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Commercial & Office, Senior
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Excellent opportunity to join a small sales team, providing administration support to the Sales Manager. This is a great opportunity for anyone with proven experience of working within a sales environment, without undertaking the sales calls themselves. By supporting the Sales Manager, you will have a crucial role to play in this very busy and hectic environment. The duties will include receiving orders, setting up new customer files, sending requested samples, extensive liaison with other departments, to include R&D, logisitics, and purchasing. An excellent telephone manner is essential as you will be regularly talking with key clients. There will also be a requirement for you to be involved with ongoing projects for various clients. The successful candidate must have good skills within Word and Excel and be quick to learn and pick up new systems. This role is looking to interview and recruit with immediate effect. Email your CV to: naomi@johnsonunderwood.co.uk |
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Our hugely successful client has created this new and exciting position. Our client is a market leader within their field. Based in Northampton, they now have the exclusive distribution rights throughout Europe and Russia, and have identified the Eastern European and Russian market as an area for high growth. This is a newly created post that offers excellent career development opportunities long-term and fantastic earning potential to a successful individual. As the European Sales Manager you will be based in the UK and will involve selling the full range of document management equipment to dealers, agents and distributors within Europe and Russia. You will also review the existing distributors/agents as well as setting up new distributor networks from scratch. The position is primarily an office based position, with some ad hoc overseas travel as required. Candidates will need to have the following:
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Our client is looking to recruit a Manufacturing/Mechanical Engineering Graduate to join their operation in Blackburn. Excellent on going career opportunity, with a long established organisation, who are offering this structured graduate opening for the right candidate. The successful candidate will:
During the first 12 months it is envisaged you will be working within the manufacturing, engineering and technical and commercial departments of the business. Liaising with suppliers, internal staff, working closely with the management team and becoming involved in various projects. Email your CV to: naomi@johnsonunderwood.co.uk |
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Initially a three months assignment with potential to lead to a permanent position. Must have proven background in planning and have effective excel skills. Excellent organisation and benefits. Working in a team environment, this role is pivotal in meeting customers' expectations. Liaising and working with the stock and production teams, you will be responsible from planning products through to delivery, including investigating any delays or problems during the production process. Global company. Effective communication skills and excel is sought Immediate start. Email your CV to: carol@johnsonunderwood.co.uk |
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Great opportunity for anyone with fluent Swedish and English - verbal and written, who enjoys supporting customers! Working for an established and successful engineering company, who has acquired a very large account in Sweden. Working within a busy team environment, you will be receiving orders and processing orders, liaising with internal departments to ensure the orders will be met and service levels acquired. You will be the direct contact for this Swedish client, receiving both telephone calls and emailed enquires from this major account. In addition you will support other customers. Candidates MUST have fluency in Swedish and English, and be currently working (or last role) within customer services or internal sales. Email your CV to: naomi@johnsonunderwood.co.uk |
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Sorry, the closing date for this vacancy has expired. A great opportunity to join this fast growing organisation in a support role for their independent consultants. Our client is a global organisation, with their Head Office placed in Corby, Northants. Working as one of a team of Training and Support Co-ordinator's within the organisation, you will play a key role in building supportive relationships with the UK based Consultants. This will include visiting Consultants in the field, with a target of 2 visits a month. You will also have a role to play in assisting and administering the recruitment process of Consultants and their on-going training, and the accreditation process. This will involve booking and liaising with venues for training days, attending meetings, and other consultant events. Candidates will need to be able to present part of the training days, if necessary, and assist in the development of training programmes where necessary. You will also be involved in the reporting of Consultant sales activity. This is a hugely challenging role for a customer focused administrator, who may have previously been involved within an events/ training environment. Operational organisation and planning skills are a requirement along with the ability to build relationships quickly. The ability to develop presentation skills and a sound knowledge of MS Word, Excel and databases is also a requirement. Email your CV to: naomi@johnsonunderwood.co.uk |
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Ongoing assignment with local organisation, responsible for a variety of admin tasks at a senior level. Must be able to support a busy Director and become involved in projects. Working in a busy team, key responsibilities will include:- Diary management, arranging meetings, producing documentation Attending meetings, taking minutes and transposing into various reports Involvement in new projects. Must have worked at a similar level before. Email your CV to: carol@johnsonunderwood.co.uk |
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Our client seeks an experienced Senior PA who is familiar with working at senior director level. Our client is an established organisation within a fast growing industry. Due to the pending maternity leave of their Executive PA, we are now looking to seek someone with the necessary experience AND skillset to undertake this demanding and challenging maternity contract which is expected to run for 9 - 12 months. The role itself will involve the following duties:
This role will require flexibility with regards hours worked and duties undertaken. The standard working day is 8.30am - 5.00pm, Monday to Friday. But there will be a need to work additional hours as workloads dictate. Candidates will need to have excellent/polished communication skills - both written and verbal, with exemplary spelling and grammar. You will also need to have strong skills within Microsoft Office, to include Powerpoint and Excel at an advanced level. Previous experience of working as a PA at senior Director/CEO level is essential. Email your CV to: naomi@johnsonunderwood.co.uk |
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Responsible for leading all aspects of the quality function including the environmental system to ensure compliance with ISO and BRC standards. Responsible for leading a team that deals with all aspects of the quality function, ensuring compliance to ISO and BRC standards are maintained and optimise the quality of production output to improve both integrity and profitability of company. Duties will include: *Leading continuous improvement initiatives *Oversee and manage the business response and problem solving techniques that responds to customer complaints/concerns *Assist in vendor development * Promote a data orientated customer focused culture. *Communicate effectively with all departmental managers across the business. Candidates will need to have proven experience of implementation and management of quality systems within manufacturing. In addition experience of leading and participating in continuous improvement initiatives and proven leadership skills will also be desirable. Email your CV to: naomi@johnsonunderwood.co.uk |
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To help develop and drive the effective us of communications within the organisation. Post offered on a temporary basis, expected to run until August 2012. A great opportunity to further establish your career within Communications and PR. This role will involve developing effective links with local and national media and ensure effective promotion and management of the organisation's reputation through briefings, features, interviews and other means. This role will involve contributing to the internal "newspaper", campaign marketing materials, leaflets, internet and intranet postings, project communication strategies and corporate briefing messages. This will include liaising with colleagues for appropriate and timely copy, writing articles, supplying/commissioning photographs and ensuring deadlines and budget limit are adhered to. You will also be expected to develop constructive links with local and national media to ensure the effective promotion and management of the organisation's reputation through briefings, features and other means. Writing and sourcing material as required for this purpose. Delivering day to day management advice from a communications perspective, including the drafting of papers and other materials. This may require some out of hours cover as required. Help develop the overall brand and identity, including the development of style guidelines, and ensure that these are promoted and adhered to within the organisation. Candidates will need to be educated to degree level or equivalent. Be able to demonstrate track record of experience in communications and PR work and an ability to contribute effectively both strategically and operationally. Strong ability to produce clear, concise written material which is attractive to the media as well as the ability to produce clear, well formulated papers in sensitive situations. Polished presentation and personal communication skills. Ideally you will be part or fully qualified in an appropriate communication/PR qualification. Email your CV to: carol@johnsonunderwood.co.uk |
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Due to acquiring some new accounts in Sweden, our client now requires a fluent Swedish speaker. Based within the field, you will have your own portfolio of existing clients, as well as being expected to bring on some new clients, and generate new leads. The development of existing accounts is a key area to this role, along with the use of your Swedish speaking skills with some newly acquired business. Previous field sales experience is a requirement for this post, although an accomplished internal sales/customer service professional with the language skills would be considered. Email your CV to: naomi@johnsonunderwood.co.uk |
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Approximately a 3 months assignment with potential, this role is well suited to Social Care professional with excellent and proven management skills. Key areas of responsibility, within a team driven environment, will include auditing care plans, reporting and "making things happen"! This role helps deliver all housing related services to vulnerable Individuals, including sheltered housing occupants, responding effectively to their Individual care plans, liaising with outside agencies, attending meetings and reporting thereon, dealing with emergencies, troubleshooting, supporting other members of staff and other similar related duties. A care or welfare background would be most helpful. Immediate start. Email your CV to: carol@johnsonunderwood.co.uk |
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Fantastic opportunity to join a most professional management team. This is a challenging post that will require an exceptional PA. Working closely with another Executive PA already established within the organisation, you will be expected to provide full support to an extremely busy and challenged FD, along with some support to the other Directors as and when required. Duties will include extensive diary and email management. Providing an administrative service to include the production of some correspondence, but mainly emails and reports. Prepare presentations using Powerpoint, and sometimes incorporating involved statistics using excel. Preparing paperwork for meetings. Taking minutes at meetings, and producing accurate and concise documents. Arrange travel. Deal with expenses. Undertake project work. Assist in the production of annual accounts - liaising with printers, etc. Involvement in some larger scale meetings and events as appropriate. Candidates must have very good knowledge of Excel and Powerpoint as a minimum. Advance users are of these packages are desired. Candidates will be educated to A level standard (or equivalent) or higher, and will possess excellent communication skills, both verbal and written and be highly articulate. Candidates will be expected to have worked at this senior PA level previously. Email your CV to: naomi@johnsonunderwood.co.uk |
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Excellent position for personable Individual with excellent data/excel skills, to include Pivots and look ups. Small professional team, within large organisation. This role interfaces with their Customer Support team, therefore, good communication skills are required - this is not a back office position. Working in a team, you will be allocated your own clients and customer services team leaders, with whom to liaise. Day to day responsibilities will include:- Producing and analysing data from the main systems, onto excel spreadsheets, investigating product cycles, liaising with internal staff and colleagues, attend meetings to present data and implement new or improved procedures, resolve issues and source solutions. Experience of manipulating data is required, as is excellent communication skills. Email your CV to: carol@johnsonunderwood.co.uk |
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Exciting post for an organised and methodical worker with good excel knowledge. This role is working within a fast paced environment, providing support to the business by undertaking various studies and research into the supply chain process, and in particular the quantity of stock being held. Candidates will need to have a very good knowledge of excel, and be competent in using pivot tables. They will also need to be numerate, probably educated to A level standard (or equivalent) or above. Previous experience of working within an analytical role, would be desirable. The role will also involve extensive interaction with other team members, and management throughout the business, so a confident manner and excellent communication skills are also a requirement. Email your CV to: naomi@johnsonunderwood.co.uk |
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2 month assignment for public sector benefits specialist. Must have proven experience of e-benefits processes and procedures. Working in the new claims department, you will be evaluating and verifying new claims on the client's e-benefits processing system. Knowledge and experience is essential and you must be able to “hit the ground running" Immediate start. Please forward CVs and references asap. Email your CV to: carol@johnsonunderwood.co.uk |
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A varied administrative post that requires an experienced all round administrator with strong Excel skills. This is a newly created post, to join an established office team. Candidates will need to have previous experience of working within a varied and challenging administration role. The role will involve, creating and updating various spreadsheets, administration for the import and export market (full training will be given on this). Input of sales orders, input of data onto the database, along with assisting in answering the telephones. Previous experience within a busy sales office would be desirable, but not essential. Accuracy of input, along with excellent communication skills - both verbal and written are essential. Good knowledge of Word and Excel are essential. Educated to GCSE level, A - C, (or equivalent) in Maths and English is also a requirement. Candidates will ideally be numerate. Working between 17 - 20 hrs a week - the company is flexible as to when the hours are worked, although they do need to be constant. Email your CV to: naomi@johnsonunderwood.co.uk |
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