Senior Marketing Manager - B2B - Manchester - £50,000 - £54,000

My client is a B2B energy supplier who is seeking a Senior Marketing Manager to join them on a permanent basis.

Reporting to the Head of Marketing & External Communications, the Senior Marketing Manager will be a senior member of the team, acting as an advisor, leader and role model for his or her marketing colleagues. They will take a leading role in creating and refining the marketing strategy with a view to building our brand and deepening thier relationships with customers and partners. They will also work with a driven team of marketing professionals on a wide range of marketing activities to help the business achieve its goals.

The client is open to industry background but this individual must come from a B2B enviroment!

Great benefits and hybrid working model is offered.

McGregor Boyall is an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on any grounds.

My clients are building out a new cloud capability team within the organisation. They are late adopters to cloud and need an experienced Azure engineer to create the environment within which new cloud and digital projects can deliver at pace – setting technical direction, ensuring cloud related decisions are made quickly and are appropriate to technology, business and governance environment.

The role would be best suited to an engineer who comes from an Infrastructure background so has experience with servers, networks, storage and compute, who has moved into Azure cloud and has experience with modern cloud technologies such as IaC & CI/CD.

Why Join?

- Excellent salary + 20% bonus and exceptional pension contribution (18%)
- Opportunity to work on a huge greenfield project where you can put your own stamp on an organisation's cloud journey
- Plenty of opportunity to progress into a managerial position as the team grows. Plans are to grow to 5
- Fully remote working giving you the autonomy to manage your day & personal life
- Hugely collaborative teams with industry experts. Collaboration will be key to ensure a successful cloud adoption

The role:

- Overall Technical / Engineering Lead for Cloud
- Accountable for the engineering that underpins agreed Cloud Strategy and direction
- Liaising with Group Technology Strategy to inform cloud strategy, architectures and roadmaps
- Understanding requirements from across Group Technology and our business and ensuring cloud patterns and associated technical decisions support those requirements
- Ensure cloud patterns can be supported effectively by operations and platform teams.
- Create and manage the roadmap and backlog for pattern development
- Deliver cloud reference architectures to project teams and strategic third parties
- Engagement early with cloud and digital development projects providing definition, ideation and engineering support.
- Perform reviews against Well Architected Frameworks for proposed architectures and designs and regular assessments of deployed architectures against frameworks.

Skills required:

- Proven experience in a senior / lead role
- 5+ years within Azure Cloud
- Able to work with multiple key stakeholders and manage competing priorities.
- Proactive strategic leadership, demonstrable skills in the design, communication and delivery of Cloud technologies and frameworks.
- Ability to engage and communicate at all levels from Technical gurus to Executive Management
- Strategic vendor / supplier management

If this opportunity looks like a good match, please don't hesitate to get in touch on the below details, or similarly apply directly to the link.

aclayton@mcgregor-boyall.com
07857463523

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A Global financial organisation is looking for a talented Service Designer to join their team! The role will involve mapping customer service experiences and determining how organisations may improve what they deliver and how they deliver it. The role requires someone who has been used to a fast, agile environment that can work well within a team but also on their own. The company need someone to come in and improve the projects that the team have been working on as well as maintain what has been achieved already.

Role Requirements:

• Significant experience of designing for a variety of digital touch-points and non-digital channels including creating journey maps, blueprints and service prototypes
• Good communication skills to mentor junior designers
• Research, user experience design, and product design are some of the areas in which you should have experience.
• Proficiency with the Microsoft suite.

If this sounds like you send your CV to tshort@mcgregor-boyall.com or apply to the advert for a confidential chat.

McGregor Boyall is an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on any grounds.

This is an exciting opportunity for a Cloud / DevOps engineer (2+ years experience) to join an innovative, cloud-native software consultancy based in Leeds.

Due to organic growth and new customer acquisitions, they are looking to bolsted the cloud team to work alongside their developers on cutting-edge projects.

Why Join?

- Work alongside industry experts who will support & guide you through your journey there
- Plenty of room for progression with constant training & development to ensure you meet the criteria
- Cloud-native projects which will constantly challenge you, whilst improving your skillset
- Opportunity to run & manage your own projects, gaining valuable experience
- Training budget from day 1 with allocated time in your working week to be able to undetake industry certifications

Role overview:

- Work closely with the egineering team to identify the best cloud-based solution for customers
- Design & Delivery of AWS projects
- Ensure application performance, uptime, and scale, maintaining high standards of code quality and thoughtful design
- Managing cloud environments in accordance with company security guidelines

Tech skillset required:

- Experience designing and delivering AWS solutions
- Understanding of the five-pillars of well architectured framework
- Programming experience in production
- Knowledge of javascript & node.js

If this role looks a good match, please apply directly or get in touch on the below details:

07857463523
aclayton@mcgregor-boyall.com

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Leading UK Bank is seeking a Solution Architect to join their Technology Optimisation programme on a 6 month contract basis. They are ideally looking for a rounded Solution Architect with good experience in network architecture or an infrastructure architect with a network background.

This large-scale programme spans the entire applications systems estate and involves multiple Design Authoring teams, both internal and partner resourced, with the role sitting within the Design team’s Assurance function.

The ideal candidate will have most of the following:

• Background in network architecture
• IT governance and oversight – assurance of others’ designs is particularly sought after
• Experience in a regulated industry
• Experience of working across multiple designs in parallel (as opposed to focussing on individual, long-running designs)
• Proven ability to converse across multiple technical SME areas (internal and provider) and spanning a gamut of technologies and supporting areas, e.g. Virtualisation, SAN, Networking, Database, Middleware, Client, CyberSec, DevOps & Tooling, Licensing, etc.
• Some knowledge of one or more Public Clouds

The bank has offices in Leeds, Manchester, London, Edinburgh and Cardiff, as well as others across the country. The role is flexible with location and will involve just a day a week in the office.

If this sounds of interest to you, please reply to this ad and someone will be in touch with more details.

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Business Solutions Developer

£26,000 - £36,000

Hybrid- Manchester Area

Full Time – Permanent

McGregor Boyall has been retained in a Recruitment partnership with one of Manchester & the North West's most recognized business brands to deliver and build a new permanent Software Engineering & Application Development team as part of a newly appointed Business Applications & Solutions Development team.
Who will deliver a brand new long-term, Business Application Technology transformation program using cutting-edge technology, which they're willing to cross-train, skill, and develop.

This team will transform the business's Software Applications to deliver more efficient and automated workflow, processes, and BI/visualized Reports using Microsoft's brand-new Power Apps (Power Applications) suite of tools.

There are over 700+ applications/workflows/reports internally to be rebuilt/designed in Power Apps, with many more comprehensive changes to deliver as part of this program. This opportunity presents a long-term, recession-proof opportunity.

The company is fully committed to upskilling/cross-skilling/teaching candidates the full suite of tooling/technologies within the Power Application Suite. You will need existing commercial or recognized academic experience in the following to succeed.

• Experience taking user requirements and translating them into a complete solution on the Power App platform.
• Experienced in using Microsoft SharePoint.
• Experience working with JavaScript and legacy SharePoint technologies would be helpful since the company is part-way through migration to SharePoint online.
• Some exposure to Power BI, Teams, and Office 365 Groups / SharePoint Team Sites would be advantageous.

The role would be based onsite at the company HQ; they offer a Hybrid / remote model; the position will be a minimum of 2-3 days a week in the office, and 2-3 days a week at home, so you must be able to commute/work to the Manchester/Cheshire area daily.

The business treats its staff exceptionally well and is one of the region's largest employers; benefits include 25 days hols + BH, insurance and medical cover, pension, great company perks, affiliate events, business events, socials, etc.

Please apply for immediate review.

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A UK leading Financial company are looking for a Digital Business Analyst to help assist with existing processes across retail product areas.

This role is offered on a contract basis (£550 per day inside IR35)

Responsibilities of the role;

• Stakeholder engagement
• Process mapping
• Digitising offshore work
• Business requirements and Analysis
• Run requirement sessions

If you believe you meet the requirements for this role, please apply or email your CV to Sfenney@mcgregor-boyall.com

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Data Insight Analyst

£25,000 - £35,000

Fully Remote

Permanent, Full Time

Do you want to work for a forward-thinking, award winning in-house software development team? Does working in a positive culture matter to you? Do you eat, sleep and breathe data?

We have a fast-growing working environment, where we empower and trust our team to work independently whilst also pulling together to achieve our objectives.

We are a diverse team, flexible as to working patterns, and are an equal opportunity employer; for example, 66% of women are in a senior position within our firm.

To be successful in this role, you will have experience in providing valuable and actionable data insights. Working within the Client Analytics team you will service both internal and external client requirements and be well versed at handling large volumes of data.

Supporting an increasingly data driven business, you will undertake analysis ranging from benchmarking and client level evaluations of key data services, through to collation and interpretation of data from a number of industry sources.

Whilst working as part of a small team, you will also have opportunity to work autonomously.

It is desirable that you have experience of the insurance and/or legal sectors to add relevant interpretation to the analytic output.

Skills we would like you to have:

• Strong analytical skills & experience of working with large volumes of data

• Skilled in communicating complex insights succinctly and clearly, both written and verbal
• Advanced Excel skills are essential.
• Skilled in numerate disciplines
• Experience in Power BI or other visualisation tools is desirable.
• Experience of the insurance and/or legal sectors is preferable

McGregor Boyall is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Customer Journey Owner who will have oversight of the mortgage products.The journeys will include homebuying, change to contract, moving home and remortgaging.

The role holder will work with the customer experience team to uncover the customer pain points, defining the ideal homebuying experience for the customers both now and in the future. In addition, the role holder will explore ways of reducing the processes undertaken by branch colleagues to ensure a more efficient end to end colleague experience.

Ideal candidate:

• Needs to have UK Mortgage/regulation experience and knowledge
• Prior experience in understanding an end to end customer buying lifecycle
• Wider experience of working with product, credit, AML, risk etc. departments
• Strong affinity in the financial services market and the ability to infuence and shape change
• Demonstrate they have done this in the past with clear examples

Role specifics:

• This person can be based in either the London or Mancheste office
• Ideally this individual would need to be in the office two days and open to working from a local branch one day. Please note this is a pre-requisite and anyone looking for fully remote will not be considered
• Open to applications who were a product owner/manager as long as they have has full ownership of the customer journey

Interview process:

• This will be a three stage process with an expectation to construct and deliver a presentation.

To find out more or to apply please submit your CV as the client would like to interview asap!

McGregor Boyall is an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on any grounds.

Leading UK Bank is seeking a Solution Architect to join their Technology Optimisation programme on a 6 month contract basis. They are ideally looking for a rounded Solution Architect with good experience in network architecture or an infrastructure architect with a network background.

This large-scale programme spans the entire applications systems estate and involves multiple Design Authoring teams, both internal and partner resourced, with the role sitting within the Design team’s Assurance function.

The ideal candidate will have most of the following:

• Background in network architecture
• IT governance and oversight – assurance of others’ designs is particularly sought after
• Experience in a regulated industry
• Experience of working across multiple designs in parallel (as opposed to focussing on individual, long-running designs)
• Proven ability to converse across multiple technical SME areas (internal and provider) and spanning a gamut of technologies and supporting areas, e.g. Virtualisation, SAN, Networking, Database, Middleware, Client, CyberSec, DevOps & Tooling, Licensing, etc.
• Some knowledge of one or more Public Clouds

The bank has offices in Leeds, Manchester, London, Edinburgh and Cardiff, as well as others across the country. The role is flexible with location and will involve just a day a week in the office.

If this sounds of interest to you, please reply to this ad and someone will be in touch with more details.

McGregor Boyall is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.

Senior Operations Analyst

£35,000 - £45,000

Hybrid working (Chester)

Full time, Permanent

I am thrilled to be seeking a brand-new Senior Operations Analyst for the UK’s leading holiday and travel company. We are experiencing a surge in bookings following a staycation boom meaning we are busier than ever, reaching record numbers for bookings and expanding our team with the best and brightest local talent to continue our success

Despite being notorious within the Staycation sphere, behind this, we stand as one of the fastest-growing Tech businesses in the North West! With over 120 tech superstars across our team, we truly are the best and brightest, who eat, sleep and breathe tech and are united in nurturing our rich culture of innovation, discovering new ways of doing things and our newest Senior Operations Analyst will become our newest addition in our quest to become a data driven business!

This new challenge will be the perfect opportunity for someone who shares in our passion for innovation, who can hit the ground running sharing their technical expertise and drive forward our culture of progression and forward thinking! Also they should be passionate about analysis with a high attention to detail and the ability to think outside of the box! With advanced ability to manipulate and interpret data using SQL and have a strong commercial knowledge of Data Visualization tools such as Tableau, Power BI and Qlick. This is the ideal opportunity to showcase your technical skills within a fast-paced, changing environment, being involved in projects that have a real business impact from day one of your new role!

Benefits

• Plus access to our annual STIP (annual company-wide bonus) scheme with an additional 5% of your salary
• 33 days annual leave including bank holidays
• Plus an additional day off for your Birthday
• Plus an additional two volunteering days per year
• An enhanced maternity and paternity policy
• Un-rivalled personal development
• Study support for additional qualifications, courses and accreditations
• Numerous wellbeing initiatives including on-site councillor and reflexology
• On-site gym at our Chester HQ
• Regular social events including our infamous bring your dog to work day!

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Mid-Level Software Developer or Data Development Opportunity.
Full coaching and development provided - must have a foundation experience commercially (or recognised accademic experience) in Software Development/Power Platform/Power Application experience.
Manchester area / hybrid working.
Great salary, benefits, opportunity to learn one of the most sought after emerging tech skills.
Full detailed description below:

McGregor Boyall have been retained in Recruitment partnership with one of Manchester & the North West's most recognised business brands, to deliver and build a brand new permanent Software Engineering & Application Development team, as part of a brand new appointed, Business Applications & Solutions Development team.
Who will be delivering a brand new long term, Business Application Technology transformation programme using cutting edge technology, of which they're willing to cross train, up skill and develop.
We're therefore looking for a commercially experienced Software Developer to join this new team.

This team will be transforming the business's Software Applications, to deliver more efficient and automated workflow, processes and BI/visualised Reports using Microsoft's brand-new Power Apps (Power Applications) suite of tools.

There are over 700+ plus current applications/workflows/reports internally to be rebuilt/designed in Power Apps with many more wider changes to deliver in addition as part of this programme, so this opportunity presents a long term, recession proof opportunity.

The company is fully committed to upskilling/cross skilling/teaching candidates the full suite of tooling/technologies within the Power Application Suite, but you will need existing commercial or recognised academic experience in the following to succeed

Microsoft SQL or TSQL coding/development

AND/OR:

Power BI, DAX, Excel, SSRS,
SharePoint, Microsoft Dynamics, CRM, O365, Microsoft Teams (tennant management/etc)
JavaScript, C#, .Net framework

Role would be based onsite at the companies HQ, they offer Hybrid / remote model, but due to the training and coaching, mentoring model the business will be adopting the role will be minimum 3-4 days a week in the office, 1-2 days a week at home, so you must be able to commute/work to the Manchester/Cheshire area on a daily basis.

The business treats it's staff exceptionally well and are one of the largest employers in the region, benefits are excellent including 25 days hols + BH, insurance and medical cover, pension, really great company perks, affiliate events, business events, socials etc.

McGregor Boyall is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.