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If you're looking for your next role, we've put together a job seeker checklist to help with your search.
If you have ever found yourself daydreaming at your desk about a better life, redundancy could be a blessing in disguise. It could be the push you need to find a much more rewarding job with a better company. Below you will find a few pointers we think will boost your chances of securing a new role quickly.
- Ask your old employer to provide a written reference that can be used in your CV. If you’re a manager, ask your team for a reference too.
- Update your LinkedIn profile and ensure you mark yourself as “Interested in Opportunities” – Specify what you are interested in, and where.
- Write your CV making sure you keep to a maximum of 2 pages where possible and listing your experience in reverse chronological order (most recent job to least recent).
- Ask a professional to review your CV (a recruiter, HR Manager or similar) link to CV writing guide)
- Once you’re happy, post your CV on to popular job boards. We find the most effective generalist boards are, Reed, CV Library and Indeed. You should include a very brief cover note on your CV saying what you’re looking for and where you’re prepared to work. If you’re willing to take freelance jobs or perm, note that down too. Always try to provide guide on salary (most boards will ask for you to select a bracket)
- Utilise your own network. Make it very clear to everyone you know that you’re looking, have they seen or heard of any roles going that might suit you? Can they recommend you to friends?
- Contact trusted recruiters and register your details, try to actually speak to someone where possible, the more experienced the recruiter the better.
- Spend time researching companies that you’re interested in before approaching them directly – where possible try to email the most senior people in each business and also connect with them on LinkedIn explaining (briefly) why they might be interested in you.
- Remember, always try to put yourself in the employer’s shoes, why should they hire you? It’s not all about what you want, it’s what you are able to bring to their company.
- Chase people up. It is no longer sufficient just to click apply, hiring managers have so many applications that it pays to contact them directly and check they have received your details. Push them for feedback, if you’re not right for that job, do they have any others that might suit you?
- Record a one minute elevator pitch for yourself and post on your social media. You can also include a link to the video on your applications, it is a huge differentiator.
- Don’t get downhearted – it’s very easy to quickly become despondent when applying for jobs and not receiving any positive responses. Stick to these guidelines and keep on going, the right job will eventually find you.
Looking to write or improve your CV, we have a guide to writing CV's here. If you're looking at applying for a role with us, you can send over your resume for us to check.
Latest Jobs
Senior Paid Social Executive
Milton Keynes
Senior Paid Social Executive - Marketing Agency - £30,000
After securing some exciting new business wins as well as growing existing accounts significantly, this B2B technology marketing agency of 50 people are going from strength to strength. They have continued to grow during lockdown and are investing heavily in their digital media team in 2020. One of these key hires is for a Paid Social Executive who has some experience on the B2B side using Facebook & LinkedIn especailly.
The Role & Benefits:
This role would perfectly suit someone with around 2 years of Paid Social experience who has had exposure to LinkedIn advertising as well as Facebook. You will work alongside a very talented media team and report in to the head of media, who will help develop and progress you within the agency . You can expect a flexible, collaborative and innovative environment in an agency who are very much on the up.
Ideally, candidates will:
- Have roughly 2 years of roudned paid social experience, notably some LinkedIn. Agency side beneficial, but not essential.
- Experience exectuing and optimising paid social campaigns devised by the Media planning managers.
- Desire to learn more of the strategic media planning side of things
- Able to devise client reports on the successfullness of campaigns.
- Some exposure to paid search campaigns
What will you get in return?
In addition to a very competitive starting salary, you will also receive the below benefits:
- Great opportunity to join a highly reputable and growing agency
- Strong benefits including 25 days holiday, matched pension, career progression
- Chance to work with tier one global tech brands
- Really motivated, driven and fresh media team to work with
- Market leading salary outside of London.
- Report straight in to the media director for guidance and development
Commercial Excellence Manager
Leicestershire
Commercial Excellence Manager, £50,000 £7,500 Car Allowance Bonus - East Midlands
Do you have a passion for Data Analysis, Insight and creating smart commercial strategy?
Our client is currently looking for a Commercial Excellence Manager to join their ever-growing family and be part of the Senior Leadership Management while leading your own team.
What do they do?
They are a specialist leading wound care innovator and global supplier of ground-breaking wound care treatments and healthcare technologies. The company has gone through a period of considerable growth and expansion and does not want to stop there! With an aspiring and exciting plan in place of doubling turnover in the UK and Europe.
What they would like from you.
- Strong analytical skills, tenacity, and interpersonal skills
- Prior experience of commercial strategy, sales and marketing and business process modelling (Desirable)
- Line management experience
- Understand the current and future challenges facing the company and drive the strategic approach for improvement
- Demonstrate strong presentation skills at senior management and board level as well as commercial awareness and communication skills.
- Explain and present complex issues in an accessible way (Explain story behind the data)
- Excel, SQL and SAS would be ideal
- Degree educated
What's in it for you?
- You can expect to receive an excellent basic salary
- Car Allowance £7,500
- Bonus Profit Share
- Opportunity to travel (UK & Internationally)
- WFH 2 days a week (Post Covid)
- Private healthcare and pension
- Join a highly qualified, professional, and motivated team of bright people in an easily accessible, comfy office.
- Drive process improvements and challenge the status quo.
- Be part of an exciting company that will push and support you to move forward in your career and the freedom to express yourself within the role.
If you would like to know more about this position, then please click on the link to apply.
SEO Account Manager
London
SEO Consultant - Integrated Agency - Central London - £35,000 (Flexible Working offered)
This is a dream job for anyone who wishes they could have more impact in their current agency...
It's your opportunity to join a boutique, growing, well-backed start-up marketing communications business who have already beaten their yearly target and are hiring fast, with over 10 employees already. They have been set up to reward employees and ensure you grow as they do.
Their investors are very excited about the technology that underpins their agency, which ensures that their clients have full visibility when it comes to cross channel performance and effectiveness.
They are based in Oxford Street (after lockdown!). They are looking for a talented, ambitious SEO specialist to join them on a permanent basis, helping develop and implement SEO solutions for a range of their clients whilst working alongside cross-functional teams.
The Role & Benefits:
This role would perfectly suit someone with around 2 years of rounded SEO experience who is eager to get more involved with the strategic side as well as client handling. You will work alongside a very talented team comprised of PR, digital and comms specialists to deliver the SEO on intergrated campaigns. You can expect a flexible, collaborative and innovative environment under the leadership of two highly proven agency side co-founders.
Ideally, candidates will have a strong blend of the below skills / Experience:
- Have roughly 2-3 years of roudned SEO experience. Agency side beneficial, but not essential.
- Experience in on-page and off page SEO and link-building.
- Able to run comprehensive SEO audits
- Comfortable devising reports and building relationships with clients
- Experience with SEMrush as well as other popular platforms / tools
What will you get in return?
In addition to a very competitive starting salary, you will also receive the below benefits:
- A radically transparent bonus structure, where you could receive up to 30% of salary depending on company and personal performance.
- They also contribute some of their outperformance to charitable causes - and you help choose those causes.
- A new business bonus for any new clients you win for the company.
- Bonus for any new staff you refer.
- Matched pension contribution.
- Unlimited holiday and flexible working.
- The day off (guaranteed) for your birthday.
- A day off (also guaranteed) if you need to move house.
- Wellness/mindfulness time within working hours every week for those that want it
Head of Content - SaaS
Berkshire
Head of Content - B2B Technology Scale-Up
From humble beginnings in 2012, this company now employee over 60 people at their cutting edge, purpose-built offices. Their enterprise B2B software is loved by some of the world's leading companies and they are growing exponentially. They are an engineering-led company and an agile, innovative team, meaning the entire focus is on product excellence and delighting customers.
About the Role
They are looking for an experienced Head of Content to take full ownership of the content strategy output. This person will manage one full time content writer and will work alongside the lead generation, tech evangelist and web teams to ensure high quality content is produced at scale and is effectively presented across website and e-mail campaigns. While this role requires management skills (proof-reading and project management), you will also be required to write original copy individually.
Key responsibilities
- Take ownership of the end-to-end content production pipeline and messaging, including managing one full time content writer, project-manage internal subject matter experts and external sources.
- Review and maintain content calendar, ensuring timely delivery.
- Review and uphold tone of voice and messaging consistency across all properties.
- Write content pieces from scratch, including desk research, interviews all the way to 1st draft.
- Deliverables include web pages, sales enablement materials, case studies, blogposts, interviews, videos scripts, webinars and SEO keywords input to lead generation team.
- Review, edit and deliver high quality content quickly, including case studies, interviews & blogposts.
- Decide the most effective way of presenting content inventory, with inputs from the lead generation and web UX teams.
About you
- At least 5 years in roles where writing or proof-reading technical copy was a big part of your job.
- High-output, high-quality technical content writer.
- Your work should require little or no review & edits before publishing.
- Excellent proof-reading skills in the tech industry, ideally in software.
What will you get in return?
- Great culture: We put culture first and believe in creating a great environment where people are happy to come to work every day.
- Stunning office: Picture yourself in a brand-new, state-of-the-art office
- Edge technology: Use the latest tools & practices in every area of the business to work fast and smart
- Gadgets galore: Fancy a sit-stand desk? Want to try out an Oculus Rift or Microsoft HoloLens? Look no further
- Smart colleagues: Be part of a great team, working with talented, like-minded peers
- Take a break: Eat some free snacks or a great coffee and relax with a game of table-football or ping-pong
- Social: From tech meetups to rollercoasters, from poker to board games, from Star Wars to cocktails, there's always tons going on.
- BENEFITS: 10% pension, Private Health, 25 days holiday, competitive Salaries.
Full Stack Web Developer (C# / ASP.NET / MVC)
Berkshire / Buckinghamshire / Oxfordshire
Full Stack Web Developer - C# / ASP.NET / MVC - £50,000
Company
This agency are a well-established website design and development agency based in Oxfordshire / Buckinghamshire in a lovely refurbished country office.
They have been around for over 20 years and have built up a wide and varied set of clients from large blue chips right the way down to smaller, local SMEs. They mostly operate at the more technical end of website development with core expertise being the build of bespoke, responsive business driven web applications. These range from beautifully presented brochure sites right the way through to eCommerce sites, complex online calculators, learning platforms, and business management and MI portals.
To complement web design and development services they also operate and manage their own highly robust hosting infrastructure for the secure hosting of all our web applications.
The Role & YOU:
They're looking for a bright and experienced web developer to work on a number of ongoing innovative projects. The ideal candidate would be someone with demonstrable experience of working as a full-stack developer within the Microsoft Visual Studio / Web Development Technical Stack - using the very latest ASP.NET / MVC technologies, with a thorough understanding of all development tiers from front end (HTML / CSS / Javascript), through to middle-tier business layer programming using object orientated C#, through to a sound understanding of MS SQL Server, T-SQL, and relational database modelling.
All new developments use the Umbraco Content Management solution, so experience of this will be a significant benefit, as will any previous employment gained specifically within a Web Agency role.
The teamwork in both agile and waterfall methodologies depending on the client and the project's requirements, using Daily Stand Up's and Jira based Project Management.
Role Responsibilities
- Mixture of new projects and developments and maintenance of existing web applications
- Collaborate with development and business teams to ensure efficient delivery of projects within deadlines
- Plan and forecast delivery milestones of project work
- Support less experienced members of the development team
Required Skills
- ASP.NET / MVC with C#
- HTML / CSS
- Sass / Less
- JavaScript
- jQuery AJAX JSON
- MS SQL Server
Desired Skills
- Umbraco CMS
- JIRA / Confluence
- Any JavaScript frameworks (Vue / React / Angular / Knockout etc)
- Bootstrap
- SVN / Git Source Code Control
- Agile Working
- OWASP Top 20
You:
- A team player, but also able to work effectively from home as needs be
- Ideally 2 years Agency experience
- Good front-end development and a good eye for realising design
- Experience of working to deadlines and ability to prioritise workload
- They offer Industry competitive salaries, a generous Christmas bonus pot, and an above statutory workplace pension scheme, along with an understanding for the need for flexible working.
PR Account Manager
Berkshire / Buckinghamshire / Oxfordshire
A UK top 150 communications agency is looking for an experienced PR Account Manager. Industry leading agency with innovative global clients and a stellar benefits package.
The Agency
This Oxfordshire based PR agency are the global leaders in providing communications services to their specialist global client base. Based out of vibrant modern offices in a desirable Oxfordshire location, the agency is recognised by industry body PR week as being in the top 150 agencies in the UK and one of the top 10 outside of London. The balanced and diverse team here are a close-nit, welcoming and social bunch who all contribute to a very attractive and encouraging workplace atmosphere. The agency is hugely committed to staff development and as such, they very rarely recruit at senior levels - preferring to promote from within instead. Impressive growth of existing business has meant the agency are now expanding once again.
The Role
This is vital role for the business that will suit any agency PR professional at Senior Executive Account Manager level who has experience working on B2B or Corporate communications campaigns. The successful candidate will work on fully integrated campaigns for global clients and will need exceptional written communication skills. Responsibilities will include:
- Develop and nurture close working relationships with client contacts built on trust.
- Contribute to strategy creation and drive forward the implementation of communications programmes.
- Manage and mentor junior staff members
- Proactively build relationships with journalists and industry influencers, leveraging these relationships to the benefit of clients
- Provide communications counsel to clients, steering the direction of their PR activity and fulfilling the role of 'critical friend'
What's in it for you?
As a steadily expanding, privately-owned company, the agency offers significant opportunities for long-term career development. A global client base also provides potential for international travel. This is an excellent opportunity for a prospective candidate to get a foothold in a highly-respected PR agency, develop their skills advance to manager level. There is an excellent package on offer here too, Including:
- New Business commission scheme (typically 9%)
- Funded Training and Development programme
- Childcare scheme
- Pension Scheme
- Macbook for each employee
- Access to perkbox rewards
- Pension contribution
Promotional Products Account Manager
London
An industry leading promotional merchandising company are looking for experienced account handlers. Global brands, strong earning potential and plenty of prospects await…
The Company
This central London company are one of the top businesses in their sector. Specialising in the design, production and delivery of promotional products for multiple sectors, they work with over 20 of the World's most valuable brands in sectors including, automotive, finance, food, logistics, technology and retail. The company is proud of its office and work place environment and the large team are a welcoming, diverse and social group. The business continues to perform well - even in uncertain times - and as a result of this growth the company is very keen to speak with experienced Account Managers in the promotional merchandising industry.
The Role
This is an important role for the business and will see the successful candidate working across several key global clients to foster lasting relationships and maximize revenue opportunities. You'll work with top brands from the start and the commission scheme on offer presents very strong earning potential. Responsibilities include:
- Develop and maintain relationships within all key departments for assigned clients, including sales, marketing and procurement contacts.
- Understand client business initiatives, sales and marketing strategy, sales distribution channel, procurement process, brand strategy, brand identity guidelines, event schedules, ad campaigns, anniversaries, product introductions, in order to proactively present product ranges and secure merchandise orders.
- Maintain up-to-date knowledge of company's product lines and processes, sales philosophy, and industry conditions to provide innovative support and technical assistance to customers.
The Opportunity
This company are extremely well backed and form part of large global group. They have a commitment to work environment and staff well-being, offer strong progression opportunities, work from home is available and the commission scheme on offer is highly attractive. If you're keen to join a role with potential in a business that's going places, then this role should appeal to you...
Please apply for more information
Copywriter
London
Copy/Content Writer - Business Software
London
£35k - £40k - CG 703
This software firm have revolutionised the way the construction industry operates, with their cutting-edge products. There's facial recognition and fingerprint technology for added security around large sites, there's procurement tools to aid the supply chain process, design software to help with creating drainage or traffic solutions and cost planning programs to assist bids and tenders.
All in all, they have 5 different products, all with a Marketing Manager assigned to each product. At present copy is either outsourced to freelancers, or created by the Marketing Mangers themselves - this is where you come in as a Copywriter; freeing up the Marketing Managers to write engaging content that turns heads, influences decisions, and informs decision makers.
You could be writing a wide range of material from blog posts, whitepapers, creative messaging, social media copy, press releases, internal comms, web publications, research driven copy and more. A wide mix of work which should provide you with lots of variety to keep you entertained.
Sat within a marketing team of 8, you'd be reporting into an experienced, insightful and driven Chief Marketing Officer, who has some amazing growth plans for the marketing department. To give you an idea of the company's growth, they hired over 140 people last year!
Given the nature of the client, writing in the B2B space is crucial, and preferably having experience in writing for the construction sector, or another relevant/transferrable industry.
In the current climate, working from home is paramount, and as time goes on your offices would be based in Central London. It's a real chance to join a company that are striding forward and changing the way the construction industry operates.
If you're interested, please send over a CV and folio that showcases your breadth of writing ability.
Senior Paid Social Executive
Milton Keynes
Senior Paid Social Executive - Marketing Agency - £30,000
After securing some exciting new business wins as well as growing existing accounts significantly, this B2B technology marketing agency of 50 people are going from strength to strength. They have continued to grow during lockdown and are investing heavily in their digital media team in 2020. One of these key hires is for a Paid Social Executive who has some experience on the B2B side using Facebook & LinkedIn especailly.
The Role & Benefits:
This role would perfectly suit someone with around 2 years of Paid Social experience who has had exposure to LinkedIn advertising as well as Facebook. You will work alongside a very talented media team and report in to the head of media, who will help develop and progress you within the agency . You can expect a flexible, collaborative and innovative environment in an agency who are very much on the up.
Ideally, candidates will:
- Have roughly 2 years of roudned paid social experience, notably some LinkedIn. Agency side beneficial, but not essential.
- Experience exectuing and optimising paid social campaigns devised by the Media planning managers.
- Desire to learn more of the strategic media planning side of things
- Able to devise client reports on the successfullness of campaigns.
- Some exposure to paid search campaigns
What will you get in return?
In addition to a very competitive starting salary, you will also receive the below benefits:
- Great opportunity to join a highly reputable and growing agency
- Strong benefits including 25 days holiday, matched pension, career progression
- Chance to work with tier one global tech brands
- Really motivated, driven and fresh media team to work with
- Market leading salary outside of London.
- Report straight in to the media director for guidance and development
Commercial Excellence Manager
Leicestershire
Commercial Excellence Manager, £50,000 £7,500 Car Allowance Bonus - East Midlands
Do you have a passion for Data Analysis, Insight and creating smart commercial strategy?
Our client is currently looking for a Commercial Excellence Manager to join their ever-growing family and be part of the Senior Leadership Management while leading your own team.
What do they do?
They are a specialist leading wound care innovator and global supplier of ground-breaking wound care treatments and healthcare technologies. The company has gone through a period of considerable growth and expansion and does not want to stop there! With an aspiring and exciting plan in place of doubling turnover in the UK and Europe.
What they would like from you.
- Strong analytical skills, tenacity, and interpersonal skills
- Prior experience of commercial strategy, sales and marketing and business process modelling (Desirable)
- Line management experience
- Understand the current and future challenges facing the company and drive the strategic approach for improvement
- Demonstrate strong presentation skills at senior management and board level as well as commercial awareness and communication skills.
- Explain and present complex issues in an accessible way (Explain story behind the data)
- Excel, SQL and SAS would be ideal
- Degree educated
What's in it for you?
- You can expect to receive an excellent basic salary
- Car Allowance £7,500
- Bonus Profit Share
- Opportunity to travel (UK & Internationally)
- WFH 2 days a week (Post Covid)
- Private healthcare and pension
- Join a highly qualified, professional, and motivated team of bright people in an easily accessible, comfy office.
- Drive process improvements and challenge the status quo.
- Be part of an exciting company that will push and support you to move forward in your career and the freedom to express yourself within the role.
If you would like to know more about this position, then please click on the link to apply.
SEO Account Manager
London
SEO Consultant - Integrated Agency - Central London - £35,000 (Flexible Working offered)
This is a dream job for anyone who wishes they could have more impact in their current agency...
It's your opportunity to join a boutique, growing, well-backed start-up marketing communications business who have already beaten their yearly target and are hiring fast, with over 10 employees already. They have been set up to reward employees and ensure you grow as they do.
Their investors are very excited about the technology that underpins their agency, which ensures that their clients have full visibility when it comes to cross channel performance and effectiveness.
They are based in Oxford Street (after lockdown!). They are looking for a talented, ambitious SEO specialist to join them on a permanent basis, helping develop and implement SEO solutions for a range of their clients whilst working alongside cross-functional teams.
The Role & Benefits:
This role would perfectly suit someone with around 2 years of rounded SEO experience who is eager to get more involved with the strategic side as well as client handling. You will work alongside a very talented team comprised of PR, digital and comms specialists to deliver the SEO on intergrated campaigns. You can expect a flexible, collaborative and innovative environment under the leadership of two highly proven agency side co-founders.
Ideally, candidates will have a strong blend of the below skills / Experience:
- Have roughly 2-3 years of roudned SEO experience. Agency side beneficial, but not essential.
- Experience in on-page and off page SEO and link-building.
- Able to run comprehensive SEO audits
- Comfortable devising reports and building relationships with clients
- Experience with SEMrush as well as other popular platforms / tools
What will you get in return?
In addition to a very competitive starting salary, you will also receive the below benefits:
- A radically transparent bonus structure, where you could receive up to 30% of salary depending on company and personal performance.
- They also contribute some of their outperformance to charitable causes - and you help choose those causes.
- A new business bonus for any new clients you win for the company.
- Bonus for any new staff you refer.
- Matched pension contribution.
- Unlimited holiday and flexible working.
- The day off (guaranteed) for your birthday.
- A day off (also guaranteed) if you need to move house.
- Wellness/mindfulness time within working hours every week for those that want it
Head of Content - SaaS
Berkshire
Head of Content - B2B Technology Scale-Up
From humble beginnings in 2012, this company now employee over 60 people at their cutting edge, purpose-built offices. Their enterprise B2B software is loved by some of the world's leading companies and they are growing exponentially. They are an engineering-led company and an agile, innovative team, meaning the entire focus is on product excellence and delighting customers.
About the Role
They are looking for an experienced Head of Content to take full ownership of the content strategy output. This person will manage one full time content writer and will work alongside the lead generation, tech evangelist and web teams to ensure high quality content is produced at scale and is effectively presented across website and e-mail campaigns. While this role requires management skills (proof-reading and project management), you will also be required to write original copy individually.
Key responsibilities
- Take ownership of the end-to-end content production pipeline and messaging, including managing one full time content writer, project-manage internal subject matter experts and external sources.
- Review and maintain content calendar, ensuring timely delivery.
- Review and uphold tone of voice and messaging consistency across all properties.
- Write content pieces from scratch, including desk research, interviews all the way to 1st draft.
- Deliverables include web pages, sales enablement materials, case studies, blogposts, interviews, videos scripts, webinars and SEO keywords input to lead generation team.
- Review, edit and deliver high quality content quickly, including case studies, interviews & blogposts.
- Decide the most effective way of presenting content inventory, with inputs from the lead generation and web UX teams.
About you
- At least 5 years in roles where writing or proof-reading technical copy was a big part of your job.
- High-output, high-quality technical content writer.
- Your work should require little or no review & edits before publishing.
- Excellent proof-reading skills in the tech industry, ideally in software.
What will you get in return?
- Great culture: We put culture first and believe in creating a great environment where people are happy to come to work every day.
- Stunning office: Picture yourself in a brand-new, state-of-the-art office
- Edge technology: Use the latest tools & practices in every area of the business to work fast and smart
- Gadgets galore: Fancy a sit-stand desk? Want to try out an Oculus Rift or Microsoft HoloLens? Look no further
- Smart colleagues: Be part of a great team, working with talented, like-minded peers
- Take a break: Eat some free snacks or a great coffee and relax with a game of table-football or ping-pong
- Social: From tech meetups to rollercoasters, from poker to board games, from Star Wars to cocktails, there's always tons going on.
- BENEFITS: 10% pension, Private Health, 25 days holiday, competitive Salaries.
Full Stack Web Developer (C# / ASP.NET / MVC)
Berkshire / Buckinghamshire / Oxfordshire
Full Stack Web Developer - C# / ASP.NET / MVC - £50,000
Company
This agency are a well-established website design and development agency based in Oxfordshire / Buckinghamshire in a lovely refurbished country office.
They have been around for over 20 years and have built up a wide and varied set of clients from large blue chips right the way down to smaller, local SMEs. They mostly operate at the more technical end of website development with core expertise being the build of bespoke, responsive business driven web applications. These range from beautifully presented brochure sites right the way through to eCommerce sites, complex online calculators, learning platforms, and business management and MI portals.
To complement web design and development services they also operate and manage their own highly robust hosting infrastructure for the secure hosting of all our web applications.
The Role & YOU:
They're looking for a bright and experienced web developer to work on a number of ongoing innovative projects. The ideal candidate would be someone with demonstrable experience of working as a full-stack developer within the Microsoft Visual Studio / Web Development Technical Stack - using the very latest ASP.NET / MVC technologies, with a thorough understanding of all development tiers from front end (HTML / CSS / Javascript), through to middle-tier business layer programming using object orientated C#, through to a sound understanding of MS SQL Server, T-SQL, and relational database modelling.
All new developments use the Umbraco Content Management solution, so experience of this will be a significant benefit, as will any previous employment gained specifically within a Web Agency role.
The teamwork in both agile and waterfall methodologies depending on the client and the project's requirements, using Daily Stand Up's and Jira based Project Management.
Role Responsibilities
- Mixture of new projects and developments and maintenance of existing web applications
- Collaborate with development and business teams to ensure efficient delivery of projects within deadlines
- Plan and forecast delivery milestones of project work
- Support less experienced members of the development team
Required Skills
- ASP.NET / MVC with C#
- HTML / CSS
- Sass / Less
- JavaScript
- jQuery AJAX JSON
- MS SQL Server
Desired Skills
- Umbraco CMS
- JIRA / Confluence
- Any JavaScript frameworks (Vue / React / Angular / Knockout etc)
- Bootstrap
- SVN / Git Source Code Control
- Agile Working
- OWASP Top 20
You:
- A team player, but also able to work effectively from home as needs be
- Ideally 2 years Agency experience
- Good front-end development and a good eye for realising design
- Experience of working to deadlines and ability to prioritise workload
- They offer Industry competitive salaries, a generous Christmas bonus pot, and an above statutory workplace pension scheme, along with an understanding for the need for flexible working.
PR Account Manager
Berkshire / Buckinghamshire / Oxfordshire
A UK top 150 communications agency is looking for an experienced PR Account Manager. Industry leading agency with innovative global clients and a stellar benefits package.
The Agency
This Oxfordshire based PR agency are the global leaders in providing communications services to their specialist global client base. Based out of vibrant modern offices in a desirable Oxfordshire location, the agency is recognised by industry body PR week as being in the top 150 agencies in the UK and one of the top 10 outside of London. The balanced and diverse team here are a close-nit, welcoming and social bunch who all contribute to a very attractive and encouraging workplace atmosphere. The agency is hugely committed to staff development and as such, they very rarely recruit at senior levels - preferring to promote from within instead. Impressive growth of existing business has meant the agency are now expanding once again.
The Role
This is vital role for the business that will suit any agency PR professional at Senior Executive Account Manager level who has experience working on B2B or Corporate communications campaigns. The successful candidate will work on fully integrated campaigns for global clients and will need exceptional written communication skills. Responsibilities will include:
- Develop and nurture close working relationships with client contacts built on trust.
- Contribute to strategy creation and drive forward the implementation of communications programmes.
- Manage and mentor junior staff members
- Proactively build relationships with journalists and industry influencers, leveraging these relationships to the benefit of clients
- Provide communications counsel to clients, steering the direction of their PR activity and fulfilling the role of 'critical friend'
What's in it for you?
As a steadily expanding, privately-owned company, the agency offers significant opportunities for long-term career development. A global client base also provides potential for international travel. This is an excellent opportunity for a prospective candidate to get a foothold in a highly-respected PR agency, develop their skills advance to manager level. There is an excellent package on offer here too, Including:
- New Business commission scheme (typically 9%)
- Funded Training and Development programme
- Childcare scheme
- Pension Scheme
- Macbook for each employee
- Access to perkbox rewards
- Pension contribution
Promotional Products Account Manager
London
An industry leading promotional merchandising company are looking for experienced account handlers. Global brands, strong earning potential and plenty of prospects await…
The Company
This central London company are one of the top businesses in their sector. Specialising in the design, production and delivery of promotional products for multiple sectors, they work with over 20 of the World's most valuable brands in sectors including, automotive, finance, food, logistics, technology and retail. The company is proud of its office and work place environment and the large team are a welcoming, diverse and social group. The business continues to perform well - even in uncertain times - and as a result of this growth the company is very keen to speak with experienced Account Managers in the promotional merchandising industry.
The Role
This is an important role for the business and will see the successful candidate working across several key global clients to foster lasting relationships and maximize revenue opportunities. You'll work with top brands from the start and the commission scheme on offer presents very strong earning potential. Responsibilities include:
- Develop and maintain relationships within all key departments for assigned clients, including sales, marketing and procurement contacts.
- Understand client business initiatives, sales and marketing strategy, sales distribution channel, procurement process, brand strategy, brand identity guidelines, event schedules, ad campaigns, anniversaries, product introductions, in order to proactively present product ranges and secure merchandise orders.
- Maintain up-to-date knowledge of company's product lines and processes, sales philosophy, and industry conditions to provide innovative support and technical assistance to customers.
The Opportunity
This company are extremely well backed and form part of large global group. They have a commitment to work environment and staff well-being, offer strong progression opportunities, work from home is available and the commission scheme on offer is highly attractive. If you're keen to join a role with potential in a business that's going places, then this role should appeal to you...
Please apply for more information
Copywriter
London
Copy/Content Writer - Business Software
London
£35k - £40k - CG 703
This software firm have revolutionised the way the construction industry operates, with their cutting-edge products. There's facial recognition and fingerprint technology for added security around large sites, there's procurement tools to aid the supply chain process, design software to help with creating drainage or traffic solutions and cost planning programs to assist bids and tenders.
All in all, they have 5 different products, all with a Marketing Manager assigned to each product. At present copy is either outsourced to freelancers, or created by the Marketing Mangers themselves - this is where you come in as a Copywriter; freeing up the Marketing Managers to write engaging content that turns heads, influences decisions, and informs decision makers.
You could be writing a wide range of material from blog posts, whitepapers, creative messaging, social media copy, press releases, internal comms, web publications, research driven copy and more. A wide mix of work which should provide you with lots of variety to keep you entertained.
Sat within a marketing team of 8, you'd be reporting into an experienced, insightful and driven Chief Marketing Officer, who has some amazing growth plans for the marketing department. To give you an idea of the company's growth, they hired over 140 people last year!
Given the nature of the client, writing in the B2B space is crucial, and preferably having experience in writing for the construction sector, or another relevant/transferrable industry.
In the current climate, working from home is paramount, and as time goes on your offices would be based in Central London. It's a real chance to join a company that are striding forward and changing the way the construction industry operates.
If you're interested, please send over a CV and folio that showcases your breadth of writing ability.
Senior Paid Social Executive
Milton Keynes
Senior Paid Social Executive - Marketing Agency - £30,000
After securing some exciting new business wins as well as growing existing accounts significantly, this B2B technology marketing agency of 50 people are going from strength to strength. They have continued to grow during lockdown and are investing heavily in their digital media team in 2020. One of these key hires is for a Paid Social Executive who has some experience on the B2B side using Facebook & LinkedIn especailly.
The Role & Benefits:
This role would perfectly suit someone with around 2 years of Paid Social experience who has had exposure to LinkedIn advertising as well as Facebook. You will work alongside a very talented media team and report in to the head of media, who will help develop and progress you within the agency . You can expect a flexible, collaborative and innovative environment in an agency who are very much on the up.
Ideally, candidates will:
- Have roughly 2 years of roudned paid social experience, notably some LinkedIn. Agency side beneficial, but not essential.
- Experience exectuing and optimising paid social campaigns devised by the Media planning managers.
- Desire to learn more of the strategic media planning side of things
- Able to devise client reports on the successfullness of campaigns.
- Some exposure to paid search campaigns
What will you get in return?
In addition to a very competitive starting salary, you will also receive the below benefits:
- Great opportunity to join a highly reputable and growing agency
- Strong benefits including 25 days holiday, matched pension, career progression
- Chance to work with tier one global tech brands
- Really motivated, driven and fresh media team to work with
- Market leading salary outside of London.
- Report straight in to the media director for guidance and development
Commercial Excellence Manager
Leicestershire
Commercial Excellence Manager, £50,000 £7,500 Car Allowance Bonus - East Midlands
Do you have a passion for Data Analysis, Insight and creating smart commercial strategy?
Our client is currently looking for a Commercial Excellence Manager to join their ever-growing family and be part of the Senior Leadership Management while leading your own team.
What do they do?
They are a specialist leading wound care innovator and global supplier of ground-breaking wound care treatments and healthcare technologies. The company has gone through a period of considerable growth and expansion and does not want to stop there! With an aspiring and exciting plan in place of doubling turnover in the UK and Europe.
What they would like from you.
- Strong analytical skills, tenacity, and interpersonal skills
- Prior experience of commercial strategy, sales and marketing and business process modelling (Desirable)
- Line management experience
- Understand the current and future challenges facing the company and drive the strategic approach for improvement
- Demonstrate strong presentation skills at senior management and board level as well as commercial awareness and communication skills.
- Explain and present complex issues in an accessible way (Explain story behind the data)
- Excel, SQL and SAS would be ideal
- Degree educated
What's in it for you?
- You can expect to receive an excellent basic salary
- Car Allowance £7,500
- Bonus Profit Share
- Opportunity to travel (UK & Internationally)
- WFH 2 days a week (Post Covid)
- Private healthcare and pension
- Join a highly qualified, professional, and motivated team of bright people in an easily accessible, comfy office.
- Drive process improvements and challenge the status quo.
- Be part of an exciting company that will push and support you to move forward in your career and the freedom to express yourself within the role.
If you would like to know more about this position, then please click on the link to apply.
SEO Account Manager
London
SEO Consultant - Integrated Agency - Central London - £35,000 (Flexible Working offered)
This is a dream job for anyone who wishes they could have more impact in their current agency...
It's your opportunity to join a boutique, growing, well-backed start-up marketing communications business who have already beaten their yearly target and are hiring fast, with over 10 employees already. They have been set up to reward employees and ensure you grow as they do.
Their investors are very excited about the technology that underpins their agency, which ensures that their clients have full visibility when it comes to cross channel performance and effectiveness.
They are based in Oxford Street (after lockdown!). They are looking for a talented, ambitious SEO specialist to join them on a permanent basis, helping develop and implement SEO solutions for a range of their clients whilst working alongside cross-functional teams.
The Role & Benefits:
This role would perfectly suit someone with around 2 years of rounded SEO experience who is eager to get more involved with the strategic side as well as client handling. You will work alongside a very talented team comprised of PR, digital and comms specialists to deliver the SEO on intergrated campaigns. You can expect a flexible, collaborative and innovative environment under the leadership of two highly proven agency side co-founders.
Ideally, candidates will have a strong blend of the below skills / Experience:
- Have roughly 2-3 years of roudned SEO experience. Agency side beneficial, but not essential.
- Experience in on-page and off page SEO and link-building.
- Able to run comprehensive SEO audits
- Comfortable devising reports and building relationships with clients
- Experience with SEMrush as well as other popular platforms / tools
What will you get in return?
In addition to a very competitive starting salary, you will also receive the below benefits:
- A radically transparent bonus structure, where you could receive up to 30% of salary depending on company and personal performance.
- They also contribute some of their outperformance to charitable causes - and you help choose those causes.
- A new business bonus for any new clients you win for the company.
- Bonus for any new staff you refer.
- Matched pension contribution.
- Unlimited holiday and flexible working.
- The day off (guaranteed) for your birthday.
- A day off (also guaranteed) if you need to move house.
- Wellness/mindfulness time within working hours every week for those that want it
Head of Content - SaaS
Berkshire
Head of Content - B2B Technology Scale-Up
From humble beginnings in 2012, this company now employee over 60 people at their cutting edge, purpose-built offices. Their enterprise B2B software is loved by some of the world's leading companies and they are growing exponentially. They are an engineering-led company and an agile, innovative team, meaning the entire focus is on product excellence and delighting customers.
About the Role
They are looking for an experienced Head of Content to take full ownership of the content strategy output. This person will manage one full time content writer and will work alongside the lead generation, tech evangelist and web teams to ensure high quality content is produced at scale and is effectively presented across website and e-mail campaigns. While this role requires management skills (proof-reading and project management), you will also be required to write original copy individually.
Key responsibilities
- Take ownership of the end-to-end content production pipeline and messaging, including managing one full time content writer, project-manage internal subject matter experts and external sources.
- Review and maintain content calendar, ensuring timely delivery.
- Review and uphold tone of voice and messaging consistency across all properties.
- Write content pieces from scratch, including desk research, interviews all the way to 1st draft.
- Deliverables include web pages, sales enablement materials, case studies, blogposts, interviews, videos scripts, webinars and SEO keywords input to lead generation team.
- Review, edit and deliver high quality content quickly, including case studies, interviews & blogposts.
- Decide the most effective way of presenting content inventory, with inputs from the lead generation and web UX teams.
About you
- At least 5 years in roles where writing or proof-reading technical copy was a big part of your job.
- High-output, high-quality technical content writer.
- Your work should require little or no review & edits before publishing.
- Excellent proof-reading skills in the tech industry, ideally in software.
What will you get in return?
- Great culture: We put culture first and believe in creating a great environment where people are happy to come to work every day.
- Stunning office: Picture yourself in a brand-new, state-of-the-art office
- Edge technology: Use the latest tools & practices in every area of the business to work fast and smart
- Gadgets galore: Fancy a sit-stand desk? Want to try out an Oculus Rift or Microsoft HoloLens? Look no further
- Smart colleagues: Be part of a great team, working with talented, like-minded peers
- Take a break: Eat some free snacks or a great coffee and relax with a game of table-football or ping-pong
- Social: From tech meetups to rollercoasters, from poker to board games, from Star Wars to cocktails, there's always tons going on.
- BENEFITS: 10% pension, Private Health, 25 days holiday, competitive Salaries.
Full Stack Web Developer (C# / ASP.NET / MVC)
Berkshire / Buckinghamshire / Oxfordshire
Full Stack Web Developer - C# / ASP.NET / MVC - £50,000
Company
This agency are a well-established website design and development agency based in Oxfordshire / Buckinghamshire in a lovely refurbished country office.
They have been around for over 20 years and have built up a wide and varied set of clients from large blue chips right the way down to smaller, local SMEs. They mostly operate at the more technical end of website development with core expertise being the build of bespoke, responsive business driven web applications. These range from beautifully presented brochure sites right the way through to eCommerce sites, complex online calculators, learning platforms, and business management and MI portals.
To complement web design and development services they also operate and manage their own highly robust hosting infrastructure for the secure hosting of all our web applications.
The Role & YOU:
They're looking for a bright and experienced web developer to work on a number of ongoing innovative projects. The ideal candidate would be someone with demonstrable experience of working as a full-stack developer within the Microsoft Visual Studio / Web Development Technical Stack - using the very latest ASP.NET / MVC technologies, with a thorough understanding of all development tiers from front end (HTML / CSS / Javascript), through to middle-tier business layer programming using object orientated C#, through to a sound understanding of MS SQL Server, T-SQL, and relational database modelling.
All new developments use the Umbraco Content Management solution, so experience of this will be a significant benefit, as will any previous employment gained specifically within a Web Agency role.
The teamwork in both agile and waterfall methodologies depending on the client and the project's requirements, using Daily Stand Up's and Jira based Project Management.
Role Responsibilities
- Mixture of new projects and developments and maintenance of existing web applications
- Collaborate with development and business teams to ensure efficient delivery of projects within deadlines
- Plan and forecast delivery milestones of project work
- Support less experienced members of the development team
Required Skills
- ASP.NET / MVC with C#
- HTML / CSS
- Sass / Less
- JavaScript
- jQuery AJAX JSON
- MS SQL Server
Desired Skills
- Umbraco CMS
- JIRA / Confluence
- Any JavaScript frameworks (Vue / React / Angular / Knockout etc)
- Bootstrap
- SVN / Git Source Code Control
- Agile Working
- OWASP Top 20
You:
- A team player, but also able to work effectively from home as needs be
- Ideally 2 years Agency experience
- Good front-end development and a good eye for realising design
- Experience of working to deadlines and ability to prioritise workload
- They offer Industry competitive salaries, a generous Christmas bonus pot, and an above statutory workplace pension scheme, along with an understanding for the need for flexible working.
PR Account Manager
Berkshire / Buckinghamshire / Oxfordshire
A UK top 150 communications agency is looking for an experienced PR Account Manager. Industry leading agency with innovative global clients and a stellar benefits package.
The Agency
This Oxfordshire based PR agency are the global leaders in providing communications services to their specialist global client base. Based out of vibrant modern offices in a desirable Oxfordshire location, the agency is recognised by industry body PR week as being in the top 150 agencies in the UK and one of the top 10 outside of London. The balanced and diverse team here are a close-nit, welcoming and social bunch who all contribute to a very attractive and encouraging workplace atmosphere. The agency is hugely committed to staff development and as such, they very rarely recruit at senior levels - preferring to promote from within instead. Impressive growth of existing business has meant the agency are now expanding once again.
The Role
This is vital role for the business that will suit any agency PR professional at Senior Executive Account Manager level who has experience working on B2B or Corporate communications campaigns. The successful candidate will work on fully integrated campaigns for global clients and will need exceptional written communication skills. Responsibilities will include:
- Develop and nurture close working relationships with client contacts built on trust.
- Contribute to strategy creation and drive forward the implementation of communications programmes.
- Manage and mentor junior staff members
- Proactively build relationships with journalists and industry influencers, leveraging these relationships to the benefit of clients
- Provide communications counsel to clients, steering the direction of their PR activity and fulfilling the role of 'critical friend'
What's in it for you?
As a steadily expanding, privately-owned company, the agency offers significant opportunities for long-term career development. A global client base also provides potential for international travel. This is an excellent opportunity for a prospective candidate to get a foothold in a highly-respected PR agency, develop their skills advance to manager level. There is an excellent package on offer here too, Including:
- New Business commission scheme (typically 9%)
- Funded Training and Development programme
- Childcare scheme
- Pension Scheme
- Macbook for each employee
- Access to perkbox rewards
- Pension contribution
Promotional Products Account Manager
London
An industry leading promotional merchandising company are looking for experienced account handlers. Global brands, strong earning potential and plenty of prospects await…
The Company
This central London company are one of the top businesses in their sector. Specialising in the design, production and delivery of promotional products for multiple sectors, they work with over 20 of the World's most valuable brands in sectors including, automotive, finance, food, logistics, technology and retail. The company is proud of its office and work place environment and the large team are a welcoming, diverse and social group. The business continues to perform well - even in uncertain times - and as a result of this growth the company is very keen to speak with experienced Account Managers in the promotional merchandising industry.
The Role
This is an important role for the business and will see the successful candidate working across several key global clients to foster lasting relationships and maximize revenue opportunities. You'll work with top brands from the start and the commission scheme on offer presents very strong earning potential. Responsibilities include:
- Develop and maintain relationships within all key departments for assigned clients, including sales, marketing and procurement contacts.
- Understand client business initiatives, sales and marketing strategy, sales distribution channel, procurement process, brand strategy, brand identity guidelines, event schedules, ad campaigns, anniversaries, product introductions, in order to proactively present product ranges and secure merchandise orders.
- Maintain up-to-date knowledge of company's product lines and processes, sales philosophy, and industry conditions to provide innovative support and technical assistance to customers.
The Opportunity
This company are extremely well backed and form part of large global group. They have a commitment to work environment and staff well-being, offer strong progression opportunities, work from home is available and the commission scheme on offer is highly attractive. If you're keen to join a role with potential in a business that's going places, then this role should appeal to you...
Please apply for more information
Copywriter
London
Copy/Content Writer - Business Software
London
£35k - £40k - CG 703
This software firm have revolutionised the way the construction industry operates, with their cutting-edge products. There's facial recognition and fingerprint technology for added security around large sites, there's procurement tools to aid the supply chain process, design software to help with creating drainage or traffic solutions and cost planning programs to assist bids and tenders.
All in all, they have 5 different products, all with a Marketing Manager assigned to each product. At present copy is either outsourced to freelancers, or created by the Marketing Mangers themselves - this is where you come in as a Copywriter; freeing up the Marketing Managers to write engaging content that turns heads, influences decisions, and informs decision makers.
You could be writing a wide range of material from blog posts, whitepapers, creative messaging, social media copy, press releases, internal comms, web publications, research driven copy and more. A wide mix of work which should provide you with lots of variety to keep you entertained.
Sat within a marketing team of 8, you'd be reporting into an experienced, insightful and driven Chief Marketing Officer, who has some amazing growth plans for the marketing department. To give you an idea of the company's growth, they hired over 140 people last year!
Given the nature of the client, writing in the B2B space is crucial, and preferably having experience in writing for the construction sector, or another relevant/transferrable industry.
In the current climate, working from home is paramount, and as time goes on your offices would be based in Central London. It's a real chance to join a company that are striding forward and changing the way the construction industry operates.
If you're interested, please send over a CV and folio that showcases your breadth of writing ability.