*No parking due to central location*

Our client is recruiting for a Systems Analyst to join their team. The ideal candidate would have an understanding in pensions.

About the role

• Enhancing our Web Services to our clients and members is a HIGH profile project within and is one of the key projects to be delivered in 2020
• We want to develop a market leading proposition around providing information to these members
• This information will sometimes be scheme wide - messages and content that apply to all members - and sometimes member specific (information on their individual pensions savings and benefits)
• All of this will be delivered by a website - which we are calling 'the member portal'
• The project lifecycle is from conceptual ideas to an implemented solution
• The successful candidate will be enthusiastic and ambitious, with a real desire to help us deliver a market-leading web technology solutions (agnostic in nature) to our clients and their members.
• The candidate will be part of a small focused team of specialists from a range of functions/businesses, including our Business Services Group, to deliver innovative and leading edge technology solutions that provide our clients with new approaches to help educate and engage with scheme members, Trustees and sponsors.
• This role provides the successful candidate with a range of excellent opportunities to develop their analytical skills and experience whilst interacting with senior representatives across the Group to develop and deliver the web and digital vision being set by the management team. On a day to day basis they will work alongside the Business Service Group and client leads across the Group to ensure that the new technology aligns with our existing platforms and that the solutions meet the needs of our clients and prospects.
• Important aspects of the role will include manipulating data, writing data extraction scripts, creating 'dummy' data/calculation results to support the modelling and calculation capabilities that we develop. Other attributes will include working with the business requirements developed for the project and documenting technical aspects of the architecture.
• To assist in the UAT of newly developed functionality is also a key part of the role.
• As a senior analyst you will be expected to provide support and guidance to the project and any less experienced analysts involved.
• Working with the project team to create required data sets to support the key functionality within the new web portal. Manipulation of pension's data sets and the ability to create and map data to a common data format is going to be key aspect of this role. Familiarity with ETL processes and design is therefore critical and applicants should be familiar with SQL and SSIS.
• Throughout the project the Senior Systems Analyst is going to be responsible for the review of all data required to support the functionality and creating the necessary data extracts from a variety of data sources to support the work.
• Technical documentation, analytical reporting and supporting the User Acceptance Testing (UAT) should be expected.
• Data sets, derived from the calculation engines of our Administration platform's calculations routines, will need augmented for modelling functionality. Working from calculation specifications applicants should be familiar with Excel in order to generate any additional calculated values that are required in our datasets.

Skills and Knowledge

Essential

• Well organised and positive attitude with the ability to plan, prioritise and effectively manage their work.
• Good interpersonal skills.
• Excellent problem solving, organisational and planning skills.
• Ability to work well under pressure, across multiple workstreams; delivering to time and quality standards.
• Good oral and written communication skills, able to present technical matters to potential non-technical users.
• Produces consistent and high-quality results.
• Understanding of defined benefit and defined contribution pensions data.
• Strong ability to manipulate and analyse data.
• Able to follow instructions, procedures and assimilate information quickly in a consistent manner.
• Liaising with the Business and the Business Analysts to take the requirements and turn them into deliverable solutions.
• Creating data and calculation specifications, in terms of explaining to the users what is required, test case selection and ensuring the finished specification is "fit for purpose".
• Have worked with pension products and data across a number of systems and platforms.
• IT proficient, in particular SQL and Excel
• Proficient knowledge in benefit structures and calculation requirements for DB, DC and Hybrid pension schemes is desirable.

Desirable

• Experience of being involved in projects that have developed web sites and web site content.
• Experience in some of our core pension administration systems (PenScope, Compendia, Altair and Profund) would be preferable.
• Experience of working directly with clients and business representatives to evaluate their requirements and develop solutions.
• Experience of working with suppliers to ensure consistency on interconnected deliverables.
• Understanding of Application Programming Interface (API) is desirable.

*No parking due to central location*

Our client is recruiting for a Systems Analyst to join their team. The ideal candidate would have an understanding in pensions.

About the role

• Enhancing our Web Services to our clients and members is a HIGH profile project within and is one of the key projects to be delivered in 2020
• We want to develop a market leading proposition around providing information to these members
• This information will sometimes be scheme wide - messages and content that apply to all members - and sometimes member specific (information on their individual pensions savings and benefits)
• All of this will be delivered by a website - which we are calling 'the member portal'
• The project lifecycle is from conceptual ideas to an implemented solution
• The successful candidate will be enthusiastic and ambitious, with a real desire to help us deliver a market-leading web technology solutions (agnostic in nature) to our clients and their members.
• The candidate will be part of a small focused team of specialists from a range of functions/businesses, including our Business Services Group, to deliver innovative and leading edge technology solutions that provide our clients with new approaches to help educate and engage with scheme members, Trustees and sponsors.
• This role provides the successful candidate with a range of excellent opportunities to develop their analytical skills and experience whilst interacting with senior representatives across the Group to develop and deliver the web and digital vision being set by the management team. On a day to day basis they will work alongside the Business Service Group and client leads across the Group to ensure that the new technology aligns with our existing platforms and that the solutions meet the needs of our clients and prospects.
• Important aspects of the role will include manipulating data, writing data extraction scripts, creating 'dummy' data/calculation results to support the modelling and calculation capabilities that we develop. Other attributes will include working with the business requirements developed for the project and documenting technical aspects of the architecture.
• To assist in the UAT of newly developed functionality is also a key part of the role.
• As a senior analyst you will be expected to provide support and guidance to the project and any less experienced analysts involved.
• Working with the project team to create required data sets to support the key functionality within the new web portal. Manipulation of pension's data sets and the ability to create and map data to a common data format is going to be key aspect of this role. Familiarity with ETL processes and design is therefore critical and applicants should be familiar with SQL and SSIS.
• Throughout the project the Senior Systems Analyst is going to be responsible for the review of all data required to support the functionality and creating the necessary data extracts from a variety of data sources to support the work.
• Technical documentation, analytical reporting and supporting the User Acceptance Testing (UAT) should be expected.
• Data sets, derived from the calculation engines of our Administration platform's calculations routines, will need augmented for modelling functionality. Working from calculation specifications applicants should be familiar with Excel in order to generate any additional calculated values that are required in our datasets.

Skills and Knowledge

Essential

• Well organised and positive attitude with the ability to plan, prioritise and effectively manage their work.
• Good interpersonal skills.
• Excellent problem solving, organisational and planning skills.
• Ability to work well under pressure, across multiple workstreams; delivering to time and quality standards.
• Good oral and written communication skills, able to present technical matters to potential non-technical users.
• Produces consistent and high-quality results.
• Understanding of defined benefit and defined contribution pensions data.
• Strong ability to manipulate and analyse data.
• Able to follow instructions, procedures and assimilate information quickly in a consistent manner.
• Liaising with the Business and the Business Analysts to take the requirements and turn them into deliverable solutions.
• Creating data and calculation specifications, in terms of explaining to the users what is required, test case selection and ensuring the finished specification is "fit for purpose".
• Have worked with pension products and data across a number of systems and platforms.
• IT proficient, in particular SQL and Excel
• Proficient knowledge in benefit structures and calculation requirements for DB, DC and Hybrid pension schemes is desirable.

Desirable

• Experience of being involved in projects that have developed web sites and web site content.
• Experience in some of our core pension administration systems (PenScope, Compendia, Altair and Profund) would be preferable.
• Experience of working directly with clients and business representatives to evaluate their requirements and develop solutions.
• Experience of working with suppliers to ensure consistency on interconnected deliverables.
• Understanding of Application Programming Interface (API) is desirable.

Are you an Ecommerce Manager with experience in optimising online product merchandising?

If the answer is yes, then Autoglym may have the opportunity you have been waiting for…

We are currently recruiting for an Ecommerce Manager to join our growing Ecommerce team based in Letchworth Garden City. This is a full time, permanent position offering a competitive salary plus attractive rewards and benefits.

As an Ecommerce Manager your main responsibilities will include:

• To be responsible for the ecommerce partner and marketplace accounts, in order to maximise sales, profitability and growth in line with the Company’s agreed business objectives
• Identify and implement growth opportunities with existing and potential ecommerce partners & marketplaces.
• Act as daily point of contact for key ecommerce customer related queries.
• Maintain search optimized product copy and digital content on partner platforms worldwide.
• Manage language capable search agencies as required.
• Accountable for managing, tracking and evaluating customer based SEM initiatives and campaigns (e.g. Amazon Marketing Services and other customer tools).
• Work closely with Marketing Managers to manage the global Amazon Catalogue.
• Through the evaluation of customer analytics, share insight with the marketing team on future growth opportunities.  
• Recommend and adopt third party tools to continuously monitor competitor activity across the Ecommerce landscape.
• Manage third party sellers of Autoglym within the ecommerce channel whilst ensuring brand values are maintained.
• Through evaluation of all ecommerce activities make recommendations for future improvements to the ecommerce strategy.

Who are Autoglym?

Autoglym is a British manufacturer of a premium range of vehicle care and valeting products, which are sold in over 45 countries. As the holder of two Royal Warrants our products are used by enthusiasts and professionals and include customers such as vehicle manufacturers, major high street retailers, car dealerships, distributors, professional valeting companies and transport operators.

What are we looking for?

• Strong commercial and marketing acumen. A successful track record of developing ‘pure play’ Ecommerce partners/marketplaces on a marketing led, platform management basis, worldwide.
• Understanding of how to maximize Amazon and Marketplace channel profitability.
• Experienced in optimising online product merchandising, using agency partners or tools for local language planning and execution.
• Expert in using analytics to improve channel performance (e.g. ARA Premium, Terrapeak, etc.).
• Prior day-to-day experience in developing and managing successful channel/customer specific marketing campaigns (e.g. Amazon Marketing Services).
• Fully experienced in P&L management.
• Well versed in all aspects of Ecommerce partner management, KPI setting and evaluation, forecasting and promotional planning.
• Marketing experience in both B2C and B2B Channels.

If you have the relevant experience and would describe yourself as self-motivated with excellent attention to detail, then we would love to hear from you, click ‘Apply’ today!

Are you an Ecommerce Manager with experience in optimising online product merchandising?

If the answer is yes, then Autoglym may have the opportunity you have been waiting for…

We are currently recruiting for an Ecommerce Manager to join our growing Ecommerce team based in Letchworth Garden City. This is a full time, permanent position offering a competitive salary plus attractive rewards and benefits.

As an Ecommerce Manager your main responsibilities will include:

• To be responsible for the ecommerce partner and marketplace accounts, in order to maximise sales, profitability and growth in line with the Company’s agreed business objectives
• Identify and implement growth opportunities with existing and potential ecommerce partners & marketplaces.
• Act as daily point of contact for key ecommerce customer related queries.
• Maintain search optimized product copy and digital content on partner platforms worldwide.
• Manage language capable search agencies as required.
• Accountable for managing, tracking and evaluating customer based SEM initiatives and campaigns (e.g. Amazon Marketing Services and other customer tools).
• Work closely with Marketing Managers to manage the global Amazon Catalogue.
• Through the evaluation of customer analytics, share insight with the marketing team on future growth opportunities.  
• Recommend and adopt third party tools to continuously monitor competitor activity across the Ecommerce landscape.
• Manage third party sellers of Autoglym within the ecommerce channel whilst ensuring brand values are maintained.
• Through evaluation of all ecommerce activities make recommendations for future improvements to the ecommerce strategy.

Who are Autoglym?

Autoglym is a British manufacturer of a premium range of vehicle care and valeting products, which are sold in over 45 countries. As the holder of two Royal Warrants our products are used by enthusiasts and professionals and include customers such as vehicle manufacturers, major high street retailers, car dealerships, distributors, professional valeting companies and transport operators.

What are we looking for?

• Strong commercial and marketing acumen. A successful track record of developing ‘pure play’ Ecommerce partners/marketplaces on a marketing led, platform management basis, worldwide.
• Understanding of how to maximize Amazon and Marketplace channel profitability.
• Experienced in optimising online product merchandising, using agency partners or tools for local language planning and execution.
• Expert in using analytics to improve channel performance (e.g. ARA Premium, Terrapeak, etc.).
• Prior day-to-day experience in developing and managing successful channel/customer specific marketing campaigns (e.g. Amazon Marketing Services).
• Fully experienced in P&L management.
• Well versed in all aspects of Ecommerce partner management, KPI setting and evaluation, forecasting and promotional planning.
• Marketing experience in both B2C and B2B Channels.

If you have the relevant experience and would describe yourself as self-motivated with excellent attention to detail, then we would love to hear from you, click ‘Apply’ today!

Permanent Up to £48k Newcastle Upon Tyne

A new and exciting opportunity has become available for an experienced EUC Manager to work for a well-known global organisation on a permanent basis in the heart of Newcastle.

As the EUC Manager, you will be responsible for the operation and strategic development of all EUC technologies. You will report to the Head of Service Delivery EMEA and work closely with the other regional leads such as the Applications Support Manager, Network Manager and Infrastructure Manager as well as other regional IT Service Delivery Managers.

Please note that although this role will be predominantly based in the UK my client is part of a global organisation who offer a 24 hour a day operation. Therefore, all candidates will need to be flexible and be able to work out of hours if required and act as an escalation point.

(As well as working across all UK-based locations, international travel may be required.)

You will have the following skills/experience:

• Extensive experience of managing an end user computing team including a track record of mentoring and building a high-quality function.
• Solid experience of Citrix, Intune, SCCM and other Microsoft end point management technologies.
• A sound understanding of the future direction and road maps for Citrix and Microsoft end point management technologies.
• Experience of successfully applying and maintaining desktop security.
• Able to demonstrate an in-depth knowledge of PC build process optimisation and modern techniques for managing the desktop,
• Familiarity with Microsoft's servicing models for Windows 10 and Office 365.
• Strong working knowledge of application packaging using tools such as Admin Studio.
• Strong planning, communications and stakeholder management experience.
• Proven track experience of managing suppliers and performance.
• Budgetary experience coupled with demonstrable commercial awareness.

What you need to do now: If you're interested in this role, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or call us now. If this job isn't quite right for you but you are looking for a new position, please contact us for a confidential discussion on your career

Hays Specialist Recruitment Limited acts as an employment agency for permanent recruitment and employment business for the supply of temporary workers. By applying for this job you accept the T&C's, Privacy Policy and Disclaimers which can be found at hays.co.uk

Permanent Up to £48k Newcastle Upon Tyne

A new and exciting opportunity has become available for an experienced EUC Manager to work for a well-known global organisation on a permanent basis in the heart of Newcastle.

As the EUC Manager, you will be responsible for the operation and strategic development of all EUC technologies. You will report to the Head of Service Delivery EMEA and work closely with the other regional leads such as the Applications Support Manager, Network Manager and Infrastructure Manager as well as other regional IT Service Delivery Managers.

Please note that although this role will be predominantly based in the UK my client is part of a global organisation who offer a 24 hour a day operation. Therefore, all candidates will need to be flexible and be able to work out of hours if required and act as an escalation point.

(As well as working across all UK-based locations, international travel may be required.)

You will have the following skills/experience:

• Extensive experience of managing an end user computing team including a track record of mentoring and building a high-quality function.
• Solid experience of Citrix, Intune, SCCM and other Microsoft end point management technologies.
• A sound understanding of the future direction and road maps for Citrix and Microsoft end point management technologies.
• Experience of successfully applying and maintaining desktop security.
• Able to demonstrate an in-depth knowledge of PC build process optimisation and modern techniques for managing the desktop,
• Familiarity with Microsoft's servicing models for Windows 10 and Office 365.
• Strong working knowledge of application packaging using tools such as Admin Studio.
• Strong planning, communications and stakeholder management experience.
• Proven track experience of managing suppliers and performance.
• Budgetary experience coupled with demonstrable commercial awareness.

What you need to do now: If you're interested in this role, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or call us now. If this job isn't quite right for you but you are looking for a new position, please contact us for a confidential discussion on your career

Hays Specialist Recruitment Limited acts as an employment agency for permanent recruitment and employment business for the supply of temporary workers. By applying for this job you accept the T&C's, Privacy Policy and Disclaimers which can be found at hays.co.uk

Business Analyst / Business Support Analyst / Requirements Gathering / IT Solutions / Digital Solutions / As is / To be / Reading

Permanent

£45K plus excellent benefits

I have great pleasure in working with a leading business in Reading who have a strong IT division, they are experiencing a steady growth period and due to this they have identified a need to hire a Business Analyst on a permanent basis.

Business Analyst Specification:

• Business Analyst
• Able to demonstrate strong and innovative problem-solving skills.
• Demonstrable experience of challenging, understanding and building business processes within third party organisations
• Demonstrable experience in detailing requirements, as is and to be solutions
• Historical experience working across multiple domains and products.
• The ability to make decisions based on the right combination of data, knowledge and instinct.
• Experience of working in an Agile environment (especially Kanban and Scrum).
• Ability to consider both the end client and employer in all situations (Acting as a third party consultant).
• Ownership of challenges and genuine care about what you do and how you do it.
• Strong attention to detail.

If you have the desired skills and experience and would like to learn more about this opportunity then please send me your CV and I will call you to discuss in the strictest confidence.

Business Analyst / Business Support Analyst / Requirements Gathering / IT Solutions / Digital Solutions / As is / To be / Reading

Business Analyst / Business Support Analyst / Requirements Gathering / IT Solutions / Digital Solutions / As is / To be / Reading

Permanent

£45K plus excellent benefits

I have great pleasure in working with a leading business in Reading who have a strong IT division, they are experiencing a steady growth period and due to this they have identified a need to hire a Business Analyst on a permanent basis.

Business Analyst Specification:

• Business Analyst
• Able to demonstrate strong and innovative problem-solving skills.
• Demonstrable experience of challenging, understanding and building business processes within third party organisations
• Demonstrable experience in detailing requirements, as is and to be solutions
• Historical experience working across multiple domains and products.
• The ability to make decisions based on the right combination of data, knowledge and instinct.
• Experience of working in an Agile environment (especially Kanban and Scrum).
• Ability to consider both the end client and employer in all situations (Acting as a third party consultant).
• Ownership of challenges and genuine care about what you do and how you do it.
• Strong attention to detail.

If you have the desired skills and experience and would like to learn more about this opportunity then please send me your CV and I will call you to discuss in the strictest confidence.

Business Analyst / Business Support Analyst / Requirements Gathering / IT Solutions / Digital Solutions / As is / To be / Reading

Scrum Master

Exeter

£45,000

Looking for a talented Scrum Master to help transform a development team and help take them to the next level.

You will be an excellent communicator and be able to motivate and lead teams across the company.

A people person and someone whom individuals will naturally align with.

You will be many things - a problem solver, motivator, obstacle remover, leader - someone who makes a difference.

Ideally having been on the journey from waterfall to agile and battle hardened, you know the challenges that will come up and more importantly how to deal with them.

Yes you will be a dab hand using Jira & Confluence and will know your way around Gdrive.

More importantly you are an expert on all things agile and how to implement this effectively.

Top benefits and work environment as well as being part of an exciting period of growth for a company making waves.

"Click Apply" to get involved and find out more about this role and how you can make a difference.

Scrum Master

Exeter

£45,000

Looking for a talented Scrum Master to help transform a development team and help take them to the next level.

You will be an excellent communicator and be able to motivate and lead teams across the company.

A people person and someone whom individuals will naturally align with.

You will be many things - a problem solver, motivator, obstacle remover, leader - someone who makes a difference.

Ideally having been on the journey from waterfall to agile and battle hardened, you know the challenges that will come up and more importantly how to deal with them.

Yes you will be a dab hand using Jira & Confluence and will know your way around Gdrive.

More importantly you are an expert on all things agile and how to implement this effectively.

Top benefits and work environment as well as being part of an exciting period of growth for a company making waves.

"Click Apply" to get involved and find out more about this role and how you can make a difference.