16 Jobs Found in West Midlands

A software sales executive who has a real passion for sales is required for my client, a West Midlands based IT solutions and services business.

We are looking for a committed and focused executive who either has previous experience of IT/Software sales or a demonstrable background of sales within professional services or is a recent graduate who has a passion for Sales along with excellent communication/interpersonal skills.

We want an executive who is not concerned about picking up the phone and helping the team achieve their targets. It is key that you appreciate the need to really understand the offering, which will require additional effort to ensure you become the subject matter expert with in the team. This will of course take time but my client is prepared to offer an unlimited amount of training and advice to ensure you have the tools to succeed.

The ideal candidate will have:

• Excellent Interpersonal/communication skills
• Have a passion and hunger for Sales
• Educated to degree level.
• Ideally some experience in either Software/IT Sales or professional services sales
• A dedication to success
• A team and results focused ethos
• Emotional Intelligence
• Entrepreneurial drive
• Resilient character, be able to think on your feet
• A passion to learn and better yourself

This is a role with an up and coming SME, well established and well-funded, they are about to embark on the next phase of their growth and simply require like-minded individuals to helps them make this happen

This is a great chance to join an established team providing software sales/telephone sales in Sutton Coldfield paying £19k - £21k

Please note, if your application is suitable, one of our consultants will call you within 5 working days. If you have not heard from us within this time, your application has unfortunately been unsuccessful, however, we will keep your details on our talent management system to consider you for future opportunities.

ASC Connections Ltd acts as an employment business for temporary positions and an employment agency for permanent positions. We are committed to equal opportunity and diversity. If you would like to understand how we may use, process, store and disclose your Personal Information, please read our privacy policy.

The IoT Technical Lead is responsible for working directly with the UK&E business (and indirectly with global teams) in developing sector and industry specific Smart services.

• Supporting the business by providing technical expertise across IoT/Smart services
• Offer expert support to business SME's in developing industry specific solutions
• Working with suppliers and operational teams to continually improve solutions and deployments to ensure they are fit for purpose and performance
• Own the technical roadmap
• Own the Service Catalogue
• Providing a focal and control point for IT

Experience and Track Record:

The IoT Technical Lead must have had proven working experience of at least 5 years in IT Software Development and support, with a demonstrable track record in using emerging technologies, High-Level design and developing configuration deployment designs for business scale infrastructure and applications, including working in an Agile approach to the development of new use cases.

Duties/Activities:

• Works with the business to determine and agree business functional and non-functional expectations within the UK&E scope by working with the IT Business Partners, the business leads directly and partners.
• Works with partners/3^rd parties and engineering teams to document practically how the technology is designed and deployed, constantly working with the internal and external teams to improve technical configurations to improve performance.
• Increase design and development of use cases and Smart Service by working with Business specialist teams and the UK&E IT Directors to develop Functionality to support bids and UK&E operations.
• Works with DevOps - Service Lead and Service Management to support achievement of Service level targets, working with the Service Management, Operational Teams and partners/3^rd parties to understand issues, resolve problems and improve performance. Following any performance issues, the Technical Specialist is responsible for reviewing the Technical Architecture and Design to identify associated systemic issues and work with Partners/3^rd Parties to address these.
• Supports bringing new user cases and dashboards into live by analysing proposed functional/non-functional requirements, reviewing the developments completed within the business (provided expert support as requested) and coordinating deployments with Change Management and DevOps.

Architectural standards:

• All candidates will need detailed experience of working within Agile and TOGAF aligned processes to a detailed level, able to maintain and manage architectural designs within these frameworks.

Home / remote based consultancy role for one of the largest services companies in the world with excellent benefits and a salary range of £60k - £65k. Security Clearance to SC level will be required for any successful candidates

Please note, if your application is suitable, one of our consultants will call you within 5 working days. If you have not heard from us within this time, your application has unfortunately been unsuccessful, however, we will keep your details on our talent management system to consider you for future opportunities.

ASC Connections Ltd acts as an employment business for temporary positions and an employment agency for permanent positions. We are committed to equal opportunity and diversity. If you would like to understand how we may use, process, store and disclose your Personal Information, please read our privacy policy.

Integration Technical Lead to deliver services across an evolving and challenging portfolio of IT projects and services.

Working largely remotely unless site visits are required, the technical lead role offers a company car, a bonus scheme of between 5% & 10% amongst other benefits plus an excellent salary.

Experience and Track Record:

The Technical Lead must have a deep knowledge of Middleware and Integration systems of at least 5 years. Proven experience of defining capabilities, standards, frameworks and governance experience. The applicant should also have extensive software delivery experience. Practical understanding and knowledge of system development life cycle methodologies (such as waterfall, agile software development and DevOps)

This involves:

Responsibility for overseeing the delivery of a variety of integration services to meet business needs, leading the development of integration services, creation and evolve service catalogue, supporting roadmaps for the applications architecture, including 'sunrise' and 'sunset' of obsolete applications and the refreshing or resetting of skillsets as appropriate.

Accountabilities:

• Owns the growth and development of Integration services from IT Services.
• Accountable for the successful development and delivery of all Integration Application components for business programmes and IT projects with software developed to recognise quality standards.
• Responsible for ensuring that high level solution design is clearly articulated and includes key features and constraints with business requirements effectively translated into technical specifications.
• Ensure continuing and ongoing development of technical capability and leverage capability expertise to provide specialist advice on technology options and drive fast follower adoption of IT innovation.
• Deliver value for money by optimising the balance between reusing existing technology and new or bespoke technology to meet customer needs.
• Working with the Service Management, Operational Teams and partners/3rd parties to understand issues, resolve problems and improve performance.
• The Technical Lead is responsible for reviewing the Technical Architecture and Design to identify associated systemic issues and work with Partners/3rd Parties to address these.

Architectural standards:

The Integration Technical Lead needs detailed experience of working within Agile and TOGAF aligned processes to a detailed level, able to maintain and manage architectural designs within these frameworks. The candidate should have strong understanding of ITIL/SIAM Service Management standards (as a minimum ISO 20000, ISO 9001:2015 and ISO 27001).

Home / remote based consultancy role for one of the largest services companies in the world with excellent benefits and a salary range of £60k - £65k. Security Clearance to SC level will be required for any successful candidates

Please note, if your application is suitable, one of our consultants will call you within 5 working days. If you have not heard from us within this time, your application has unfortunately been unsuccessful, however, we will keep your details on our talent management system to consider you for future opportunities.

ASC Connections Ltd acts as an employment business for temporary positions and an employment agency for permanent positions. We are committed to equal opportunity and diversity. If you would like to understand how we may use, process, store and disclose your Personal Information, please read our privacy policy.

A Field Service Engineer position has just become available within a Molecular Diagnostics Testing solutions provider, which is working through a period of growth.

Are you a Service Engineer looking to work for an established global brand? Maybe working within a Maintenance role and looking for a career change with some travel benefits? Want to earn a better salary and bonus package for all of the hard work that you provide? Would you more progression opportunities? Then we want to hear from you!

Responsibilities for the role include -

• Work with customers on repairs and development, whether it's via the phone, or in person.
• When required, travel to customer sites within a prompt timescale.
• Installation/breakdown/repair/service of Next Generation Sequencing and Real-Time polymerase chain reaction (PCR) systems.
• Document all work completed, including all site visit activities.

General requirements -

• Experience working within a similar role (UK wide and/or Europe)
• Ability to diagnose and fix issues on mechanical and electronic instrumentation.
• Relevant education and training (ideally within electronics/medical/chemistry).
• Willingness to travel UK wide and internationally.
• Ability to speak German.
• Driving license.

Benefits include -

• Competitive salary and bonus scheme.
• Great annual leave and pension offering.
• Friendly and innovative business.
• Freedom to manage your own time and have support from an energetic team
• Excellent progression opportunities within an international company

If interested in this position, please apply through this advert immediately.

Please note, if your application is suitable, one of our consultants will call you within 5 working days. If you have not heard from us within this time, your application has unfortunately been unsuccessful, however, we will keep your details on our talent management system to consider you for future opportunities.

ASC Connections Ltd acts as an employment business for temporary positions and an employment agency for permanent positions. We are committed to equal opportunity and diversity. If you would like to understand how we may use, process, store and disclose your Personal Information, please read our privacy policy.

Job Title: Service Co-Ordinator

Salary: Up to £24K (dep on exp)

Location: Kingswinford, West Midlands

A manufacturer and direct supplier of heavy duty workshop solutions across the UK, is now seeking a Service Co-Ordinator to join their growing office-based team in Kingswinford.

Reporting directly to the Service Manager, you will act as a number 2, covering their responsibilities when they're not in the office and offering continued support when they are. Liaising with customers and Field Service Engineers, you will ensure that targets are met and customer expectations are managed in line with the company's SLA's.

Some of your main responsibilities are listed below:

• Planning and coordinating routine machine servicing at client sites UK wide
• Handling customer machine breakdown calls and providing the highest levels of customer service
• Planning and scheduling Field Service Engineers and updating customers accordingly
• Inputting and updating job data on the company computer system
• Preparing routine management reports

The ideal candidate will be experienced within a Service Department of a business that offers a maintenance and repair service for mechanical and electrical equipment, direct to end users.

If you believe you have the skills and experience required for this position, please apply via the link to this advert, addressing your application to Neil Edwards.

Please note, if your application is suitable, one of our consultants will call you within 5 working days. If you have not heard from us within this time, your application has unfortunately been unsuccessful, however, we will keep your details on our talent management system to consider you for future opportunities.

ASC Connections Ltd acts as an employment business for temporary positions and an employment agency for permanent positions. We are committed to equal opportunity and diversity. If you would like to understand how we may use, process, store and disclose your Personal Information, please read our privacy policy.

Sales Manager / Leader to manage the respective sales function; from sales advisers to account managers. Ensuring that targets are met in terms of sales efficiency, profitability and highest levels of customer satisfaction.

This is a hands on sales role, once you have established yourself with the team and developed product and solution knowledge you will be required to lead by example, contributing to sales targets with a specific interest in new business.

Key Responsibilities:

Part of the senior management team and taking a "whole company" perspective to manage issues; actively promoting best practice throughout the company; including the general running, setting targets, minimising risks, maximising opportunities, achieving the department targets and seeking to positively influence the progression and growth of the company

Sales Manager Role:

Responsible for managing the sales function to ensure best practices are followed, costs are controlled, the department maximises revenue generation and contribution to company's operating profit and increases the value added to the company.

• Keep up-to-date on your understanding of Sage/Act/Exact products, processes and key business messages
• Keep up-to-date with competitors activities and initiatives alongside customer trends
• Manage the sales team to identify opportunities to maximise sales productivity
• Pro-actively follow up on agreed actions and activities within sales team
• Work with your sales team to achieve team KPI's
• Sales team one-to-ones, coaching and feedback sessions, training and development activity
• Lead, motivate, communicate with, develop, appraise and performance manage staff to ensure they are fully motivated to achieve best performance to meet the company's needs
• Identify where individuals need additional support and provide appropriate interventions
• Demonstrate appropriate delegation of responsibilities and tasks to the team to achieve balance of workload and provide development opportunities to the team
• Ensure that the competence of the team is continually assessed; both formally and informally. Where a colleague in the team is not achieving KPI's; support and monitor immediate and thorough development action until you are confident they can achieve the standards required without formal supervision.
• Ensure Sales advisers are identifying opportunities and referring in different areas of the sales team - Exact, Sage 200 and EQUE2 etc.
• Inspire Sales team and colleagues to adopt the right behaviours so that the customer experience is always exceptional and professional
• Recruit and build our current sale team
• Ensure the department operates in accordance with company policies and procedures
• Implemented regular sales workshops for the sales team to learn new product and services
• Dealing with customer complaints and advising the sales advisers of other options

This is a great chance to join a business in the next stage of their development. This is a great role for a self-motivated, self-aware sales manager who enjoys the thrill of management alongside the challenge of sales

Please note, if your application is suitable, one of our consultants will call you within 5 working days. If you have not heard from us within this time, your application has unfortunately been unsuccessful, however, we will keep your details on our talent management system to consider you for future opportunities.

ASC Connections Ltd acts as an employment business for temporary positions and an employment agency for permanent positions. We are committed to equal opportunity and diversity. If you would like to understand how we may use, process, store and disclose your Personal Information, please read our privacy policy.

Data Governance Analyst required to join my client a National Financial Organisation at their West Midlands offices.

This client offers an excellent salary package, fantastic working conditions o host of working benefits including free parking, flexible hours and the ability to work remotely for 2 days per week.

The role:

To actively contribute to the data management, governance and control framework, govern data in a compliant, effective and risk-based approach, developing a detailed knowledge of departmental risks and control methodologies, and ensuring these are monitored and in a timely and effective manner.

• To support improved Data Governance.
• Support the MI Centre of Excellence, wider Finance function.
• Manage Committee schedules, including the submission of papers and packs to Senior Management and Executives.
• Take minutes/notes/actions at committees and senior meetings.

Experience Required:

• Experience in Data Analysis across a range of sources (e.g. relational and dimensional databases, file systems, semi-structured and unstructured data, models, spreadsheets)
• Understanding of data governance and data quality management
• Familiarity with business analysis and process modelling
• Awareness of data modelling and data warehouse methodologies
• Risk Management
• Stakeholder engagement, management and collaboration with an ability to question and challenge, put forward new ideas and gain buy in through key working relationships.
• SQL
• Advanced Microsoft Office suite
• Data catalogues/metadata management solutions (e.g. Callibra) preferred but not essential

This is an excellent chance to join a business who are investing tremendous amounts of money, time and effort into their MI/Data environment, who have consistently won awards for their employee engagement and focus.This role would suit someone with demonstrable data governance experience, ideally West Midlands based.

Please note, if your application is suitable, one of our consultants will call you within 5 working days. If you have not heard from us within this time, your application has unfortunately been unsuccessful, however, we will keep your details on our talent management system to consider you for future opportunities.

ASC Connections Ltd acts as an employment business for temporary positions and an employment agency for permanent positions. We are committed to equal opportunity and diversity. If you would like to understand how we may use, process, store and disclose your Personal Information, please read our privacy policy.

Do you have extensive experience in Data Science or Advanced Analytics with specialist expertise in Data Engineering/Visualisation, Mathematics & Statistics then I would love to hear from you. As the Senior Data Scientist you will lead complex projects and initiatives which drive strategic decision-making and generate insights and value from data using Data Science & Business Intelligence tools, technologies and techniques.

This is a great opportunity to help drive new technology and join a West Midlands based organisation who offer flexible working, which includes up to 2 days based from home and flexible working hours. This client offers excellent benefits alongside an outstanding working environment, free parking and a focus on employee well being.

You will be able to work collaboratively with a range of business functions to lead feature teams involved in the preparation, modelling and engineering of data, development of analytical models, visualisation and storytelling.

Experience & Responsibilities for the role:

• Extensive knowledge of programming languages (e.g. Python, R, Julia, Perl, VB)
• Expert in writing freehand SQL against both normalised and de-normalised warehouse structures
• Have a strong foundation in algorithms, statistics, and machine learning
• Support relevant stakeholders through quantitative analytics, and the application of appropriate advanced analytics for the business's key initiatives.
• Highly numerate with experience in Statistical analysis and regressional modelling
• Accountable for delivery of sophisticated data science solutions ensuring adherence to governance standards, policies and regulatory guidelines.

Benefits: 25 days holiday, Flexible working, Group personal pension plan, Private medical insurance, Life assurance, Childcare scheme and vouchers, Buy additional annual leave, Eye care vouchers and Annual Success Share bonus scheme. Remote working, flexible working hours and free parking.

Please note, if your application is suitable, one of our consultants will call you within 5 working days. If you have not heard from us within this time, your application has unfortunately been unsuccessful, however, we will keep your details on our talent management system to consider you for future opportunities.

ASC Connections Ltd acts as an employment business for temporary positions and an employment agency for permanent positions. We are committed to equal opportunity and diversity. If you would like to understand how we may use, process, store and disclose your Personal Information, please read our privacy policy.

Maintenance Engineer / £23,000p/a / Dudley / Temp-to-Perm

We are currently recruiting for an experienced Maintenance Engineer to join a large manufacturer of steel structures based in Dudley on a temporary to permanent basis.

This role is an excellent opportunity for an experienced engineer to join a large, well established company. The position will be a temp to perm contract, with permanent opportunities for the right candidates after a thirteen week probationary period.

The role will include responding to breakdowns and repairs on a variety of concrete manufacturing and mixing plants;

• Mechanical palletising machines
• Automated paper bag placers & filling nozzles.
• Various hoppers for carrying concrete mixes.
• Various rotary concrete mixing machines.
• Oil & gas fired drying ovens.

The hours of work are Monday - Friday 8:30am - 4:15pm totalling a 36.25 hour week. The rate of pay is £12.20p/h / £23,000p/a

If this role is of interest, please APPLY NOW, or contact ASC Connections on 01902 771 443 for more information.

Please note, if your application is suitable, one of our consultants will call you within 5 working days. If you have not heard from us within this time, your application has unfortunately been unsuccessful, however, we will keep your details on our talent management system to consider you for future opportunities.

ASC Connections Ltd acts as an employment business for temporary positions and an employment agency for permanent positions. We are committed to equal opportunity and diversity. If you would like to understand how we may use, process, store and disclose your Personal Information, please read our privacy policy.

Laser Cutter / Temp to perm / Dudley / £10.00 per hour

A Laser Cutter is required for a steel processing company based in the Dudley area. It is an excellent opportunity to join a well-established company during a period of sustained growth.

Your main duties will involve the setting and operating of an Amada laser cutting machine, which uses fibre and CO2 lasers with variable beam control to cut mild steel, stainless steel, aluminium, brass, copper and more.

This is a temporary to permanent role with long term opportunities available for successful candidates.

Duties include:

• Setting and operating an Amada laser cutting machine
• Cutting sheet steel, roughly 1.5mm in thickness
• Working with stainless steel, mild steel, brass, aluminium, copper and more
• Helping and assisting with maintaining the machinery when required
• Banding, packing and palletising stock
• Using the in house computer system to record stock data
• Any other duties as required

A background in laser cutting and the steel processing industry is required for you to be considered. You do not require it, but experience operating the overhead cranes to handle steel will also be beneficial.

This position is working shifts on a rotating basis, covering mornings / afternoons, but will eventually include nights, so flexibility for those shift patterns is required. They will be paying £10 per hour dependent on experience.

If you think this Laser Cutter position is right for you, APPLY NOW! For more information contact ASC Connections on 01902 771 443.

Please note, if your application is suitable, one of our consultants will call you within 5 working days. If you have not heard from us within this time, your application has unfortunately been unsuccessful, however, we will keep your details on our talent management system to consider you for future opportunities.

ASC Connections Ltd acts as an employment business for temporary positions and an employment agency for permanent positions. We are committed to equal opportunity and diversity. If you would like to understand how we may use, process, store and disclose your Personal Information, please read our privacy policy.