Department:  Academic - as part of our partnership with Bath Spa University (BSU)

Location:  London - Greenford or Stratford (On-Site)

Salary: £65.00 per hour

Type of Contract: Hourly Paid/Zero Hour

Our Vision:  Changing lives through education

The role : We are currently seeking Hourly Paid Lecturers in Construction Management to join our growing team and create a positive impact on the lives of our students by cultivating the specialist skills and knowledge that will shape their long-term success in the construction management industry.

Due to our delivery model, we require flexibility to teach during weekdays, evenings and at weekends. Please note this role is not eligible for visa sponsorship.

What you’ll be doing:

Craft and shape learning - Deliver teaching sessions, digital resources and tailored support to help students meet the needs of today’s construction industry, including the legal, environmental and technological context in which it operates. Guide students through the key theories, concepts and evidence-based approaches used in different areas of construction management such as measurement, building appraisal and performance, construction projects and more.

Track progress with purpose - Provide meaningful feedback on individual and class progress, considering each student’s needs, explaining where work fails to meet assessment criteria, suggesting ways to improve and facilitate students’ learning by means of engagement with online resources, research and activities.

Elevate student experience - Document and evaluate teaching and identifying areas for potential improvement to enhance the quality of teaching, learning and overall student experience.

About you:

You are someone who believes deeply in education’s power to transform lives. You are looking to inspire and guide students to success, while taking your own experience to the next level in a rapidly evolving environment.

You will bring:

• A Master’s degree in a relevant subject area (PhD desirable)
• Previous UK HE lecturing experience and in the wider subject area and extensive knowledge of the subject matter
• Demonstrable experience of supervising student work and providing support and feedback
• A successful track record of teaching adult learners from diverse backgrounds on similar HE programmes
• A high level of reporting skills and ability to maintain thorough student records
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills

Ideally, you will also have:

• A Postgraduate Certificate of Academic Practice or equivalent teaching qualification (or commitment to enrol on a teaching programme during the probationary period and complete within three years) or Fellowship of HEA (or international equivalent)

GBS is committed to equality, diversity and inclusion and providing a workplace free from discrimination or harassment. We welcome applications from all backgrounds and communities. We take our core values seriously and work hard to create an environment where everyone feels welcomed.

SharePoint/ Office 365 Consultant - Hybrid / Canary Wharf - 6 month Contract - Banking

TIER 1 BANK IN CANARY WHARF

Role - SharePoint/ Office 365 Consultant

Duration - 6 months with very likely extension

Location - Hybrid / Canary Wharf - 3 days per week in a Canary Wharf office

Rate - 415 per day (Inside IR35)

Tech Stack -

• Sharepoint
• Office 365
• Power apps
• Power Automate
• HTML, Javascript, CSS

Tasks -

• Working with the team and the wider development team to both grow and to help adopt Agile like methodologies with practical implementation alongside the daily operation support people for existing SharePoint/Office 365 applications.
• Working with the wider Development and Architecture teams to develop and establish best practices of SharePoint/Office 365.
• Contributing to and regularly leading the technical and design workshops within the team.
• Critically and actively conducting code review procedures to ensure improvement in skills across the team.
• Participating in exercises to both plan and estimate upcoming work volumes.
• Contributing to the rollout of new tools and applications that will improve the development processes.
• Enhancing performance, scalability and security issues across the design and implementation phases.
• Following “Change Management Control procedures” to get approvals for any updates in the Production systems and providing “Maintenance reports” for non-Production environments.
• Participating in both definition and configuration of SharePoint/Office 365 environments in the Disaster Recovery sites.
• Encouraging and supporting the continuous improvement and upskilling of all members in the team, as well as the wider development department
• Development of Office 365 tools including SharePoint Online (PowerApps, Power Automate and SPFX or ReactJS).
• Analysing of business requirements and providing constructive feedback.
• Creating documentation to detail deliverables by the relevant teams with enough depth for both technical and business viewpoints.
• Providing scripts for database enquiry languages, i.e., T-SQL (SQL Server) and PL/SQL (Oracle) to provide both analysis and exporting data etc. based on business requirements.

GCS is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.

We’re supporting a large multinational IT Consultancy who is seeking a Workday Specialist for a 7 month contract working on a hybrid working basis from the company’s London offices. This is a fantastic opportunity to be surrounded by a talented team.

You will design, configure, and improve the company’s Workday system while working closely with teams across the business to deliver projects on time and to a high standard.

What you’ll do:

• Configure Workday modules to meet business needs
• Define project scope, objectives, and success criteria in collaboration with stakeholders.
• Lead cross-functional collaboration to ensure alignment and accountability
• Manage project timelines, budgets, and delivery
• Identify risks and keep projects on track
• Implementation of effective unit testing practices to ensure proper code design, readability, and reliability.

About you:

You will have experience with end-to-end Workday implementations ideally in a large matrixed

organisation

Strong knowledge of Workday best practices

Great organisation and communication skills

This role will require background screening.

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

Umbrella Pay Rate: £27.03 per hour.

Duties:

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 and 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.

Skills Required:

• Strong technical engineering background with evidence of a methodical, structured approach to problem solving.
• Experience of Vehicle attribute and/or vehicle system delivery.
• 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 efficiency and driving range.
• Strong presentation skills with the ability to use data and visualisations to articulate complex risks, opportunities and recommendations in an easily digestible way.
• Good communication skills, with the ability to simplify and articulate complex technical subject matters.
• Self-motivated and independent, able to work and deliver value autonomously within JLR’s Agile operating model.
• Well-organised and diligent, able to keep a handle on technical administration.

Education Required:

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

Additional Information:

• Hybrid working is a possibility. Minimum requirement of 2 days a week in the office but as and when business requires.

Our OEM Client based in Gaydon, is searching for an Advanced Vehicle Efficiency Integration 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 data-driven, intelligent, optimised energy nodes (sources of energy conversion) in pursuit of Vehicle Efficiency attributes (eg. real world and homologated driving range and energy consumption) befitting modern luxury.

Collaborating with a wide range of business stakeholders and Engineers during the initial phases of vehicle development. 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).
• Collaborating with energy node owners in influencing and defining strategic technology roadmaps compatible with Vehicle Efficiency attribute requirements and customer trends.
• Conducting target compatibility assessment and negotiation between the Vehicle Efficiency attribute and vehicle energy node owners.
• Collaborating with tools and methods teams to ensure Vehicle Efficiency attribute development requirements are well defined and aligned with programme objectives.
• Coordinating and contributing towards Vehicle Efficiency attribute virtual verifications and data analysis.
• Supporting effective Vehicle Efficiency attribute governance throughout vehicle programmes, identifying and making recommendations for how to handle risks and opportunities as they arise.
• 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:

• Technical understanding of how vehicle energy nodes (road load, propulsion efficiency, electrical loads etc) affect vehicle-level efficiency and driving range.
• Significant experience of Vehicle attribute and/or vehicle system delivery.
• Strong technical engineering background with evidence of a methodical, structured approach to problem solving.
• Strong presentation skills with the ability to use data and visualisations to articulate complex risks, opportunities and recommendations in an easily digestible way.
• Good communication skills, with the ability to simplify and articulate complex technical subject matters.
• Self-motivated and independent, able to work and deliver value autonomously within JLR’s Agile operating model.
• Well-organised and diligent, able to keep a handle on technical administration.

Desirable Skills Required:

• Knowledge and/or experience of working with Agile operating principles.
• Knowledge of vehicle efficiency legislative homologation/certification methods, processes and implementation.
• Knowledge and/or experience of Computer Aided Engineering testing methodologies related to vehicle efficiency.

Education Required:

• Educated to Degree level (ideally with a focus on Mechanical or System Engineering).

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.

Role: Anaplan Model Builder

Location: Paddington/Green Park Business Park

Working Model: Hybrid (2 days per week in the office)

Contract Type: Inside IR35

The Role

It’s a telecom-based customer, this role is to build driver-based forecasting models in Anaplan as part of client’s planning and forecasting processes. Building Anaplan models is also a key deliverable of the Planning & Performance Management project, sponsored jointly by CFO and CCO, working in collaboration with the Finance Transformation team.

The Anaplan Model Builder will be responsible for developing Anaplan models aligned with best practices, approved designs, logical frameworks, and data structures. They will take a proactive approach to ensure the models are user-friendly, intuitive, and deliver meaningful value to end users. Additionally, they will actively contribute to the Anaplan Centre of Enablement (C4E) by sharing best practices, exchanging knowledge, and promoting a collaborative and innovative environment that drives technical excellence.

This role will be part of the Anaplan Consumer Build Squad within the C4E team, working closely with Solution Architects and other C4E members to deliver reliable, accurate, and innovative volume and financial planning solutions. The role will also be responsible for ensuring that Anaplan models are adopted by stakeholders in a way that maximises value for the business.

Your responsibilities:

• Develop predictive analytics capability in Anaplan models that adhere to best practices, ensuring scalability, accuracy, and efficiency in meeting business requirements.
• Contributing towards the development of a driver-based approach in Anaplan with consistent and logical dimensions across all the models.
• Conduct thorough testing of models to validate functionality, accuracy, and alignment with business requirements prior to deployment.
• Ensure Anaplan models are user-friendly, intuitive and add value to end users
• Build and maintain seamless data integrations between Anaplan and external systems.
• Actively participate in the Anaplan C4E by sharing knowledge, driving innovation, and contribute to a culture of continuous improvement.
• Continuously assess and optimize Anaplan models to improve model performance and streamline processes.
• Collaborate closely with Solution Architects, Product Owners and SMEs to build Anaplan models in alignment with the sprint process.
• Work closely with business users, solution architects, and other stakeholders to gather requirements and translate them into effective Anaplan solutions that deliver the acceptance criteria.
• Ensure completion of targeted activities within each two-week Anaplan build sprint
• Produce and maintain documentation and bite-size video content for models, including data flows, logic, structures, and user instructions.
• Effectively communicate and present Anaplan model developments and enhancements to stakeholders highlighting how these solutions create value and align with business objectives, ensuring clear understanding and buy-in.
• Value Creation: Identifying and supporting the business in delivering initiatives that maximise Revenue and EBITDA growth through building improved Planning solutions

Essential skills/knowledge/experience:

• Strong data modelling skills with 1-3 years experience building driver-based planning and forecasting models in Anaplan, which have been adopted and adding value to stakeholders.
• Experience in new Anaplan technology and capabilities like Polaris, Anaplan Data Orchestrator and Forecaster
• Proven track record of successfully driving digital transformation at pace in a cross-functional environment.
• Completed Anaplan Model Builder L1-3 .
• Proven skills in manipulating data using quantitative and qualitative analysis techniques and distilling the information into useful insight to guide operational or commercial change.
• A proven track record in presenting analysis and design options to senior stakeholders to guide business decisions.
• Ability to work successfully within a cross-functional environment to develop and deliver solutions that unlock business value.

Desirable skills/knowledge/experience:

• Basic knowledge of other Data Democratisation tooling such as Tableau, Atlan, GCP and DBT.
• Experience in promoting and maximising the value of agile ways of working

6 Month Contract

450 - 475 per day Outside IR35

North West (once per week in the office)

We are looking for an additional UX Designer, who will be supporting the design of customer self-service and agent-facing portals within an agile environment. The role involves creating wireframes, facilitating design workshops, and collaborating closely with Product Owners, Business Analysts, Solution Architects, and developers. You will actively participate in sprint ceremonies, contribute to iterative design improvements, and ensure all solutions are aligned with user needs and business objectives.

Across multiple phases, you will lead user testing, incorporate feedback, document key decisions, and secure stakeholder sign-off at critical stages. The ideal candidate will have strong experience in user-centred design, usability testing, and stakeholder engagement, with the ability to manage complex deliverables and provide clear recommendations to resolve design challenges.

If you’re interested to hear more about this opportunity, please do apply!

(Rullion is a recruitment agency)

Rullion celebrates and supports diversity and is committed to ensuring equal opportunities for both employees and applicants.

Pontoon is an employment consultancy. We put expertise, energy, and enthusiasm into improving everyone’s chance of being part of the workplace. We respect and appreciate people of all ethnicities, generations, religious beliefs, sexual orientations, gender identities, and more. We do this by showcasing their talents, skills, and unique experience in an inclusive environment that helps them thrive.

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.

Please be advised if you haven’t heard from us within 48 hours then unfortunately your application has not been successful on this occasion, we may however keep your details on file for any suitable future vacancies and contact you accordingly. Pontoon is an employment consultancy and operates as an equal opportunities’ employer.

We use generative AI tools to support our candidate screening process. This helps us ensure a fair, consistent, and efficient experience for all applicants. Rest assured, all final decisions are made by our hiring team, and your application will be reviewed with care and attention.

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

Digital Lead - Redcar, Teeside - 6 months initial contract - Good rates! My client who is one of the leading Energy sector suppliers urgently need a Digital Lead to work on a Net Zero project for an initial 6 months As a Digital Lead you will be passionate about delivering transformative projects and able to manage all aspects of digitisation and systems on the project, including the approach to digital, tool selection, deployment and adoption, data, reporting and user support. You will be responsible for fostering a digital approach across the scheme which better enables productive and predictable delivery by real time data availability embedding a data led approach throughout the project lifecycle identifying opportunities to embed technologies to remove manual work and paper-based processes. You will be required to work with both clients and customers, Subcontractors and Supply Chain, Software Providers etc and able to identify, configure, deploy, train and embed the digital systems, capture of customer requirements from a systems, data and integration perspective, lead digital implementation of products and processes on the project, plan in relation to roll out of digital tools onto schemes whilst managing the learning of processes to ensure that they can be digitized and have experience of working collaboratively in either a consultant / contractor environment and delivery of a Large complex infrastructure scheme You will be certified to BSc, MSc, BEng, MEng, HND/HDC or qualified by experience with an understanding and proven delivery of on complex Infrastructure schemes or managing multiple schemes, understand Project Management qualification ie. PRINCE2 / APMP with full understanding of Design, Construction, Asset Management Stages in the Digital lifecycle and an understanding of multiple digital techniques and ability to train /mentor and develop other team members This role is a superb opportunity to step upto a huge project in Teeside for an initial 6 months and is commutable from Teeside, Cleveland, Hartlepool, Sunderland, Middlesborough, Stockton-On-Tees, Bishop Auckland, Gateshead, Newcastle, Darlington, Durham, South Shields Fusion People are committed to promoting equal opportunities to people regardless of age, gender, religion, belief, race, sexuality or disability. We operate as an employment agency and employment business. You'll find a wide selection of vacancies on our website.

Location - Cambridge (Hybrid)

Durartion - 6 months (Initially)

IR35 - Inside (Must use an umbrella company)

We are seeking an experienced Operations Director to lead the operational delivery, performance, and long-term sustainability of a high-impact, technology-led organisation operating at the intersection of research, industry, and innovation.

This is a senior leadership role with responsibility for translating strategic objectives into operational outcomes, overseeing multiple specialist functions, and ensuring financial sustainability, risk management, and delivery excellence across a complex portfolio of initiatives.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and deliver the organisation’s operational strategy in line with its mission and long-term objectives.
• Provide senior leadership across core operational functions, ensuring alignment, coordination, and performance.
• Oversee operational planning, execution, governance, and performance monitoring.
• Lead financial oversight, resource allocation, and risk management activities.
• Build and maintain senior-level relationships across industry, government, and academia.
• Ensure teams are effectively structured, developed, and led to deliver strategic goals.
• Provide regular reporting and assurance to senior governance bodies.

About You

• Proven senior leadership experience within a complex organisation, ideally within technology, innovation, research, or highly regulated environments.
• Strong strategic and operational leadership capability, with experience translating strategy into delivery.
• Demonstrable experience managing senior stakeholders and high-value partnerships.
• Strong financial, commercial, and performance management skills.
• Excellent communication and influencing abilities, with confidence operating at executive level.
• Experience leading cross-functional teams and complex programmes.

Desirable

• Background in engineering, science, technology, or innovation-led environments.
• Experience spanning industry-academic or public-private collaboration.
• Understanding of intellectual property, commercialisation, or technology transfer pathways.

Job Title: Financial Assessment Manager

Location: Ealing, West London (W5 2HL), Hybrid Working - 2 days office / 3 days remote

Hourly rate 28.60 - 32.03 PAYE / 38.19 - 42.84 Umbrella per hour (depending on experience)

Contract Length: 3 -month contract (possibility of extension)

Working Pattern: Full Time, Monday - Friday, 35 hours

ASAP Start

About the Role

We are seeking an experienced Financial Assessment Manager to lead and develop a large, specialist team responsible for delivering high-quality financial assessments across the council. This includes Housing Benefit, Council Tax Reduction, Local Welfare Assistance and wider financial assessment functions.

This is a senior leadership role with responsibility for service delivery, compliance with complex legislation, performance management and continuous improvement. You will work closely with internal and external partners to ensure accurate assessments, protect council funds and support residents-particularly vulnerable customers.

The role operates on a career grade (12-14), dependent on skills, experience and the level of strategic responsibility undertaken.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and manage Financial Assessment teams, ensuring accurate and timely assessments in line with legislative, subsidy and financial requirements
• Drive service improvement by testing and implementing new systems, processes and digital solutions
• Monitor performance, quality, budgets and risk, implementing corrective actions where required
• Manage complex financial assessment cases, enquiries and complaints, including Ombudsman, MPs and stakeholder correspondence
• Interpret and apply complex government legislation, ensuring policies and procedures remain legally compliant
• Lead on innovation, projects and welfare reform mitigation in partnership with ICT, Finance and other services
• Compile and submit management information, government returns and statutory reports
• Build effective relationships with stakeholders including DWP, DLUHC, GLA, tribunals, agents and voluntary organisations
• Deputise for the Head of Service as required, representing the council at senior meetings, tribunals and court where appropriate

About You

You will be an experienced manager within a Financial Assessment or Welfare Benefits environment, bringing strong leadership skills and in-depth legislative knowledge.

Essential criteria include:

• Significant experience managing staff in a Financial Assessment / Welfare Benefits service
• Expert knowledge of relevant legislation and case law (e.g. Housing Benefit, Council Tax Reduction, Local Welfare or Adult Financial Assessments)
• Proven ability to manage performance, budgets and service risk
• Experience of leading change, reviewing policies and improving processes
• Strong communication skills with the ability to explain complex matters clearly to a wide range of audiences
• Confidence representing the organisation with senior stakeholders and external bodies
• Management experience in a comparable Financial Assessment environment
• At higher career grades, you will also demonstrate experience in strategic leadership, project management, data analysis and representing the council at court or tribunals.

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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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Role:D365 Solution ArchitectDuration: 6 MonthsLocation: Newcastle, UKMode: Hybrid (2-3 days in a week)
Job Description:

The Role

You will play a pivotal role in shaping and delivering enterprise-grade Dynamics 365 Customer Service solutions for large, complex organisations. The role focuses on end-to-end solution architecture, hands-on proof-of-concept development, and close collaboration with business and technical stakeholders to translate requirements into scalable, secure, and compliant solutions using the Microsoft Power Platform and Dynamics 365 ecosystem.

Your responsibilities:

• Lead solution architecture and design for Dynamics 365 Customer Servicecentric engagements
• Own end-to-end solution definitions include functional, technical, integration, and data architecture
• Engage directly with customer stakeholders to understand business processes, challenges, and outcomes
• Design and build hands-on Proof of Concepts (POCs) to validate solution approaches and demonstrate value
• Define application landscape including Dynamics 365, Power Platform
• Ensure solutions align with non-functional requirements such as security, scalability, performance, and compliance
• Provide architectural governance, design assurance, and technical leadership during delivery
• Guide and mentor functional consultants and developers across the delivery lifecycle
• Support activities including solution walkthroughs, estimates, and technical responses

Your Profile

Essential skills/knowledge/experience:

• 10+ year experience architecting/designing Dynamics 365 Customer Service solutions in enterprise environments
• Strong hands-on experience with Dynamics 365 Customer Service, Omnichannel, and case management
• Proven ability to design and build POCs, demos, and reference implementations
• Deep understanding of Power Platform (Power Apps, Power Automate, Dataverse, Power Pages)
• Experience designing integrations
• Strong customer-facing skills with the ability to communicate complex solutions clearly
• Experience working in regulated or large-scale environments with strong governance needs
• Ability to balance out-of-the-box capabilities with configuration and customisation

Desirableskills/knowledge/experience:

• Experience with Copilot, AI-enabled customer service, or knowledge management solutions
• Exposure to public sector or highly regulated industry programmes

Contract - Midlands

Main purpose of the job:

• Drives the best design and engineering solutions for systems and modules.
• Ensures all Product/APQP requirements are met.
• Manages engineering design activities for quality, feasibility, cost, and customer requirements.
• Works with tooling specialists to ensure designs are robust for production.
• Engages engineering teams in Product Development Team processes.

Principle Accountabilities:

• Manages engineering budget, product cost, timing, and quality.
• Follows RASIC in GDLS and company policies.

Main missions and results:

• Supervises design and product engineering.
• Liaises with customers, suppliers, and manufacturing plants.
• Ensures designs meet styling, technical requirements, assembly, and manufacturing needs.
• Implements quality deployment and provides FEA and dimensional analysis data.
• Supports tool timing, trials, and sign-off.
• Ensures robust processes prior to tool shipment with cross-functional teams.
• Applies cost-effective technical solutions and engages subject matter experts.
• Resolves design issues in cooperation with customer engineering teams.
• Implements Artifex best practices and supports New Product Introduction (NPI).
• Participates in model year changes and APQP gate reviews.
• Supports cost estimates and ensures recoverable costs are captured.
• Manages customer communications, VAVE, and program RFQs.

Preferred skills and experience:

• Bachelors or Diploma in automotive, plastics, or mechanical engineering.
• Experience in automotive interiors, Cockpit, Instrument Panel, and Passenger Airbag development.
• Cradle-to-grave project experience including process, tool, and program launch.
• Knowledge of surface development, CAD tools (Enovia, Tetra, Kisters, JT2Go), and engineering standards.
• Strong management, interpersonal, and technical skills (GD&T, DFM, DFA, CAE/FEA, CAD, FMEA, DVP&R).

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.