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Senior Consultant - Workforce Analytics
SENIOR CONSULTANT - WORKFORCE ANALYTICS - London
Role
People and Programmes are dedicated to delivering excellent customer service within their Workforce Analytics team, and to this end are seeking to hire Senior Consultants, with ideally some prior experience in workforce, or as a minimum data analysis. The role of the Senior Consultant will be to provide a full, comprehensive “customer-centric” service, to successfully meet the analysis requirements of their clients. As such the Senior Consultant will work with their professional service departments and the client core business lines, to deliver analysis for the benefit of the client.
The principal responsibility of the Senior Consultant, will be to own the client relationships, building strong client stakeholder engagement, and delivering high quality (data) analysis solutions and services to them. This is a highly customer facing role, that will involve flexibility to travel (to customer site).
As a Senior Consultant your main responsibilities will involve:
- Engaging, and building strong customer relationships, gaining their trust, through sharing of knowledge and provision of best practice guidance, and advice in relation to their data.
- Undertaking requirements elicitation and gathering.
- Conducting initial reviews and inspections of their data to determine quality, and in collaboration with your team, interpret the data developing recommendations based on findings, providing the client with understanding and insights into their data
- Identifying client needs, recommending how and what they should do in order to improve their utilisation, quality and analysis of data
- Acting as an analytics expert, with end-to-end knowledge of the data analysis process including segmentation, data modelling, forecasting and predictive analysis requirements
- Running projects, to deliver custom solutions if required, and to this end, owning and delivering all project-related plans and associated documentation, and be confident to implement the full project lifecycle from start to finish (if necessary)
- Maintaining accountability for the data analysis, its quality, and or all associated products or services delivered to the client.
- Identifying wider client business problems, as they impact on their data, and recommending resolutions
Owning the responsibility for determining (in consultation with the data scientists, and your wider team), most suitable forms of analysis to be performed on the data - You’ll be required to be ‘hands-on’, proactive, and to be able to think “outside-of-the-box” where needed, to deliver business value to the client
- You will be expected to be able to work independently on client’s sites, acting as the company’s face and point of contact for all company, and data/project-related issues, and queries
- Proactively ensuring that your personal knowledge and understanding of workforce analysis is kept current so as to be able to capitalise on, and provide full understanding of new opportunities and best practice.
- Understanding business requirements, needs and frustrations and proactively shape deliverables to meet those needs.
Requirements
Essential. To be considered you must demonstrate that you meet the following criteria:
- Minimum of ‘A ‘Levels, degree or equivalent
- Either min of 1-2 years, or solid experience of having delivered 1 or 2 highly customer-facing, data analyses projects ideally within the Professional, or financial services sector
- You must have high levels of numeracy
- Prior experience in delivering transformation projects to a structured method or process.
- Good (verbal and written) communication, including presentation skills
- Flexibility to travel, and to work independently at client site
Desirable
- Experience working with any of the following technologies: Qlikview, Tableau, OrgPlus, COGNOS, SPSS or other statistical packages desireable for analyzing large complex datasets
- PRINCE2
What we will be looking for in you:
To re-iterate the company will consider candidates who have experience of delivering 1 or 2 prior data analysis projects, and will provide the necessary training and support to assist candidates acquire Workforce Analysis skills.
You'll need to be a confident communicator with the ability to grasp complex issues quickly, and devise appropriate action plans. You will need to be pragmatic and flexible and must demonstrate high levels of empathy and remain calm under pressure. You will have the ability to project manage and lead data analysis and be immediately effective. Building and maintaining effective working relationships is a key element of this role.
About the Company
The company is one of the largest global professional service companies in the UK. They combine innovation, insight, business and industry knowledge to deliver outstanding integrated financial service/consultancy-based solutions to their clients.
Business Development Analyst
BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT ANALYST
This is an exciting and challenging role for a Business Development Analyst who wants to be involved in the early stages of an exciting new development for the business. The primary role will be to provide strategic analysis of potentially complex business problems that will develop this new area of the business.
Key responsibilities include:
Shaping and solving strategic problems across the business whether they are in marketing, supply chain, trading or operations
Ability to clearly structure communications for different audiences and influence key stakeholders to get ideas across or get data / resources where needed
Keeping abreast of market conditions, trends, competitor performance and other business strategies to feed in to team and overall business performance
Active contribution to broader team initiatives or performance
Working collaboratively with teams inside and outside the business to get the best solutions to problems
In some circumstances managing other analysts, consultants or team members
For this role, you will need to be degree educated with proven experience of strategic or operational analysis within a top tier consulting firm or a similar role within a retail / consumer organisation. The ability to successfully communicate results and influence others is essential, therefore you will need strong analytical, numerical and communication skills. Strong experience with MS Excel is essential and SQL would be advantageous. You will also need an innovative and creative approach to idea generation and problem solving with the ability to manage multiple priorities.
This is an exciting opportunity to join a brand new team, and as the business area grows there will be ample opportunity for the role to develop to fit with your ambitions.
Project Manager
BUSINESS PROJECT MANAGER, (BPM) - LOGISTICS (FMCG)
Project Managers are required to join the business development team (BPM) to deliver projects across the Business at all our clients UK sites. The BPM will be working primarily on projects centred on MHE automation (cranes and conveyors) and optimally moving products/assets around the Warehouse.
The Project Manager will manage the full project lifecycle from initial scoping, creating business cases and justifications through to board approval, manage 3rd parties, design, test and implementation through to completion of the project. Other projects will consist of design and delivery of solutions related to increasing capacity, range or productivity across all aspects of the business.
As a Business Project Manager, your key internal customers will be many and diverse across the business, and may include any department that a project is involved in, such as Operations; Flow Forum; CFC Ops; Engineering; Site Services Team; Food Tech; Resource Planning; Legal; Layout Team or others. External customers may include contractors, vendors or other external parties or commercial stakeholders who are engaged on a particular project. Key responsibilities and focus points for BPM's are Design, Requirements Definition, Project Justification, Programme Management, Communication, Change Management, Testing, Implementation and Rollout.
The ideal candidate will have a good university degree, with strong project management and solution design and delivery skills. A keen interest in Logistics or Engineering, with experience of projects in manufacturing, automotive, airports, distribution or similar would be advantageous. Candidates from the MHE Automation Industry may be particularly relevant.
You will be bright and numerate with an ability to understand and analyse data flows within our business. You will need a particular aptitude for design and analysis, and end to end project management and possess excellent communication skills at all levels. Proficiency in MS Word, Excel, Project is essential, and experience of SQL and Query writing would be desirable.
Robotics Engineer/Developer - Robotics Research
ROBOTICS ENGINEER/DEVELOPER - ROBOTICS RESEARCH
A Robotics Engineer/Developer is needed to join a robotics research team working on pre-production systems using recent research results and state of the art technology. We are looking for a software engineer to work on the research, design and development of novel sensor-guided robotic systems in order to enhance already highly automated product delivery systems.
The role will entail implementing sensor-guided robotics solutions to specific automation problems, taking an active role in the choice of technologies and techniques used; performing mathematical modelling and algorithm development to achieve real-time sensor-guided robot motions; and developing software that implements novel and sophisticated solutions to specific robotic applications; as well as documenting theoretical developments and their software implementation.
You'll have an exceptional record of academic achievement ideally including a PhD in a relevant area or track record of your ability to perform novel work in a cutting edge environment on challenging projects. We're also looking for strong 3D mathematical skills and experience of using them in the development of software in relevant domains, in particular robot motion planning, geometric modelling and meshing algorithms. You'll also need experience of programming in C/C++ (using the GCC toolchain and Qt4), GNU Octave (or MATLAB); and Unix shell scripting.
Experience with programming an industrial robot arm would be beneficial, but not essential provided strong programming skills in other area can be demonstrated. Other software development skills of interest are those applicable to real-time systems and multi-tasking/multi-threading.
Automation Controls Software Developer
AUTOMATION CONTROLS SOFTWARE DEVELOPER - HATFIELD, HERTFORDSHIRE
Do you have - or are you expecting - a strong degree in Electrical Engineering or Mechanical Engineering from a top class UK university or similar? Do you have good A-levels to match? Are you interested in a career in software development which combines complex programming with a deep understanding of electromechanical equipment?
We are looking for graduates to join an automation control software development team. This team develops the software that directly controls the hardware in a unique cutting-edge warehouse facility. This centre houses a half billion pound operation - which is responsible for picking, packing and dispatching over 1 million items per day to online customers across the UK.
To enable this level of productivity and rapid business growth, the business is investing millions of pounds in state of the art automation to add to the 10 miles of conveyor and hundreds of cranes, lifts and shuttles that are already operating in the facility. The local real time control of this huge array of electromechanical hardware is the responsibility of the software developers in this team.
Graduate Software Developer
GRADUATE SOFTWARE DEVELOPER - HATFIELD, HERTS
We are looking for the best and brightest graduates of 2010 and 2011 to join our growing team.
Our graduate developers may have demonstrated an aptitude for software development in different ways: through their work experience, academic achievement or even writing computer game applications in their spare time. What they all have in common is a track record of high performance, a real interest in what they do, and a desire to use their skills in a commercial environment with a tangible end product.
As a graduate developer you will work on a variety of projects, from writing complex applications for our award-winning customer website to working on our route planning software or writing crane and conveyor control software or user interface applications for our warehouse management system. You will be involved in the complete development lifecycle from concept and design through to implementation, testing and deployment.
We offer the opportunity for you to gain practical software development experience using Java and C#.Net along with exposure to Apache, Subversion, Tomcat and Eclipse and a range of other technologies. Working in an informal environment with like-minded, smart and focused people, you will take up a hands-on role within our business, with a good balance between training and support, and autonomy and flexibility.
This will suit a high flyer with commercial acumen and an analytical mind, who enjoys problem-solving and seeing projects through from start to finish.
If you have or are expecting a 2:1 or 1st class degree in Computer Science or numerate science discipline from a top institution, backed up by strong A-levels ( including A-grades in Maths and/or Computing) and demonstrable programming ability, and would like to be part of our success story, then we want to hear from you!
Recruitment Manager
RECRUITMENT MANAGER- HATFIELD, HERTS
The primary purpose of the Recruitment Manager is to take ownership of the recruitment and selection process for defined client groups within the business. This will also involve developing and leading an attraction strategy to target both internal and external passive candidates.
Responsibilities will include:
Filling all approved vacancies in the defined client group in a timely, cost effective manner, ensuring relevant standards are maintained, focusing on reducing hire cost, time to hire, etc
Develop and maintain relationships with defined client group in order to gain a clear understanding of the recruitment needs
Team management: Lead, develop and review your direct team including coaching, supervision and day to day line management
Ensure appropriate recruitment processes are implemented for each approved vacancy in the defined client group including budget approval; Selection criteria, testing, job profile, advertising, assessment centres and contract management
Responsible for designing and managing a multi-channel attraction plan aligned to a resourcing plan, Improve quality of hire by accessing as wide a pool of semi passive/passive candidates, Accelerate hiring times by building a pipeline to ensure that we can recruit on demand
Budget Management: Review, develop and monitor recruitment agency preferred suppliers list, Implement low fee solutions where appropriate including internal advertising, refer a friend, networking and other sourcing methods
Graduate recruitment: Be responsible for the recruitment of graduates into the defined client areas within the overall business graduate recruitment principles
To be a considered for this role, you will need to be able to demonstrate:
Strong academics, graduate calibre 2:1 preferable
In-house recruitment experience preferred; recruitment agency experience advantageous
Experience of managing a small team
Experience of navigating recruitment systems and portals and of utilising direct recruitment methods, job boards, CV databases, social media, etc
Experience of telephone sourcing and screening, up to date interviewing and negotiating skills
Highly organised and resilient who focuses relentlessly on successful project delivery and collaboration with key stakeholders
Methodical worker with an eye for detail and strong analytical skills
Logistics Development Analyst
LOGISTICS DEVELOPMENT ANALYST - HATFIELD, HERTS
A Logistics Development Analyst is required to support our are highly automated and complex Warehousing facility. We are currently delivering over 100 projects within our existing site to increase capacity, efficiency, reliability or enable proposition development (E.g. Range) and are in the Build phase of a second £200m site in the Midlands.
The Logistics Development Analyst role is to ensure that the perceived benefits of these projects are realised, and ensure that any unexpected constraints or influences are uncovered early. This may result in process redesign recommendations, specification creation or enhancements, additional projects or prioritisation decisions.
This is a broad role identifying and helping solve the challenges Ocado will face in developing the business further. Key responsibilities include:
Ensuring that projects delivered achieve full benefit and are not hindered by covert issues
Shaping and solving strategic problems within logistics and as they integrate with marketing, supply chain, trading or operations
Ability to clearly structure communications for different audiences and influence key stakeholders to get ideas across or get data / resources where needed
Active contribution to broader team initiatives or performance
Working collaboratively with teams inside and outside the business to get the best solutions to problems
In some circumstances managing other analysts, consultants or team members
Get to grips with the dynamics and interdependencies of the complex CFC at a process and data level
Develop and maintain various models of different aspects of the logistics operation
To be a considered for this role, you will need:
Educated to Degree level in a relevant subject, 2.1 degree or above
Proven experience in a strategic or operational analysis role within a top tier consulting firm or a similar role within a complex organisation
Clear interest and experience in bringing numerical structure to complex business problems.
Strong analytical and numerical skills
Exceptional / confident interpersonal and written communication skills
Innovative and creative in idea generation and problem solving
As the business area grows there will be ample opportunity for the role to develop in to something more operational / managerial to fit with individual's development needs / ambitions.
IT Project Manager
IT PROJECT MANAGER - HATFIELD, HERTS
As a result of our sustained growth, an exciting new position has arisen for a technical project manager within our cutting edge technology business.
We are seeking a project manager to take responsibility for the management and implementation of IT projects for our business. This broad role will encompass: liaising with logistics development on project requirements; analysing requirements and designing software solutions; building and running teams; developing project plans and tracking their development; managing hardware delivery; and developing and implementing testing and go-live aspects of the projects.
You will also manage relationships with external vendors and negotiate and agree the IT aspects of supplier contracts, as well as manage the IT projects budget.
This is a technical project management role, and our ideal candidate will have a 2:1 or above in Computer Science (or related) degree and will have ideally worked as a programmer and/or analyst earlier in their career or be able to demonstrate some previous experience in systems design and development. Experience managing IT projects through the whole lifecycle is essential; knowledge of SQL and its use in analysing data from relational databases is also important.
You will have an analytical mind, and the ability to tack risk and identify solutions is an integral part of this role. With proven leadership skills, you will possess the credibility, enthusiasm and technical know how to lead and motivate a team to consistently deliver on its objectives under pressure, and in line with company goals.
Analytical Software Developer
ANALYTICAL SOFTWARE DEVELOPER
A new opportunity has arisen for a talented mathematician or computer scientist to join our clients Analytics and Optimisation team.
This is part of the businesses IT research and development division, the Analytics and Optimisation team functions as an internal consulting group across the whole of the business' operations. Our developer-analysts work on a range of modelling, simulation, forecasting and optimisation projects, undertaking very large scale data analyses, prototyping new algorithms and systems, and collaborating on the construction and evolution of production solutions in areas varying from supply chain and logistics, to the control systems governing the operation of our highly automated warehouse, to front office projects surrounding customer data analysis, web analytics, and product sales and performance.
This role requires a good blend of mathematical, statistical and algorithmic knowledge and experience.
You will already have honed these skills:
Good software engineering skills in some modern OO language (Java preferred)
Ability to manipulate large, real-world data sets in SQL (Oracle, Greenplum)
Mathematical maturity
...and will likely have developed some of these as well:
Familiarity with statistics and/or data mining packages (e.g. R or Weka)
Course work in experiment design, decision theory, or regression analysis
Exposure to Map-Reduce based compute platforms
Knowledge of a range of optimisation and machine learning algorithms
We are looking for exceptionally clever individuals with at least a 1st class mathematics or computer science degree from a leading university. All levels of experience will be given consideration, and relevant postgraduate qualifications will be looked upon favourably.
Java Developer - Simulation
JAVA DEVELOPER - SIMULATION - HATFIELD, HERTS
We are currently looking for a Java Developer to join our Simulation Team.
As a Java Developer in this team you will be involved in developing and maintaining the simulation model in java and maintaining and developing various "data-mining" tools used for calibration and validation of the simulation models.
The successful application will be expected to actively contribute to continual improvement as well as participate in learning and development opportunities, sharing responsibility with their manager and training team for their own development as well as working closely with team leaders and/or customers on issues relating to design and requirements.
There will also be the possibility of running simulation studies, and undertaking the analysis and interpretation of simulation results or even working on the business' in-house simulation visualisation 3D graphics package, as a secondary role.
Key Requirements for the Java Developer ? Simulation:
2:1 or above in Mechanical Engineering, Computer Science or related numerate degree.
Strong A-Levels with a minimum of A in Maths and Physics or Computing or Further Maths.
Proven experience working in Java
Python Scripting
Development tools - Eclipse, Visual Studio, Toad, Version Control ? Subversion
Some Simulation / Mathematical Modelling experience
Any experience with Databases (SQLite, PostgreSQL, Oracle), log4j, junit, Eclipse, Subversion or any understanding of real time programming issues such as threading and synchronisation would be desirable but not essential.
Oracle DBA
ORACLE DBA - HATFIELD, HERTS
We are looking for an Oracle Database Administrator to join the Business Technology team. The Oracle Database Administration team's primary objective is keep our production databases running smoothly. They are responsible for supporting Oracle, PostgreSQL and SQL Server databases and ensuring their performance, availability and security.
The Database Administrator will be expected to implement new services and monitor/manage/maintain existing ones to agreed business service levels. They will work as part of a team to ensure that operations shift personnel are appropriately briefed and skilled to provide 24x7x365 first line support and actively contribute to the process of continual improvement.
Key skills:
Proven experience in a Database Administration role
Experience/understanding of supporting a 24x7 operation
Unix Shell scripting
Oracle 9i10g/11g - installation & configuration
PostgreSQL 8.3
SQL Server 2005
Toad/ PG Admin III / Version Control ? Subversion
Oracle tuning and performance management
Oracle Enterprise Manager configuration and maintenance
Creating Technical Documentation
Any experience of Oracle Dataguard, Oracle RAC, Netapp disk management, PostgreSQL 8.3 installation and configuration, supporting Greenplum or supporting Microsoft SQL Server 2005 will be desirable but not essential.
This role will involve supporting production systems as required outside of standard working hours and will involve participation in 24x7 on-call rota.
Java GUI Developer
JAVA GUI DEVELOPER - London
Financial Markets eCommerce of a global bank, has defined an exciting strategy and aggressive product roadmap leading to 2012. The FM eCommerce system developments team is a specialist team responsible for the design and development of proprietary set of systems that will differentiate the bank in its core markets. eCommerce systems will be aimed at numerous customer markets including:- external customers via the internet, sophisticated customers via API/point-to-point connectivity, internal users trading on behalf of customers around the globe and finally connectivity into multi-dealer platforms.
This role is an exciting opportunity to be part a large multi-asset ecommerce trading system development team within a Greenfield environment that is distributed over Singapore, London and Chennai. A successful candidate is expected to:
Execute development within a Greenfield development environment
Work with teams spread across infrastructure, product development, support, test, and the front office
Participate in ecommerce product requirements gathering
Participate in the development of all aspects of product delivery including design documents, functional specifications, and component build
Make contributions to the evolving architecture
Conduct issue and risk identification, management and resolution
This is a key role which will play pivotal role in the development.
Key Roles & Responsibilities
Take responsibility for the system component design and build, ensuring application release quality
Ensure developed code is fully tested through automated unit tests
Build relationships with key stakeholders
Adhere to SCB Development practices
Manage application support handover to global support teams
Maintain and enhance the code base after project go-live
Build relationships with fellow developments managers inside/outside FM, Infrastructure units etc.
Advocate delivery excellence, ensuring application release quality
Qualifications & Skills
Knowledge of all aspects of software design and development including the judicious use of domain specific languages and code generation techniques
Must have a working knowledge of the design of scalable, high availability, distributed architectures including three tier and n tier
Must have an excellent grasp of multi threaded, low latency, high throughput development in Java Swing
Must have an excellent grasp of messaging and communication protocols including point-to-point (TCP), multicast (UDP) and RPC’s including reliable and guaranteed messaging delivery policies
Cognizant of architecture and heuristics for the dissemination of market data and other real-time information.
Working understanding of SQL and simple DDL operations
Excellent oral and written communication skills
Desirable but not Essential as training will be given.
Understanding of ecommerce product workflow across front office and middle office tiers
Good understanding of price discovery, deal acceptance, and position management approaches across the Fixed Income OTC product space, including FX, IRS, and Bonds is desirable
Software Developer - Java or C.NET
SOFTWARE DEVELOPER - JAVA OR C.NET
Are you a talented software developer with commercial experience working with Java or C#.Net and database systems? Do you have practical knowledge of real-time programming issues such as threading and synchronisation, and a love of solving complex puzzles?
If you can answer 'yes' to the above, and are looking to progress your career in a lively, fast-moving environment which combines informality in dress and management style with a strong commitment to quality and professionalism, then read on.
Our warehouse management, routing and web shop teams are currently looking for developers with at least a year's experience of Java or C# programming in a commercial environment. You will gain the opportunity to develop your existing skill set and gain exposure to new technologies, working with like-minded people towards a common goal: to design, implement and improve the leading edge programmes and applications that enable our business to deliver 100,000 orders to customers, week in, week out, and to continue to grow as we consolidate our position at the forefront of the e-retailing industry.
You are likely to be working in the software industry already, and have a strong academic background, with a good honours degree (min.2:1) in Computer Science or other numerate science discipline, a keen interest in problem-solving and a passion for simply doing things better. A self-starter, possessing both initiative and the ability to pick up and apply new ideas and technologies easily, you will quickly make a real difference to our business.
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