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Growth Leader - Data Manipulation - Product Growth - Automation -Customer Experience - Manchester - Global Scope - £80 - £150k - Leading benefits package - Fully onsite role Yolk Recruitment are working with a leading Cyber Security organization to find a Business leader who wants to join an elite team of technology specialists using your Product and Data Acumen to drive the business and its products to new heights. Joining a team that is responsible for cutting-edge software is used by over 60,000 customers in 160 countries to help them secure their web applications. There educational and research output is used by millions of people globally to learn about web security. Are you versatile and someone that thrives on variety? Do you love learning new things? Read on for an exciting opportunity to forge your career to new levels. About you You don't want to be boxed into a narrowly focused career. You're energetic and tenacious. You're drawn towards difficult challenges, and you get a kick out of tackling them successfully. You're driven to generate results, working happily at the coalface to find solutions and untangle problems. You strive to achieve incredible things, always pushing yourself to hit harder than before. You're smart and good at most things. You're great with numbers, words, and solving hard problems. You're excited at the prospect of building things (processes, systems, capabilities...) that deliver long-term solutions to difficult challenges. You're unafraid of getting your hands dirty - you'd prefer to be where the action is happening rather than directing the players from above. You're a people person, and you love working with like-minded people. You're highly collaborative, comfortable bouncing ideas off others, and making shared progress together. You're ready to make a personal difference, and be involved in all phases of a challenge from ideation right through to delivery. The opportunity You will engage with a wide variety of activities, working with different teams across the entire business. Over time, you will have an opportunity to embed with each of our four tribes: technology, growth, culture, and finance. Examples of activities might include: Devising data-driven experiments to improve a common process, such as trial-to-purchase conversion, to drive better customer experience and outcomes. Reviewing the competitive landscape for a specific product area, to help us evolve our product strategy. Engaging with customers to identify opportunities to improve our product UX, learning materials, and support activities. Analyzing data from our recruitment processes to find opportunities to improve our efficiency and accuracy. Devising effective communications that amplify the value of our products and services, and resonate with our ideal customers. Working on hard people problems, such as helping new joiners to overcome impostor syndrome, or embedding an open feedback culture. Analyzing our transactional and financial reporting processes to identify opportunities for more efficient automation.
Pilot Group - Executive Assistant Today's world runs on critical infrastructure and technology. Pilot Group are dedicated to improving people's lives and the environment. We lead the way in SMART, SAFE and SUSTAINABLE infrastructure solutions. With combined experience over 5 decades spanning across electronics, electrical, heating and lighting markets, we pride ourselves in working in partnership with organisations world-wide to deliver integrated technology to improve working environments and transport systems. Our usinesses cover energy management, EV charging, traffic control systems, and Electrical Wholesale working across a wide range of commercial and industrial applications. The role will have a heavy focus in ESL which are the biggest business in the group. About ESL; ESL connects the demand and supply of industrial electrical components. As the world shifts to a more electric future, ESL helps customers procure their needs in this space by thinking and operating differently. The company joins supply chains together in a simple and easy-to-deliver way. ESL sources requirements internationally to develop long-term relationships with customers and suppliers, we hold stock in three warehouses (UK, Europe and America), we provide next-day delivery, and we provide local service in many countries by communicating in more than 18 different languages. ESL is headquartered in Manchester with people located around the world. It was founded by two female entrepreneurs 17 years ago- (both are still in the business) and the company has continued to deliver double-digit growth year after year. The company has 75 amazing people with brilliant skills. Purpose of the Role: To play a central part of providing an efficient and accurate administration and project support to the Group Managing Director. Working closely with the Pilot Group's Group Managing Director, you will make sure diaries, projects and commitments for the Group MD runs as smoothly and efficiently as possible, therefore enabling him to focus on his responsibilities in the knowledge that all the support, logistics and arrangements have been taken care of in line with Company policy and practices. Principal Accountabilities: Provide Outlook and diary management for the Pilot Group MD Coordinate and implement meeting schedules Assist with the set-up of office meetings including booking meeting rooms, video/call conferencing, catering, AV and confirming details with attendees in a timely manner Assist with Group MDs relationship management: database entry for contacts, drafting, sending, and tracking invitations and communication Provide an effective professional response to all visitors and enquiries by phone and face-to-face Open, acknowledge and co-ordinate responses to post and e-mail enquiries Monthly expense reconciliation Provide support in gaining business approvals, purchase orders and expenses Coordinate the activities such as diarise calls, minute meetings and manage the central database. Arrange, coordinate the agenda, and minute the monthly meetings of board, exec, and other meetings. Arrange and coordinate the agenda and preparation meetings and create Board packs ensuring all papers are submitted in a timely manner. Create presentations, reports, documents, printing, and distribution if needed, Provide support to the stakeholders Maintain strong working relationships with other business functions Work as part of a team across the Group to help ensure delivery of Group company goals. Knowledge, Skills and Experience: Extensive experience of supporting Senior Executive level in a high performance, fast paced organisation Able to use a variety of IT packages (e.g., Office 365, etc) at advanced standard Experience of working within an administrative role with robust administrative skills and the ability to draft documents without guidance Experience in organising complex and ever-changing schedules Proactive, works on own initiative, and is effective when under pressure High level of proactivity, able to use own initiative with a resourceful approach Highest level of integrity with the ability to maintain confidentiality and discretion Ability to project manage - ensuring clear requirements, monitoring and control to deliver the objectives in a timely fashion Personal Attributes: Workload management of self and Group MD Excellent planning and prioritisation skills The ability to work under pressure and deadlines Professional and friendly demeanour Self-motivated but able to work as a team Sustaining a level of professionalism among staff Background of strong secretarial / PA or EA support to a high-level team within a fast-moving business environment. High level accuracy and excellent literary and numeracy skills Experience with diary management ideally for more than one Executive. Excellent communication skills, written and orally Flexible approach to ad-hoc tasks and last-minute changes to provide excellent service. Location Head Office, Manchester (Short walk from Manchester Victoria train station) Commutable from: Manchester, Greater Manchester, Oldham, Rochdale, Warrington, Widnes, Runcorn, Preston, St Helens, Altrincham, Stockport, Bury, Bolton, Leigh, Wigan, Wilmslow Benefits Healthshield - Healthcare, Dental, Optical Life Assurance (after 3 months) 4 x annual salary 25 days holiday P.A plus bank holidays Recruitment Agencies The Pilot Group operates a strict PSL and will not accept any unsolicited CVs sent to any member, employee, representative or business unit of the Pilot Group
MBA are proud to be partnering a start up organisation which is delivering cutting edge technology for the aerospace and defence industries. Based in central Manchester our client is looking for an experienced Executive Assistant to join their team, this is a fantastic opportunity to be a part of the future in aerospace and defence. The role: As the Executive Assistant you will play a key role in supporting senior leaders and business functions across the business. You'll need to be proactive in your approach identifying opportunities where support is most required and proposing solutions to these. As they are a start up you'll be hands on in supporting across all areas of the business with activities that will include diary management, arranging travel, processing invoices and ordering equipment. Your role will predominantly support the CEO although you'll engage regularly with the Project Manager and Technical team. Key Responsibilities: Ensure effective and efficient management of diaries across the business, in particular for the CEO Mediation role between CEO and Engineering Team to arrange meeting, in person or on-line Ensure all necessary paperwork is in place to support business meetings Support CEO and Accounting company with processing invoices in time and keep track of any outstanding/missed payments Support relationship and communications with suppliers , couriers , deliveries. Ensure equipment orders are processed on time and to budget Arranging meetings, webinars, zoom calls Document production and review using Word, Excel, Powerpoint Your skills and experience: Previous experience of operating in a similar role, supporting leaders in a business that is agile and dynamic Experience of working within a business in a technical setting, where projects are a common occurrence Fantastic organisation and communication skills Able to evidence being solutions focused in your approach Computer literate Able to prioritise and deliver to deadlines Full UK driving license (the role is based in Manchester but will be required to travel to a site in Daresbury and potentially others across the North West) In addition to the above our client is looking to build a team which values diversity, collaboration and have a strong work ethic. It's a small, but growing, team so you'll need to be adaptable and willing to support the rapidly evolving needs of the business. You'll also need to be able to communicate well if you're going to be able to resolve the conflicting priorities which are a routine feature of early stage businesses.