LOGISTICS MANAGER - SEA FREIGHT & AIR FREIGHT - INDIAN SUB CONTINENT/MIDDLE EAST NORTH AFRICA ORIGIN AND DESTINATION

"A challenging opportunity for an experienced Logistics Manager, moving engineering materials and machinery around the Indian Sub-continent and MENA".

£50-60000 (Dependent on Experience) Excellent Benefits including Private Healthcare

North West London

Do you crave variety in your job? Are you finding yourself doing the same routine tasks and wishing your logistics management skills were being challenged?

How would you like to be a part of a $10bn company that moves everything from pallets of sugar to large, out-of-gauge machinery around the APAC, EMEA, and Indian sub-continent?

Our client is a UK-based division of that sizeable multi-national company. It needs someone with your logistics management experience to organise the freight of their broad portfolio of products via sea (80%) and air (20%). Our client's extensive portfolio of products includes steel materials, chemicals, oils, and large machinery.

Working from their North-West London facility, you'll draw on your in-depth knowledge of freight routes around the Indian sub-continent, particularly the Red Sea and MENA ports, to plan the most efficient routes for moving the products. To that end, your contacts with major shipping lines in the Far East, Asia, Middle East, and NW Europe routes will be invaluable to help you succeed in this role.

Around 60% of our business is with internal group companies and 40% with external customers, so you'll be able to test your communications skills, liaising between those internal and external customers, shipping lines, port agents, and freight forwarders. With many of our products being for the engineering and manufacturing sector, you'll be required to liaise with internal engineering teams to understand the exact nature of the bespoke plant and equipment you'll need to move.

You'll also have the opportunity to flex your commercial muscles in creating the most cost-effective shipping routes for all our customers.

Our client envisages you will be of graduate calibre and will have significant experience with moving OOG equipment, flat rack, heavy lifts, and breakbulk cargo, as well as containerised cargo. In addition, you'll understand the various countries' customs systems and documentation and have experience with claims management processes. Experience with SAP would be ideal but not essential.

As you can imagine, there's a much larger discussion to be had on the details of this role. So please indicate your interest by emailing your CV quoting reference 883706

DISTRIBUTION CENTRE OPERATIONS MANAGER - FMCG RETAIL & EFULFILMENT

"Amazing career development opportunity for experienced FMCG Retail/ERetail Warehouse Operations Professional to join High Street Retailing Brand in high profile leadership role."

C£48000 (Dependent On Experience) Excellent Blue Chip Benefits

Bedfordshire

Commutable from Luton, Bedford, Leighton Buzzard, Dunstable, Milton Keynes, Hitchin, Ampthill, Harpenden, Letchworth, Hemel Hempstead, Houghton Regis, Harpenden, St Albans

Our client is a well-known High-Street Retailer, part of a multinational group. It is consistently recognised as an Employer of Choice and a Top-rated UK Workplace.

This is an amazing career development opportunity to join this multinational group and to take the lead as Distribution Centre Operations Manager for warehousing operations for one of its rapidly expanding High Street and online Retail brands.

Reporting to the Head of Logistics, as Distribution Centre Operations Manager, you will strengthen operations, projects, change management and continuous improvement capabilities. The site is an extremely fast-moving environment, especially as the operation heads to the peak trading period and you will work closely with Transport colleagues as they plan store and online retail/efulfilment deliveries via carriers, working to stringent customer service and operational KPI's.

The Role:

* Your leadership and planning skills will ensure that you are able to coach and develop your distribution centre/warehouse operations team to deliver results - ensuring all stock is managed and moved efficiently.

* You will lead a large team by setting direction, monitoring, and motivating individuals to exceed objectives whilst ensuring that security, inventory management and safety standards are maintained.

* We are looking for strategic individuals who can drive continuous improvement in productivity, operating costs, and customer satisfaction.

* The ideal candidates will be experienced leaders and people managers with the ability to motivate and drive performance.

* You will also possess extensive knowledge of retail logistics and warehousing operations, online retail and efulfilment, transport and distribution.

* The primary objective of this is to ensure accurate order assembly and despatch to retail stores and to online retail customers in a timely, cost effective and efficient manner.

* The operation is very seasonal but also with lots of promotions and new product launches and you will be adept at building excellent relationships across the supply chain and commercial teams promoting "retail excellence".

* It is essential that you also have some collaborative planning exposure with the ability to work cross functionally across this retail business.

* So, the key emphasis of this role will be to surpass internal and external customer expectations, people development and leadership and proactive continuous improvement of safety, quality and operational productivity and performance.

* Accuracy of stock holding, excellent cost control and budgetary management will be critical to success so you must already be very familiar with compiling and managing budgets and forecasts.

The Ideal Candidate:

* To succeed in this role, you will be of graduate calibre with previous experience of managing a distribution centre/warehouse operations team including significant experience of managing first line managers/supervisors/team leaders, within a FMCG retail warehousing and distribution sector. This could be in house or within a third-party contract logistics company.

* This must include proven people management skills including team development, maximising performance, improving motivation and productivity.

* Proven experience of forecasting and capacity planning in line with budgetary constraints and within a highly seasonal and promotions led environment.

* You will be mature, credible, and comfortable interacting with senior internal and external contacts. Excellent analytical skills, able to resolve complex problems through the identification of long-term solutions covering IT/process change.

* An influential change agent with the capability to facilitate and drive continuous improvement projects cross functionally.

To apply without delay, please send your CV, quoting reference LX 852738

Project/Programme Manager - Precision Engineering & Tooling

"Great opportunity for high performing Project/Programme Manager to take the lead on complex tooling design and development contract for global oil service exploration multinational."

C£55000 Bonus Excellent Benefits

Surrey

Our client is long-established company with a world leading reputation for precision subcontract machining in sectors as diverse as oil and gas / nuclear / automotive / semiconductor and subsea telecommunications. They have a world leading reputation for the design, development and build of deep hole drilling machines, cutting tools and as a provider of precision subcontract machining. As part of their continued growth, they have an exceptional opportunity for a high-performing Engineering Project/Programme Manager.

Working within the company's Subcontract division, as Project/Programme Manager, the successful candidate will be working within a dynamic engineering team taking the lead in managing projects/programmes for the development and manufacturing of very complex oil exploration tools for one of the world's largest oil service companies.

This is an outstanding opportunity to become part of a growing division with opportunity for personal growth and responsibility, ultimately becoming the key account holder for over half of our client's subcontract division's output.

This role will require occasional travel to customer sites in North America and Europe to further build and nurture relationships.

This is an excellent opportunity for an Engineering professional who can multitask and lead multiple programmes to launch high quality precision engineered drilling and tooling solutions for the oil service from concept and design through to order fulfilment, continually building upon our client's industry standard leading reputation It has well established programme management, new product design and development, product testing and advanced engineering and R & D. Everything is custom manufactured to its customers' product specifications.

The Role:

* As Project/ Programme Manager you will assume full account management ownership for a major oil service exploration sector customer.

* You will take the lead in decisions of design and manufacture, creating processes, production paperwork, spreadsheets and CAD drawings ensuring that manufacturing processes are safe, lean and efficient.

* You will also get involved in 2d and 3d design of fixturing and tooling as well as creating Bills of Materials and working with MRPs.

* Furthermore, you will be responsible for ordering materials to the correct specification and liaising with shipping facilitators ensure that orders are expedited and correctly certificated before shipping.

* You will also be responsible for planning, product realisation, cross functional influencing both internally and externally, transition into production and budget management, as well as key account relationship management and growth, and cost management.

* You will manage several key projects, focusing a high performing, multi-disciplinary programme management teams of partners and engineering colleagues from across the organisation, to launch new products, improving performance, and achieving total customer satisfaction.

* The successful Project/Programme Manager will be able to "see the wood for the trees", multitask, prioritise resources and work closely with program team members to ensure that project goals are met, assisting with decision making, advising on process improvement and adjustment, whilst mitigating project issues that could impact the end goal.

The Ideal Candidate:

· Strong analytical, problem solving, project management, customer service, written and verbal communication skills together with a focus on quality, will be critical to success.

· A Bachelor's degree in Engineering plus at least 5 years programme leadership experience including recent experience of managing project engineers and cross functional programme colleagues.

· Capability to manage multiple projects within budgetary and time constraints.

· Proven success in coaching and developing high performing project/program teams.

· Experience gained within precision engineered tooling sector - experience of drilling, boring, cutting or similar metal/CNC machined tooling would be highly advantageous.

· Advanced project management skills such as APQP or similar principles, methodologies and techniques will be essential.

· Experience working in a TS16949 / ISO9001 / ISO14001 environment advantageous

Knowledge of SolidWorks, FEA and Process Engineering.

· Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to successfully partner with cross functional colleagues and clients internally and externally.

A strategic thinker with excellent planning and results delivery.

· Excellent organizational and multitasking skills.

· Positive can-do attitude.

· Attention to detail and disciplined.

· Ability to work under strict deadlines.

· Excellent communication skills.

In return our client offers a competitive salary package plus bonus and benefits.

PROJECT ENGINEER - (EPC) ENGINEERING & PROJECTS - HIGH HAZARD/HIGH INTEGRITY ENVIRONMENT

C£40-50000/€47-58500 (DOE) Bonus Excellent Benefits

North West UK or Netherlands or North West Germany

Our client is a global player with the high hazard and high integrity energy and power generation sector. Its portfolio of projects ranges from £50 million to in excess of £500 million. Its Engineering and Projects division supports Group project services across sites in the UK and mainland Europe.

The Role:

The Project Engineer (EPC) will ensure that project requirements are completed accurately, on time, within budget and to the required quality standard, whilst building and maintaining strong client and stakeholder relationships. As Project Engineer your remit will span supplier selection and evaluation, to direct delivery of engineering/design scope for selected projects from conception to completion.

Therefore, this role will be ideal for a Project Engineer with a solid generalist understanding of a wide range of engineering disciplines, enabling the role to deliver integrated design solutions and to oversee engineering at project level with varying degrees of complexity.

The role would report to a Project Engineering Manager, and you would be responsible for indirect management of contractors at multiple locations and for budgetary responsibility for engineering contracts up to c€5 million.

The role of Project Engineer (EPC) has multiple stakeholders, internal and external customers, interfacing across the whole group and this on occasion may require travel to mainland Europe to assist with projects.

As Project Engineer you may be assigned to one project or several packages of work that form part of a large project of strategic importance.

The Ideal Candidate:

* University degree (or equivalent) in Engineering, Project Management, Construction or similar.

* At least three years' experience in a fully accountable technical project engineering role within EPC projects.

* Full design project lifecycle project engineering experience from concept development, initiation through to closeout/handover.

* Skilled in implementing engineering/design strategy against project objectives with minimal supervision.

* Proven leadership experience and the ability to work with minimum supervision.

* Demonstrable experience in developing and implementing cost predictability aligning multicultural team members around clear common goals to successfully achieve project objectives ranging from oversight to management by influencing to deliver.

* Demonstrable project engineering experience supporting complex, multi contract, multi discipline EPC project(s).

* Experience of successfully managing contractual relationships with suppliers including provision of free issue materials, technology, or IP.

* Proven track record of contract delivery protecting our client's contractual position whilst preventing the likelihood of claims.

* Strong competence and capability working with teams of high performing professionals accountable for the delivery of projects.

* Additional professional qualifications such as CEng or EUR ING. CDM Principal Designer Representative experience very useful.

* A project management qualification such as APM or PMI or Chartered Project Professional (ChPP) would be highly advantageous.

* Awareness of contracting methodologies such as NEC3, NEC4 etc

* On site construction experience.

Please note that this role is subject to security clearance so if you have security clearance for the UK, Netherlands or Germany please state this clearly on your application.

GRADUATE TRAINEE SALES ROLES - JUNIOR COMMERCIAL FINANCE BROKERS

"Kick-start your career with one of the UK's leading asset finance companies and develop your skills and experience through their structured training programme."

Salary £25000 Benefits (OTE £60-80000 on completion of graduate training scheme)

Northamptonshire, East Midlands, UK

Are you a recent graduate in a business studies or humanities discipline? Having graduated with a minimum 2:1 classification, you may have fallen into your current role and are enjoying the world of work.

But is it fulfilling? Can you see a clear route through to a senior level in your current business? Is your current company supporting your career development with a highly structured training programme?

That's what you'll receive from our client in one of their graduate trainee positions. You'll work alongside the Commercial Director and Sales Director, who will mentor you through your initial 12-16-week training programme.

During that time, you'll learn about commercial asset finance, the financial products our client offers, how to nurture sales opportunities from a lead through to a closed deal, then manage that client account for the long-term.

As such, your training will focus heavily on warm-calling existing previous or current clients to develop your confidence and ability in creating sales. However, this isn't a telesales type of role where you have a product to push onto a prospective customer. Instead, it's a consultative sale where you have to understand how the prospect's business operates then select the most appropriate financial solutions.

Having developed that initial enquiry, you'll then pass ownership of the deal to an account manager but work closely with them to learn the process of completing the sale.

Our client's ambition for you is to complete your training then start creating and managing your own deals where you will then earn a generous commission on top of your base salary.

Given the nature of the role, you'll need outstanding verbal and written communication skills along with a desire to work in a sales-based role and the ambition to succeed. You'll also need a UK driving licence as there will be occasional travel to clients' premises.

So, if you're looking to step up to the next level in your career, send your CV quoting reference LX 876683

HUMAN RESOURCES BUSINESS PARTNER - PART TIME UPTO 30 HOURS PER WEEK
"HR Generalist required to join manufacturing site for multinational on a permanent part time basis."

€60000 (Pro Rata) Benefits
Location: Ile-de-France, Paris, France

Our client is an international company part of a plc. It manufactures, sells, and distributes a range of industrial, commercial, and residential engineered products and solutions.

As part of a major transformation programme following the acquisition of several companies, our client has appointed a new EMEA HR Director, who wishes to appoint a part time HR Business Partner to join its French manufacturing business unit. This is a newly created position.
As Human Resources Business Partner you will work up to 30 hours per week on a part time basis - the days and times of work can be agreed between you and the HR Director and the Site Manufacturing Manager to meet the needs of the business.
This is a multi-faceted role, and you will support site manufacturing and engineering leadership and their teams in relation to a range of employee engagement, employee development and employee relations initiatives within a unionised manufacturing engineering environment.

The Role:
* This role will partner with and be embedded as the site HRBP for the French manufacturing and engineering business.
* You will be on the front line working closely with Site Leadership, Managers and Employees for people-related issues.
* You will provide hands-on support and advice to solving employee relations, coaching/development, performance management, compensation, conflict management, organizational development, training and more.
* Develop and deliver internal communications including company-wide town halls, and company-wide monthly/quarterly updates.
* Collaborate with the EMEA HR Director and the EMEA HR team to champion and accelerate a culture of excellence in which people feel engaged and inspired to deliver top business results while being a "Great Place to Work".
* Support employee and community engagement-
* Promote and foster a healthy work environment to implement appropriate employee engagement programs.

The Ideal Candidate:
* 5-7 years of experience as a HRBP/HR Generalist
* The ideal candidate will have consistent HR experience demonstrating increasing responsibility and a desire to elevate your career within HR.
* This position requires strong communication skills, attention to detail, and the ability to prioritize multiple competing tasks with exceptional organizational, follow through, and people skills.
* Knowledge and hands on experience of current employment law and employee relations within France ideally gained within a manufacturing/engineering business.
* A proven history of sound judgment and experience with sensitive HR employee/manager related situations, employee relations and organizational changes
* A demonstrated passion for improving internal communications that create engagement.
* Excellent written communication, interpersonal and relationship-building skills.
* Engaging personality with an ability to connect quickly with people at all levels and in all locations.
* Ability to operate effectively in a matrix organization, balancing site/business unit advocacy with overall corporate strategies; effectively collaborate with the broader HR team.
* Creative mindset with a passion to design new programs and events
* Solid Excel and PowerPoint skills for creating effective and compelling communications.

To apply without delay, please email your CV quoting reference LX818853

ELECTRICAL ENGINEER/SUPERVISOR - MAINTENANCE

£Very Competitive Bonus Benefits including Shift Allowance Relocation Assistance within the UK/Scotland

Location: East Lothian, Scotland

Commutable from Edinburgh, Berwick upon Tweed, Dunbar, North Berwick, Haddington, East Linton, Musselburgh, South Queensferry, Livingston, Dalkeith, Bonnyrigg, Bathgate, Relocation Assistance for UK nationals from within UK/Scotland

This is an excellent Supervisory opportunity to join the plant electrical maintenance team of this division of a multinational company and play a key part in delivering production targets within a medium/heavy factory process operation. The focus is on maintenance, inspections, and planned maintenance of all electrical, automation and process control equipment. This includes instrumentation, PLCs, inverter drives, DCS/SCADA, LV and HV motors, switchgear and control gear, AC and DC, variable speed drives and specialised control panels. Therefore, this role would ideally suit a time served apprentice/degree educated Electrician/Electrical Engineer seeking to further develop their career in a supervisory role leading a small team of six Electrical Engineers/Electricians.

You will supervise and perform electrical inspections and maintenance, ensuring that you and your team respond in a timely manner to breakdown repairs with a keen eye to continuous improvement and to high standards in line with safety, technical, quality, operational and environmental targets. You will also represent the electrical maintenance and inspection department on site working committees.

* Ensure Risk Assessments and Permits to Work are always carried out, including safe systems of work are used.

* Ensure hardwired interlocks are working correctly to ensure staff and plant safety

* Manage the current plant electrical networks to optimise their efficiency including changes and modifications to reduce breakdowns, and communicate plans and changes effectively

* To assist in managing electrical maintenance and projects utilising employees and/or contractors ensuring high levels of workmanship and safety are maintained.

* Plan, deliver and ensure availability of critical spares for routine and planned maintenance, and ensure risk plans exist for emergent failures

* Communicate and liaise with other departments and form cross functional links.

* Improve current plant electrical networks by implementing improvements and innovations to prevent downtime in support of the plant operations

* Take the lead and actively assist the electrical dept

* Manage electrical systems to minimise risk and improve plant performance

* Ensure availability of electrical plant for production and engineering to meet time targets

* Fault finding of existing systems and electrical network

* Maintain record of all network changes

* Continually challenge the current network design to ensure plant needs are optimised

* Manage emergent electrical and system failures

* Manage obsolescence of existing plant by regularly checking component standards

* Use of SAP to manage and complete jobs

* Part of Electrical department call out rota, to technically support shift electricians

* Ability to perform under pressure ensuring plant reliability is kept at world class levels.

The Ideal Candidate will possess the following qualifications, skills and experience:

* Apprentice trained electrician/electrical/process control engineer educated to HNC/Degree (NVQ level 3-4) in Electrical/Process Control Engineering.

* BS-7671 IEE 18th edition wiring regulations

* HV Switching as Authorised Person

* At least 3-4 years team leadership/supervisor experience in electrical maintenance or inspection within heavy industry where process control is used.

* Experience in a continuous process industry, factory, chemical, cement, lime, steel, powders, aggregates, construction materials, energy or other heavy industrial process environment including full competence in electrical maintenance of large plant equipment.

* Fully competence in Electrical and Mechanical Maintenance principles and techniques.

* Good knowledge of heavy engineering plant and equipment

* Knowledge of Siemens PCS7 systems

* Good knowledge of electrical networks and systems including High Voltage and Instrumentation

* PLC, inverter drives, gas analytics, explosive atmospheres and telemetry experience preferred.

* DCS experience desired.

* Experience of hydraulic and pneumatic systems useful

* Knowledge and experience of HV/LV switchgear and control gear systems

* Working knowledge of maintenance management systems eg SAP or MAXIMO

* Good working knowledge of electrical isolation

* Competence in the use of lean problem-solving tools

PROJECT ENGINEER - CAPEX & MAINTENANCE PROJECTS
"Fantastic career development opportunity for experienced Project Engineer to join flagship Scottish heavy industrial processing plant"
£Very Competitive (Dependent on Experience) Bonus Benefits Relocation Assistance

Location: East Lothian, Scotland

Commutable from Edinburgh, Berwick upon Tweed, Dunbar, North Berwick, Haddington, East Linton, Musselburgh, South Queensferry, Livingston, Dalkeith, Bonnyrigg, Bathgate, Relocation assistance may be available.

This is an exciting career development opportunity for a degree educated and ambitious Project Engineer to further enhance their existing project engineering experience by joining the well-established project engineering team of a UK market leader, at one of their major industrial processing plants in Scotland. If you view change as an opportunity to develop and contribute to the business this could be the role for you. Especially if you like partnering with business stakeholders are all levels, presenting new ideas and excellent project management.
The site is a 365/24/7 heavy process engineering operation, so managing the project works around the continuous production cycle will challenge your project management and communication skills. An appreciation of a wide variety of engineering disciplines i.e., electrical, mechanical, chemical, process control and optimisation will be critical to success and credibility in this role.

The Role:
Reporting to a Senior Project Engineer, you will be responsible for:
* Delivering CAPEX projects safely, within budget and on time
* Proactive engagement in Safety & Health performance and behaviours of the project engineering team and contractors to continuously improvement safety practices and standards on site.
* Assist with the preparation of cost estimates for planned engineering work, controlling capital spending and timelines
* Assist with the preparation and implementation of capital expenditure budgets for each project ensuring defined key performance indicators (KPIs)
* Assist with preparation of annual budgets for engineering and maintenance projects.
* Determine the scope of work, evaluate proposals, and participate in the selection of contractors
* Assist in negotiating contracts and oversee contracts during the course of the work to ensure compliance with proposed design, material specifications, and schedules
* Perform project design work including researching data, conducting feasibility and economic studies, and determining design criteria in accordance with required standards
* Prepare project documents including project justifications, budget analyses, calculations, plans, specifications, cost estimates, and schedules for assigned facility projects
* Review and check engineering drawings, plans, calculations, estimates and reports for completeness and accuracy
* Determine the scope of work, prepare requests for proposals, evaluate proposals, and participate in the selection of consultants for utilities projects
* Ensure quality control by taking responsibility for schedule coordination and evaluating, recommending, and preparing contract change orders as necessary
* Obtain certification and conformance to current regulations for new and modified structures
* Work with process engineering and maintenance personnel to implement projects, either on their behalf, jointly, or in an advisory role, depending on the project
* Provide comprehensive technical assistance to optimise plant equipment performance and utilise technical expertise to continuously determine, evaluate and improve equipment/system

The Ideal Applicant:
* Degree/Master's in engineering - chemical engineering, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering.
* Current or very recent project engineering experience ideally gained within a heavy industrial processing environment such as such as steel, chemicals, cement, construction materials, energy/power or similar environment.
* Strong understanding and hands on experience of heavy industrial processing operations and maintenance.
* Safety oriented with excellent, best in class, Safety and Health knowledge including risk assessments gained within heavy industrial processing environment.
* Minimum IOSHH Working Safely Certificate.
* Proven leadership experience either gained in an operational/maintenance leadership or project engineering role.
* Excellent persuasion and influencing skills, with the ability to challenge, question and collaboratively develop logical solutions.
* Excellent, planning, scheduling, and project/programme/work stream management capabilities.
* Experience of managing/liaising with contractors undertaking maintenance and other capital projects, ensuring compliance to health & safety and projects schedules.
* Working towards or willing to attain chartered engineer status.
* Solid technical knowledge of manufacturing systems, processes, operations and project management skills.
* Proficient computer skills, specifically with applications such as SAP, AutoCAD and Microsoft Project.
* An understanding of Statistical Process Control is highly advantageous.
* Experience with Cost Estimation for Multi-discipline Projects.

Senior Commercial Finance Brokers - Fast Track Career Development Programme

"A rare chance for established Sales Professionals to join a successful asset finance business and develop their sales management skills to the next level".

Base Salary £50-60000, OTE £150,00 -200,000 (Year 1-3) & Fantastic Benefits

East Midlands UK

Commutable from Northampton, Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Leicestershire, Warwickshire, Birmingham, Home Counties, Oxfordshire

Are you a Sales Executive at the top of your game?

Maybe you've left college or university, taken a job in sales and reached a high level of achievement in your industry.

Life is good. You're earning decent money.

But perhaps you're wondering what's next? Have you reached a ceiling but have the ambition and drive to go further?

Our client is looking for someone like you. They work in the commercial finance industry and want a rising star to develop into a superstar through their fast-track sales management programme.

You'll be working alongside the Managing Director, Operations Director, and Sales Director, who will all give you first-hand training of their business to help you develop into a Senior Commercial Finance Broker in 18 months. As part of that training, our client will support and pay for you to obtain your LIBF Diploma in Asset Finance (DipAF), if you wish.

Currently, you may be working in a role such as prestige car sales, high-end property sales, or capital equipment, or other B2B or B2C sales and you'll have learned the art of consultative selling. You'll have developed your communication skills to work with companies of all shapes and sizes. And that variety is one of the key features of this role. For example, you could go from talking to a small wine-bar owner about finance for new fridges to the FD of a £10m business wanting finance to purchase a fleet of commercial vehicles.

Your day-to-day role will combine generating new business from warm leads, which you'll aim to convert into long-term accounts for you to manage. Getting to know your clients' businesses will be critical to your success as you'll be able to identify further opportunities to provide financial solutions to help them grow and thrive.

Our client's industry works at a fast pace, and you will have multiple deals in progress at any one time (perhaps 30-40), which can go from initial contact to funds in the bank in a matter of days. As such, you'll be able to flex your time-management muscles and enjoy your sales commission being paid shortly after the client is onboard.

As you rise through the business, you'll then mentor, train and lead other sales executives to bring through the next generation of brokers in the business. And to top it all you will also benefit from an override commission on earnings generated by the team, as well as many other market-leading benefits.

So, if you're looking to step up to the next level in your career, send your CV quoting reference LX 803191

GRADUATE TRAINEE SALES ROLES - JUNIOR COMMERCIAL FINANCE BROKERS

"Kick-start your career with one of the UK's leading asset finance companies and develop your skills and experience through their structured training programme."

Salary £25000 Benefits (OTE £60-80000 on completion of graduate training scheme)

Northamptonshire, East Midlands, UK

Are you a recent graduate in a business studies or humanities discipline? Having graduated with a minimum 2:1 classification, you may have fallen into your current role and are enjoying the world of work.

But is it fulfilling? Can you see a clear route through to a senior level in your current business? Is your current company supporting your career development with a highly structured training programme?

That's what you'll receive from our client in one of their graduate trainee positions. You'll work alongside the Commercial Director and Sales Director, who will mentor you through your initial 12-16-week training programme.

During that time, you'll learn about commercial asset finance, the financial products our client offers, how to nurture sales opportunities from a lead through to a closed deal, then manage that client account for the long-term.

As such, your training will focus heavily on warm-calling existing previous or current clients to develop your confidence and ability in creating sales. However, this isn't a telesales type of role where you have a product to push onto a prospective customer. Instead, it's a consultative sale where you have to understand how the prospect's business operates then select the most appropriate financial solutions.

Having developed that initial enquiry, you'll then pass ownership of the deal to an account manager but work closely with them to learn the process of completing the sale.

Our client's ambition for you is to complete your training then start creating and managing your own deals where you will then earn a generous commission on top of your base salary.

Given the nature of the role, you'll need outstanding verbal and written communication skills along with a desire to work in a sales-based role and the ambition to succeed. You'll also need a UK driving licence as there will be occasional travel to clients' premises.

So, if you're looking to step up to the next level in your career, send your CV quoting reference LX 876683

FREIGHT & LOGISTICS COORDINATOR

"Excellent career development opportunity for an experienced, ambitious and proactive logistics import and export and freight forwarding specialist to join a premier IT Distributor in a highly critical, fast moving, supply chain customer service delivery role."

C£30-33000 (Dependent On Experience) Benefits

Lancashire

Commutable from: Rochdale, Heywood, Bury, Oldham, Middleton, Chadderton, Prestwich, Radcliffe, Ramsbottom, Milnrow

Our client has more than two decades of experience as a premier international IT distributor, handling the delivery of leading technology hardware brands including servers, storage, networking, power, and 3D printers from its distribution centres in the UK and Germany. They have a reputation for exceeding customer expectations providing Same Day, Next Day Europe, and International shipping.

As a result of excellent business growth our client is seeking to strengthen its supply chain and logistics team with the appointment of a proactive Freight & Logistics Coordinator who prides themselves on working collaboratively within internal colleagues in the UK and Germany and external freight forwarding partners to deliver exceptional levels of OTIF customer service excellence.

To succeed as Freight & Logistics Coordinator within this fast-paced environment you will be a confident, calm, highly visible, extremely well organised, influential and positive "can do" personality.

The Role:

* An "end to end" passion or logistics. From labels to complex international supplies to export licenses. A "get the job done" attitude working with all levels of the business from the sales team to directors of the business.

* Maintain and develop inbound / outbound freight relationships into / from Europe and internationally.

* Ensure rates are competitive considering value-added services in line with environmental targets and efficiency improvements.

* Providing internal support and guidance concerning logistic options and costs.

* Work closely with warehouse teams in the UK and Germany and other group business to support the freight and logistics requirements.

* Working closely with key logistics partners such as UPS, DPD, DHL, Kuehne & Nagel, various freight forwarders and freight brokers.

* Dealing directly with clients, customs, and agents to ensure the quickest and best movement of cargo throughout the world.

* Prepare documents necessary to complete export, import and customs clearance process. Track and trace cargo as necessary to insure proper movement and delivery.

* Communicate with customers regarding disposition of Freight (i.e. tracking & tracing, routing & dispatching, and rate quotations).

* Communicate & correspond with other group companies and agents for customer satisfaction and ensure excellent service execution.

* Seek the most profitable mode of shipment yet meet customer's requirement for the movement of freight.

The Ideal Candidate will possess the following qualification, skills and experience:

* Well educated - minimum A level/HNC/HND/Degree level or equivalent NVQ level 3-4

* Demonstrable knowledge of warehouse and logistics processes and systems.

* Experience of large ERP systems software such as MS Navision.

* Experience working with 3PL/third party logistics service providers.

* In-depth knowledge of import and export procedures and compliance requirements for global trading.

* Great relationships with the main carriers / freight forwarders in UK, EU, international as well as Germany, with the ability to conduct freight tenders to ensure cost effective pricing and high service levels

* The ability to plan multiple complex and varied projects and to lead cross-function teams to deliver agreed targets.

* Excellent interpersonal, analytical and communication skills at all levels and the ability to challenge effectively.

* High level of drive and enthusiasm and the ability to motivate and inspire both internal and external contacts to achieve excellent performance.

* Capable of continually re-prioritising focus and resource with early identification of challenges and the proposal of their solutions.

* Outward looking and ability to recognise new opportunities for growth by awareness of the ever-changing external environment.

* Knowledge of international trade regulations. HMRC import/ export declarations

* European and Northern Ireland knowledge of export.

* Continuously remaining up to date with relevant changes within the regulations and systems concerned with the importing and exporting of goods

* In depth understanding of freight movement processes whether by sea, air or road.

* CMR / Bills of lading / Certificate of origin

* B2B Experience

* Fluency in German would be highly advantageous.

To apply without delay, please email your CV t quoting reference LX 876674

MECHANICAL ENGINEER - PLANT IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS

"Excellent career development opportunity for experienced Mechanical Engineer to take the lead on plant and maintenance improvement projects."

£Very Competitive Dependent on Experience + Bonus + Excellent Benefits + Relocation Assistance

Location: East Lothian, Scotland

Commutable from Edinburgh, Berwick upon Tweed, Dunbar, North Berwick, Haddington, East Linton, Musselburgh, South Queensferry, Livingston, Dalkeith, Bonnyrigg, Bathgate, Relocation assistance may be available.

Working within a plant maintenance team, you'll already know that there's a constant dilemma between maintaining the plant and improving it.

As a Mechanical Engineer, you'll probably identify opportunities for plant improvement all the time, but you never have the chance to carry any of those projects out.

It can be frustrating, mainly when you know those improvement projects could make a massive difference in the production plant's process efficiency, yield, or downtime.

If that's the case, you could be the person our client needs for their company. They're a highly respected household name with operations spanning the globe, and they need a graduate-level mechanical engineer to help them improve their plant operations.

The role reports to the Maintenance Manager but sits aside from the day-to-day maintenance activities to allow you to focus on these medium to long-term improvement projects entirely.

Using your mechanical engineering knowledge and experience of 365/24/7 heavy processing machinery, you'll research known issues and create plans for resolving them with robust, long-term solutions. Our client isn't interested in "sticking plaster" fixes, as they are focused on increasing uptime and plant reliability for the future and the present.

There'll be plenty of opportunities to use your project management skills as you'll oversee the implementation of your improvement projects, liaising with all the other relevant departments and managing sub-contractors as required.

As our client's plant runs continuously, you'll need some flexibility to work shifts, but, in return, our client will invest in you by fully supporting your career development and progress through their business. They also offer relocation assistance if you live outside of their commutable area.

Given the nature of this role, our client expects you will have a degree in a mechanical engineering related discipline and will have worked in a continuous heavy industry such as chemicals, glass, steel, or construction materials.