Andy File Associates Limited are working on behalf of their client as a Recruitment Agency with regards this permanent vacancy.
A new and exciting opportunity has arisen for a Operations Manager to join a successful venue and sports stadium.
The role
- Ensuring a high standard of service and customer experience is delivered at all times across the venue and stadium
- Overseeing recruiting, training and appraisals of staff
- Ensuring activity levels and profit margin are converted to the agreed budgets
- Ensure good relationships are maintained and developed
- Regular team meetings
- Responsible for all Health and Safety
- Responsible for staff rotas ensuring staffing levels are controlled to ensure maximum efficiency and effectiveness at all times
- Financial forecasting and agreeing targets with the CEO
- Assist in the growth of the venue/stadium
- Adhere to company policies and procedures at all times
The candidate
- Previous experience in a similar role
- You will thrive under busy, variable and exciting environments where no two days are alike.
- You have an unshakable can-do attitude
- You are outcome focussed, with strong attention to detail and an eye to innovation, problem solving and seeking efficient and cost-effective ways to deliver successful events
- Experience of leadership in a high-pressure environment, often dealing with and responding to demanding clients or stakeholders.
- A proven track record of demonstrating excellence and innovation, as well as strong financial acumen.
- Excellent communication, negotiation and influencing skills, across a variety of stakeholders, with a focus on achieving agreed outcomes that contribute towards the overall organisational objectives.
- You are a clear communicator that establishes strong professional relationships with colleagues and stakeholders, both internal and external, and seeks to resolve arising issues in Line with wider objective
- You are a strategic thinker, a leader and thrive on accountability.
- A Team player approach, be resourceful and possess the ability to demonstrate initiative; still seeking advice or support when required.
- A proven ability to work with efficiency, flexibility, and good humour; understanding the ever-changing events environment which will include unsociable hours.
Andy File Associates Limited are working as a Recruitment Agency on behalf of our client with regards this permanent vacancy.
About the Company
Our client is the UK’s leading energy consultant; continually transforming the way national blue chips and innovative SME’s do business on a daily basis. Now they have added a new addition to the group of companies targeting the domestic market.
They are looking for a proactive manager to support our sales growth strategy. Reporting to the Operations Director it will be your responsibility to help drive the company to its annual turnover targets through retail sales in the domestic market. They will be expected to manage your sales team and customers to ensure maximum return on investment.
The successful candidate must be able to demonstrate a proven track record of delivering outstanding results through your highly effective leadership qualities and a strategic approach to planning for success. You will undoubtedly be an experienced manager with a passion for delivering excellent customer satisfaction whilst driving forward profitable business expansion and sales.
They will be able to identify and target key areas of growth ensuring that a robust sales pipeline is developed and progressed, supported by sound forecast reporting. The candidate will take accountability for ensuring the business understands the current and potential market.
Main Duties/Responsibilities:
- Deliver sales targets in line with company growth strategy
- Create a retail offer for domestic customers to include finance package
- Provide marketing input to target the customer database in line with the sales strategy
- Provide the highest standards of customer service
- Provide comprehensive sales activity reports and analysis
- Maintaining industry knowledge and competitor intelligence
- Establish strong internal relationships to support your sales team
- Establishing, maintaining and expanding the company’s customer base
- Setting sales targets for individuals and the team as a whole
- Recruiting and training sales staff
- Management of internal and external lead generation
- Manage the field based and internal sales team
- Monitoring the team’s performance and motivating them to reach target
- Developing new sales strategies and routes to market
- Dealing with key customer accounts
The successful candidate should possess the following skills and experience:
- Experience in working within a sales environment and show progression both in sales and management
- Previous experience of designing, packaging and taking a retail offer to market
- Proven experience and methodology for people management
- Experience and knowledge of selling finance packages
- Knowledge of the heating industry
- Technical knowledge of boilers
- Passionate about sales and client negotiation
- Strong commercial awareness
- Strong communicator at all levels
- Strong people management skills
- Initiative and self-drive
- Computer literacy
- Highly organised with attention to detail
- Flexibility to travel
- Unrestricted right to work in the UK/EU
Andy File Associates Limited are working on behalf of their client as a Recruitment Agency with regards this permanent vacancy.
The business is continuing to rapidly expand both in the UK and the US. A software business who are soon to be relocating to East Midlands Airport.
This is a newly created position which provides an exciting opportunity for an ambitious qualified accountant to become responsible for the full accounting function reporting into the Managing Director
They are currently automating processes and procedures to sustain current growth levels along with the implementation new polices and procedures.
Responsibilities to include:
Full financial control for the financial and management accounts
Preparing the annual budget and cash – flow forecasting
Liaison with the bank and remodeling for new contracts and tenders
Implementing financial controls in order for the business to grow
Managing the finance team
Previous Experience to include:
Being responsible for the management of a finance department
Experience of implementation of new systems, processes and people related changes within a finance dept.
Worked with mid-tier finance systems SAP1, Dynamics Nav/GP/ SL or J D Edwards
Management of multiple disparate global finance locations UK and US
Adherence to US and UK GAAP and US sales tax
Excel (significant) and other MS Office applications (occasional use).
