Purpose of Role:                                             

We are seeking a highly skilled, experienced DevOps Engineer to join our expanding healthcare technology team. You will work alongside our talented team to develop solutions to meet our NHS clients’ requirements. You will be building solutions to deliver the right clinical data at the right time and place for a specific and targeted use case to support both the direct care of patients within the NHS.

You will focus on the provision of Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, Docker and Kubernetes in the AWS Cloud environment throughout all phases of the development lifecycle and must be able to troubleshoot and anticipate errors during each step.

Accountabilities:                                               

The key accountabilities of the post holder will be:

• Work as an integral part of our team developing healthcare solution to meet our client’s needs.
• Understand client objectives, provide input into solutions architecture and advise on best practice.
• Ensure that software engineering best practice is followed including appropriate testing and documentation.
• Maintenance of codebase including the identification and tracking of technical debt as well as any required mitigations.
• Actively identify risks to the solution and advise upon and where necessary implement required mitigations.

Responsibilities:

Strategy and Development

• Understand the client vision, the overall scope, and how to best achieve client requirements.
• Gather accurate requirements and work closely with stakeholders to prioritize tasks and the scope of development.

Management of People and Resources

• Support the Solutions architect and Data architect in the solution design, delivery and implementation.
• Support the project manager in identifying work items, dependencies, blockers and accurate estimations to facilitate project planning and managing client expectations.
• Contribute to the pre-planning and discovery phases of the lifecycle including task definition and estimation.
• Support the development of Sprint iteration concept as an advocate of agile principles.
• Support Sprint planning and the delivery of sprint goals

Delivery

• Contribute to architecture of infrastructure to provide solutions that meet client needs while balancing cost effectiveness, scalability, availability, and security.
• Contributing to all phases of the development lifecycle.
• Design, set up and be responsible for infrastructure provisioning and workflows.
• Writing well designed, testable, efficient infrastructure code including appropriate unit testing and documentation
• Assist in defining user stories and features.
• Ensure components follow standards, industry best practice and meet objectives.
• Support preparation and production of releases
• Support continuous improvement by investigating alternatives and technologies and presenting these for architectural review.

Compliance and Risk

• Ensure that there is commitment to high standards in IT / human interaction.
• Ensure Compliance with industry standards including Data Protection Security toolkit, ISO27001 and GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) guidelines.

Relationships

• To build extensive relationships with client teams as well as internal technical teams.
• Develop and build relationships with
  • Suppliers and Partners

Other

• Attend team meetings, board, and committee meetings as required, including the potential for travel where necessary.
• Be an enthusiastic advocate for our values.
• Promote innovation both in use of new technologies and in working with teams to implement processes that streamline the development lifecycle as well as our own internal processes.
• Be administratively self-supporting, e.g., take care of own diary management, scheduling meetings etc.
• Maintain own professional networks and promote on a local and national level.
• Undertake any other duties and responsibilities commensurate with the post.

Person Specification:

Purpose of Role:                                             

We are seeking a highly skilled, experienced Cloud Architect to join our expanding healthcare technology team. In this customer-facing role, you will work alongside our talented team to develop solutions to meet our NHS clients’ requirements. You will be building solutions to deliver the right clinical data at the right time and place for a specific and targeted use case to support the direct care of patients within the NHS.

You will focus on Cloud infrastructure development throughout all phases of the development lifecycle and must be able to troubleshoot and anticipate errors during each step.

Accountabilities:                                               

The key accountabilities of the post holder will be to:

• Work as an integral part of our team developing healthcare solutions to meet our client’s needs.
• Understand client objectives, develop solutions architecture and advise on best practice.
• Ensure that software engineering best practice is followed including appropriate testing and documentation.
• Maintenance of infrastructure codebase including the identification and tracking of technical debt as well as any required mitigations.
• Actively identify risks to the solution and advise upon and where necessary implement required mitigations.

Responsibilities:

Strategy and Development

• Understand the client vision, the overall scope, and how to best achieve client requirements.
• Gather accurate requirements and work closely with stakeholders to prioritize tasks and the scope of development.

Management of People and Resources

• Support the Solutions architect and Data architect in the solution design, delivery and implementation.
• Support the project manager in identifying work items, dependencies, blockers and accurate estimations to facilitate project planning and managing client expectations.
• Contribute to the pre-planning and discovery phases of the lifecycle including task definition and estimation.
• Support the development of Sprint iteration concept as an advocate of agile principles.
• Support Sprint planning and the delivery of sprint goals

Delivery

• Contribute to architecture to provide solutions that meet client needs while balancing cost effectiveness, scalability, availability, and security.
• Contributing to all phases of the development lifecycle.
• Writing well designed, testable, efficient code including appropriate unit testing and documentation
• Assist in defining user stories and features.
• Ensure components follow standards, industry best practice and meet objectives.
• Support preparation and production of releases
• Support continuous improvement by investigating alternatives and technologies and presenting these for architectural review.

Compliance and Risk

• Ensure that there is commitment to high standards in IT / human interaction.
• Ensure Compliance with industry standards including Data Protection Security toolkit, ISO27001 and GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) guidelines.

Relationships

• To build extensive relationships with client teams as well as internal technical teams.
• Develop and build relationships with
  • Suppliers and Partners

Other

• Attend team meetings, board, and committee meetings as required, including the potential for travel where necessary.
• Be an enthusiastic advocate for our values.
• Promote innovation both in use of new technologies and in working with teams to implement processes that streamline the development lifecycle as well as our own internal processes.
• Be administratively self-supporting, e.g., take care of own diary management, scheduling meetings etc.
• Maintain own professional networks and promote on a local and national level.
• Undertake any other duties and responsibilities commensurate with the post.

Person Specification:

New Business Director – SaaS

Manchester - Hybrid working

£80,000 + Basic Salary, Commission + Company Benefits

Focus 5 Recruitment are on the lookout for a New Business Director to join an up-and-coming company based in Manchester. Our client is a market leader in SaaS software, delivering the very best products and service to their customers.

This opportunity is to run and manage a team of existing New Business winners, while delivering new and efficient strategies to win new business. There is a real opportunity for growth and development in this role.

The Role

As the New Business Director, you will need to be hands on with all departments of the company to be able to provide the very best propositions for customers. Focus 5 Recruitment are on the hunt for a self-motivated, driven and ambitious individual who will report directly into the Managing Director and CEO. This position will be playing a critical part in the company’s 5-year development plan.

Role Specifications

 The New Business Director will be responsible for:

• Managing your own workloads along with the New Business Executives workloads, to ensure KPI’s and sales targets are met.
• To be able to identify new business leads and plan strategically
• Present sales stats/ figures on a quarterly basis to the MD and CEO.
• Professional sales history with a proven track record for winning new business.
• 4 years + experience working within a SaaS organisation.
• Experience with building and maintaining strong, professional and long-term relationships with customers.
• Can effectively set new sales targets/ KPI’s for the internal sales team, to ensure company’s growth and development.
• 1 years + experience working at a Senior/ Director’s level.
• Be the face of Sales to the wider business, building strong working relationships and using commercial skills to identify opportunities for operational improvements.

Benefits

• £80,000 Basic Salary +
• Competitive commission structure
• Engaging and creative company culture
• 25 days annual leave
• Flexible/ Hybrid working + bank holidays
• Quarterly incentives

This is a live role with a key client. For full details and immediate consideration, please submit a CV ASAP.

Commercial Finance Analyst                                                              

Manchester – hybrid working

£30,000 - £45,000 (Depending on Experience) + benefits

Focus 5 Recruitment are looking for a Commercial Finance Analyst to sit within a small finance team of a fast growth business based in Manchester. In this role you will work to support the accounts team with financial reporting but importantly, you will help to create reports and the accompanying commentary to advise to board and Senior Management on strategic decisions.

This is a role for an entrepreneurial finance candidate who would love an opportunity to bring structure and guidance to the organisation by implementing a suite of new tools and systems. You will be comfortable liaising with Senior Management and discussing what the reports indicate. There is a real opportunity for growth and development in this role.

The role

This Commercial Finance Analyst position is an all-round, hands-on Finance role supporting business operations. We are looking for an organised and driven individual who will report to the Chief Financial Officer. This role sits within a fast-growing business with an ambitious five-year growth strategy so it will be suited to an individual who is looking for the next step in their career development and wants to grow and develop in line with the growth of the business. 

Role specification

The Commercial Finance Analyst will be responsible for

• Creation of concise reporting of business performance vs financial and non-financial KPIs across all departments, with key variances understood.
• Provide commercial advice, commentary or reports to the departments, Exec team and the Board to extract commercial value out of financial and market information.
• Diagnose weekly performance and provide insight-led recommendations.
• Designing, building and owning a suite of financial reporting dashboards and working with the CFO on developing/implementing new tools and systems.
• Assist in the production of the monthly management accounts.
• Oversee weekly Cashflow preparation, analysis and forecasting.
• Working with all departments to critically evaluate their ability to hit targets and identify risks/opportunities.
• Be the face of Finance to the wider business, building strong working relationships and using commercial skills to identify opportunities for operational improvements.
• Supporting the CFO with the budget and forecasting processes.
• Other ad-hoc duties and reporting as required by CFO.

Behaviours, required experience and qualifications

The Commercial Finance Analyst will be / demonstrate

• Part/Qualified Accountant.
• Experience of Xero and reporting add ons.
• Experience working in a fast-growing business
• Able to work independently and within tight timelines
• Able to communicate with stakeholders at all levels, both internally and externally.
• Strong ERP / finance system skills.
• Good organisation and time management skills
• Highly analytical with a strong attention to detail

This Commercial Finance Analyst role is a great opportunity for you to have a real impact on the growth and direction of an amazing business who is targeting fast growth in a really interesting industry. This is a live role with a key client. For full details and immediate consideration, please submit a CV ASAP.

JOB AD – Talent Manager

The Company

Focus 5 Recruitment are excited to be working with an agency in Manchester who are looking for a Talent/Influencer Manager

A social media marketing, licensing and influencer marketing group focused on making brands matter and working with talent to take their career to the next level.

We put talent at the centre of all we do, providing the highest level of service to ensure talent are securely looked after within the influencer space. At this exciting point of growth
 

Operating and launching some big brand campaigns from our Manchester HQ, our staff headcount has grown exponentially in the last year and we are only getting bigger. Our industry experts are able to navigate the ever-changing social sphere and deliver the best results.

The group houses our creative agency specialising in working with talent, Agency, Publishing, whose content generates 1 Billion + views per month and ARKI, a full-service licensing agency specialising in acquiring and distributing the best videos to high profile clients. We want you along for the ride!

Role Description

We are looking for an organised, personable and well connected talent manager who will be a vital part of the next stage of the Group’s journey. This role is diverse, quick-paced and ever-evolving in a rapidly dynamic industry. If you think you’re up for a challenge in a company that thrives off creativity and flair, then come and join us!

The role will report into the Head of Talent as well as potentially manage junior team members.

You will be working within theTalent team, ensuring our influencers are performing and their content is top notch!

What you’ll be doing:

• Manage and develop a roster of digital talent
• Plan and lead the strategy for each talent member to further support their career development and promote high retention
• Focus on improving talent members content, pages and growth
• Proactively outreaching for partnerships in the digital space for clients - approaching brands and third-party agencies to onboard new relationships on behalf of talent, as well as identifying diversified potential income streams such as podcasts, publishing deals and merchandise
• Talent inbox and diary management - responding promptly to inbound enquiries, sharing media kits and rate cards
• Manage deliverables and terms for all brand partnerships, including but not limited to: fee negotiation, content production, data reviews and contract support.
• Identify new talent members for Talent
• Building a strong network of clients and brands to pitch Talent
• Report on all lead within talent and clients to identify clear wins and missed opportunities

Requirements

Tell Us More!

How you can amplify our brand and take it to the next level? What expertise, tools and experiences can you bring to this role? Ensuring our content is diverse, engaging and accelerating into the next generation of social.

What we look for in skills:

• You have 2 or more years of experience in talent/Influencer Management
• A clear understanding of talent management
• A keen eye for talent and trends within the talent space
• You have a background in influencer marketing, with a strong understanding of social media and digital marketing
• You are a quick learner, who is naturally proactive
• You are excited by the opportunity of working for a fast-paced social creative agency
• You are passionate, creative and have a fire to produce amazing content

What we look for in behaviours:

Core Values:

• A desire to get down and graft and a hunger to smash it every day.

• Thinks differently, welcomes the challenge and has a desire to fuel creativity

• Is a Good Egg without exception and is kind and respectful above all else

• Always helps out their peers, bigging up their hard work, wins and successes and win together

• A brave, outside the box thinker who isn’t afraid to own it!

• We Got You, so someone who looks out for people, always

Benefits

-Pension

-33 days’ holiday (inc Bank Holidays) + Birthday off

-Access to a Wellbeing Officer

-Full Private Healthcare

-Unlimited mental health support days

-Quarterly Socials

-Staff Loyalty Scheme

-Flexible Working Hours

-Lucrative Bonus Scheme

-Hybrid Working

-Friday Drinks

-Dog-friendly office

-Access to industry events

-Monthly lunch and learns

-Bespoke training

If this is something you might be interested in please apply below