Valia Recruitment Solutions

Senior Business Analyst - Business Process Solutions

Business Analyst, Systems Analyst, SCRUM, ERP/ FMS Software (Advanced Open Accounts / Sage / Unit 4 Agresso / MS Dynamics)

Based in Wilmslow, Cheshire, commutable from Manchester, Liverpool, Warrington.

Salary - to £40,000 (dep on exp) + Benefits

Sector: IT / Sofware Solutions
Location: Wilmslow, Cheshire
Job Type: Perm
Salary: to £40,000 (dep on exp)
Start Date: ASAP
Job Reference: VW/SBA/6608

Description: Business Analyst, Systems Analyst, SCRUM, ERP/ FMS Software (Advanced Open Accounts / Sage / Unit 4 Agresso / MS Dynamics)

Based in Wilmslow, Cheshire, commutable from Manchester, Liverpool, Warrington.

Salary - to £40,000 (dep on exp) + Benefits

Our client established over 20 years ago has become the leading author of electronic document management and imaging software in the UK. Its “paperless office” technology seamlessly integrates into all major ERP and accounting systems, enabling thousands of organisations to save dramatic amounts of time and money. As part of a larger software group its vision is to continue to grow rapidly, and as such its employees are vital to their ambitious plans.

As part of this continued growth we are looking for a quality-focussed SENIOR BUSINESS ANALYST to join the team, to support clients’ right across the UK.

Your role

This role will lead the analysis and design of software applications within a small but experienced R&D team in the UK. The role may also require you to work within the wider parts of the Group, including working with our client’s offshore team in India. It will play a key role in aiding the transition of the team to an Agile development methodology. Additionally, it will be pivotal in defining re-usable solutions for customer projects and best practice for their deployments

The incumbent will elicit and analyse the detailed business requirements, business rules and constraints of customers, prospects and business partners. Effectively this is to act as the translation bridge between the product owner’s business “ask” and the R&D team.

Person Specification

Experience
Essential
• A minimum of 3 years in a Business or Systems Analyst role
• A minimum of 1 years’ experience of agile/ SCRUM methods
• Demonstrable experience /understanding of ERP/ FMS software (notably one or more of Advanced OpenAccounts, Sage X3, Sage 200, , Infor SunSystems, Unit4 Agresso, MS Dynamics GP, MS Dynamics Ax & NAV)
• Demonstrable experience of working closely with customers

Desirable
• Experience of behaviour driven development
• Use of design and modelling tools
• Experience in any of the eDM, ECM, data capture, OCR, invoice processing or knowledge management domains
• Experience of HCM (Human Capital Management) product set
• Experience of creating customer centric solutions using modular software components

Skills & attributes

Essential
• Excellent analytical skills - a clear and logical thinker
• Excellent inter-personal skills; can demonstrate ability to influence, persuade and negotiate with different audiences
• Pragmatic
• Strong communication, specifically the ability to articulate ideas, problems, and solutions in a way other people understand (both verbally and documented)
• Strong attention to detail and accuracy balanced with the ability to abstract and view the broader picture
• Understanding of data modelling, entity-relationship concepts and relational databases
• Strong delivery ethic
• Ability to cope under pressure and ensure deadlines are met
• Strong organisational skills
• Some awareness of current and mainstream technologies to understand business/technical concepts
• Strong commercial awareness and sound understanding of project and business dynamics
Desirable
• Willingness to travel as required

Education / Qualifications

Desirable
• ScrumMaster certification

Although this role is primarily office based, a willingness to travel is required, and therefore a full UK driver’s licence is essential.

In return, the successful applicant will receive a competitive salary, 25 days holiday + stats, training and development, pension, life assurance etc, plus exceptional career progression opportunities within the Group.

For more information, please contact ROB OWEN at VALIA Recruitment Solutions.

Start Date: ASAP
Job Reference: VW/SBA/6608
Contact Name: Rob Owen

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Territory Sales Manager - Engineering Solutions

Territory Sales Manager - Engineering Solutions
CAD / IT Sales, CAM, FEA,

Salary: £25k - £30k basic + Car + Laptop, phone, etc + commission
OTE first year £45k +

Ideally based in Cambridge, Bedford, Northampton, Aylesbury or Hertford. Covering Cambridgeshire

Sector: IT Sales, Engineering
Location: Cambridgeshire, Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire
Job Type: Perm
Salary: to £30k basic + Car + Laptop, Phone etc, OTE £45k
Start Date: ASAP
Job Reference: VW/TSM/6609

Description: Territory Sales Manager - Engineering Solutions
CAD / IT Sales, CAM, FEA,

Salary: £25k - £30k basic + Car + Laptop, phone, etc + commission
OTE first year £45k +

Ideally based in Cambridge, Bedford, Northampton, Aylesbury or Hertford. Covering Cambridgeshire, Bedfordshire, Northamptonshire, Lincolnshire, Buckinghamshire, and Hertfordshire territory - A1 / M1 Corridor.

• Do you have an Engineering Degree, or a background within engineering?
• Do you have a proven track record of successful sales?
• Do you want to work for a company who have become known for world-class service, and have won many awards which recognises their technical expertise and commitment to customer service?

We now have a requirement to recruit a new Territory Sales Manager for an established client of ours, within their growing Sales Team.

We are looking for candidates who live and breathe success, who will enjoy the buzz that comes with closing a deal, and relish in the challenges that you will face along the way. You will be expected to represent my client in a geographic territory listed above, leveraging additional business from managing existing clients, and prospecting for new business opportunities to expand my clients UK customer-base.

You will be a self-starter with good organisational skills essential. You will need an understanding of the critical business issues that modern manufacturing companies seek to resolve, matching their needs with our client’s available software solutions. Ideally candidates will have an engineering background with a proven track record of successful sales. Any experience of selling IT and/or CAD Solutions will be of significant benefit to your application

Technical skills / experience:

- Engineering Degree or equivalent qualification beneficial
- Well versed in Microsoft Windows and MS/Office products
- Experience with downstream applications (CAM, FEA, PDM…) is a plus
- Industry experience
- Consultative sales approach
- Cold calling
- Presentation
- Excellent communication and influencing skills
- Listens well
- Commercial awareness
- Not afraid to be in front of a large audience
- Personally well presented
- Excellent organisational skills
- Works on own initiative
- Confident

This is an exciting time to join my client, where full product training will be provided as an essential part of your career development within the business, one which my client recognizes as a long-term commitment to providing successful employees within their business.

So if you are looking for a new, exciting and highly rewarding opportunity then we would like to hear from you today.

For more information please contact ROB OWEN at VALIA Recruitment Solutions

Start Date: ASAP
Job Reference: VW/TSM/6609
Contact Name: Rob Owen

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Registered Care Home Manager - Bury, Lancashire

Registered Care Home Manager - Residential Care Home - Bury, Lancashire

Based just outside Bury, commutable from Accrington, Blackburn, Bolton, Ramsbottom, Radcliffe, Whitefield, Prestwich, Rochdale and Heywood.

Salary: to £30,000 (dependent on experience)

Sector: Health
Location: Bury, Lancashire
Job Type: Perm
Salary: to £30,000 (dep on exp)
Start Date: ASAP
Job Reference: VW/RCHM/6012

Description: Registered Care Home Manager - Residential Care Home - Bury, Lancashire

Based just outside Bury, commutable from Accrington, Blackburn, Bolton, Ramsbottom, Radcliffe, Whitefield, Prestwich, Rochdale and Heywood.

Salary: to £30,000 (dependent on experience)

Established back in 2000, my client has become a leading independent provider of Nursing & Residential Care, presently operating in and around the North West of England. Since its formation it now has 6 care homes within the Group, and has plans to develop its highly accredited services further.

An exciting opportunity has risen for an experienced Registered Care Home Manager to join the team, based out of my clients recently acquired and privately owned residential care home, located in its own attractive grounds on the outskirts of Bury, Greater Manchester, Lancashire.

Your role will be:

• To provide leadership of the administration, care, and people management functions of The Home, catering, housekeeping, laundry and maintenance.
• To carry out, and provide leadership in marketing The Home, and selling its services at the agreed prices.
• To maintain the operations of the service at the standard agreed with the Registered Provider, within the financial budget or other parameters set by the Provider.
• To maintain care and management skills at the current level, and undertake such training and development as may from time-to-time be required to maintain that currency of practice.
• To manage the services within The Home in accordance with standards agreed with the Person Registered, legislative requirements, relevant regulations, and in line with accepted best practices.
• Assist the implementation and maintenance of the standards required by legislation related to the registration of the home.
• Act within the home’s budget based on the home’s objectives and within the projected revenue.
• Work in a cost-effective manner.
• Be involved in the design and implementation and maintenance of the
home’s quality assurance programme.
• Assist in the design and administration of an evaluation of the care standards and care service provision. Systematically solve day to day problematical issues which arise.

Main Duties will cover the:
• Management of the organisation:
• Management of the Human Resources:
• Management of Care Services:
• Professional Long Term Care Leadership:

Working hours:
Nominally 40 hours per week, subject to achievement of goals and objectives and the covering of vacant shifts. The Manager will be expected to maintain an on-call facility and, in the case of holiday or sickness, to arrange for the facility to be maintained.

Qualifications required:
Managers are required by the regulations to have the 'necessary qualifications, skills and experience' to carry out the regulated activity. Skills for care advise that the current, relevant qualification is the Level 5 Diploma in Leadership for Health and Social Care and Children and Young People’s Services, choosing the pathway:

• Management of Adult Services or
• Management of Adult Residential Services

Managers taking the Level 5 Diploma should use the full breadth of QCF units available to ensure they achieve a qualification that is relevant to the role they are carrying out.

This is an exciting time to join my client. Their ideas to provide exceptional residential care within this industry sector are paramount, and in order to achieve this, their staff selection process is key to its success.

Applicants must have gained experience from a similar Managerial role within a Care Home / Group, and have the ability to deliver exceptional service.

A highly competitive salary is on offer in return to the successful applicant, as well the support and stability you would expect from a forward thinking independently owned Care Group.

For more information please contact ROB OWEN at VALIA Recruitment Solutions.

Start Date: ASAP
Job Reference: VW/RCHM/6012
Contact Name: Rob Owen

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CNC Miller - Heywood, Greater Manchester

CNC Miller - Heywood, Greater Manchester

Based in Heywood, commutable from Bury, Bolton, Rochdale, Middleton, Oldham, Radcliffe and Prestwich.

Salary - up to £37,000 p.a. (dep on exp), working a 46 hour night shift (not including overtime)
25 days holidays + stats.

My client is an established engineering company based in Heywood, Lancashire.

Sector: Engineering
Location: Heywood, Lancashire
Job Type: Perm
Salary: to £37,000 p.a. (dep on exp)
Start Date: ASAP
Job Reference: VW/CNCM/6013

Description: CNC Miller - Heywood, Greater Manchester

Based in Heywood, commutable from Bury, Bolton, Rochdale, Middleton, Oldham, Radcliffe and Prestwich.

Salary - up to £37,000 p.a. (dep on exp), working a 46 hour night shift (not including overtime)
25 days holidays + stats.

My client is an established engineering company based in Heywood, Lancashire. It has been successfully providing top quality Sub Contract CNC Machining, Milling and Fabrication Services across the UK for almost 50 years. They specialise in the machining of Large and Heavy Components, operating production CNC machines that run 23 hours a day. Coupled with a fabrication area which is in production for 40 hours a week, my client is truly a one-stop-shop for its partners.

As part of continued expansion plans, we are now looking for an experienced and time-served skilled CNC Miller to join a highly motivated, and quality-focused shop floor team.

We are looking for experienced applicants who are fully conversant with Butler ElgaMill and / or Noble & Lund gantry machines, with both small and large machine experience preferred. You must be able to work to tight tolerances, and work under your own initiative. The ability to program and operate a range of control systems would also be an advantage.

Ideally we are looking for somebody to work permanent nights on a 6pm - 6am Monday to Thursday night shift, and there is also usually overtime available at the weekends.

An eye for detail and pride in your own quality of work produced essential

For more information please contact Rob Owen at VALIA Recruitment Solutions.

Start Date: ASAP
Job Reference: VW/CNCM/6013
Contact Name: Rob Owen

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CNC Miller - Stockport, Greater Manchester

Time-served CNC Miller – Stockport, Greater Manchester

Based in Stockport, commutable from Bredbury, Cheadle, Gatley, Hazel Grove, Oldham, Denton, Hyde, Ashton under Lyne, Offerton, Romiley, New Mills, Marple.

Salary - up to £27,000per annum, working a 37.5 hour week (not including overtime)
25 days holidays + stats.

Sector: Engineering
Location: Stockport, Cheshire
Job Type: Perm
Salary: to £27,000 (dep on exp) + Overtime
Start Date: ASAP
Job Reference: VW/CNC/6014

Description: Time-served CNC Miller – Stockport, Greater Manchester

Based in Stockport, commutable from Bredbury, Cheadle, Gatley, Hazel Grove, Oldham, Denton, Hyde, Ashton under Lyne, Offerton, Romiley, New Mills, Marple.

Salary - up to £27,000per annum, working a 37.5 hour week (not including overtime)
25 days holidays + stats.

My client is an established family-run engineering firm based in Stockport, Greater Manchester. It has been successfully providing top quality engineering solutions for the Aerospace, and Locomotive sectors, as well as other niche areas for well over 30 years.

As part of its continued expansion plans, we are now looking for an additional time-served skilled CNC Miller (Programmer / Setter) to join a highly motivated, and quality-focused shop floor team.

We are ideally looking for experienced applicants who are fully conversant with Mazatrol, Fanuc or Heidenhain controls, and are able to program, set and operate (up to) 4 axis machines.

Hours of work: 8am - 4.30pm Mon - Thurs, 8am - 1.30pm Fri.

Due to product demand there is plenty of overtime available so why miss out on an opportunity to contribute in the company’s growing success? A competitive salary is being offered in return to the successful candidates plus job stability and longevity.

For more information please contact Rob Owen at VALIA Recruitment Solutions.

Start Date: ASAP
Job Reference: VW/CNC/6014
Contact Name: Rob Owen

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