New Placement Opportunities

New Placement Opportunities

Type: Marketing

Job Title: Marketing Manager (German/Italian/Spanish markets) (LOV 6)

Job Description:
The Company are leading industry thinkers and innovators and are searching for a Marketing Manager who is open to new business frontiers and open minded and mature. The successful candidate should also be career minded, willing to travel and if possible, have additional language skills. To work with the management team and develop, establish and maintain marketing strategies to meet organisational objectives. Provide effective management of the marketing, advertising and promotional activities of the organisation. Play a key part in the events strategy and organisation for this market which is constantly evolving and growing and help move towards becoming market leaders for poker events. Strong project management skills and a team player are therefore essential for this role.
Tasks and responsibilities will include:-

Manage and co-ordinate all marketing, advertising and promotional staff and activities
Conduct market research to determine market requirements for existing and future products
Analysis of customer research, current market conditions and competitor information
Develop and implement marketing plans and projects for new and existing products
Manage the productivity of the marketing plans and projects
Play a key part in the organisation of poker event
Monitor, review and report on all marketing activity and results
Determine and create a marketing budget
Deliver marketing activity within agreed budget
Develop pricing strategy
Liaison with media and advertising

Please note- for the right candidate/s there may be the opportunity to travel overseas

Start Date: As soon as Possible

Duration of Placement: 6 to 12 months

Location: Plymouth

Remuneration: £750 per month

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Type: Marketing

Job Title: German Speaking Marketing Assistant (ALB 1)

Job Description:

The company are searching for a pro-active student who is studying for a marketing degree and has a strong interest in the automotive industry.
It is an opportunity to gain excellent practical experience in marketing with a variety of duties and have the opportunity to use your knowledge and/or interest in the automotive industry!
Reporting to the managing director, duties and responsibilities will include:

Market research in regards to various tyre legislations and their application in their aftermarkets.
Preparing marketing and sales campaigns for the companies’ products within the German/Swiss and Austrian markets, these need to be according to the new legislations that are listed for the companies’ products and aftermarket products/services etc.
Setting up marketing and marketing materials for a yearly international exhibition in Germany.
Research marketing websites aimed at the automotive aftermarket.
Preparing training materials including manuals and support documents for products and markets.
Liaising with initial customers in order to give feedback to the software development team in order to meet the customer’s requirements.
Proving initial customer pre-and post sales support through their distributors and customers and helping the company to set up a system in order to manage these.
Assist in general correspondence in the automotive industry market.
Hours of work are 9.00am – 17.30pm, Mon – Fri.

Start Date: March 2012

Duration of Placement: 5 to 6 Months

Location: Barnsley

Remuneration: £700 per Month

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Type: Business Admin/Management

Job Title: Client Account Manager (LOV 10)

Job Description:

Staff Management: Responsible to reporting to the Account Director

Monitoring areas such as time of arrival at the office, breaks taken, time of leaving the office, extra work carried out at home, sickness etc
Approval of holiday allocation, Dealing with personal issues, Dealing with other staff issues.

Client Projects;

Having an overview/understanding of all live jobs to be able to update Account Director on a regular basis and provide advice and support to the Account Management team
Ensure targets/deadlines/expectation levels are met for the clients by ensuring the smooth running of all accounts which are managed internally within the Company
Maintain the relationship with clients to encourage repeat business
To undertake research and proposal writing for new business as required with supervision and assistance from Account Director
Read and check proposals and end of campaign reports before being approved by Account Director

Event Management;

Arrange all logistics for an event and ensure that all paperwork is in order before attending
Liaise with clients regarding their requirements at an event as well as hotel accommodation, activities, transport etc
Liaise with clients whether as the Companies representative or when required, to act as the client host
Liaise with casino/partner regarding the buy-ins, no-shows and refunds
At end of the event, produce all documentation both internally and externally for clients eg producing Statement of Accounts, refund of monies

Start Date: As soon as possible

Duration of Placement: 6 to 12 months

Location: Plymouth

Remuneration: £750 per month

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Type: Marketing

Job Title: Internal Communications Specialist (DCP 1)

Job Description:

This is a very interesting and full filling placement that will give the successful candidate a unique insight into the Internal Communications, Branding and Marketing areas. You will be reporting directly to the Leadership team.
Tasks and responsibilities will include;

Working with Leadership Team and other key stakeholders to build & communicate the 3 year Strategy
Investigate, recommend & manage Voice of the Workforce Feedback & Action Plans
Design effective plans & processes to link output of Voice of Workforce feedback to on-going improvement projects within the organisation
Liaise with the wider corporation to advise & cascade internally the Governance around Branding & Communications
Deep Dive Customer feedback & manage action plans / communicate news accordingly
Manage communication in a consistent and timely manner considering the audience & impact/reception on each group
Co-ordinate a number of key Internal Communication forums: All Employee calls, All Manager calls, Industrial Relations, Employee Forum, Strategy Events/Roadshows
Collate from across the organisation Employee Good News stories, important initiatives & other key messages for cascade internally
Make Suggestion to improve quality & effectiveness of communications within CDS
Review outputs of company sponsored initiatives such as Talent Management Program & Marketing Projects against current best Practise and transition output from one off initiatives to Business As Usual
Define a methodology to ascertain the effectiveness of communications
Utilise the most effective methodologies & current taught theory to achieve the above

Start Date: As soon as Possible

Duration of Placement: 6 Months

Location: Berkshire

Remuneration: £ 1208.33 per Month

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Type: Engineering

Job Title: Structural Designer (TIA 3)

Job Description:

This is a great opportunity for a Mechanical Engineering Student.

You will be working with the Companies Structural Designers; your role will consist of the production of CAD Models and drawings for equipment / parts. The drawings will be used as a part of the Aircraft installation designs.The process will involve using data from equipment installation manuals and drawings.
Your work will then be expanded to include mounting of components and following the Companies design procedures and use of mounting hardware.
Your tasks will be, but are not limited by:

Producing CAD models and drawings for equipments/parts
Research into equipment installation manuals and drawings
Mounting of components
Creating training manual for future student
40 Working hours a week

Essential requirements:

Excellent English, written and spoken
Studying Mechanical Engineering degree or similar
Strong 3D AutoCAD skills (or similar programme)
Strong Solid works skills

Start Date: June 2012

Duration of Placement: 6 months

Location: Coventry

Remuneration: £ 500 per month

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Type: IT

Job Title: Middleweight ASP.NET (C#) Web Developer (LOV 11)

Job Description:
As part of this role you will be assisting in the development of some new and exciting projects that we have in the pipeline as well as the maintenance and refactoring of a range of existing applications including a successful national poker league soon to be taken to the United States on a much larger scale, an event registration and card membership system as well as the development and integration of applications with the Umbraco Content Management System.
Your duties will include:

Capturing functional and technical requirements
Producing maintainable web applications with solid architecture
Ensuring web applications meet web standards and accessibility requirements
Bug fixing
Regularly liaising account managers, other developers,some occasions directly with clients

To be considered for this opportunity you must:

Excellent written and spoken English skills
Final year student in a relevant course
Be able to work under pressure and to deadlines
Have a good knowledge of W3C web standards and semantic markup
Have at least some experience working with JavaScript / jQuery
Have experience with ASP.NET (C#) 3.5 / 4.0
Have experience with Microsoft ASP.NET MVC, MS SQL Server and T-SQL
Have experience of working under at least one form of source/version control system
Be able to demonstrate active participation in some form in your area of work outside of any job e.g. personal blog, active

Start Date: As soon as Possible

Duration of Placement: 6 to 12 months

Location: Plymouth

Remuneration: TO BE CONFIRMED (see website)

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Placement UK, 12 Station Rd, Kenilworth, Warwickshire, CV8 1JJ

Tel: 0044 1926 511610 Fax: 0044 1926 859 382