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.

FINANCIAL CONTROLLER - MANUFACTURING & ENGINEERING SECTOR

€80-100000 Company Car, Bonus & Benefits including Relocation Assistance or Accommodation Allowance

Baden Württemberg (HQ within commuting distance of Stuttgart and Munich)

Are you a Financial Controller with a background in engineering and manufacturing? Do you have experience working in a multi-national/matrix structure? Would you like to take on a new position with career growth potential?

Our client in South Germany needs your skills.

They are a well-established engineering company, headquartered in the UK. Due to a change in the group structure, they are now looking for a Financial Controller to lead the small team at their main EU site in Germany.

As an experienced Financial Controller, you'll already understand the detail of this role. In summary, you'll be managing the day-to-day financial transactions, KPIs, cash flow planning and forecasting through monthly reports and budgets that can be presented to the senior stakeholders including the MD, Sales Director, and Manufacturing Director. Senior management have also identified potential high-performing individuals in the finance team who they would like you to develop and mentor.

The company currently also has a four-person shared service team, which supports other EU countries. Next year, this will fall under your responsibility, giving you scope to liaise with the other group companies across Europe.

Ultimately, this role has the potential to become Finance Director, so our client is looking for a Financial Controller who aspires to work at the senior level of the business.

You will be degree educated in business administration, accounting or (financial) controlling. You will have relevant finance management experience gained within a European/global matrix manufacturing and engineering organisation. Your experience will include drawing up balance sheets in HGB and IFRS and SAP FI/CO. Understanding of German GAAP useful. Strong knowledge of MS Office applications including Excel, Power BI.

As for you, our client envisages you will be a German national with excellent English language skills. You'll be a confident presenter, as part of your role will be to deliver financial reports to the UK head office senior team. Initially, you'll need to be based from the German site full-time, but the role can become a hybrid with some days working from home.

In addition to the salary, our client is also offering a bonus, company car, and will assist with your relocation to the region if you currently live outside the commuting zone.

As you can imagine, there are many other details to discuss, so please indicate your interest by emailing your CV, quoting reference LX 1140931

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.

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

Commercial Director - 3PL/4PL Warehousing & Transport Solutions

"3PL/4PL Commercial Strategist & Business Development Specialist required with track record within Ireland, UK & Northern European multi temperature solutions."

€Very Competitive Bonus, Car/Allowance & Benefits Relocation Assistance

Ireland

Do you have a proven track record in commercial strategy, new business development and key account management within the Irish, UK and European 3PL/4PL transport and warehousing contract logistics sector?

Would you like to apply this experience within a highly successful and well-established Irish business? Then this role could be perfect for you.

We are seeking a Commercial Director who combines 3PL/4PL contract logistics experience with an entrepreneurial mindset and a strong network within the Ireland to UK and Ireland to European marketplace.

This is a newly created role to support unprecedented growth and customer demand, in part due to Brexit and due to planned expansion. This expansion includes the establishment of an additional new warehouse to support manufacturing supply chains across several industry sectors including pharmaceutical cold chain, multi temperature food, hi tech and automotive. Our client has warehousing, and transport operations already set up in Ireland close to the Northern Ireland border and the UK.

To support their future growth, they would like to bring on board a Commercial Director with experience in palletised logistics, particularly between the UK, Ireland, and Europe. As well as developing closer relationships with existing customers, you will also create and implement a sales and marketing strategy to target new customers. They see their strategy as being split between being a 3PL provider directly for the end client and a 4PL provider for other transport companies. Therefore, your knowledge of both types of service will be essential.
In addition, you will also have input in designing warehousing and transport solutions for customers, so your operational knowledge will be used extensively.

Brexit has presented many companies with challenges transporting between Ireland and the UK. Our client is ideally situated to help and advise customers on how to negotiate the new procedures. So, having detailed knowledge of the Irish and UK transport markets will be crucial to your success in the role.

You'll be based from their head office in Ireland as you will be a key member of the senior executive team, and our client is also happy to support your relocation if you're currently based elsewhere.

The Role

* Responsible for developing high-level relationships with new & existing customers, facilitating new business as a result
* Work with the commercial team to identify clients and opportunities for new business
* Develop strong working relationships with key decision-makers in target clients
* Facilitate the solutions design and business development process, supporting and guiding the commercial team with every aspect of senior client relations
* Manage senior client relationships once business is secured to ensure long-term profitability and growth
* Develop and implement commercial strategies according to company goals and objectives aiming to accelerate growth
* Conduct market analysis to create detailed strategic business plans on commercial opportunities (expansion, business development etc.)
* Understand the requirements of existing customers to ensure their needs are being met
* Act to acquire new customers and manage client relationships (new and existing)
* Collaborate with and coordinate diverse teams (marketing, sales, customer service etc.)
* Build and maintain profitable partnerships with key stakeholders
* Monitor performance of commercial activities using key metrics and prepare reports for senior management
* Assist in setting financial targets and budget development and monitoring

The Ideal Candidate

* Proven experience within a senior-level commercial role within the Irish Logistics industry with strong knowledge of the European Transport product
* Excellent network within the multi sector 3PL/4PL contract logistics across warehousing and transport sector
* Proven experience managing relationships with key clients
* In-depth understanding of market research methods and analysis
* Solid knowledge of performance reporting and financial/budgeting processes
* Commercial awareness partnered with a strategic mindset
* Excellent organizational and leadership skills
* Outstanding communication and interpersonal abilities
* Proficiency in MS Office and CRM software (e.g., Salesforce)
* Graduate in business administration, finance, or relevant field; MSc/MA advantageous

In return our client is offering a competitive salary and a flexible bonus and benefits package plus the potential for equity.

Interested? If so, to start the confidential process, please submit your CV quoting reference LX 1138147 Telephone 01905 381320

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.

SITE PURCHASING MANAGER – CAPITAL & ENGINEERING PROJECTS

"Excellent, site purchasing opportunity for degree educated MCIPS Purchasing professional with experience of direct and indirect spend and capital/engineering projects"

£Very Competitive + Bonus + Benefits + Relocation Assistance
East Lothian, Scotland. 

Commutable from Edinburgh, Berwick upon Tweed, Dunbar, North Berwick, Haddington, East Linton, Musselbergh, South Queensferry, Livingston, Dalkeith, Bonnyrigg, Bathgate, Glasgow

This is an exciting career development opportunity for a degree educated and ambitious Purchasing professional seeking the next step on the ladder within a UK national environment.

Our client has an opportunity for a Site Purchasing Manager to take the operational purchasing lead for one of its most strategically important engineering/production-based business units. Successful applicants will be part or fully qualified MCIPS qualified and must have previous experience of capital projects/CAPEX Purchasing including MRO and Engineering gained within a high safety culture, manufacturing or processing organisation.

Reporting to the Plant Manager and site management team, with strong links to the HO Purchasing team and Senior BU Purchasing Manager, you will lead and manage operational Purchasing activities including a small team across purchasing, materials and stores. Providing a professional, efficient, and effective service, you well add value through continually building and developing high performing sourcing and ordering activities. You will also deliver innovative stores processes to reduce working capital. You will manage a small team covering stores and materials control and analysis. Spend will £multi million.

The Role:
•    Purchasing at best value with year-on-year cost reduction
•    Ensuring availability of critical spares maintaining high plant availability
•    Reducing working capital in stores including consignment stock deals
•    Act as the primary interface between the site executive team and shared service Purchasing, to deliver sourcing initiatives, Purchasing operational effectiveness and value delivery
•    Provide negotiation, commercial and contractual expertise to the business unit on all Purchasing matters to ensure minimal risk, compliance, and cross functional best practice.
•    Management of savings delivery and measurement including functional KPI’s and MI reporting to business unit executive team and HO.
•    Manage vendor performance, drive compliance to negotiated agreements and deliver value through business unit specific sourcing projects in order to achieve tangible, validated cost savings in line with strategic objectives. This will include compliance to SHE & CSR standards and contractual obligations.
•    Build relationships with vendors and stakeholders to drive value around the operational objectives of the business unit.

The Ideal Applicant:
•    University degree educated
•    Part or fully qualified CIPS
•    Extensive experience in a Purchasing role covering both direct and indirect spend
•    Experience gained within heavy manufacturing and processing industry such as steel, chemical, cement, glass, oil, gas, waste recycling, renewables, power, utilities or similar
•    Experience ideally gained within a CAPEX, MRO and Engineering categories
•    Experience in negotiating, establishing and managing contracts fully
•    Effective people management experience ideally of stores, materials, and stock control personnel
•    Skilled and accurate in drafting tender documents and conditions
•    Excellent stakeholder and supplier management skills
•    Good judgement and analytical ability
•    Ability to handle multiple tasks with awareness of deadlines
•    Ability to develop and implement plans to compliment national strategies
•    Knowledge of health, safety and environmental requirements, COSHH, waste management.
•    Advanced IT skills including Excel and Powerpoint
•    Understanding and application of lean tools in a Purchasing or similar context
Our client offers excellent development and the opportunity to make a real difference in a business that really values its people. Relocation assistance is also available.
To apply without delay, please email your CV, quoting reference LX 1120253

EUROPEAN TALENT DEVELOPMENT ADVISOR

c£50-60000 Bonuses Excellent Blue-Chip Benefits

London - Hybrid Working

Our client is one of the world's largest and most well-respected investment management firms. It manages assets for individual investors, financial intermediaries, and financial institutions.
It is now looking for a European Talent Development Advisor to lead projects and provide guidance on talent management and development of teams and individuals. With minimal support you will design and facilitate learning across Europe, as well as taking a regional lead role on global talent acquisition initiatives. The ideal candidate will also have a keen interest and background in talent analytics with experience of Workday and SAP for People would be highly advantageous. Working independently and in support of local HR Business Partners, this role will build our client's European bench in talent insights and analytics by leveraging systems and making recommendations for enhancements.

The Role:
Talent Development:

• Effectively partner with HR and business colleagues to develop and implement Talent Development programmes, leading projects or components of a large initiative
• Regional lead with US Talent Development team partner on projects
• Facilitate fundamental training related to Talent Management programmes and practices
• Regularly measure results of work and suggests process improvements as necessary
• Connected externally to industry bodies and networks to inform the local HR team and business of developments in Talent management

Talent Management Data & Analytics:

• Responsible for ensuring data integrity for Talent Management
• Proactively analyse and process complex talent data to inform the talent team and wider business strategies
• Lead the testing, implementation, and support of new or modified system changes for Talent Management
• Lead or participate in cross-functional teams in process improvement initiatives and projects
• Advises internal HR teams in the planning and organization of data management elements for Common
• Review, Leadership Development and Recruitment
• Analyse user reporting needs and provides solutions to end-users
• Guide centralize processing teams in the US and Europe with the data management associates outside the US to ensure consistency of processes and timely data entry
• Assist with end user associate system training and contributes to the development of training curriculum

Regulatory Responsibilities - Full Training will be provided in relation to:

• Ownership for SMCR and MiFID K&C processes as related to Continuing Professional Development * Ownership and annual review of regulatory training in partnership with Legal & Compliance
• Supporting Talent Management Manager in GDPR training and ongoing risk mitigation Performs other duties as assigned Skills:
• Effective facilitation and presentation skills.
• A strong drive for results, including the ability to develop a response to obstacles; proactively anticipates the needs of client groups.
• Deep knowledge of HR systems and technologies and ability to apply it to work assignments (Workday preferred)
• Excellent assessment skills, including an understanding of competencies and behavioural and situational interviewing.
• Worked with FCA and EEA regulations e.g. SMCR, GDPR, MiFID would be advantageous
• Demonstrates effective written and oral communication skills with diverse group of team members, hiring managers, and individuals outside the organization

To apply without delay, please email your CV quoting reference LX 1103555 Telephone 01905 381 320 www.martinveasey.com

MANUFACTURING MANAGER

"Transformational change and leadership role for Lean Manufacturing Specialist"

£Very Competitive + 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.

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.

Research & Development Engineer - Advanced Materials Technology

$95000 Bonus Benefits

Acton, Massachusetts, USA

Our client is a world leader in coated fabrics and is looking for people who can make things happen; strive for continuous improvement, and like the challenges of a company which is growing.

They need an R&D Engineer who will work with the technology team to develop the next generation of materials that will maintain the company's position as the technical and cost leader in this market.

Overall responsibility is to develop formulations and products for Automotive Applications and should be capable of generating new concepts and develop products for commercialization.

Responsibilities:

* Team player who can collaborate with the members of the group and cross functional teams
* Evaluate and develop new Polymer compounds that will meet OEM requirements and customer performance requirements including safety applications in automotive interiors.
* Translate customer unmet needs to commercially successful products.
* Evaluate and benchmark raw materials, develop and maintain a tool box of formulations for various applications for automotive interiors
* Attend conferences, interface with suppliers staying ahead of technology and competitors and bring concepts to the team that are new, unique and environmentally and sustainable friendly.
* Work on the scale up of formulations, processes and concepts in manufacturing
* Develop prototypes or test procedures to mimic customer processes or failures.
* Hands-on and be able to support lab, pilot and production trials
* Available to work flexible schedules and willing to travel.

Requirements:

* BSc in Chemistry, Polymeric Materials, Chemical or Plastics Engineering a plus
* At least 3 years' experience demonstrated accomplishments in polymer and olefin chemistry/formulations
* Experience ofR & D/ research & development work with coatings, adhesives, coated fabrics, composites, chemicals preferred
* Organizational and time management skills, attention to detail and the ability to think on the go
* Coordinate and prioritize multiple projects and work under pressure
* Ability to do work autonomously and as part of a team.
* Organized, responsive, proactive team player, manage high-volume workload and stay focused on meeting project and customer objectives.
* Travel as needed.

Please note that this role is only open to US Citizens. Relocation is not available and therefore the role would be ideally suited to candidates who live within commuting distance of the role and who have their own car/transport.

To apply without delay, please email your CV quoting reference LX 1089389 Interviews will be conducted in Massachusetts North America by our US Consultant. www.martinveasey.com