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**NEW VACANCY**One of clients within the fashion industry are looking to hire a Head of Sales & Marketing due to growth ...
13/06/2023

**NEW VACANCY**

One of clients within the fashion industry are looking to hire a Head of Sales & Marketing due to growth of the company.

The successful candidate for the role will have extensive knowledge and experience in both sales and marketing and will be responsible for driving and maximising sales as well as improving their current marketing strategy. The ideal candidate has excellent organizational skills; including attention to details, the ability to set and meet deadlines and the ability to work under pressure. A background in sales, marketing and data analytics is essential. Experience within the fashion industry is also essential.

What you can expect to be doing day to day:

Strategy and planning - Ensuring they have easy access to the key metrics and data needed to drive forward both sales and marketing, this can include sourcing and creating relevant reports using data provided by external consultants. You may also be required to manage their budget and revenue models, and work with department leads to set and measure progress against their quarterly priorities.

Hiring - As a growing business they will need to find A-players to help them achieve their audacious goals. As Head of Sales and Marketing, you may occasionally need to work with their CEO to align on their hiring needs, collaborate with hiring managers across various departments and have overall responsibility for them making their key hires in this department each quarter.

Finance - Collaborate with their external finance support to assess and monitor sales. Key task will include generating sales reports, creating strategic revenue plans, client conversion reports and working on maximising conversion rates.

Marketing - Working closely with the marketing and social media team to create a successful marketing strategy, continually assessing the best way to reach new clients and achieve global recognition for our brand.

About you

The role is designed for someone with a minimum of 3 years sales and marketing experience with a proven history of success in implementing solid sales and marketing strategies and systems.

Interpersonal skills - you will have strong interpersonal skills and understand issues from multiple perspectives.

Effective communication - to be successful in this role, you’ll communicate with and challenge others in an effective and collaborative way.

Prioritisation - you will have excellent prioritisation skills and be able to discern where your team should be spending time and you should make an effort to drive forward wider business priorities and goals.

Making data driven decisions - you will be comfortable analysing and presenting data to internal and external stakeholders and be incredibly data drive in your approach to shaping business priorities.

Project delivery - you can be relied upon to deliver projects through delegation, executing them yourself, project managing, outsourcing or communicating back that we need to pivot our focus

Some benefits include:

Company pension
Private medical insurance
Work from home
Bonus scheme

For more information contact Nick on 07874183148 or [email protected]

**NEW VACANCY**One of our clients are looking for a Strategic Account Manager to join their expanding team in Cardiff, o...
06/04/2023

**NEW VACANCY**

One of our clients are looking for a Strategic Account Manager to join their expanding team in Cardiff, on a hybrid basis.

The Organisation

They provide trade credit insurance, surety and collections services worldwide through a strategic presence in 50 countries. They have access to credit information on 200 million companies worldwide.

Their collections division provides efficient, quick and flexible solutions to collect domestic and international trade debts. With a global network of collections specialists, lawyers and insolvency practitioners worldwide, they serve over 15,000 customers, supporting them to reduce client’s trade risks through our efficient Business to Business focused trade invoice collections services such as Standby Services, Invoice Verification and Factoring transactions.

Job description
Responsible for ensuring business retention and developing existing customer portfolio with the aim of maximising customer profitability. Actively involved in the management of customer portfolios. Responsible for revenue generation, risk management and act as key customer interface for the company. The level of client support is segmented in accordance with the client service required profitability and potential. Key aspects are product delivery, risk management and profitability.

Main responsibilities
First point of contact for strategic clients for answering queries, providing case updates and weekly/monthly reporting
Manages clients portfolio in a proactive way to ensure the customer is supported and informed on all services
Identifies business opportunities and informs the relevant Sales Manager
Supports Sales Managers in maintaining and developing customer relations
Introduce and review department processes and procedures to support customer service continuous improvement
Responsible for ensuring business retention, developing existing customer portfolio with the aim of maximising customer profitability and customer service.
Actively involved in the management of customer portfolios, providing accurate reporting to high level stakeholders
Travel mainly in UK to visit new clients as well as current clients alongside the Sales Manager

Job requirements
High customer orientation / customer focus
Good communicator who easily engages and interacts with new and existing customers using a broad range of channels (Telephone, Email, Face to Face Meetings) and who has the ability to quickly build rapport
Excellent time management and organisational skills
Able to work quickly and accurately, using multiple systems
A self-motivated individual, able to work from own initiative and provide supervision to other team members

What they offer
A dynamic and challenging work environment
Training and support including opportunities for continuous professional development
Attractive terms and conditions, including competitive salary, pension package and a range of flexible benefits and rewards

For more information contact Nick on 07874183148

**NEW VACANCY**One of our clients are looking for a Marketing & Communications Officer to join their expanding team in O...
28/03/2023

**NEW VACANCY**

One of our clients are looking for a Marketing & Communications Officer to join their expanding team in Oxford, on a hybrid basis.

They are looking for a dynamic Marketing Communications Officer to support the implementation of their marketing strategy through delivery of a range of marketing activities, both online and offline, to support the key team objective of lead generation and raising brand awareness. This exciting marketing role is varied with involvement in a wide range of marketing activities from copywriting and website updating to email marketing, event preparation, and social media marketing.

Key Responsibilities:

● Creation of content for use across all marketing channels, to include written articles, interviews, blog posts, creation of presentations, and social media posts

● Updating their website, adding new events, news articles, interviews and campaign pages

● Managing all outbound email marketing, including automated email campaign flows

● Coordinating a forward schedule of student, alumni, and industry speakers

● Managing the Alumni platform and communications

● Working with the content team to ensure the flow of relevant and high quality organic social media content in-line with campaign plans and key messages

● Assisting with some outbound and inbound events as requested by Marketing Manager / Director

● Conducting on-going research (as needed) to identify audience needs / desires / satisfaction and provide insights to continually improve campaigns

● Close and collaborative working with other Marketing Officers across the region to share best practice and ensure a consistency of message which reinforces campaign and brand objectives

Essential Selection Criteria:

● At least one years’ experience in a marketing role

● A degree in Marketing. Communications, Business, or a related field

● Demonstrable experience of the key responsibility areas, including copywriting, website management, managing corporate social media accounts, and email marketing

● Organised, excellent administrative and communication skills, and meticulous attention to detail

● Must have right to live and work in UK

For more information contact Nick on 07874183148

27/03/2023

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17/03/2023

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The key to success is failure!Every lesson is a failure, if you are not willing to fail, you are not ready to succeed......
13/03/2023

The key to success is failure!

Every lesson is a failure, if you are not willing to fail, you are not ready to succeed....

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**NEW VACANCY**One of our clients are looking for a Performance Marketing Manager to join their rapidly growing team bas...
09/03/2023

**NEW VACANCY**

One of our clients are looking for a Performance Marketing Manager to join their rapidly growing team based in Manchester.

They are an agile team operating in a start-up environment. This role comes with responsibility for day-to-day budget management, and the management of external agencies across PPC, paid social and affiliate. Launching and growing their in-house influencer program will be a key part of your remit. The role will also line manage two Marketing Executives covering CRM, social, content and influencer.

This role reports direct into the CMO and offers progression to Head of Performance Marketing for the right candidate.

Role Responsibilities

Working with the CMO to plan, build and execute the marketing strategy for the business and own brand’s, your core objective will be to deliver revenue and traffic growth within a strict COS%.

Agency Management

• Their paid channels are managed by external partners, you will work collaboratively with them to maximise their return on spend, challenging working practices and driving optimisations.

• Proactively seeking opportunities to test new partners and drive the growth of promising new opportunities.

Budget Management and Forecasting

• Responsible for managing spend across PPC, paid social and affiliates within a strict COS% target. • Identifying opportunities for incremental activity and build a proposal for budget sign-off.

• Supporting the CMO on forecasting sitewide and channel performance, working across teams to understand and mitigate risk.

Channel Planning

• Managing two Marketing Executives, helping plan their CRM strategy (both campaign and lifecycle sends), social and live shopping calendars and content

Building Relationships

• Working collaboratively with the ecom team to optimise campaign performance.

• Building relationships across the business, including buying, logistics and customer services, to establish a continuous feedback loop around channel performance and insight into stock, range and competitive offering.

Team Management

• Line managing two Marketing Executives, completing weekly 121s, setting objectives and driving their development.

Experience and Skills

• Proven management experience across performance marketing (PPC, paid social and affiliates are essential, with SEO, CRM and influencers also being preferred), in-house or agency.

• Experience managing budgets autonomously, comfortable making decisions on spend and escalating challenges as required.

• A great communicator, you will be confident speaking to people at all levels across their business, providing regular performance updates and escalating issues where required.

• Comfortable in a high-autonomy environment, embracing ownership of your areas including budget management.

• Confidence managing spend within a strict COS% target is essential and will likely be a core part of your current role.

• Critical thinker with strong problem-solving skills along with the ability to spot challenges, propose solutions and drive-through to completion.

• Exceptional attention to detail with a commitment to professional output, you understand that the way we present their brand across all touchpoints impacts customer perception and ultimately sales and can support others in bringing this to life.

For more information contact Nick on 07874183148

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08/03/2023

Happy International Women's Day to all our loved family members, friends, and co-workers!

**NEW VACANCY**One of our clients in Manchester are looking for a Social Media Manager to join their expanding team.DUTI...
28/02/2023

**NEW VACANCY**

One of our clients in Manchester are looking for a Social Media Manager to join their expanding team.

DUTIES

Working in this fast-paced position, you’ll be responsible for their social media, /blogger/influencer programme, with your finger closely on the pulse of fashion and emerging digital trends. Working collaboratively with their Directors and Head of Marketing, you will develop the social media strategy with the aim of driving brand awareness, trust, follower growth, engagement, and revenue and lead the strategy ex*****on. Along with ownership of the brand aesthetic, perception and tone of voice, you will need a strong understanding of which influencers are best aligned with the brand to showcase products to the highest level, building the brand perception, image and interaction.

Always striving to elevate the brand from how they look, to whom they work with. Duties will include:

- Creating and posting high-quality content appropriate to brand identity
- Planning and scheduling content
- Develop and execute social media strategy, setting objectives to aim towards
- Produce reports for senior management, analysing performance with recommendations for growth
- Continuously conduct industry and competitor research to ensure they stay in line with market trends and the latest tools
- Organising and presenting live shows to present their products, show live orders and any other appropriate ideas
- Establishing VIP partnerships with existing and upcoming celebs / media personalities
- Responding appropriately to engagement across all types of content and messages
- Creating, managing and optimising paid marketing campaigns

THE PERSON THEY'RE LOOKING FOR;

This role will suit a highly confident and skilled individual who can get passionate about fashion and products associated with their brands. You will:

- Have a strong understanding of Meta, TikTok, LinkedIn and Pinterest platforms
- Be an independent, highly creative individual who can think outside of the box
- Preferably, be comfortable in front of and using the camera as you will be expected to Livestream and present their product and brand once the platform criteria are met
- Have to be a likeable character who has great communication skills
- Be a natural self-starter with experience building, managing, measuring and optimising social media accounts
- Have the proven ability to grow social reach and the ability to increase engagement rates across TikTok or other social media platforms
- Be creative, strategic and practical
- Preferably have a good understanding of marketing and copy
- Be honest, transparent, constructive, objective and considerate
- Claim the failures as much as the victories
This is currently a small team and you’ll be reporting to managers who have experience in building brands so you’ll need to be confident in your decisions and recommendations.

You will not be micromanaged and you are expected to take full and independent control of their TikTok account. You will have freedom, but they expect you to “own” the goals you set and report transparently.

This role (including job title and compensation) will develop as the company grows so if you are the right person for the role there is considerable scope for personal and professional development.

EXPERIENCE

Ideally, you’ll have a minimum of 3 years of experience in social media management or a similar discipline.

You’ll have 1 year of paid advertising experience and the technical skills to execute successful paid marketing campaigns.

Preferably, you will have experience working with fashion-related products and accounts.

For more information contact Nick on 07874183148

**NEW VACANCY**One of our clients are looking for a Operations Manager to join their expanding team in Edinburgh.About T...
24/02/2023

**NEW VACANCY**

One of our clients are looking for a Operations Manager to join their expanding team in Edinburgh.

About The Role

They're looking for an experienced, highly organised and efficient Operations Manager who can support our award winning charity in their current period of growth. This is an ideal role for someone who’s looking to grow with the role over time and help lead an expanding team that they will help to create.

You will report to the CEO and work closely with the rest of our small team and your direct reports.

You Must Have:

● Strong management skills with the ability to manage multiple employees, temporary staff and coordinate with volunteers as needed.

● Very strong organisational skills and ability to manage multiple, competing priorities simultaneously.

● Be a team leader

● A good knowledge of IT, enabling you to quickly learn and manage their IT processes.

● Ability to make clear decisions at an operational level to ensure service continuity.

● Ability to take ownership in all aspects of the role, working without close supervision and demonstrating effective self-management.

A few nice to haves include:

● Experience in operations management, preferably within the IT industry.

● Familiarity with using Salesforce or be a quick learner.

● Good verbal and written communication skills.

In terms of the day-to-day activities your role will include:

IT Operations

Day-to-day running of their IT operational processes including:
Wiping operations including using the appropriate software and producing Data Destruction Certificates. Including oversight of the Data Destruction Certification process. Development of new functionality to increase capacity, efficiency and whilst meeting donor security requirements.
PC imaging, striving for efficiency while balancing competing priorities for completing various product lines.
Management of the flow of IT asset processing through the workshop by coordinating between our operations supervisor and volunteers, as well as our two IT Sales executives, taking the relevant decisions to allocate resources accordingly.
Working closely with our IT Development Manager as well as the rest of the team to implement and run new procedures that will improve our operations’ processes and increase our use of automation e.g. barcode scanning apps and automated reporting through Salesforce.
Preparing / planning 40’ container shipments of IT equipment from the UK.
Overall management of Salesforce implementation so your team can ensure donations are sorted and assets labelled in a timely manner with details recorded into Salesforce.
Management of our warehouse stocktake processes.
Working with volunteers to increase the quantity of data entry and use of Salesforce Apps by our volunteers.
Overseeing warehouse flow of IT equipment with other operations staff.

Staff Management

Line management of our Operations Supervisor
Line management of our growing team. Once you have settled into the role we plan to expand our operations team
Line management of temporary, part-time staff through employability programmes as well as interns; up to a typical limit of

Volunteer Supervision

Supporting our Operations Supervisor with volunteer management as needed, alongside the development of our overall volunteer strategy.
Ad hoc training of volunteers in employability skills where relevant.
Warehouse Management

Overall management of the warehouse, ensuring that reporting staff can meet objectives in processing IT equipment efficiently and stock is well organised to maximise the availability of space.
You may from time to time also need to support other responsibilities as required by management in-line with the growth of the organisation to make the most of opportunities as they arise.

For more information contact Nick on 07874183148

**NEW VACANCY**One of our clients are looking for a Sales & Marketing Manager to join there expanding team in Edinburgh...
24/02/2023

**NEW VACANCY**
One of our clients are looking for a Sales & Marketing Manager to join there expanding team in Edinburgh. It is hybrid working, you're expected in their office once a week.

About The Role

They're looking for an experienced, highly organised and efficient Sales & Marketing Manager who can support their award winning charity in their current period of growth.

You will report to the CEO and work closely with the rest of their small team and your direct reports.

You Must Have:

● Very strong organisational skills and ability to manage multiple, competing priorities simultaneously.

● Great communication skills through a range of media: e-mail, virtual, phone and face-to-face enabling you to secure donations of IT equipment.

● Strong management skills with the ability to manage multiple employees and coordinate with volunteers as needed whilst managing dozens of your own donor leads as well.

● The attitude that if you don’t know how something is done, you’ll learn how to do it.

● Ability to make clear, evidence-based decisions to ensure a smooth IT donor journey where there are many competing variables to consider and often ambiguity in circumstances.

● Ability to take ownership in all aspects of the role, working without close supervision and demonstrating effective self-management.

● Be a self-starter. We want you to grow with us and help develop our charity where you spot an opportunity.

A few nice to haves include:

● Experience in remote sales and/or donations management.

● Knowledge on how to maximise the utility of CRM systems and implement them with a growing sales/donations team.

● Be a team leader that can bring about the best from your team and our volunteers.

● A good knowledge of IT and familiarity with the IT industry.

The day-to-day activities your role will include:

Lead Conversion for IT Donations

● This is a proactive sales/donations role with time spent both managing incoming donation enquiries whilst converting leads and cultivating new IT donation opportunities.

● Account manage donors ensuring that donation targets are exceeded, whilst service standards are consistently achieved.

● Development and accurate management of our Salesforce system and database to manage accounts and activities

● Management of our IT collections budget, ensuring a balance between the growth of new high quality IT donations and the costs associated with receiving this equipment.

● Working with their operations team to provide a smooth service and providing all required reporting promptly.

● Managing their network of volunteers and logistics suppliers

● Regular analysis of the market to ensure our charitable offering remains competitive, particularly for key details such as our data destruction process, logistics for collecting equipment and the positive impact the charity makes.

● Attend relevant and appropriate networking events and trade shows. From time to time giving talks about the charity’s work to encourage donations.

Fundraising

● Management of their fundraising activities such as their annual crowdfunder and relationship management with several key donors.

● Management of their donor reporting mechanisms including regular updates, newsletters and thank you letters, working with their teams in Malawi and elsewhere to ensure a steady flow of updates from our beneficiaries.

● Support with sales and donations bookkeeping.

● Support with writing grant applications and tenders.

● Leading our internal communications.

● Working with our website team to continually improve our online presence and developing updated marketing materials on a regular basis.

For more information contact Nick on 07874183148

**NEW VACANCY**One of our clients are looking for a Customer Success Coordinator to join their expanding team within the...
09/02/2023

**NEW VACANCY**

One of our clients are looking for a Customer Success Coordinator to join their expanding team within the fundraising charity sector.

Job description:

My client are looking for their first ever Community Success Coordinator, a pivotal role in the early growth phase of the platform.

The Community Success Coordinator will attract and support a network of influential fundraisers through a program designed to help them beat their fundraising goals.

You’ll need to be a proactive, empathetic relationship builder, with great attention to detail.

The role requires a well-rounded, highly organised candidate who would enjoy the wide- ranging nature of a role in a small team. Multi-tasking with a flexible approach to work is going to be key to this role. If you get a kick out of helping others and are motivated by enabling people to do good, this could be the role for you.

This position is part of the marketing team and will work closely with brand/content and product.

Responsibilities:

- Find, support and develop a network of influential fundraisers to help inspire and grow the community

- Own and build out the community marketing playbook and create a calendar highlighting all key community activations and events

- Meet fundraisers regularly out in the field to build relationships and to understand how they can support them and their needs

- Develop and maintain active and valuable channels of communication with the community

- Relentlessly keep on top of opportunities to support noteworthy fundraisers doing amazing things

- Work with the product team by providing actionable insights in the form of structured and regular fundraiser feedback and testing

- Organise, track and measure information relating to the fundraiser network

- Be the internal voice that represents the community in any product, marketing or strategy planning

- Work with the brand team to plan, produce and distribute community sourced content

- Manage any inbound requests for fundraiser support or sponsorship

Skills and Experience:

- A fire in the belly to work for a purpose-led company making a real difference in the world

- An inherent desire to help other people do good

- Knowledge of fundraising and/or the charity sector

- Community or audience development experience

- Demonstrable project management and organisational skills

- An energetic and clear communicator with a passion for people and building relationships. - Comfortable over Zoom, in person or on the phone

- Fast paced small team mentality with an autonomous approach to getting things done and helping those around them

For more information contact Nick on 07874183148

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Who We Are

We use a bespoke recruitment approach to make sure each individual candidate and clients needs can use our extensive sector knowledge to help excel themselves, building longstanding relationships along the way. To keep our clients thriving and our candidates exceeding, we pride ourselves on our friendly people-focused service.

Peter Angelides – Our inspirational Chairman, investor and entrepreneur, Peter Angelides, was committed to transforming recruitment across all sectors and passionate about making a real and sustainable difference.

Nick Karanicola – Entering the business at director level, Nick brings with him a background in specialist IT recruitment and a wealth of investment experience. Nick understands the need for his team to be efficient, effective and understand the client and candidate brief.