Confident in presenting findings through presentations to key decision makers will ensure, your work and recommendations are taken seriously!

Customer Service and Sales Co-ordinator

Thu, 10 Jun 2010 13:54:33 GMT

A sales focused Customer Service Sales Co-ordinator who has experience of managing customer orders and who is comfortable in pro-actively chasing for additional sales, will enjoy this hugely varied and responsible role.

Supporting a national field sales team who sell a vast range of products into retail, you will be the person the sales team rely on to support them as an internal sales co-ordinator, responsible for you own customer base and pro-active in selling any overstocked products to clear slower moving lines alongside promoting any sale or special offer product ranges.

Lots of agreeing campaigns and customers to contact all of whom would be existing customers so a 'soft sell' as opposed to cold calling. You will also attend meetings with your customers and work with the marketing teams to ensure best service and maximum sales are achieved.

The role gives you ownership of the orders secured taking it from an interest, an order and final delivery.

This is a truly rounded Sales and Sales Support Customer Service role for a pro-active customer focused person who would love to represent a big consumer brand!

Senior Product Applications Support Engineer

Tue, 08 Jun 2010 10:51:06 GMT

The opportunity available in Technical Support is one that will see you supporting key strategic customers across Europe with everything from Product Application to new product development and product modifications.

The role supports the sales and marketing function and is one that needs both good technical knowledge of Electrical Engineered and Power Electronics products used in industrial application plus strong commercial, customer facing skills.

From answering technical queries, to providing solutions and delivering training and product familiarisation, your work will be multi-faceted as you add value to Sales and Marketing function through your abilities in Technical Applications Support.