Our OEM Client based in Gaydon, is searching for a Vehicle Efficiency Attribute Lead Engineer to join their team, Inside IR35. This is a contract position with a proposed end date of 31st March 2027.

Umbrella Pay Rate: £33.64 per hour.

Duties:

• Supporting the Efficiency Product Owner in the delivery of key Vehicle Efficiency attributes (eg. real world and homologated driving range, energy consumption, fuel economy & CO2 emissions.
• Ensuring that these attribute requirements are compatible with system and sub-systems.
• Cascading and arbitrating targets for data-driven, intelligent, optimised energy nodes (e.g. aerodynamics, weight, powertrain efficiency, climate system, HV battery energy) to deliver a modern luxury experience.
• Collaborating with a wide range of business stakeholders and Engineers to deliver vehicle programmes against the team’s Quality Operating Schedule (QOS; JLR’s framework for attribute delivery).
• Identifying risks and opportunities in a robust data-driven manner with the purpose of informing and influencing business decisions and engineering direction related to vehicle energy nodes.

Key Accountabilities and Responsibilities:

Reporting to the Vehicle Architecture’s Efficiency Product Owner and working within the JLR Agile operating model, responsibilities will include:

• Conducting strategic target setting for the Vehicle Efficiency attribute (including competitive positioning assessment & benchmarking, assessment of fleet compliance requirements, customer feedback data analysis, real-world customer data analysis, reviews of legislative requirements etc).
• Coordinating and contributing towards Vehicle Efficiency attribute virtual verifications & data analysis.
• Conducting target compatibility assessment and negotiation between the Vehicle Efficiency attribute and vehicle energy node owners.
• Collaborating with energy node owners in influencing and defining strategic technology roadmaps compatible with Vehicle Efficiency attribute requirements and customer trends.
• Supporting effective Vehicle Efficiency attribute governance throughout vehicle programmes, identifying and making recommendations for how to handle risks and opportunities as they arise.
• Ensuring Vehicle Efficiency attribute and energy node assumption data is robustly and efficiently administrated and made available to business stakeholders.
• Collaborating with tools and methods teams to ensure Vehicle Efficiency attribute development requirements are well defined and aligned with programme objectives.
• Where programme delivery imperatives allow, contribute and add value to tools and methods development project work.
• Undertaking any other work as directed by their line manager in connection with their job as may be requested.

Essential Skills Required:

• Strong technical engineering background with evidence of a methodical, structured approach to problem solving.
• Significant previous experience of Vehicle attribute and/or vehicle system delivery.
• Detailed knowledge of vehicle efficiency legislative homologation/certification methods, processes and implementation.
• Technical understanding of how vehicle energy nodes (road load, propulsion efficiency, electrical loads etc) affect vehicle-level emissions, consumption and range for both fuel-consuming vehicles, EVs and hybrids.
• Strong presentation skills with the ability to use data and visualisations to articulate complex risks, opportunities and recommendations in an easily digestible way.

Education Required:

• Applicants should be educated to Degree level (ideally with a focus on Mechanical or System Engineering) with significant relevant industrial experience.

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Join us on an exciting journey as we transform Great Britain’s energy system! We are seeking two passionate and talented Senior Product Owners to be a part of our Connections Product team. This is a fantastic opportunity to be at the forefront of creating a cleaner, more sustainable energy future.

Role: Senior Product Owner

Duration: 6 months

Location: Warwick (Hybrid 1 Day in Office)

Rate: £550 pd (umbrella)

Why Join Us?
At our organization, we value bright minds and innovative thinking. As a Senior Product Owner, you will play a pivotal role in enhancing our digital platforms and ensuring a seamless experience for all stakeholders. Your contributions will directly impact our mission to deliver an efficient, transparent, and customer-focused connections process.

What You’ll Do:

• Build Relationships: Establish and nurture strong connections with key internal and external stakeholders to fully understand their needs and keep them engaged throughout our initiatives.
• Drive Product Development: Collaborate with cross-functional teams to maintain the Product Roadmap, translating complex requirements into intuitive user stories and features with clear acceptance criteria.
• Customer-Centric Focus: Foster a data-driven approach to prioritization, ensuring that customer experience remains at the heart of our decisions.
• Agile Leadership: Lead agile ceremonies, including refinements, sprint planning, and retrospectives, to keep the team aligned and focused.
• User Acceptance Testing: Support the team during user acceptance testing and ensure successful release signoffs.
• Training and Support: Identify training needs with the change team to ensure smooth transitions for our stakeholders.
• Engagement & Communication: Conduct workshops and presentations, effectively communicating product roadmaps and recommendations to stakeholders at all levels.

Who You Are:
We’re looking for visionary minds who are excited about improving customer experiences. You should have:

• A passion for enhancing the customer journey for our Connections customers.
• A proven track record as a Product Owner managing digital platforms.
• Have a ‘Technical’ rather than ‘Business’ Background.
• Strong communication skills to articulate product roadmaps and prioritize features based on business value and user impact.
• Experience in complex regulated environments.

What We Offer:

• A supportive and collaborative environment where your ideas and contributions will be valued.
• The opportunity to make a real difference in the energy sector and be part of a transformative journey.

If you are ready to take on this exciting challenge and help shape the future of energy in Great Britain, we want to hear from you!

Apply Now! Join us and be part of a team dedicated to creating a cleaner, more sustainable future. Let’s make an impact together!

Candidates will ideally show evidence of the above in their CV in order to be considered.

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Key Accountabilities Work in a squad alongside Pricing and Underwriting analysts, Test Engineers, fellow Product Writers and the Product Owner. Develop relationships with internal and external stakeholders. Construct, review, perform technical analysis and provide feedback on User Stories during Story Refinement. Contribute to planning, managing and resolving conflicts with other development activities throughout the life of the project/change to ensure delivery against business priorities. Design and code Polaris ProductWriter logic to integrate products with third party proprietary systems, ensuring efficient use of coding in order to minimise quote response times. Design and code Polaris ProductWriter logic to deliver rating, footprint and point of sale documentation requirements for packaged and Commercial Vehicle product lines. Design, implement and manage the process for cyclical production releases for internal and external production systems. Lead requirements gathering and solution design for new functionality with third party providers, integrators and aggregators. Support for Test teams, project warranty and incident management processes. Review all faults identified, to a level where the underlying issue is understood, recorded and resolution is managed through to completion. Initiate and lead internal review with key stakeholders (eg Underwriting/Pricing/IT/Exec) regarding mandatory industry level changes, implement a timeline for resolution and manage responses. Identify, own and manage the risks involved in running our business appropriate to my role, in line with the company risk framework. Key Competencies/level Business: Project Management Level 1, working knowledge of general insurance products, particularly commercial lines Technical: Competent working knowledge of the host policy administration systems and/or competent in Polaris ProductWriter, working knowledge of development methodologies, experience in analysing insurance products, understanding underwriting rules and complex pricing algorithms to a level where underlying requirements can be developed or configured to deliver the required solution. PEF: Achieve Excellence level 3, Influencing Level 2, Collaborating for Success Level 2, Understanding Issues Level 2

We are looking for an Analyst to join our manufacturing clients Commercial Team and play a key role in driving data-informed decision-making. This role is an initial 12-month Fixed Term Contract and will be delivering data insights that support strategic planning, sales performance, pricing strategy, and overall commercial growth.
The Commercial Analyst supports in 5 key areas:
OTE Programme Support

• Using the ERP & CRM, perform advanced Excel data manipulation, mapping, and complex formula modelling to support the programme.
• Identify and resolve anomalies in collaboration with Regional Sales Teams/Heads of Sales.

Sales Forecasting

• Support forecasting by preparing data, ensuring accuracy by cross-checking with Salesforce interface outputs and Excel.

Dashboard & Analytics Development

• Maintain reports and dashboards, creating new dashboards and reports on request.
• Maintain responsibility for Salesforce dashboards and regional reporting requirements.

Product Forecasting

• Update Excel product forecasts using ERP and CRM data.
• Identify improvements, automation and AI opportunities.

Pricing

• Share responsibility for global pricing requests to support global sales teams and collaborate proactively to refine and improve pricing processes.
• Support with pricing queries, using the pricing model.

Key skills of the Commercial Analyst:

• Advanced Excel capability including complex formulas, data modelling, mapping, v-lookup, pivot tables, IF statements.
• Experience with Power BI, Tableau or similar, for reporting and dashboard development.
• ERP and CRM experience preferred.
• A strong analytical mindset with exceptional attention to detail.
• Proactive, collaborative, and improvement focused.
• Able to manage multiple deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
• Proven ability to communicate complex data findings to non-technical stakeholders.

This business is offering hybrid working, and a friendly, team-orientated culture. Great benefits offered including 25 days holiday (option to purchase up to 5 days annual leave), a generous bonus and pension scheme, Westfield Health Plan, employee assistance programme, life assurance, cycle to work scheme, recruitment referral scheme, and Christmas shutdown.

Release Train Engineer (RTE) - Contract

Rate: £600 - £650 Inside IR35

Duration: 6 months initial

Location: Wiltshire (1 day per week on-site)

The Role:

We’re looking for an experienced Release Train Engineer (RTE) to support the delivery of complex, large-scale initiatives across multiple Agile teams. This role sits at the heart of the organisation’s Agile delivery ensuring alignment, flow and continuous improvement across the Agile Release Train (ART).

You’ll work closely with Product Management, Architects, Engineering leads and Delivery teams to drive execution, remove impediments and embed strong SAFe practices across the programme.

Key Responsibilities:

• Facilitate and coach the Agile Release Train (ART) using SAFe principles and practices
• Plan and run PI Planning, Inspect & Adapt events, Scrum of Scrums and ART Syncs
• Manage and escalate risks, dependencies and impediments across multiple teams
• Support Product Management with roadmap execution and delivery predictability
• Drive continuous improvement in flow, quality and delivery metrics
• Coach Scrum Masters, Product Owners and delivery teams to improve Agile maturity
• Ensure alignment between business objectives, technical delivery and governance

Skills & Experience Required:

• Proven experience as a Release Train Engineer in a SAFe environment
• Strong understanding of SAFe, Agile and Lean delivery at scale
• Background working across multiple delivery teams and complex programmes
• Confident facilitator with strong stakeholder management skills
• Experience working with senior technical and business stakeholders
• Comfortable in a hybrid working model with on-site collaboration

Nice to Have:

• SAFe RTE certification
• Experience in regulated or enterprise environments (e.g. financial services, utilities, public sector)
• Exposure to large-scale digital or platform transformation programmes

Reasonable Adjustments:

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London (Hybrid)

Overview:
We are looking for an experienced WMS Project Manager to lead the delivery of Warehouse Management System projects across a fast-paced logistics, retail and operations environment. The ideal candidate will have strong expertise in WMS implementation, stakeholder management, and end-to-end project delivery within supply chain or warehousing.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead full lifecycle WMS implementation and upgrade projects.
• Work with operational, technical, and vendor teams to define requirements and project scope.
• Manage project plans, risks, budgets, and timelines.
• Oversee system configuration, testing, integration, and go-live activities.
• Ensure smooth change management, user training, and post-implementation support.
• Drive continuous improvement across warehouse systems and processes.

Skills & Experience:

• Proven experience delivering WMS projects (e.g., Manhattan, Blue Yonder, SAP EWM, Oracle WMS).
• Strong background in logistics, warehousing, or supply chain technology.
• Excellent stakeholder engagement and vendor management skills.
• Solid understanding of integration, testing, and operational readiness.
• PRINCE2, Agile, or similar project delivery methodology experience.