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Location Hybrid < 1-2 days in the office/Support Centre on Hams Hall Distribution Park, Coleshill. Why The Works? We don't just sell products. We inspire reading, learning, creativity and play. You sell the paint that turns someone into an artist. You provide the book that unleashes an inner author. You supply the games that help bring families together. You give someone the puzzle book that reconnects someone with a late family member's memory. You never know who someone will become. So with your passion, and our products, you will help ignite the spark in helping people unleash their creativity, find new passions, hobbies, or rekindle fond memories. The unseen possibilities are limitless, and it all starts with you. Become a Commercial Finance Business Partner Reporting to the Head of Commercial Finance, this role sits within an existing commercial team of six. In this role, you will develop a good understanding of the key drivers of the business to enable you to effectively deliver insight, challenge, add value and influence strategic business decisions. You will be responsible for building strong relationships and business partnering with senior managers and their teams, providing financial insight to support their commercial decision making. Your Mission Dedicated Business Partner to The Works management team, building partnerships and strong relationships with all senior managers and their teams. Providing financial support to commercial decision making. Delivering analysis and insight that links financial reports to business strategies. Improving the impact, and understanding, of financial reporting on business performance; providing options and scenarios for business decisions Providing effective commercial support to ensure key operational, commercial, and financial targets are delivered. Key leadership role in supporting the budgeting and forecast processes, providing support and challenge for budget holders, high-lighting risks, and opportunities, and ensuring alignment with business objectives. Assisting with the development of new MI reporting, systems, and processes, embracing continuous improvement For areas of responsibility, ownership of the monthly management accounts and reporting to the board. Skills/Behaviours That Will Set You Apart A fully qualified ACA/CIMA/ACCA, with commercial business partnering experience, you will be able to demonstrate the following: Motivated and self-sufficient, using initiative to be pro-active. Naturally inquisitive and confident to challenge both accepted assumptions and processes. Collaborative approach with excellent communication and interpersonal skills to be able to liaise with and influence colleagues at all levels. Commercially astute with a strong desire to understand the key levers in the business, and an ability to interpret numbers into meaningful insight, and communicate to the business. Ability to professionally challenge the business to make improvements to operational and financial performance. Experience of budgeting and forecasting processes including reviewing and challenging commercial targets with budget-holders Strong Excel and analytical skills, with attention to detail and able to work at pace under time pressure. Confidence to initiate process improvements and the tenacity to see them through to completion. Strong organisational skills, flexible and able to adapt quickly to deliver a fast turnaround on ad-hoc tasks. ?? 25% Colleague Discount! -Plus, exclusive Double Discount days! ??MyWorks - Access exclusive online discounts across hundreds of retailers, holidays, utilities deals, tech and more! ?? Holiday 33 days including bank holidays. ?? Holiday Purchase - Purchase an additional 5 days ? Can-Do Academy - Grow your skills and career with instant access to further training and development in areas that interest you. ?? Wagestream - Claim early access to 50% of your wages as you earn them for when life' happens! ? Share Scheme - Unleash your inner Monopoly mogul and own a piece of The Works! ??24/7 support for you and your family - Through our partnership with the Retail Trust who provide an Employee Assistance Programme and so much more! ?? Healthcare Cash Plan To support your everyday healthcare costs ?? And loads more! Long Service Awards, pension, life assurance, Cycle to Work and optional charity giving. Our Purpose To inspire reading. learning, creativity and play - making lives more fulfilled. Our Values We are Crafty We are Caring We are Can-do We Listen. We Care Each year, we run an anonymous colleague engagement survey. This is so important for us to hear your feedback and suggestions. We want to know what's going great, and what needs a couple of tweaks to help make The Works the best place you've ever worked! You'll have opportunity to help give us that direction. Promoting Diversity, Inclusion, and Applying Reasonable Adjustments At The Works, we are proud to have an inclusive culture where everyone truly feels able to be themselves. Our roles are open to all, including under-represented groups such as ethnic minorities, people with disabilities, carers & members of the LGBTQ community (including those who identify as lesbian, gay, bi, trans, non-binary, or use another term). We are open to discussing part-time and flexible working and, where possible, will try to support this. If you need reasonable adjustments to apply for this role, please contact and we'll be happy to help! #LIHybrid
Location Hybrid: 1-2 days in the office/Support Centre on Hams Hall Distribution Park, Coleshill. Why The Works? We don't just sell products. We inspire reading, learning, creativity and play. You sell the paint that turns someone into an artist. You provide the book that unleashes an inner author. You supply the games that help bring families together. You give someone the puzzle book that reconnects someone with a late family member's memory. You never know who someone will become. So with your passion, and our products, you will help ignite the spark in helping people unleash their creativity, find new passions, hobbies, or rekindle fond memories. The unseen possibilities are limitless, and it all starts with you. Become a Merchandiser With a newly expanded Merchandising function, this role is an incredible opportunity to really help to shape our future buying and merchandising structure and the way we deal with our stock. Reporting to the Merchandising Manager, you will play a key role in our Supply Chain function. Your Mission Oversee timely delivery of stock into the warehouse, to maximise availability in line with agreed KPI's and timelines for all channels. Ensure on-time delivery through supporting the achievement of merchandising milestones within the critical path, ensuring any issues are resolved or raised where appropriate, and negotiating confidently with suppliers accordingly. Work within stock budgets to ensure stock is maintained throughout the year at the correct levels, particularly through peak periods including new product range launches, Christmas, promotion periods. Accountable for order management in line with agreed parameters and critical path. Own and manage category/range & SKU level forecasts to ensure sales, stock holding, margin and availability is optimised. Able to maintain and update the WSSI and line card management and will have had exposure to OTB and budget management. Plan and present product ranges alongside Buyer (with support of Senior merchandiser), with considerations of budget, space, ranking, buy quantities and intake phasing. Review attribute analysis to support range reviews and promotional analysis providing clear recommendations. Review weekly trading performance to identify issues and opportunities, providing clear actions to maximise profitability. Deliver the sales in line with budget and agreed strategy. Coach and develop of direct reports to potentialise performance. Skills/Behaviours That Will Set You Apart Strong numerical skills and ability to analyse and interpret data with recommendations. Experience of working in a fast-paced trading environment Currently a Merchandiser, or a Junior Merchandiser looking for your next challenge, able to demonstrate experience of forecasting and updating a WSSI. Evidence of developing and training in your current role Demonstrate commercial and financial awareness Be a team-player and be able to work equally as well on your own ?? 25% Colleague Discount! -Plus, exclusive Double Discount days! ??MyWorks - Access exclusive online discounts across hundreds of retailers, holidays, utilities deals, tech and more! ?? Holiday 33 days including bank holidays. ?? Holiday Purchase - Purchase an additional 5 days ? Can-Do Academy - Grow your skills and career with instant access to further training and development in areas that interest you. ?? Wagestream - Claim early access to 50% of your wages as you earn them for when life' happens! ? Share Scheme - Unleash your inner Monopoly mogul and own a piece of The Works! ??24/7 support for you and your family - Through our partnership with the Retail Trust who provide an Employee Assistance Programme and so much more! ?? Healthcare Cash Plan To support your everyday healthcare costs ?? And loads more! Long Service Awards, pension, life assurance, Cycle to Work and optional charity giving. Our Purpose To inspire reading. learning, creativity and play - making lives more fulfilled. Our Values We are Crafty We are Caring We are Can-do We Listen. We Care Each year, we run an anonymous colleague engagement survey. This is so important for us to hear your feedback and suggestions. We want to know what's going great, and what needs a couple of tweaks to help make The Works the best place you've ever worked! You'll have opportunity to help give us that direction. Promoting Diversity, Inclusion, and Applying Reasonable Adjustments At The Works, we are proud to have an inclusive culture where everyone truly feels able to be themselves. Our roles are open to all, including under-represented groups such as ethnic minorities, people with disabilities, carers & members of the LGBTQ community (including those who identify as lesbian, gay, bi, trans, non-binary, or use another term). We are open to discussing part-time and flexible working and, where possible, will try to support this. If you need reasonable adjustments to apply for this role, please contact and we'll be happy to help! #LIHybrid
Location Hybrid: 1-2 days in the office/Support Centre on Hams Hall Distribution Park, Coleshill. Why The Works? We don't just sell products. We inspire reading, learning, creativity and play. You sell the paint that turns someone into an artist. You provide the book that unleashes an inner author. You supply the games that help bring families together. You give someone the puzzle book that reconnects someone with a late family member's memory. You never know who someone will become. So with your passion, and our products, you will help ignite the spark in helping people unleash their creativity, find new passions, hobbies, or rekindle fond memories. The unseen possibilities are limitless, and it all starts with you. Become a Junior Finance Partner Reporting to the Head of Commercial Finance, this role sits within an existing commercial team of five. In this key role you will develop a good understanding of the key drivers of the business to enable you to effectively deliver insight, challenge, add value and influence strategic business decisions. You will be responsible for building strong relationships and business partnering with senior managers and their teams, providing financial insight to support their commercial decision making. Your Mission Dedicated support to the commercial management teams, building a strong relationship with them and their teams. Providing effective commercial support to ensure key operational, commercial, and financial targets are delivered. Reporting and understanding KPIs. Play a key role in supporting the budgeting and forecasting process. Providing ad-hoc analysis and reporting to the business Ownership of the monthly management accounts for areas of responsibility Represent finance in commercial project working groups. Skills/Behaviours That Will Set You Apart Experience in a retail environment or similar fast paced organisation Experience in using MI tools such as Cognos, TM1, Aptos Experience of budgeting and forecasting processes including reviewing and challenging commercial targets with budget-holders Experience in using Excel. ?? 25% Colleague Discount! -Plus, exclusive Double Discount days! ??MyWorks - Access exclusive online discounts across hundreds of retailers, holidays, utilities deals, tech and more! ?? Holiday 33 days including bank holidays. ?? Holiday Purchase - Purchase an additional 5 days ? Can-Do Academy - Grow your skills and career with instant access to further training and development in areas that interest you. ?? Wagestream - Claim early access to 50% of your wages as you earn them for when life' happens! ? Share Scheme - Unleash your inner Monopoly mogul and own a piece of The Works! ??24/7 support for you and your family - Through our partnership with the Retail Trust who provide an Employee Assistance Programme and so much more! ?? Healthcare Cash Plan To support your everyday healthcare costs ?? And loads more! Long Service Awards, pension, life assurance, Cycle to Work and optional charity giving. Our Purpose To inspire reading. learning, creativity and play - making lives more fulfilled. Our Values We are Crafty We are Caring We are Can-do We Listen. We Care Each year, we run an anonymous colleague engagement survey. This is so important for us to hear your feedback and suggestions. We want to know what's going great, and what needs a couple of tweaks to help make The Works the best place you've ever worked! You'll have opportunity to help give us that direction. Promoting Diversity, Inclusion, and Applying Reasonable Adjustments At The Works, we are proud to have an inclusive culture where everyone truly feels able to be themselves. Our roles are open to all, including under-represented groups such as ethnic minorities, people with disabilities, carers & members of the LGBTQ community (including those who identify as lesbian, gay, bi, trans, non-binary, or use another term). We are open to discussing part-time and flexible working and, where possible, will try to support this. If you need reasonable adjustments to apply for this role, please contact and we'll be happy to help! #LIHybrid
Location Hybrid: 1-2 days in the office/Support Centre on Hams Hall Distribution Park, Coleshill. Why The Works? We don't just sell products. We inspire reading, learning, creativity and play. You sell the paint that turns someone into an artist. You provide the book that unleashes an inner author. You supply the games that help bring families together. You give someone the puzzle book that reconnects someone with a late family member's memory. You never know who someone will become. So with your passion, and our products, you will help ignite the spark in helping people unleash their creativity, find new passions, hobbies, or rekindle fond memories. The unseen possibilities are limitless, and it all starts with you. Become a Commercial Finance Analyst Reporting to the Head of Commercial Finance, this role sits within an existing commercial team of five. In this key role you will develop a good understanding of the key drivers of the business to enable you to effectively deliver insight, challenge, add value and influence strategic business decisions. You will be responsible for building strong relationships and business partnering with senior managers and their teams, providing financial insight to support their commercial decision making. Your Mission Dedicated support to the commercial management teams, building a strong relationship with them and their teams. Providing effective commercial support to ensure key operational, commercial, and financial targets are delivered. Reporting and understanding KPIs. Play a key role in supporting the budgeting and forecasting process. Providing ad-hoc analysis and reporting to the business Ownership of the monthly management accounts for areas of responsibility Represent finance in commercial project working groups. Skills/Behaviours That Will Set You Apart Experience in a retail environment or similar fast paced organisation Experience in using MI tools such as Cognos, TM1, Aptos Experience of budgeting and forecasting processes including reviewing and challenging commercial targets with budget-holders Experience in using Excel. Our PERKS really are The Works' ?? 25% Colleague Discount! - Plus, exclusive Double Discount days! ?? MyWorks - Access exclusive online discounts across hundreds of retailers, holidays, utilities deals, tech and more! ?? Holiday 33 days including bank holidays. ?? Holiday Purchase - Purchase an additional 5 days ? Can-Do Academy - Grow your skills and career with instant access to further training and development in areas that interest you. ?? Wagestream - Claim early access to 50% of your wages as you earn them for when life' happens! ? Share Scheme - Unleash your inner Monopoly mogul and own a piece of The Works! ?? 24/7 support for you and your family - Through our partnership with the Retail Trust who provide an Employee Assistance Programme and so much more! ?? Healthcare Cash Plan To support your everyday healthcare costs ?? And loads more! Long Service Awards, pension, life assurance, Cycle to Work and optional charity giving. Our Purpose To inspire reading. learning, creativity and play - making lives more fulfilled. Our Values We are Crafty We are Caring We are Can-do We Listen. We Care Each year, we run an anonymous colleague engagement survey. This is so important for us to hear your feedback and suggestions. We want to know what's going great, and what needs a couple of tweaks to help make The Works the best place you've ever worked! You'll have opportunity to help give us that direction. Promoting Diversity, Inclusion, and Applying Reasonable Adjustments At The Works, we are proud to have an inclusive culture where everyone truly feels able to be themselves. Our roles are open to all, including under-represented groups such as ethnic minorities, people with disabilities, carers & members of the LGBTQ community (including those who identify as lesbian, gay, bi, trans, non-binary, or use another term). We are open to discussing part-time and flexible working and, where possible, will try to support this. If you need reasonable adjustments to apply for this role, please contact and we'll be happy to help! #LIHybrid
Sales Director Willenhall, Wolverhampton - £65k Bonus (OTE 100k) £65k Basic Bonus Mileage / Travel Expenses paid Officed based (Mon - Fri) 4:30pm finishes (some flexibility required) Pension Company laptop and phone provided Birmingham Staff is currently looking for an experienced Sales Director based in the West Midlands located near Wolverhampton/Birmingham. The successful Sales Director will join a company within the Health Care Sector with fantastic progression and potential to earn a six-figure plus salary. Job Role: The successful candidate will have experience leading a sales team in a similar role. For this role the successful candidate will use their strong communication skills, budget management experience and great track record of growing business and revenue to drive the business forward. There is opportunity for growth in this role with a clear career path to become Group Sales Director. Their team is made up of self-motivated and experienced individuals that will be overseen by the successful candidate. The company has a great working culture where employees are valued and recognised for their achievements. The business is a manufacturing client who sell specialised equipment to the healthcare sector so any understanding or previous experience dealing within these types of goods would be advantageous. Skills/Experience Required: Essential Experience leading sales teams and a hands-on approach is key.- Strong and confident communicator both over the phone and face to face.- Proven track record of success within sales. Budget management experience. Desirable - Experience and proven track record of successful building an SME growth business. Technical manufacturing or product sales. Experience training and coaching sales teams Please send your CV for immediate consideration either by clicking apply now or sending directly. This is an immediate requirement with interviews taking place over the next week. Birmingham Staff operates as an employment agency and employment business. No terminology in this advert is intended to discriminate on the grounds of age, and we confirm that we are happy to accept applications from persons of any age for this role. By applying for this role you accept our Terms and Privacy Policy which can both be found on our website. We take the security of personal data very seriously and by applying for this role you consent that we may hold your personal data on our database (CRM) for the purpose of finding jobs that could match your skill set. If we become aware of any other opportunities that could be of interest to you, we may let you know by either phone, email or SMS. About Birmingham Staff: Birmingham Staff are part of the UK Staffing Group and a specialist recruitment business focused on delivering highly experienced and reputable permanent staff to local businesses. We can offer: - Free support and advice to help you with your job search. - Full interview support including a pre-interview call with a specialist consultant and coaching on Job Type: Full-time Pay: From £65,000.00 per year Benefits: Company car Company pension Free or subsidised travel Health & wellbeing programme Life insurance Work from home Schedule: Monday to Friday Supplemental pay types: Bonus scheme Commission pay Performance bonus Quarterly bonus Yearly bonus Work Location: In person