SALES MANAGERS - B2B

"Take a leap & switch your sales career to a more financially lucrative and rewarding B2B sales environment"

Base Salary £50-60000 OTE £125-150,000 (Year 1-2 Fantastic Benefits

East Midlands (Office Based)

Are you a graduate calibre, high performing sales professional looking for a new challenge in a more financial rewarding and lucrative career? Then the world of commercial asset finance sales could be the perfect opportunity to excel and be handsomely rewarded for your efforts. Our client can offer a rising star like you a development programme that will make you a superstar

They provide tailored funding solutions for businesses wanting to growth and innovate. This could include capital investment in new fixed assets, such as new machinery, vehicle/fleet leasing and materials handling or other business equipment or in soft assets such as IT/ERP systems.

So, it's a B2B consultative selling process rather than a purely transactional one. Our client is looking for sales professionals with proven skills in understanding business needs and creating an appropriate solution as this is a core part of this role.

You will be generating new business from warm leads, which you will aim to convert into long term accounts.

Our client is keen to speak to ambitious, results focused, graduate calibre sales professionals currently working within the following sectors, although they are flexible to consider other B2B sales experience:

• Wholesaling and Distribution - Branch Managers who sell B2B
• Banking - Business Relationship Manager
• Vehicle Fleet Leasing & Rental
• Commercial and Private Vehicle Dealership - Senior Sales Managers
• Business Enterprise Software Sales
• Industrial Plant/Materials Handling Sales
• Catering/Manufacturing Equipment Sales
• Parcels/Freight Solutions to SMEs & Corporates
• Property Rental & Sales
• Commercial Asset Finance

Our client will provide first hand training to help you to develop your commercial asset finance sales skill. Our client will also support and pay for your LIBF Diploma in Asset Finance (DipAF) if you wish.

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 generous sales commission being paid as soon as the deal is complete-there's no waiting for the month's figures to be announced.

As for your skills, our client envisages you will be degree educated and have a sound grasp of company financials such as balance sheets and P & L statements. You'll be working with company MDs and FDs, so you must be able to speak their financial language. Ideally, you will have managed others in your previous roles so you can provide mentoring and guidance to your team.

As you rise through the business, having benefited from our client's fast track development programme, you will take a leadership role as both a "player coach" and individual contributor, managing a team. As a result, you will also benefit from override commission on earnings generated by your team as well as other market leading benefits.

Finance Manager (Part-Time 3-4 days)

"Exceptional Part Time Opportunity for Qualified Financial and Management Accountant with accounting and finance experience gained within a LLP environment."

£50-60000 Base (pro-rata) Bonus Benefits - Hybrid Working

Gloucester

Commutable from Cheltenham, Worcester, Gloucester, Malvern, Evesham, Tewkesbury, Ledbury, Cirencester, Stroud, Ross on Wye, Monmouth, Hereford, Stow on the Wold, Bourton on the Water, Swindon

As an experienced finance professional, have you ever wanted to create a finance department from scratch? Do things your way? Make your mark on a business? Use a world-class model to ensure the finance team is an integral part of a business?

Our client is a highly successful LLP (Limited Liability Partnership) with this rare opportunity.

You'll have already noticed that this role is advertised as a part-time position, and they're happy to structure it around your preferences. So, if you want to fit around school hours or work 3-4 full days per week, they're open to discussing that with you.

For a little background, our client is an LLP that provides consultancy services using a project-based model. As such, you will need to show experience of having worked in that kind of commercial, rather than public sector, environment. Possible examples could be in a solicitor's, accountancy, architects, or project management practice.

Following a restructure, they have recently outsourced their transactional accounting but wish to appoint an experienced financial accountant with management accounting experience to join their team as Finance Manager. This newly created role will give them greater visibility and transparency of their financial position at both an operational and strategic level.

Coupled with that, they need a Finance Manager to work with the Partners and Commercial Director to translate the financial data into meaningful information for budgeting and forecasting. They use Xero, and a crucial part of your role will be in training/coaching the staff to use the system effectively.

As such, you'll need a confident personality who is happy to challenge ideas and practices in the company's best interests.

Alongside those higher-level activities, you will also need to manage the day-to-day transactional work. As an experienced Finance Manager, you will already understand what those entail, and we can cover those details when we speak.

Ideally you will be of graduate calibre and fully qualified CIMA, ACCA, ACA, FCCA, or equivalent experience as both a financial accountant and a management accountant. This finance management experience must have been gained within a LLP environment.

So, if you're within commuting distance of Gloucester and are looking for a hybrid, part time Finance Manager role you can fit around your life whilst also developing your career and making a difference, please indicate your interest by emailing your CV, quoting reference LX or call us on 01905 381 320.

MANUFACTURING MANAGER

"Transformational change and leadership role for Lean Manufacturing Specialist"

c£55000 + Benefits

North Somerset

Commutable from: Clevedon, Nailsea, Bristol, Glastonbury, Weston super Mare, Burnham on Sea, Bridgwater, Cheddar, Portishead, Yatton, Highbridge, Long Ashton, Keynsham, Bath, Shepton Mallett, Frome, Radstock, Midsomer Norton, Paulton, Peasedown St John

Are you an experienced Manufacturing Manager looking for a new challenge to test your leadership skills?

Maybe you'd like to use your knowledge of change management and lean implementation to make a real difference to a company?

Our client is looking for someone with those skills to lead their manufacturing operation and play a crucial part in evolving their business.

They're a well-established company manufacturing large GRP fabrications globally for use in industrial and commercial settings. Bucking the trend, they thrived during the Covid pandemic and have an extensive R & D and investment programme underway.

So, they have significant plans to evolve the company and are currently in a transitional phase.

This is where you come in.

The company's growth plans rely on having the necessary labour resources on-site, so they have gained visa sponsorship status, allowing them to bring in skilled labour from other countries.

Therefore, you'll need the gravitas of a strong leader and be able to demonstrate your previous experience in managing a diverse, multicultural workforce. In addition, you will need to develop, coach, and mentor shop floor leaders to help you manage the growing team.

You'll be able to use your past experience of lean implementation to its fullest by leading lean improvement projects and applying best practices throughout the manufacturing operations. Your knowledge and skills in collecting and analysing data will be vital to your success in this role. And, to help with that data acquisition, our client is currently implementing a new ERP system which you will lead into the manufacturing part of the business. Six Sigma Green Belt would be highly advantageous but our client will support accreditation if you have the experience.

This role is entirely site-based. So ideal commuting locations include Bristol, Somerset, West Wiltshire. However, our client will consider relocation assistance for the perfect candidate who wants to move to this beautiful part of the UK.

If you feel this is the next role for you, please submit your CV, quoting reference 1044279 or call us on 44 (0)1905 381 320.

INTERIM SENIOR HUMAN RESOURCES BUSINESS PARTNER - CORPORATE SERVICES & MANUFACTURING & LOGISTICS DIVISION

C£65000 (Pro Rata Fixed Term Contract)

Location: West Midlands (Site Based 4 days per week)

Our client, a division of a global plc, is a market leader in the specifications sales led manufacture and supply of mechanical and electrical equipment and service solutions to the industrial and commercial sector. They are a dynamic, innovative, successful and high growth business with ambitious plans for the future including further acquisitions.

They are seeking to appoint an Interim Senior Human Resources Business Partner who will be based its head office in the West Midlands. Our client also has a new greenfield manufacturing and logistics operation based within walking distance of HO and the successful incumbent will support corporate functions and manufacturing and logistics operations. You will report to the Group HR Director.

This is a fantastic opportunity for a confident, self-motivated, and ambitious and experienced Senior HR generalist keen to make an impact within a growing business.

The Interim Senior HR Business Partner is required to deliver a comprehensive, high quality, proactive and value adding HR service to the business and its manufacturing, production, and logistics facilities. The Interim Senior HR Business Partner will provide professional HR support to the management and executive teams, advising on a range of HR issues including employee relations, statutory/mandatory training plans, talent management, succession planning, supporting employee development, diversity, and inclusion, driving, and supporting effective communications, employee engagement, performance management, dealing with disciplinary and grievance cases, managing sickness absence.

The Interim Senior HR Business Partner will also be part of a national HR team, working on a range of cross functional organisational design and development projects, and will be responsible for implementing and operationalising Group HR policies and initiatives throughout the business.

The Role:

• Deliver a comprehensive HR service to the business at HO and within its manufacturing/production and logistics facilities, ensuring the effective application and full compliance with people policies, practices and procedures.
• Directly support operational and senior leadership with HR advice and coaching, being seen as a "trusted advisor", able to objectively assess, influence and constructively challenge when necessary.
• Successful management of employee relations e.g. managing absence, disciplinary matters - conduct and capability, compliance, grievances.
• Drive effective performance management through the coaching of line managers on dealing with performance management issues.
• Responsible for providing the business with regular management information reports to support improvement of measures e.g. sickness, overtime.
• Delivery of appropriate contractual documents relating to terminations, appointments and employment variations through liaison with the HO HR function.
• Advising and supporting line managers on selection and recruitment decisions including the completion of the necessary recruitment requests, creation of job descriptions/person specification, management of vacancy advertising, selection process, and interview panel participation.
• Ensure that there is fairness and consistency in reward and benefits across the site in recruitment and promotions.
• Participating in training activities, encouraging, and supporting staff in their training and development needs
• Undertaking safety and healthy duties commensurate with the job and working with Safety, Health, and Environmental function to ensure site compliance.
• Support succession and talent planning in line with Group strategy.
• Responsibility for the administration of employee surveys and feedback processes
• Support the collation, analysis, and implementation of the annual training plan to ensure delivery against statutory and business requirements.

The Ideal Candidate:

• Immediately or imminently available to commence a new contract.
• University degree educated in a relevant business or HR related subject (ideally but candidates with degrees in other subjects and relevant HR experience will also be considered)
• Qualified to CIPD level 5 as a minimum. CIPD level 7/MSc/MA in HR advantageous
• HR Generalist experience gained within an industrial manufacturing unit or FMCG or engineering or possibly logistics environment
• Able to create a positive site team culture and demonstrate leadership and influence within the business.
• Able to think ahead and take action to ensure team skills and capabilities meet future business needs; understand the aspiration and potential of the teams and identify and develop potential.
• Strong capability to influence others, sell your own ideas by linking them to other people's values, goals or ideas; willingly and confidently communicate issues and ideas to gain senior management support; sell the benefits behind decisions and changes.
• Able to build a positive team culture; build relationships with other teams across the business to share ideas, break down silos and maximise performance; must put the 'company good' before any individual 'local gain'; must implement ideas to improve team dynamics and team spirit.
• Able to demonstrate confidence with a wide range of colleagues, stakeholders and shareholders; maintain confidence and stay calm during difficult situations; make decisions that will be unpopular whilst explaining the rationale for these.

SENIOR HUMAN RESOURCES BUSINESS PARTNER - CORPORATE SERVICES & MANUFACTURING & LOGISTICS DIVISION

"Excellent opportunity for Senior Generalist HR professional to join fast growing global plc."

C£65000 Benefits

Location: West Midlands (Site Based 4 days per week)

Commutable from Walsall, Wolverhampton, Telford, Stourbridge, Halesowen, Shrewsbury, Bromsgrove, Lichfield, Birmingham, Kidderminster, Stafford, Stone, Tamworth, Stoke on Trent, Droitwich, Redditch, Worcester, Coventry, Sutton Coldfield, Coleshill

Our client, a division of a global plc, is a market leader in the specifications sales led manufacture and supply of mechanical and electrical equipment and service solutions to the industrial and commercial sector. They are a dynamic, innovative, successful and high growth business with ambitious plans for the future including further acquisitions.

They are seeking to appoint a Senior Human Resources Business Partner who will be based its head office in the West Midlands. Our client also has a new greenfield manufacturing and logistics operation based within walking distance of HO and the successful incumbent will support corporate functions and manufacturing and logistics operations. You will report to the Group HR Director.

This is a fantastic career development opportunity for a confident, self-motivated, and ambitious and experienced Senior HR generalist keen to play an influential role within a growing business.

The Senior HR Business Partner is required to deliver a comprehensive, high quality, proactive and value adding HR service to the business and its manufacturing, production, and logistics facilities. The HR Business Partner will provide professional HR support to the management and executive teams, advising on a range of HR issues including employee relations, statutory/mandatory training plans, talent management, succession planning, supporting employee development, diversity, and inclusion, driving and supporting effective communications, employee engagement, performance management, dealing with disciplinary and grievance cases, managing sickness absence.

The Senior HR Business Partner will also be part of a national HR team, working on a range of cross functional organisational design and development projects, and will be responsible for implementing and operationalising Group HR policies and initiatives throughout the business.

The Role:

• Deliver a comprehensive HR service to the business at HO and within its manufacturing/production and logistics facilities, ensuring the effective application and full compliance with people policies, practices and procedures.
• Directly support operational and senior leadership with HR advice and coaching, being seen as a "trusted advisor", able to objectively assess, influence and constructively challenge when necessary.
• Successful management of employee relations e.g. managing absence, disciplinary matters - conduct and capability, compliance, grievances.
• Drive effective performance management through the coaching of line managers on dealing with performance management issues.
• Responsible for providing the business with regular management information reports to support improvement of measures e.g. sickness, overtime.
• Delivery of appropriate contractual documents relating to terminations, appointments and employment variations through liaison with the HO HR function.
• Advising and supporting line managers on selection and recruitment decisions including the completion of the necessary recruitment requests, creation of job descriptions/person specification, management of vacancy advertising, selection process, and interview panel participation.
• Ensure that there is fairness and consistency in reward and benefits across the site in recruitment and promotions.
• Participating in training activities, encouraging, and supporting staff in their training and development needs
• Undertaking safety and healthy duties commensurate with the job and working with Safety, Health, and Environmental function to ensure site compliance.
• Support succession and talent planning in line with Group strategy.
• Responsibility for the administration of employee surveys and feedback processes
• Support the collation, analysis, and implementation of the annual training plan to ensure delivery against statutory and business requirements.
• Proactive in supporting safe working through Safety, Health and Environmental initiatives.

The Ideal Candidate:

• University degree educated in a relevant business or HR related subject (ideally but candidates with degrees in other subjects and relevant HR experience will also be considered)
• Qualified to CIPD level 5 as a minimum. CIPD level 7/MSc/MA in HR advantageous
• HR Generalist experience gained within an industrial manufacturing unit or FMCG or engineering or possibly logistics environment
• Computer Literate in MS Office packages and use of Databases
• Excellent interpersonal skills. Accuracy and attention to detail
• Excellent Written & Verbal communication skills, including Report writing.
• Able to create a positive site team culture and demonstrate leadership and influence within the business.
• Able to think ahead and take action to ensure team skills and capabilities meet future business needs; understand the aspiration and potential of the teams and identify and develop potential.
• Strong capability to influence others, sell your own ideas by linking them to other people's values, goals or ideas; willingly and confidently communicate issues and ideas to gain senior management support; sell the benefits behind decisions and changes.
• Able to build a positive team culture; build relationships with other teams across the business to share ideas, break down silos and maximise performance; must put the 'company good' before any individual 'local gain'; must implement ideas to improve team dynamics and team spirit.
• Have a relentless desire and hunger to improve and innovate. Encourage the wider business to improve performance.
• Able to demonstrate confidence with a wide range of colleagues, stakeholders and shareholders; maintain confidence and stay calm during difficult situations; make decisions that will be unpopular whilst explaining the rationale for these.
• Flexibility with ability to adapt team approach in line with a more strategic perspective; take a proactive approach, to think ahead and across the business.
• Able to step back from a complex situation in order to gain a better understanding; understand the impact of problems and solutions on yourself and others; anticipate obstacles by solving the problem and to implement solutions.

This role is offered on a permanent basis however an interim opportunity is also available to support on the a major project relocating several operations into the brand new manufacturing and logistics site.

INTERIM WAREHOUSING CAPACITY PLANNING ANALYST - 6 MONTHS

"Great career development opportunity for highly analytical, graduate calibre, warehousing, stock planning analyst to join market leading distributor".

£250-350 Per Day (Outside IR35)

North West - Hybrid Working

Commutable from Greater Manchester, Lancashire, Cheshire, West Yorkshire Bury, Rochdale, Bolton, Ramsbottom, Manchester, Failsworth, Salford, Oldham, Blackburn, Preston, Burnley, Wigan., Halifax, Bradford, Warrington, Keighley, Huddersfield

Our client, a wholesale distributor, is at the cutting edge of the renewable and alternative energy sector and has significant and growing market share through its unrivalled product quality and service value proposition. Its customer base includes B2C and B2B. There has never been a better time to join them and to play a key role in the expansion of its warehousing and distribution capacity, initially across the UK and then Europe.

The first stage of this is an overhaul of the facility in North West, followed by an investment in a new facility in the Bristol area. Tentative further plans exist for additional capacity in the UK. Additionally, the business is expanding its operation in Europe, namely Germany.

It now wishes to strengthen its logistics team with the appointment of a highly numerate and analytical Interim Warehousing Capacity Planning Analyst for 6 months to analyse and plan warehousing capacity across multiple sites prior to merger in to two sites North West and South West.

The Interim Warehousing Capacity Planning Analyst, through advanced analysis techniques, will review warehousing stock and capacity and flows between the overspill and main site in the North West to assist with daily planning. The focus will be on identifying fast moving and slow moving sku's, analysing volumetrics to ensure optimal product and pallet storage and warehouse layout. This will entail the extraction of data from various systems creating data sets and scenario models to inform decision making and stock planning.

The Role:

• Analysis and interpretation of data, providing warehousing capacity and stock flow information- this information will ultimately be used in the design of new DC and specification of functionality of WMS and supply chain and logistics system
• Collect, present, and analyse data as required to support operational & strategic projects
• Ensure reliability, integrity and accuracy of data
• Create statistical and financial models using appropriate software to review opportunities for costs savings and efficiencies
• Identify opportunities for improvement covering inventory, supply, and delivery points; build models for trade-off analysis, and project completion, and to provide ongoing analysis of MIS information as needed for senior management team and logistics and supply chain planning
• The Warehousing Capacity Planning & Design Analyst will work alongside senior logistics and business leaders to identify improvement and change projects
• Make recommendations based on findings and analysis
• Produce forecasts and estimates to aid financially sound decisions and planning
• Ensure warehousing and logistics costs are monitored, managed and under control
• Participate in regular planning and project reviews and change processses and prepare data in line with changes
• Set up and provide regular reports and data relating to specific areas of the warehousing and logistics process
• Track logistics trends and use the information to recommend changes
• Utilise warehousing and logistics knowledge and research methods to benchmark logistics activities and to drive best practice
• Work closely with and support operational and IT colleagues to support specification of functionality/design of new WMS and ERP systems

The Ideal Candidate:

• Degree level qualification is desirable in numerate/problem solving area
• Current/recent experience in a warehousing capacity and stock planning, logistics solutions design, warehouse/logistics planning, logistics development role
• Highly experienced in analysing large complex data sets, utilising them to improve warehousing and logistics operational and business performance
• Advanced user of Excel, Access and other database tools such as Cognos/SQL. Statistical process control experience highly advantageous
• Experience of data extraction tools essential
• Strong problemsolving and numeracy skills
• Able to prioritise and manage a varied workload and deadlines and used to dealing with large volumes of data; adept at techniques to manage and interpret large data sets
• Experienced in translating analysis and trends into logistics business projects, modelling the cost and process efficiency benefits, collaborating with key operational and business stakeholders to present a business case and ROI models for the projects; managing the project pipeline and supporting operational and IT colleagues to ensure operational deploym
• Functional/operational experience/exposure in Warehousing, Supply Chain and Logistics from within the Third Party Contract Logistics or FMCG, eCommerce or Distributor sector
• A confident personality. Credible and knowledgeable with experience of managing in a matrix management environment
• Experience of warehousing and logistics cost and operational modelling will be critical to success
• A confident personality, comfortable with liaising at both operational and senior executive level within a multinational matrix environment
• Highly developed analysis, planning and project skills
• Strong commercial acumen and excellent attention to detail
• Experience of WMS and ERP systems
• Knowledge of lean techniques very advantageous

WAREHOUSING CAPACITY PLANNING ANALYST

"Great career development opportunity for highly analytical, graduate calibre, warehousing, stock planning analyst to join market leading distributor".

£Very Competitive Bonus Benefits

North West - Hybrid Working

Commutable from Greater Manchester, Lancashire, Cheshire, West Yorkshire Bury, Rochdale, Bolton, Ramsbottom, Manchester, Failsworth, Salford, Oldham, Blackburn, Preston, Burnley, Wigan., Halifax, Bradford, Warrington, Keighley, Huddersfield

Our client, a wholesale distributor, is at the cutting edge of the renewable and alternative energy sector and has significant and growing market share through its unrivalled product quality and service value proposition. Its customer base includes B2C and B2B. There has never been a better time to join them and to play a key role in the expansion of its warehousing and distribution capacity, initially across the UK and then Europe.

The first stage of this is an overhaul of the facility in North West, followed by an investment in a new facility in the Bristol area. Tentative further plans exist for additional capacity in the UK. Additionally, the business is expanding its operation in Europe, namely Germany.

It now wishes to strengthen its logistics team with the appointment of a highly numerate and analytical Warehousing Capacity Planning Analyst to analyse and plan warehousing capacity across multiple sites prior to merger in to two sites North West and South West.

The Warehousing Capacity Planning Analyst, through advanced analysis techniques, will review warehousing stock and capacity and flows between the overspill and main site in the North West to assist with daily planning. The focus will be on identifying fast moving and slow moving sku's, analysing volumetrics to ensure optimal product and pallet storage and warehouse layout. This will entail the extraction of data from various systems creating data sets and scenario models to inform decision making and stock planning.

The Role:
* Analysis and interpretation of data, providing warehousing capacity and stock flow information- this information will ultimately be used in the design of new DC and specification of functionality of WMS and supply chain and logistics system.
* Collect, present, and analyse data as required to support operational & strategic projects.
* Ensure reliability, integrity and accuracy of data.
* Create statistical and financial models using appropriate software to review opportunities for costs savings and efficiencies
* Identify opportunities for improvement covering inventory, supply, and delivery points; build models for trade-off analysis, and project completion, and to provide ongoing analysis of MIS information as needed for senior management team and logistics and supply chain planning.
* The Warehousing Capacity Planning & Design Analyst will work alongside senior logistics and business leaders to identify improvement and change projects.
* Make recommendations based on findings and analysis
* Produce forecasts and estimates to aid financially sound decisions and planning
* Ensure warehousing and logistics costs are monitored, managed and under control
* Participate in regular planning and project reviews and change processses and prepare data in line with changes
* Set up and provide regular reports and data relating to specific areas of the warehousing and logistics process.
* Track logistics trends and use the information to recommend changes
* Utilise warehousing and logistics knowledge and research methods to benchmark logistics activities and to drive best practice.
* Work closely with and support operational and IT colleagues to support specification of functionality/design of new WMS and ERP systems

The Ideal Candidate:
* Degree level qualification is desirable in numerate/problem solving area.
* Current/recent experience in a warehousing capacity and stock planning, logistics solutions design, warehouse/logistics planning, logistics development role.
* Highly experienced in analysing large complex data sets, utilising them to improve warehousing and logistics operational and business performance.
* Advanced user of Excel, Access and other database tools such as Cognos/SQL. Statistical process control experience highly advantageous.
* Experience of data extraction tools essential.
* Strong problemsolving and numeracy skills.
* Able to prioritise and manage a varied workload and deadlines and used to dealing with large volumes of data; adept at techniques to manage and interpret large data sets.
* Experienced in translating analysis and trends into logistics business projects, modelling the cost and process efficiency benefits, collaborating with key operational and business stakeholders to present a business case and ROI models for the projects; managing the project pipeline and supporting operational and IT colleagues to ensure operational deployment.
* Functional/operational experience/exposure in Warehousing, Supply Chain and Logistics from within the Third Party Contract Logistics or FMCG, eCommerce or Distributor sector
* A confident personality. Credible and knowledgeable with experience of managing in a matrix management environment.
* Experience of warehousing and logistics cost and operational modelling will be critical to success.
* A confident personality, comfortable with liaising at both operational and senior executive level within a multinational matrix environment.
* Strong commercial acumen and excellent attention to detail.
* Experience of WMS and ERP systems

 

PRODUCTION ENGINEER

"Technical Lead Production & Mechanical Process Engineering role with experience of Heat Treated Metal Automotive & Aerospace Components."

North East Region

c£45-50000 + Excellent Blue Chip Benefits

Commutable from Newcastle upon Tyne, Durham, Northumberland

Our client is at the forefront of innovation, manufacturing and supplying metal components to the automotive, machine tool, manufacturing, aerospace, and other sectors.

This role is to ensure that specialist heat treatment plant, equipment and processes are available to meet SQCD requirements and to provide specialist metallurgical assessment and quality of induction hardened steel components.

You will be the technical lead for defined production equipment and for metallurgical assessment.
Continuous improvement activity is also a key responsibility as is TPM systems design and review.
Attendance at customer audits / VIP visits is an important responsibility.

The Role

* Designing and implementing moderate machine modifications to optimise safety, quality or output performance.

* Setting and managing revenue budgets, to ensure all necessary resources are available to achieve business needs.

* Identification and justification of capital expenditure projects including spend management and post implementation review.

* Managing and delivering agreed specific policy, business critical or personal development objectives.

* Leading and delivering projects such as new production lines or new product introductions.

* Day to day direction of junior engineering personnel to ensure best outcomes and utilization of resource.

* Provision of technical support to achieve production targets. Creation of process specific quality documentation to ensure conformance to control plans and creation of standard operation procedures for QCDP tasks.

* Setting of TPM schedules and tasks to enable members to carry out TPM to the necessary standards for ongoing machine stability and performance including regular performance review and revision.

* Performance of risk assessments and PUWER reviews and sign off to ensure a safe working environment. Champion the principles of 5S and H&S as appropriate.

* Challenging performance and, where appropriate, initiating and delivering improvements that contribute to the improved efficiency of the process.

* Management of ongoing heat treatment process performance through metallurgical assessment.

Your Experience:

* A minimum of a BTEC HNC/Degree Production/Mechanical Engineering through a recognised mechanical apprenticeship.
* A base level knowledge of metallurgy and metallurgical evaluation techniques together and an understanding of heat treatment
* Minimum 3 years' experience in high volume engineering / automotive supply plant or similar
* Understanding of continuous production operations
* Fault finding / root cause analysis skills experience
* Project management skills and experience
* Good understanding of TQM systems Eg TS16949
* Strong communicator
* Capable of working to rapidly changing priorities .
* Self- starter, flexible approach and capable of managing own workload

To apply without delay please email your CV, quoting reference LX 1138129
Telephone 01905 381 320

Head of Collections & Recoveries

"A rare opportunity to lead and build a new function in collections and recoveries for a leading asset finance company".

£Very Competitive + Car Alowance + Bonus + Benefits

East Midlands / Hybrid

Commutable from Buckinghamshire, Northamptonshire, Cambridgeshire, Warwickshire, Leicestershire, North Hertfordshire, Oxfordshire

The art of diplomacy is a rare skill. Someone once described it as "Letting others have your way". And that's a fair summary because it's a large part of this new role for our client who specialises in commercial asset finance.

As the Head of Collections and Recoveries, the big question you'll need to answer is, "What happens when a client defaults on an agreement for a physical asset?"

Up until now, it's a question our client has rarely needed to answer as they operate on a very low risk profile and default level. And it's one of the reasons why they've grown into one of the UK's most successful and well-regarded asset finance businesses.

But it is possible to be too cautious and miss out on opportunities with a slightly higher risk level. And that's the next stage of our client's business growth programme and why they want a robust collections and recoveries team.

So that's where you come in.

With your experience in commercial asset finance, you'll have a clear vision of how to implement a collections and recoveries function.

You'll know that repossessing assets is the last resort, and there are countless ways of managing a defaulting client before reaching that point. As such, your diplomacy, intelligence, and communication skills will be crucial to your success in this role.

As for your background, our client would like to see evidence of working in a commercial asset finance setting with possibly some experience in law enforcement. You'll be a confident communicator, capable of liaising with end clients to find a win-win resolution. But you'll be able to stand your ground to ensure our client recovers the maximum amount possible.

If repossession is the only answer, you'll have the right connections to secure the assets and understand the various reselling channels to dispose of them.

Our client works nationally in the UK and is based in the East Midlands. They see this role as a hybrid between working at their HQ, home working, and attending client sites as required.

As you can imagine, there are many other details to discuss, so please indicate your interest by emailing your CV, quoting reference LX 1108623 or call us on 01905 381 320.

WAREHOUSING & LOGISTICS DEVELOPMENT ANALYST

"Great career development opportunity for highly analytical, graduate calibre, warehousing and logistics improvement, development and projects analyst to join market leading distributor".

£ Very Competitive + Bonus + Benefits

North West - Hybrid Working

Commutable from Greater Manchester, Lancashire, Cheshire, West Yorkshire Bury, Rochdale, Bolton, Ramsbottom, Manchester, Failsworth, Salford, Oldham, Blackburn, Preston, Burnley, Wigan., Halifax, Bradford, Warrington, Keighley, Huddersfield

Our client, a wholesale distributor, is at the cutting edge of the renewable and alternative energy sector and has significant and growing market share through its unrivalled product quality and service value proposition. Its customer base includes B2C and B2B. There has never been a better time to join them and to play a key role in the expansion of its warehousing and distribution capacity, initially across the UK and then Europe.

The first stage of this is an overhaul of the facility in North West, followed by an investment in a new facility in the Bristol area. Tentative further plans exist for additional capacity in the UK. Additionally, the business is expanding its operation in Europe, namely Germany.

It now wishes to strengthen its logistics team with the appointment of a highly numerate and analytical Warehousing & Logistics Development Analyst to identify and analyst logistics improvement opportunities.

The Warehousing & Logistics Development Analyst, through advanced analysis techniques, will lead the way in identifying improvement opportunities, initiatives, and projects.

The Role:

• Analysis and interpretation of data, providing warehousing and logistics information to support the achievement of continuous improvement within the logistics and supply chain planning function.
• Collect, present, and analyse data as required to support operational & strategic projects.
• Ensure reliability, integrity and accuracy of data.
• Create statistical and financial models using appropriate software to review opportunities for costs savings and efficiencies
• Identify opportunities for improvement in logistics processes, policies and systems covering inventory, supply, and delivery points; build models for trade-off analysis, and project completion, and to provide ongoing analysis of MIS information as needed for senior management team and logistics and supply chain planning.
• The Warehousing & Logistics Development Analyst will work alongside senior logistics and business leaders to identify improvement and change projects.
• Make recommendations based on findings and analysis
• Produce forecasts and estimates to aid financially sound decisions and planning
• Ensure warehousing and logistics costs are monitored, managed and under control
• Participate in regular planning and project reviews and change processses and prepare data in line with changes
• Set up and provide regular reports and data relating to specific areas of the warehousing and logistics process.
• Track logistics trends and use the information to recommend changes
• Utilise warehousing and logistics knowledge and research methods to benchmark logistics activities and to drive best practice.

• Work closely with and support operational and IT colleagues to support specification of functionality/design of new WMS and ERP systems

The Ideal Candidate:

• Degree level qualification is desirable in numerate/problem solving area.
• Current/recent experience in a warehousing, logistics solutions design, warehouse/logistics planning, logistics development role.
• Highly experienced in analysing large complex data sets, utilising them to improve warehousing and logistics operational and business performance.
• Experienced in translating analysis and trends into logistics business projects, modelling the cost and process efficiency benefits, collaborating with key operational and business stakeholders to present a business case and ROI models for the projects; managing the project pipeline and supporting operational and IT colleagues to ensure operational deployment.
• Functional/operational experience in Warehousing, Supply Chain and Logistics from within the Third Party Contract Logistics or FMCG, eCommerce or Distributor sector
• A confident personality. Credible and knowledgeable with experience of managing in a matrix management environment.
• Experience of warehousing and logistics cost and operational modelling will be critical to success.
• Advanced Excel skills are a prerequisite. Experience of data extraction tools essential.
• A confident personality, comfortable with liaising at both operational and senior executive level within a multinational matrix environment.
• Highly developed analysis, planning and project skills.
• Strong commercial acumen and excellent attention to detail.
• Experience of WMS and ERP systems
• Knowledge of lean techniques very advantageous.

To apply without delay, please email your CV in word format, quoting reference to LX 1120092

Warehousing Process Optimisation Manager 

"Very interesting opportunity for experienced change management specialist to facilitate process mapping and process improvement in the warehousing and logistics operations"

Salary: £Very Competitive + Bonus + Excellent Benefits

Location: North West - Hybrid Working

Commutable from Greater Manchester, Lancashire, Cheshire, West Yorkshire Bury, Rochdale, Bolton, Ramsbottom, Manchester, Failsworth, Salford, Oldham, Blackburn, Preston, Burnley, Wigan., Halifax, Bradford, Warrington, Keighley, Huddersfield

Our client is a well-established and respected manufacturer of renewable energy infrastructure for the commercial and domestic markets.

As a result of their rapid and sustained growth, they require a Process Optimisation Analyst to facilitate the process mapping and process improvement process in their warehousing and logistics operations.

The ideal applicant will have a consistent and recent track record of undertaking a similar process mapping and process improvement role and will demonstrate a good understanding of warehousing, pick/pack, despatch, and logistics. An understanding of the applications of lean methodology and associated problem-solving techniques would be highly advantageous. Future plans include migration to a brand-new WMS and ERP system.

Role and Responsibilities:

• Facilitate process improvements and contribute to process improvements
• Responsible for facilitation, initiation, development and creation of executable, scalable processes.
• Development of Current and Future State process maps that provide roadmap for driving business process and productivity improvements of the warehousing operations.
• Support the development of process documentation e.g. manuals, help documents, work instructions, SOPs, and forms to be approved by the business.
• Support the review, approval and implementation of any developed process.
• Identify, plan and lead process development workshops.
• Gather supporting information in consultation with the business lead, as required to facilitate workshops.
• Plans, schedules, and arranges own activities and may direct others in accomplishing objectives.
• Supporting operations nationally and in Mainland Europe

Skills and Experience:

• Solid experience in Business Process Improvement, specifically in a fast moving, omni channel warehousing and transport environment.
• Formal lean and continuous improvement training and certification including Kaizen creation of RACI Charts/Matrix and Six Sigma
• Degree-level education is preferred
• Excellent organisation skills and ability to work on several projects with tight timelines
• Project Management qualification advantageous
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills and interpersonal skills are required.
• Flexibility to travel on occasion to site in the North West and South West and also into mainland Europe

SENIOR QUANTITY SURVEYOR - CIVIL ENGINEERING - RAIL & INFRASTRUCTURE CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS
"Degree educated Senior Quantity Surveyor for regional civil engineering sector role covering rail & highways construction projects."

Salary: £Competitive Car Bonus Blue Chip Benefits

Location: Wales/South West Region

Our client is market leader within the civil engineering sector specialising in rail and highways construction projects. This is an excellent regional career development opportunity for a degree educated Senior Quantity Surveyor to further deploy their leadership experience in the management of a small team of Quantity Surveyors. You and your team will support projects in the South West and Wales area. You will inspire, coach, mentor and develop your team. The successful applicant will have experience gained as a Senior Quantity Surveyor within the civil engineering, rail and/or highways construction, upgrade and improvement sector.

As Senior Area Quantity Surveyor you will be used to working cross functionally and, in the region, travelling visiting rail or highways construction, improvement, upgrade schemes and projects.

As a senior member of the regional team, you will work cross functionally with commercial and operational colleagues and external stakeholders to ensure that targets are achieved leading to the overall delivery of commercial strategy in relation to highways construction, improvement and upgrade schemes and projects.

The Role:
Reporting to the Managing Quantity Surveyor you will be engaged in the following:

• The measurement, preparation and submission of valuations with a view to maximising financial returns under the provisions of the Contract Conditions and Company procedures.
• Lend contractual expertise to QS, Commercial and Operational colleagues
• Identify and implement best practice cross the business
• Monitoring and managing the procurement of control of sub contract works
• Work with credit department and ensure timely cash collection.
• Preparing and finalising month end accounts in line with management procedures

The Ideal Candidate:

• Preferably BSc degree qualified (Quantity Surveying)
• MRICS preferred
• Minimum of 5 years post qualification experience
• Currently undertaking a Senior Quantity Surveying role within the civil engineering, rail or highways construction, rail/highways improvement, rail/highways upgrade schemes and projects sector. This is a prerequisite for the successful applicant for this role.
• We are not seeking applicants from any other type of construction sector on this occasion only Senior Quantity Surveyors from civil engineering and infrastructure projects sector
• Must have experience of leading, managing and coaching a team of Quantity Surveyors.
• Experience of undertaking a regional multi-site role will be essential to success in this role.
• Experience in NEC3/JCT/ICE forms of contract useful but not essential
• Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to communicate and influence people at all levels.
• Confident when working autonomously.
• Strong, inspirational, leader with a coaching and mentoring style.
• Good problem-solving skills and creative flair.
• Excellent organisational and resource planning skills.

Applicants need to be commercially aware, highly motivated, computer literate and profit focused with the ability to communicate at all levels, demonstrate a methodical and analytical approach to their work. You will integrate and add value to our market leading client's busy and successful team. You will be passionate about safety. You will demonstrate the drive and ambition to succeed.

To apply without delay, please email your CV, quoting reference LX 957139