Focus 5 Recruitment are currently recruiting a driven Solutions Engineer (Muti Cloud Security), working for a Tech client who boasts the likes of Facebook among their key clients whilst also working with other truly innovative IT companies. They are a growing business working in the Cyber Security sector and they have a great reputation for developing and progressing talent within the IT community.

The role

As a Solutions Engineer, you’ll be focusing on multi-cloud security and will play a really important role:

• In our Solutions Engineering team, as a subject matter expert.
• For the wider non-technical teams & our IT Channel partners, as an educator who simplifies technology topics.
• With our partners’ customers supporting them through their solution selection journey.
• And with our technology vendors (supporting them to become part of our cybersecurity story & by listening to their needs).

Our multi-cloud security portfolio is focused on bringing advice and guidance to our channel partners and their end customers to secure their digital presence across multiple, cloud-based platforms. Multi-cloud security covers identity security (Okta), network security (Cyolo), application security (ThreatX), data assurance (security & protection – Fortanix), and resource visibility (including risk posture management).

What we expect you to do and achieve in the role:

• Grow to be a subject matter expert in multi-cloud security and, by working closely with your colleagues, you’ll also build a working understanding of the solutions in workspace security and cybersecurity operations.
• Problem solve and make recommendations bespoke to partners’, vendors’ and end customers’ needs.
• Play a key role in the sales cycle, supporting our sales account managers, vendor managers, and channel partner teams with the combination of your personality and your technical expertise, including providing product presentations, product demonstrations, technical solution consultation.
• Build a great professional network within your partners, vendors and end customers.
• Create technical demo environments to showcase your technologies to both customers and partners.
• Work with the sales and solutions engineering team to help enable partners to sell and demonstrate the technical stack.
• Obtain and maintain required product and supplier certifications.
• Working both within the SE team and independently.

Experience we need you to have:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science (or similar degree) or a minimum of 2 years in technical presales/teaching/instruction roles.
• Understanding of cybersecurity technologies and best practices.
• Experience of Microsoft technologies such as Active Directory and Office 365.
• Experience using Cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, and /or Google Cloud Platform.).
• Experience in delivering technical presentations to a variety of audiences.
• Experience in delivering product/technical demonstrations.
• The ability to talk around a technical subject with a range of technical and non-technical audiences.

Experience that we would like you to have:

• Identity Access Management (IAM) solutions.
• Network security knowledge.
• Web application & API security.
• Data assurance knowledge, including security and protection (backup/recovery).
• Experience of software development at some level.

What we need from you now and throughout your time with us:

• You’re a self-starter who can quickly take ownership of your role.
• You have a positive and pro-active mentality with a desire to learn and grow.
• You’re good with people and can build relationships with anyone you work with.
• You are highly organised in balancing your day-to-day work and learning.
• You have a real passion for learning, and you want to grow your own knowledge and support your teammates too.
• You are comfortable leading a room across a variety of audiences in different scenarios.

Great benefits package available, click apply now!

Title: Marketing Executive

Salary: 22k - 28k

Location: Manchester

Focus 5 Recruitment are recruiting a Marketing Executive to join an incredible in-house marketing team at a global company. Our client is currently heading up a team of 28 marketing specialists based across London, Manchester, Leeds and East Anglia.

This is an amazing opportunity for a Marketing Executive to support the team in the creation and implementation of exciting, rich and relevant content across their portfolio of shopping centers, leisure and retail parks nationwide.
You will have the chance to work with well-known brands such as: JD Sports, River Island, Five Guys and Cineworld who are based within their centers.

Key Responsibilities

• Managing social media pages via management tools such as sprout social;
• Designing, building and delivering social media strategies which are commercially focused and tie in with over-arching strategies and business objectives;
• Growing social media audience across numerous platforms;
• Creating industry relevant unique content and upload to multiple websites;
• Writing e-shots for emails to multiple databases, making sure all are optimised to ensure high open rates;
• Creation and uploading of blogs across multiple websites;
• Tenant liaison (regular contact with tenants, building relationships, gathering and posting offers);
• Creating multi-platform content across a number of categories (Fashion, Homewares, Gifting, Event);
• Advise the team on the very latest content and editorial guidance by being our in-house “editor”;
• Report and review digital, social content to measure success, leading to delivery of meaningful strategies;
• Undertake regular detailed competitor analysis;
• Internal and External stakeholder liaison and engagement;
• Troubleshoot website issues for both internal and external customers; assist in diagnosing bugs and gathering requirements for website features;
• Support Marketing Manager/Marketing Account Managers across campaign planning & execution (digital & experiential).

Desirable Skills

It would be desirable, but not essential, if the candidate had proven editorial and copywriting experience, and/or some creative and art working experience.

The above is not an exhaustive list of duties.  You will be expected to keep up to date with the changing face of communications and present ideas and strategies to keep the managed accounts as well as  brand communications up to date and fresh. You will therefore perform different tasks as necessitated by your changing role within the organisation.

Benefits

• 25 Days Holiday + Opportunity to buy more
• Companywide events
• Pension
• Friday Drinks
• Discounts
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Healthcare
• Bonus Scheme
   

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

Focus 5 Recruitment are looking for a Senior Sales Administrator to provide sales admin and support to a busy sales and marketing office based in Altrincham. This is a full time, office-based role with a basic of £25-30K + bonus paid twice a year.

They have a great culture and there is lots of scope for development and promotion. We’re looking for an enthusiastic, hard-working and experienced Sales Administrator to work with this growing sports sector.

Working in a small but established sales and marketing team, you will support 4 field Sales Reps, 5 in house Sales Account Managers, the Marketing Manager and support the Sales Director. Due to their year on year growth, this opportunity is a new role and there is a real opportunity for someone to own the role and make a real impact on the business. There will be sector specific training and there is a genuine opportunity for career development.

The Senior Sales Administrator role: -

• Managing day to day operations of Sales office activities and the internal Sales Team.
• Pivotal communication bridge between the Customer Service Hub & Sales/marketing Dept.
• Addressing all incoming Sales related topics into the general orders@ inbox.
• Analysing sales reports to give headline data in order to boost sales and create opportunities.
• Liaise with our internal transport department to ensure timely deliveries for key customers.
• Working closely with the Sales Director with key customer at all levels.
• Existing customer research and development.
• Sales office liaison for 4 Field Sales representatives.
• Managing incoming sales calls and addressing general customer enq’s/ filter calls.
• Assist with backorder reporting and communicating supplier delivery information.
• Maintaining and updating prospect and customer databases/acc set up/acc segmentation.
• Raising CRM task activity and managing day to day governance of Sales Team CRM entries.
• Attending, preparing and follow ups for exhibitions.
• Web/portal chat
• Customer meetings internally, occasionally joint meetings externally
• Assist with ongoing development and growth of the Sales and Marketing Dept.
• PA to Sales Director.

Experience Required for the Senior Sales Administrator:

• Energy, personality and a positive work ethic are the most important!
• A minimum of 3 years’ experience working in a busy sales office.
• Experience producing sales reports and   supporting sales reps
• You must be self-motivated, professional and well presented, being capable of turning prospective new leads into customers

This is a great Sales Administrator role with an honest and trustworthy business who offer a bonus but don’t lie about earning potential and then never deliver. If you want to join an ambitious business, with annual bonus, annual salary reviews and real opportunity for career development, we want to hear from you!

Focus 5 Recruitment are looking for a Director of Talent / Head of Talent to work in a growing Agency to help build an enviable roster of influencers and content creators. If you’ve experience in a senior position working with social media influencers and you’re looking for a fresh challenge or step up, we want to hear from you!

This is an amazing opportunity to play a lead role in establishing a new dedicated talent division (they already do some work in this area) in an already established social agency with big ambitions for growth and the resources to make that happen. You’ll be excited by the opportunity to start and grow your own division with the support of senior leaders in the business and their already established business support divisions. If you have strong commercial acumen and a desire to contribute to the overall vision and growth of an ambitious business this is certainly an opportunity for you.

Offering fully flexible working, you can be based anywhere in the UK but you would need regular access to both London and Manchester for both client and company meetings.

In this Director of Talent / Head of Talent role you will be responsible for: -

• Helping to plan and launch this Talent division.
• Building a team that can confidently manage the best and most exciting social talent.
• Building and nurturing strong, long-term partnerships with creators and influencers of varying size.
• Planning and setting strategy with talent, while supporting their career development.
• Strategically develop plans for signed talent to maximize their growth and financial productivity.
• Identify and develop relationships with up and coming, and existing content creators that have yet to reach full potential.
• Thought leader for internal team, managed talents, clients, and partners.

Experience required for the Director of Talent / Head of Talent role: -

• Candidates must have at least 5 years of relevant experience in talent management.
• Strong leadership capabilities to lead and grow a promising team.
• Strong commercial acumen and a desire to contribute to the overall vision and growth of an ambitious business.
• Experience in managing teams and responsible for their own budget.
• A demonstrated track record for developing and executing contracts on behalf of talents and brand clients.
• Creative and commercially & entrepreneurially minded
• Strong understanding of branded content in video and social platforms including YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, TikTok and Snapchat.
• Strong negotiation skills for key creator contracts.

For immediate consideration on this Head of Talent / Director of Talent role, please submit an application ASAP. This is a live role with a key client, and we will come back to you quickly.

Focus 5 Recruitment are looking for a Channel Marketing Manager to work in an award-winning, vibrant, enthusiastic, and fast-growing technology company. Our client specialises in representing new and emerging cloud-based cyber security solutions across EMEA and breathe new life into well-established vendors looking to reboot their presence! Specialist in IT distribution with a difference – In short selling cybersecurity solutions to channel partners, who sell them to their customers as part of a solution to an IT challenge.

In this Channel Marketing Manager role, you will be leading the day-to-day management of the Channel Marketing team and provide support to the Marketing Director. Taking ownership of the team management, partner & vendor management, campaign & event management, mailing campaigns and stock management whilst striving to improve the brand awareness, promotion, communication, and delivery of marketing initiatives for both our client and its vendors.

This client offers a fantastic company culture with great benefits and true flexibility in home or office-based working. They are looking for positive “can do” people looking for an opportunity to progress a career with a fast-growing tech business.

The Channel Marketing Manager role:

• Ensuring approved marketing activities for the team are comprehensively logged
• Helping the marketing Director to create quarterly marketing plans
• Ensuring MDF has been approved for all campaigns
• Helping the Channel Marketing team to create a progress plan for each approved campaign
• Update marketing team of upcoming events in the monthly meeting
• Monthly reporting of campaign plans, progress, and results
• Constantly build and maintain strong relationships with both our channel partners and technology vendors
• And much more!

Experience Required:

• Minimum of 4 years’ marketing experience
• Managerial experience in a marketing role
• Have an active professional interest in business and cybersecurity technology
• Excellent Communication Skills – including excellent verbal and written English and you must be comfortable at presenting 1:1 and in front of small and large groups of people – it’s part of the day job!
• Be able to work both independently and within a team

Desirable:

• Have a passion to continue to expand your marketing knowledge
• Demonstrate passion, enthusiasm, and self-confidence in everything you do

Benefits:

• An excellent holiday packages
• Investment in your health & wellbeing
• Company bonus scheme
• Learning & development opportunities
• Quarterly company values awards
• Service awards for tenure

For immediate consideration on this Channel Marketing Manager role and full details on both the role and client, please submit an application ASAP.