FINANCE MANAGER
“Exciting new role, ideal for ambitious Management Accountant to join international commodity trading business.  Experience of Foreign Exchange (FX), cashflow forecasting & management and reporting and international trade.”

C£65-80000 + Bonus and Benefits

Location: North West London NW11 (Nearest Tube, Northern Line, Tooting Broadway)

Hendon, Hampstead, Brent Cross, Camden Town, Islington, Enfield, Wembley, Hackney, Hammersmith, Holloway, Wood Green, Tottenham, Richmond, Ealing, St Johns Wood, Kilburn, Neasden, Park Royal, Greater London

Our client is well established and successful commodity trading business, specialising in non-ferrous metals and alloys and operating from several international locations.

As part of its ongoing growth strategy, our client has created the new role of Finance Manager to report to the CEO.  Career prospects to Head of Finance/Finance Director or even CFO are a realistic possibility for the successful candidate as our client has enjoyed strong and consistent year on year growth since its inception.  This role would be ideal for a commercially focused ACA or CIMA (or equivalent) qualified and ambitious management /financial accountant.

This is a fast paced, time sensitive environment and the role of Finance Manager will entail close contact with the trading team as they buy and sell metals and alloys across the world.  Therefore, experience of FX Foreign Exchange in multiple currencies will be essential. In addition, the specific focus will be on finance and accounting including cash flow and management reporting.  Our client works in partnership with several banks to facilitate and process large financial transactions – therefore experience of confidently working closely with banks, arranging lines of credit and timely transfer of funds will be critical.

Production of management accounts will be a core part of the role, analysing, reporting, and advising senior leadership based on solid insight and analysis to drive decision-making.   In short you will operate as a trusted business partner.  

You will implement financial processes, controls, and frameworks to manage the full financial cycle including liaison with an outsourced partner for the production of statutory accounts.  The objective will be to bring this function in house in due course.

A creative and practical problem solver you will have a continuous improvement approach and excellent time management skills.  You will be adept at managing strict deadlines with minimal supervision, operating at Board level and with excellent reporting, presentation, interpersonal and relationship building skills.  

Our client operates a small and close-knit team working culture, supporting, and constructively challenging each other to deliver exception results.  So, if you feel that you have skills and experience and desire to play a key role in the strategic growth of an exciting international trading company, increasing turnover and EBIT then contact us straightaway.

To apply, please email your CV, quoting reference LX 950589 to applications@martinveasey.com Telephone 01905 381 320  www.martinveasey.com

CATEGORY BUYERS - DIRECT & INDIRECT SPEND

"Showcase your green credentials by playing a key strategic procurement role within our client's sustainably sourced supply chain."

Salary: £30-35000 Excellent Benefits

North West

Commutable from Lancashire, Greater Manchester, Blackburn, Bury, Rochdale, Bolton, Whitefield, Bacup, Rawtenstall, Accrington, Haslingden, Oswaldtwistle, Burnley, Rishton, Darwen, Ramsbottom, Whitworth, Heywood, Middleton, Padiham

Our client is part of a European plc, specializing in flooring and associated products for the UK and international residential and commercial market sectors selling via retailers, distributors and contractors. A pioneering innovator our client has built its name on industry leading design, especially in regard to sustainability.

They are now looking to recruit two Category Buyers to take responsibility for service excellence within allocated indirect and direct commodity/category groups. These are very demanding and challenging roles that call for pro-active problem-solvers with a track record of success within a pressurized fast moving manufacturing environment.

As a Category Buyer your role will encompass financial analysis, negotiating, supplier management, sourcing and tendering, ethical and sustainable supply chain and procure to pay systems.

The positions will involve managing the budget of specific categories, taking responsibility for delivery against designated category budgets and contributing to corporate financial targets, while ensuring the best possible range of sustainably and ethically sourced recycled and recyclable materials are available to meet manufacturing/production programmes. This could include materials purchased on the commodity markets such as chemicals and adhesives, wood, bio-oils, synthetic rubber, limestone as well as recycled or recyclable materials to repurpose into new products. You will also be responsible for indirect categories such as energy, HR services, logistics, maintenance solutions. This will be achieved through identifying and implementing category strategies in line with organisational objectives.

Key responsibilities will include:

* Maintaining the effectiveness of procurement operations through excellent financial analysis and market research, reviewing prices and contracts in line with trends and forecasts.

* Building and maintaining ongoing relationships with external suppliers as well as internal colleagues

* Ongoing evaluation of current and future requirements for supply

* Taking overall responsibility for sourcing new suppliers and negotiating prices

* Contribute to the development of category strategies and plan

* Monitor and evaluate supplier performance and continuity of lower carbon footprint supply on an ongoing basis

* Monitor and review contract delivery by checking contract costs against budget

* Negotiate improvements in supplier performance

* Dealing with and resolving all supply chain issues quickly and efficiently

Ability, attitude and approach are key attributes to be successful in this role. You must be tenacious, pursuing results vigorously and conscientiously with a pro-active approach to problem-solving. You will be highly influential, persuasive and able to perform consistently in a highly pressurised environment. Strong stakeholder engagement and first-class interpersonal skills including the confidence to communicate at all levels are key.

Ideally, candidates should be degree educated with previous procurement, category management, buying and sourcing experience gained in a manufacturing environment. You must demonstrate a strong commercial awareness and highly developed negotiating skills. Part of full membership of the Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply (MCIPS) would be highly desirable.

In addition, the successful candidate will have excellent IT skills. These skills must include a good working knowledge of Excel spreadsheets and ERP systems.

Career prospects are outstanding, and this is a real opportunity for candidates with endless enthusiasm and drive to advance their career within a fast-moving environment.

HEALTH AND SAFETY CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT MANAGER

"Excellent career development opportunity with global multinational, within lean manufacturing and engineering environment, for a graduate calibre, chartered Health & Safety professional to lead and continually improve a best in class health and safety function within one of their rapidly expanding business units"

C £45000 (Dependent On Experience) Benefits

Location: West Midlands

Commutable from Atherstone, Nuneaton, Tamworth, Dordon, Coventry, Bedworth, Leamington Spa, Warwick, Stratford on Avon, Walsall, Sutton Coldfield, Coleshill, Cannock, Rugeley, Burton upon Trent, Birmingham, Bromsgrove, Redditch, Solihull, Nuneaton, Lichfield, Ashby de la Zouche, Leicester, Coventry, Rugby, Lutterworth, Stoke on Trent, Stafford, Wolverhampton

Our client is a major diversified industrial group, part of a global multinational, specialising in the B2B sector. Safety is their first and foremost objective in all its activities. It operates a number of manufacturing and logistics sites throughout the UK and is seeking a Health and Safety Continuous Improvement Officer to take the lead within one of their smaller specialist business units which is experiencing growth both organic and via acquisition.

Our client is seeking a graduate calibre, NEBOSH qualified, chartered IOSH Health and Safety professional with a track gained within a multinational, multi-site, matrix organisation, who will be experienced in working closely with stakeholders at senior executive, including the Group Health & Safety Manager on a regular basis within the business unit, the group and the plc. Ideally this experience will have been gained with a lean continuous improvement environment and you will be adept at ensuring that the approach to health and safety also mirrors and works in parallel with changes and developments within manufacturing and engineering processes.

As Health & Safety Continuous Improvement Manager, you will report to the Group Health & Safety Manager and will take responsibility for health and safety at three manufacturing units located in Warwickshire and Hertfordshire. Each unit specialises in the manufacture and supply of a range of high-quality architectural products produced from stainless steel sheet and extruded aluminium for use in major construction projects large and small in the UK and overseas. Therefore, experience of health and safety within a similar manufacturing environment using processes such as metal welding's, precision CNC fabrication and forming would be useful. As a critical health and safety business partner you will specifically support, challenge, inspire and coach the leadership teams across each manufacturing site and their line management in terms of delivering and continuously improving the health & safety strategy across their facility. The focus will be on the development of a highly effective, best in class health and safety culture, values, behaviours, systems and processes; ensuring zero harm; ongoing legal compliance and excellent organisational and business unit health and safety standards in line with 18001 and transition to 45001 Certification.

The Role:

* To guide, support and lead business unit leadership and their line management in the creation, delivery and continuous improvement of the health and safety strategy and roadmap.

* To guide and support the business unit teams in the compliance, monitoring and continuous improvement of all health and safety standards, policies, procedures and management systems.

* Ensure that safety improvement plans are developed within the business unit implemented and monitored across all sites in compliance with UK legal requirements and corporate health and safety strategy.

* Providing expertise, leadership and specialist advice to your health and safety advisory team and business unit management teams as required.

* Training, guidance and coaching to line managers to enable them to understand and effectively utilise the health and safety management system, in accordance with ISO 18001 certification and the transfer to ISO 45001.

* Support and enable effective critical and high potential incident investigations to be completed by line managers in order to identify the immediate and underlying causes and the appropriate corrective/preventative actions.

* To provide the appropriate level of challenge and help in developing actions to avoid repeat incidents.

* Facilitate the effective communication of health and safety issues and learning points generated by the business unit across the whole group in the UK and with industry bodies.

* To identify themes and help develop, implement and monitor health and safety strategies which will help to continually improve the business unit's health and safety performance year on year.

The Ideal Candidate:

* Of graduate calibre i.e. HNC/HND, BA, BEng, BSc, MSc

* NEBOSH qualified

* Chartered IOSH member

* Consistent career history within health and safety management roles in large, multi-site, corporate environment within manufacturing and logistics. This could be at Health & Safety Coordinator or Health & Safety Advisor or Health & Safety Officer or Health & Safety Manager. Clear understanding and belief in behavioural based safety and visible felt leadership.

* A strong focus on continuous improvement in relation to health and safety within a lean manufacturing and engineering environment would be especially beneficial.

* Excellent interpersonal and relationship building skills, experienced in persuading and influencing stakeholders at business unit leadership and operational, group and plc level.

* Up to date knowledge of current UK legislation including OSHAS 18001:2007

* Excellent analytical and strategic influencing skills and track record of continuously and proactively improving health and safety standards.

* Recent experience of managing 2-3 small to medium sized individual manufacturing or processing units.

* Good coaching and mentoring skills.

* Proven experience of health and safety systems development tailored to business operational and strategic needs including risk mitigation and incident investigation.

* Strong health and safety management system auditing experience.

* A highly responsive, supportive and inspirational critical health and safety business partner. A real committed team player.

* Professional, discrete, diplomatic and tactful at all times.

* Experienced in dealing with regulatory bodies.

* Computer literate including Excel and Powerpoint.

MRO Field Service Planning & Logistics Coordinator - Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire

"A challenging opportunity for a field service planning and logistics coordinator to undertake resource planning and work schedule allowance to a national, remotely based, field service MRO maintenance and repair team."

Salary c£28000 Excellent Benefits

Location: Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire (Hybrid Working)
Commutable from Bedford, Cambridge, Peterborough, Ely, Kettering, Corby.

Are you looking for a role that is office based with Hybrid working available?

How would you like to be a part of one of the world's leading renewable energy companies?
As a result of continued growth, they now require a Field Service Planning & Logistics Coordinator.
Our client needs someone with your experience of planning and coordination for its national field service maintenance and repair team. You will undertake resource planning allocating and planning work schedules to cover both planned maintenance and repair of its equipment. You will work with an internal technical support and customer account to ensure that remotely and regionally based 2-man teams of field service maintenance and repair technicians are accurately and efficiently dispatched to undertake work across various regions and multiple locations in the UK & Scotland ensuring excellent customer service.

The role of Field Service Planning & Logistics Coordinator would suit an individual who has excellent teamworking skills and who are, by nature, proactive and diplomatic.

The Role:
* Coordinate and plan the movements of service technicians undertaking mechanical and electrical maintenance and repair including emergency repair of equipment, ensuring their travel route and schedule is effective and efficient. Being mindful of individual capabilities/ skill sets. The objective being to have the right skill set with the right tools/materials in appropriate vehicle to access site and deliver the specific scope of work.
* Maintain consistent, positive and effective communication with in-house technicians to ensure smooth transition of teams to faults & planned preventative maintenance works
* Ensure that all necessary resources are planned to ensure efficient maintenance schedules and no lost time.
* Planning on going maintenance alongside daily emergency repair planning whilst still monitoring and updating the overall maintenance service plan.
* Day to day contact with customers relating to operational and equipment breakdown related service queries.
* Arranging induction requirements for technicians where sites require, ahead of attendance
* Liaison with Statutory Inspection coordinator when planning to avoid site conflicts of interest
* Provide effective manpower handover to the internal technical support team at the end of the working day to ensure effective continuation of service including updates on daily events and issues where required
* Work with the team leaders and Area Managers to organise and promote on call duties and rotas for weekends, bank holidays and other cover where required. Ensure there is full coverage and support for weekend working and cover
* To keep track of where outdoor employees are at any given time. Manage outdoor employees' bookings on and off as part of Health & Safety/ duty of care
* To keep a record of service technician's sickness, other absences, training courses and working hours
* Authorise technicians' holidays making sure that you always check their current entitlement beforehand
* If and where necessary, provide a tactful and empathetic response to technician's questions and queries

The Ideal Candidate:
* Educated to A level/HND/Degree level in business administration, logistics or engineering
* Currently undertaking a resource planning and coordination role within field service engineering, maintenance and repair operations, logistic/traffic planning, warehousing/distribution, or other similar environments.
* Excellent organisational and planning skills, used to multi-tasking dealing with planned schedules of work e.g. maintenance and also emergency issues such as repairs or urgent despatches.
* Confident and used to liaising and communicating with remotely based employees or employees who are going to be out in the field undertaking repairs or making deliveries.
* Highly customer service focused and used to communicating with and updating customers in a timely, tactful, and diplomatic manner.
* A team player used to working cross functionally with colleagues in engineering/logistics, technical support, and customer service to ensure that our client's customer service promises are met.
* Calm and professional manner.
* A good geographical knowledge of the UK.
* Systems literate to undertake planning. MS office proficient, SAP experience, SCADA usage would be advantageous.

In return our client offers a competitive base salary plus benefits including hybrid working available.

MRO Field Service Planning & Logistics Coordinator - Inverness, Highlands
"A challenging opportunity for a field service planning and logistics coordinator to undertake resource planning and work schedule allowance to a national, remotely based, field service MRO maintenance and repair team."

Salary c£28000 Excellent Benefits

Location: Inverness, Highlands, Scotland

Are you looking for a role that is office based with Hybrid working available?

How would you like to be a part of one of the world's leading renewable energy companies?

As a result of continued growth, they now require a Field Service Planning & Logistics Coordinator.

Our client needs someone with your experience of planning and coordination for its national field service maintenance and repair team. You will undertake resource planning allocating and planning work schedules to cover both planned maintenance and repair of its equipment. You will work with an internal technical support and customer account to ensure that remotely and regionally based 2-man teams of field service maintenance and repair technicians are accurately and efficiently dispatched to undertake work across various regions and multiple locations in the UK & Scotland ensuring excellent customer service.

The role of Field Service Planning & Logistics Coordinator would suit an individual who has excellent teamworking skills and who are, by nature, proactive and diplomatic.

The Role:
* Coordinate and plan the movements of service technicians undertaking mechanical and electrical maintenance and repair including emergency repair of equipment, ensuring their travel route and schedule is effective and efficient. Being mindful of individual capabilities/ skill sets. The objective being to have the right skill set with the right tools/materials in appropriate vehicle to access site and deliver the specific scope of work.
* Maintain consistent, positive and effective communication with in-house technicians to ensure smooth transition of teams to faults & planned preventative maintenance works
* Ensure that all necessary resources are planned to ensure efficient maintenance schedules and no lost time.
* Planning on going maintenance alongside daily emergency repair planning whilst still monitoring and updating the overall maintenance service plan.
* Day to day contact with customers relating to operational and equipment breakdown related service queries.
* Arranging induction requirements for technicians where sites require, ahead of attendance
* Liaison with Statutory Inspection coordinator when planning to avoid site conflicts of interest
* Provide effective manpower handover to the internal technical support team at the end of the working day to ensure effective continuation of service including updates on daily events and issues where required
* Work with the team leaders and Area Managers to organise and promote on call duties and rotas for weekends, bank holidays and other cover where required. Ensure there is full coverage and support for weekend working and cover
* To keep track of where outdoor employees are at any given time. Manage outdoor employees' bookings on and off as part of Health & Safety/ duty of care
* To keep a record of service technician's sickness, other absences, training courses and working hours
* Authorise technicians' holidays making sure that you always check their current entitlement beforehand
* If and where necessary, provide a tactful and empathetic response to technician's questions and queries

The Ideal Candidate:
* Educated to A level/HND/Degree level in business administration, logistics or engineering
* Currently undertaking a resource planning and coordination role within field service engineering, maintenance and repair operations, logistic/traffic planning, warehousing/distribution, or other similar environments.
* Excellent organisational and planning skills, used to multi-tasking dealing with planned schedules of work e.g. maintenance and also emergency issues such as repairs or urgent despatches.
* Confident and used to liaising and communicating with remotely based employees or employees who are going to be out in the field undertaking repairs or making deliveries.
* Highly customer service focused and used to communicating with and updating customers in a timely, tactful, and diplomatic manner.
* A team player used to working cross functionally with colleagues in engineering/logistics, technical support, and customer service to ensure that our client's customer service promises are met.
* Calm and professional manner.
* A good geographical knowledge of the UK.
* Systems literate to undertake planning. MS office proficient, SAP experience, SCADA usage would be advantageous.

In return our client offers a competitive base salary plus benefits including hybrid working available.

RECRUITMENT RESOURCER/RESEARCHER

Nr Pershore, Worcestershire (Hybrid Office/Remote Home Working available)

£Very Competitive Benefits Bonus

If you've worked in recruitment for any length of time, you'll know it's a complex industry. An outsider may think it's simply about posting an advert, sending CVs, billing a fortune, then heading off to the nearest Audi showroom.

But you know there's so much more to being a recruiter. You need to be great at business development, account management, researching and interviewing candidates, positioning suitable candidates to the client, organising interviews, and on it goes.

Having done that for a while, maybe you've realised that one of those elements stands out more for you than the others. For example, possibly you know your strengths lie in researching and selecting candidates rather than the sales-based parts of your role.

If that's the case, you're probably feeling trapped in your current position. Some recruiters view resourcing as a low-level role. A backroom staff position while they are the stars of the show. Your company may consider it the same and frown upon you wanting to 'take a step back'.

At Martin Veasey Talent Solutions, we view it very differently. We know that attracting and assessing appropriate candidates is a crucial part of the recruitment process, and we value our resourcers as highly as anyone else in our team.

As such, we've invested heavily in our researching function with state-of-the-art software and tools to help our resourcers locate the best candidates for our clients. In addition, we work globally, with clients across every continent, so you will be able to grow your skills and experience by working with international candidates.

Our expertise lies in the engineering, manufacturing, pharmaceutical, supply chain, purchasing, logistics, and construction industries, so your experience in any of those sectors will count in your favour. However, we're happy to consider other related backgrounds as well.

As for locations, we're reasonably flexible on you either working purely from our offices in Worcester or a hybrid involving working from home as well.

There are many more details to discuss, so please indicate your interest in this role by emailing your CV to and quoting reference #843224 or call us on 01905 381 320.

BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR - EUROPE - HUMAN CAPITAL SOLUTIONS

"Sales Hunter/New Business Development role for Consultative Solutions Professional with strong consistent and recent track record of sales to C Suite HR, Sales and Marketing, Procurement functions.

£/€Competitive Six Figure Base Salary + Excellent Bonus + Blue Chip Benefits including Car/Allowance

Location: Flexible Pan European Field and Home based - UK, Germany, Switzerland or Benelux

If you had a business with 20,000 employees or more, how would you motivate them? You might need to be a bit more creative than arranging a night out at a bowling alley or having Pizza Friday.

That's what our client does. They create human capital solutions such as bespoke incentivisation, rewards, or performance management solutions for large, Fortune 500-type companies.

And now they need a hunter. A new business hunter to search out the big deals.

Someone who loves landing multi-million dollar deals and has the patience to nurture these long-gestation contracts.

As an experienced business development director, you'll have already realised that this isn't about brochure-based selling. It's a consultative solution sell, involving careful planning and consideration of the key people to target within a prospective client.

As a graduate-calibre sales professional, you'll need to use your top-level strategic sales skills to identify and map the prospective organisation to establish the C suite stakeholders involved and plot a route through to the board-level decision-makers, who are your ultimate target.

As for your background, because of the nature of our client's contracts, they're keen to see longevity in your previous roles selling human capital solutions. Their contracts can take up to a couple of years to develop from prospecting through to sign-off, so you'll need to demonstrate your stamina for working on those types of £multi-million deals.

Your previous industry experience might include selling human capital solutions such as large scale, bespoke HR, talent management and development, payroll, pension, compensations and benefits systems or rewards, sales incentivisation systems or employee engagement solutions. Whatever your human capital sales background, you'll need to show your abilities for constructing bespoke, consultative sales solutions for large multi-national companies.

This role covers the whole of Europe, so you'll also need to be based in one of the central hubs in Germany, France, Switzerland, the Benelux, or the UK.

As you can imagine, there are many other details to discuss, so please indicate your interest by emailing your CV quoting reference LX 773226

BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR - EUROPE - HUMAN CAPITAL SOLUTIONS

"Sales Hunter/New Business Development role for Consultative Solutions Professional with strong consistent and recent track record of sales to C Suite HR, Sales and Marketing, Procurement functions.

£/€Competitive Six Figure Base Salary + Excellent Bonus + Blue Chip Benefits including Car/Allowance

Location: Flexible Pan European Field and Home based - UK, Germany, Switzerland or Benelux

If you had a business with 20,000 employees or more, how would you motivate them? You might need to be a bit more creative than arranging a night out at a bowling alley or having Pizza Friday.

That's what our client does. They create human capital solutions such as bespoke incentivisation, rewards, or performance management solutions for large, Fortune 500-type companies.

And now they need a hunter. A new business hunter to search out the big deals.

Someone who loves landing multi-million dollar deals and has the patience to nurture these long-gestation contracts.

As an experienced business development director, you'll have already realised that this isn't about brochure-based selling. It's a consultative solution sell, involving careful planning and consideration of the key people to target within a prospective client.

As a graduate-calibre sales professional, you'll need to use your top-level strategic sales skills to identify and map the prospective organisation to establish the C suite stakeholders involved and plot a route through to the board-level decision-makers, who are your ultimate target.

As for your background, because of the nature of our client's contracts, they're keen to see longevity in your previous roles selling human capital solutions. Their contracts can take up to a couple of years to develop from prospecting through to sign-off, so you'll need to demonstrate your stamina for working on those types of £multi-million deals.

Your previous industry experience might include selling human capital solutions such as large scale, bespoke HR, talent management and development, payroll, pension, compensations and benefits systems or rewards, sales incentivisation systems or employee engagement solutions. Whatever your human capital sales background, you'll need to show your abilities for constructing bespoke, consultative sales solutions for large multi-national companies.

This role covers the whole of Europe, so you'll also need to be based in one of the central hubs in Germany, France, Switzerland, the Benelux, or the UK.

As you can imagine, there are many other details to discuss, so please indicate your interest by emailing your CV quoting reference LX 773226

Sales Managers - Fast Track Career Development Programme

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

Base Salary £50-70000 OTE £150,00 -200,000 (Year 1-3) & Fantastic Benefits

Bedfordshire, East Midlands UK

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

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

Life is good. You're earning decent money.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

MECHANICAL ENGINEER - PLANT IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS

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

£Very Competitive Bonus Excellent Benefits Relocation Assistance

Location: East Lothian, Scotland

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

SITE ENGINEERING MANAGER - PRODUCTION & PROCESSING PLANT
"Exciting, high profile role for experienced Engineering Manager to join UK market leader at its flagship lean production & processing site"
£60-65000 Bonus & Benefits
Northern Home Counties
Commutable from Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Northamptonshire, Hertfordshire, Oxfordshire, Cambridgeshire

Our client is a market leader and operates several plants in the UK.

They are seeking an experienced Site Engineering Manager to take the lead at a strategically important site located in the Northern Home Counties.

Reporting to the Site Manager, the Engineering Manager, will operate as part of a national Engineering & Manufacturing Excellence function and will lead a team of electricians and mechanical fitters, ensuring that plant equipment and maintenance systems are maintained, developed and improved within a lean manufacturing and Continuous Improvement environment and culture. The focus is safety first and zero harm and as Site Engineering Manager you will champion and proactively promote this safe working ethos amongst your team and contractors. You will lead the daily management of a production critical maintenance department on a processing/manufacturing site which operates on a 24/7 basis. Assets include hydraulics, pneumatics, conveyors, batching plant, curing chambers, steam, boiler systems, PLC's, variable speed drives, cutting, packaging and palletising equipment, robots.

Therefore, our client is seeking an Engineering professional (mechanical or electrical) with a recent track record of engineering and maintenance team leadership gained within a "best in class", quality focused, manufacturing operation.

As a member of the senior management team, the Site Engineering Manager will manage an experienced and competent team of mechanical and electrical engineers and will work with the Production Manager and cross functional colleagues in implementing all maintenance operations both, mechanical and electrical across inspection, planning, scheduling, execution and improvement phases. The focus will be on delivering a culture of continuous improvement and proactive maintenance not only in maintenance operations but also safety and health, environmental compliance and plant reliability, establishing strong relationships both internally with central Engineering and Manufacturing Excellence and externally with OEMS and contractors.

The Role
* Develop a high-performing engineering and maintenance team with a culture of delivery and continuous improvement through effective leadership and management to deliver operational excellence.
* Ensure compliance with all relevant statutory legislation and the internal company Safety, Health and Environmental Standards.
* Drive improvements in plant availability and performance, including costs, through the implementation of company engineering maintenance best practices across the whole site.
* Own, develop and evolve the engineering maintenance strategy, implementing a common maintenance platform.
* To monitor and ensure implementation and delivery of engineering maintenance procedures, initiatives and controls across all areas of responsibility.
* Liaise between functions to ensure team work, consistency, co ordination and best practice to eliminate losses from poor practices or communication and to expedite learning.
* As part of the senior management team, develop annual maintenance budgets, highlighting operational constraints and the value adding performance that Engineering can make.
* Ensure the application of defect elimination/Pareto/root cause failure analysis to all losses and be responsible for the recommendation/implementation of solutions.
* Management of the established site maintenance, planning and cost reporting systems to maximise their potential to the organisation.
* Keep abreast of and apply where appropriate new condition monitoring technologies, maintenance improvement 'tools' and processes.
* Support the development of engineering staff by defining, and where necessary, providing training in activities that support maintenance improvement and coaching.
* Define and implement KPI's to monitor the performance of all maintenance employees and contractors.
* Apply and communicate the national engineering and maintenance improvement strategy for the site including proactively supporting cross functionally to ensure maintenance practices are adopted and implemented.

The Ideal Candidate:

* Qualified in engineering with a good understanding of mechanical engineering and electrical engineering. Qualifications in 17th or 18th edition, IOSH, NEBOSH would be highly advantageous although training will be provided
* Your engineering & maintenance team management experience will be from a very high safety culture, heavy industrial processing sector such as steel, chemicals, cement, construction materials, energy/power or similar environment.
* Experience using lean and continuous improvement techniques including root cause analysis and fault-finding techniques will be critical to success. Change and project management experience will therefore be highly advantageous.
* You will have experience of preparing and managing engineering budgets.
* An appreciation of a wide variety of engineering disciplines i.e. electrical, mechanical, chemical, process control and optimisation will be critical to success and credibility in this role.
* Excellent project management skills are essential as you will play a key site lead role, as part of the national engineering and manufacturing excellence team, on capital expenditure projects.
* A high level of IT literacy is essential i.e. Microsoft and maintenance management and process control systems.
* You will be an excellent communicator both in written and verbal format with executive presence, gravitas and technical and professional credibility.
* You will have a demonstrable track record of maintenance team leadership, motivation and development, working closely with HR to produce competency matrices, training plans, talent identification, coaching and mentoring.
* You will be an adept at engaging at all levels from the maintenance team to senior management nationally and cross functionally, with well-honed persuasion and influencing skills.

SALES TEAM MANAGERS - HOLIDAY RESERVATIONS

"Join a travel industry market leader, renowned for its excellent customer experience."

£28500 (OTE £32-35000) Excellent Benefits (Hybrid Working)

Cheshire (Hybrid Working)

Commutable from Ellesmere Port, Mold, Wrexham, Birkenhead, Wallasey, Chester, Warrington, Runcorn, Widnes, Liverpool, Crewe, Knutsford, Macclesfield, South Manchester, Wigan, Newton le Willows, Leigh, Heywood, Skelmersdale.

Usually, when you see a job advertised for someone to manage a team of twelve sales agents, you would immediately think "call centre".

You'd get a mental picture of a vast office packed with people engaged in high-pressure sales techniques and KPI charts all over the place.

This one is very different.

As one of the leading holiday cottage rental companies in the UK, our client's core focus is on giving their customers the best experience possible, and this starts at the first phone call.

When customers phone the sales team, they often have specific requests for their holiday property. For example, they may have mobility access requirements, off-road parking, or a bright pink hot tub. Whatever they need, their sales agents work with them to find the perfect rental property in the correct location.

As such, they use a consultative selling approach to tailor the best deal for their clients. And that can take time, so measuring call times and aggressively pushing a sale doesn't work for them. That's one of the reasons they have been on the Sunday Times' Best Companies to Work For list for the past two years.

They want their customers to tell other people about their positive experience and leave fantastic reviews about the service they had from the agent.

That's where you come in.

As one of four sales team managers, your job is to make sure the agents in your team are well-trained and capable of delivering a premium customer experience. So, you'll guide, mentor, motivate, and develop your team's skills through daily/weekly/ monthly 121 meetings, feedback sessions and in-call monitoring.

As the company operates from 9 am until 9 pm, they operate a shift system, with managerial cover in place at the head office in Chester at all times. So, sometimes you and your team will work from home, but other times you'll be based from the office.

Our client envisages your background may include working in a luxury, bespoke or high street travel agency, an aircraft cabin crew team leader, kitchen/bathroom sales, quality furniture retail sales, possibly even a wedding or conference/events manager. Wherever you've worked before, you'll know what first-class customer service involves and have the drive to instil those values into your team.

As you can imagine, there are many other details to discuss, so please indicate your interest by emailing your CV quoting reference LX 931158