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\n \n\n\n Senior Graphic Design Manager \n \n Barbour House, Jarrow \n \n Competitive Salary \n \n Permanent, Full Time \n \n \n Position Overview: \n \n We have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Graphic Design Manager to join our Global Marketing team here at our Head Office in South Shields. This role will be key to lead the development and execution of Barbour's global visual design language across all brand and commercial touch points... \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n ZIPC1_UKTJ

Barbour is seeking a Business Process Partner (Product Creation and GTM) to lead the design, governance and continuous improvement of the end-to-end Product Creation and go-to-market process at our South Shields Head Office with hybrid working (4 days in office, 1 day at home). You will build trusted relationships with departmental heads, frame problems, and drive cross-functional decisions to deliver measurable value across product creation, range planning, sourcing and launch readiness. #J-18808-Ljbffr

Barbour is seeking a Business Process Partner (Product Creation and GTM) to lead the design, governance and continuous improvement of end-to-end product creation and go-to-market processes from our South Shields head office.

hackajob is partnering directly with Rentokil Initial to hire for this role. As part of our Group AI Team, we are scaling our internal capabilities to deliver cutting‑edge, production‑grade AI solutions across our global operations. We are establishing an "Agentic Factory" - a dedicated, high‑velocity delivery team focused on designing, building, and deploying genAI & ML solutions, multi‑agent workflows, and automation systems to solve complex business problems. The primary goals of the team include: ? Leading the technical design and architecture of AI solutions, in addition to building and running an AI platform to deliver business‑specific Use Case solutions. ? Collaborating with the Data Platform to team in ingesting and transforming data from multiple systems, modeling data, and engineering data marts to create reusable data assets, including developing and implementing machine learning models, genAI, and Agentic AI. ? Creating an operating a company wide agentic AI solution platform to help scale up AI capabilities across all functions and regions. ? Building AI models and a data science platform that enables Rentokil to derive significant value from AI, from machine learning to gen AI and beyond, and ensuring the quality and reliability of AI solutions deployed on the platform. ? Support, govern and enable company‑wide adoption of emerging AI technologies. We are seeking a pragmatic, highly technical individual to lead the engineering efforts within our Agentic Factory. Sitting directly alongside our AI Delivery Manager and AI Product Owner, you will bridge the gap between business requirements and technical execution. Together with the AI & Data Architect, you will provide architectural oversight, defining engineering best practices, and mentoring a talented team of AI engineers & Data Scientists, while remaining hands‑on enough to solve complex engineering bottlenecks; You will support Use Case Design and feasibility assessments, ensuring opportunities explored are achievable and scalable. You will support the Head of Engineering as the execution arm for AI responsibilities, extending your focus beyond the AI team to support and enable other IT teams across the organisation. ? Design Agentic Systems: Design and scale robust, secure, and production‑ready multi‑agent workflows, orchestrations, and advanced RAG architectures, in collaboration with Enterprise Architecture principles. Drive delivery by designing and building agentic solutions, spanning from piloting to full implementation ? Define Engineering Excellence: Establish strict coding standards, code review processes, testing frameworks, and evaluation metrics for generative AI applications. Support and strictly enforce the standards set by the Head of Engineering and Technical Architect ? Cloud & Platform Integration: Partner closely with our GCP and Data Engineering teams to build seamless LLMOps/MLOps CI/CD pipelines, ensuring scalable and cost‑effective model deployment via Vertex AI and containerized environments. Take ownership of building and maintaining robust LLMOps pipelines. ? AI Safety & Guardrails: Implement robust evaluation frameworks, latency monitoring, and automated guardrails to ensure enterprise‑grade safety, security, and compliance. ? AI Safety & Guardrails: Implement robust evaluation frameworks, latency monitoring, and automated guardrails to ensure enterprise‑grade safety, security, and compliance. ? Internal AI Enablement & Prompt Lifecycle: Manage the engineering workflows, CI/CD pipelines, version control, and evaluation frameworks for internal developer‑facing AI assets, including prompt libraries and automated testing agents. ? Grow the team: Act as a technical mentor to a team of intermediate and junior AI Engineers, fostering a culture of continuous learning, clean code, and agility. ? Pragmatic Delivery: Collaborate with the AI Product Owner and Business Analysts to translate abstract business use cases into structured, achievable technical sprints. ? Drive MVP to Production: Shift the teams focus from sandboxed proof‑of‑concepts (PoCs) to reliable, resilient applications deployed to production for global users, leading AI engineering for AI team solutions and actively supporting junior engineers through this transition. ? Support the companys evolving AI strategy, providing an expert voice on Use Case identification, platform identification and tool selection. ? Advise the AI portfolio Lead in scaling impact and AI capability across the company, beyond the Group AI Team. ? Stay up to date on market trends, new opportunities, and the changing landscape of AI technologies. AI Orchestration & Development: Expert-level experience building complex LLM‑powered systems and multi‑agent workflows using frameworks like LangGraph, LangChain, AutoGen, or ADK. Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning: Deep practical understanding of machine learning algorithms, natural language processing (NLP) techniques, and the optimization of large language models for enterprise deployment. Data Engineering & Cloud Computing: Strong proficiency in designing optimized ELT/ETL pipelines and managing data lake/data warehouse architectures. Hands‑on experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) services including Vertex AI, BigQuery, Cloud SQL, and Google Cloud Storage (GCS). MLOps/LLMOps Pipelines: Proven track record of architecting pipelines for model deployment, performance tracking, hyperparameter tuning, and containerized workflows using Docker and Kubernetes (GKE/Vertex AI Pipelines). Team Leadership & Mentorship: Extensive experience leading technical delivery, defining engineering milestones, running code reviews, and successfully mentoring junior or intermediate engineering talent. Autonomy: Works with high autonomy under broad strategic guidance. Accountable for defining and meeting technical, architectural, and delivery goals, establishing milestones, and assigning tasks. Influence: Exerts major technical influence across the organization, partners, and peers. Partners with cross‑functional business and product leaders, making key architectural decisions that affect budgets, timelines, and scalability. Complexity: Manages diverse, highly complex, and unpredictable technical challenges. Uses fundamental engineering principles to connect cutting‑edge AI research with practical enterprise software. Business Skills: Advises executives on AI trends, risks, and tools. Bridges the gap between technical developers and business teams, showcasing strong leadership, creativity, and ethical problem‑solving. ? Python: Advanced, production‑grade proficiency (Pandas, NumPy, FastAPI/Flask) with an absolute focus on writing clean, modular, and highly testable code. ? SQL: Expert querying, database design, partitioning, and optimization strategies for large‑scale BigQuery environments. Desirable: ? Google Cloud Certified Cloud Engineer ? Google Cloud Certified Professional Data Engineer / Cloud AI Engineer Degree Qualification or Equivalent: A Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, or a highly quantitative field is desirable; however, a proven track record of architecting and shipping production‑grade commercial AI systems is highly valued and may substitute for specific academic credentials. IT HNC/HND courses will also be accepted. • Competitive salary and bonus scheme, • Hybrid working, • Rentokil Initial Reward Scheme, • 23 days holiday, plus 8 bank holidays, • Employee Assistance Programme, • Death in service benefit, • Healthcare, • Free parking At Rentokil Initial, our customers and colleagues represent diverse backgrounds and experiences. We take pride in being an equal opportunity employer, actively encouraging applications from individuals from all walks of life. Our belief is that everyone irrespective of age, gender, gender identity, gender expression, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disabilities, religion, or beliefs, has the potential to thrive and contribute. We embrace the differences that make each of our colleagues unique, fostering an inclusive environment where everyone can be their authentic selves and feel a sense of belonging. To ensure that your journey with us is accessible if you have any individual requirements we invite you to communicate any specific needs or preferences you may have during any stage of the recruitment process. Our team is available to support you; feel free to reach out to () if you need anything JBRP1_UKTJ #J-18808-Ljbffr

The Barbour story began in 1894 in South Shields in the North East of England. Founder John Barbour began supplying oilskins and other garments to protect the growing community of sailors, fishermen and dockers. Still family owned and now fifth generation, Barbour HQ remains in South Shields. Under the leadership of Chairman Dame Margaret Barbour, Barbour has grown into a lifestyle brand sold in over 55 countries worldwide including Europe, the US and Asia offering a wardrobe of stylish functional clothing, footwear and accessories inspired by the unique values of the British countryside. The iconic Barbour Bedale and Barbour Beaufort wax jackets continue to be made by hand in the factory in South Shields. In 2020, Barbour launched Wax for Life, an overarching name for all of Barbour’s wax services designed to encourage customers to extend the life of their wax garments. Wax for Life includes re-waxing and repairs (first introduced in 1921) and Barbour Re-Loved an upcycling circularity initiative. Each year over 70,000 wax garments are sent back to Barbour globally to be repaired, rewaxed or altered. As a Senior IT Systems Analyst, you will play a key role in delivering high-quality IT solutions that meet business needs and support Barbour’s strategic goals. Leading the analysis, design, and delivery of complex system solutions across the organisation, you will ensure technology solutions align with business strategy and drive improvements to critical infrastructure spanning key retail, product, and business applications. In this role, you will act as a trusted advisor to stakeholders, shaping systems architecture and integration approaches. Additionally, you will take on a leadership position within the IT team—supervising, mentoring, and guiding Associate and Systems Analysts to support their professional development. You will also assist with resource planning and stand in to deputise for the IT Manager – Business Systems when required.*The role is based at head office in South Shields and the expectation is 4 days in the office and 1 day of home-working. • Solution Analysis & Design: Lead end-to-end requirements gathering, translate business needs into detailed specifications, and provide solution design input across applications, integrations, and data flows., • System Delivery & Implementation: Lead the design, development, delivery, and implementation of IT solutions, upgrades, and migrations across multiple platforms, ensuring core business systems (including PLM, PIM, and enterprise integrations) run seamlessly., • Process Optimisation: Analyse and redesign business processes to improve organizational efficiency and effectiveness., • Risk & Compliance: Perform impact analyses and risk assessments for significant system changes while ensuring compliance with security, data protection, and regulatory standards., • Collaboration & Vendor Management: Work closely with architects, developers, vendors, and third-party suppliers to ensure successful delivery., • Leadership & Team Support: Provide line management and mentorship to mid-level and Associate systems analysts, assist in team prioritisation and resource planning, and foster a culture of continuous improvement., • Documentation & Governance: Own system documentation standards and best practices, acting as an escalation point for complex system issues., • Education & Qualifications: Degree in IT, Computer Science, Business Information Systems, or equivalent experience. Professional certifications such as BCS Business Analysis, ITIL Practitioner, or Agile/Scrum are highly desirable., • Systems Analysis Expertise: Proven experience as an IT Systems Analyst within a complex IT environment, with a strong understanding of solution design and the implementation lifecycle., • Technical Knowledge: Solid understanding of integrations, APIs, data flows, and experience working within SDLC, Agile, or ITIL frameworks. Experience supporting retail or apparel-aligned enterprise systems (e.g., PIM, PLM, ERP, or CRM platforms) is highly advantageous., • Stakeholder & Vendor Management: Excellent stakeholder management and influencing skills, with commercial awareness regarding third-party negotiations and managing Statements of Work (SOW)., • Communication: Ability to translate complex technical concepts into clear business language, with excellent communication skills at a leadership level., • Leadership Capability: Strong mentoring, coaching, or previous managerial/team lead capabilities to guide junior colleagues., • Personal Attributes: A collaborative team player with a proactive approach to continuous technical learning, strong problem-solving skills, and adaptability to changing business requirements., • Discretionary Company bonus scheme, • Staff Discount, • Staff Shop, • 25 days holiday as standard increasing with length of service plus bank holidays, • Access to training and development activities to support your career development, • Free onsite parking, • Subsidised canteen, • Operate hybrid & flexible working, • 4pm finish on a Friday, • Refer a friend bonus scheme, • Reward & Recognition Program, • Length of service rewards #J-18808-Ljbffr

The Head of Design will bring:. The Head of Design will lead a multi-disciplinary team delivering high-impact integrated campaigns operating across all our UK based brands. Entain & Enhance days – 2 paid days off to focus on your professional or personal development.

Canary Technologies is hiring a Head of Product Design to own the design system, information hierarchy, and interaction principles that govern every surface of Canary’s platform — for human users and AI agents alike. Partner closely with engineering and product to make the design system the sour

As Head of Organisation Design & Development, you will bring deep professional expertise and practical leadership to the design and restructuring of Core Defra and its agencies and arm’s-length bodies. This is a high-profile opportunity to lead organisation design and development across the Defra

Get notified about new Head of Design jobs in. They’re investing heavily in people, capability and compliance — and now looking for a Head of Design to lead that journey. You’ll take full ownership of the design function — raising standards, improving process, and building a strong, motivate

You will head a team of around seven Grade 7 practitioners, set professional standards, manage demand and commissioning of specialist contractors, and ensure a resilient, high-performing OD&D function across the. Government Recruitment Service seeks a senior OD&PD leader to drive organisation design

Head of Joint Design Office - Sizewell C. Lead the creation and operation of the Joint Design Office (JDO) at Sizewell C, delivering site-based engineering support for construction and commissioning. Promote a culture of safety, wellbeing, and environmental responsibility.

Wernick Refurbished Buildings in York is seeking a Head of Design, Technical & Estimating to lead the Design, Technical and Estimating function. You will guide a team to deliver accurate estimates, compliant designs and practical, cost-effective solutions for our modular building projects. The role

As Head of Secure Design, you'll lead the security, fraud and risk strategy that protects these services, ensuring secure design principles are embedded across digital delivery. As Head of Secure Design, you'll provide strategic leadership for cyber security, fraud risk and secure design across Work

DWP Digital is recruiting for a Head of Secure Design to lead cyber security, fraud risk, and secure design across Working Age Services.

Exciting Opportunity: Head of Design, Technical & Estimating at Wernick Refurbished Buildings!. Head of Design, Technical & Estimating. The Trainee Yard Operative Programme offers individuals the opportunity to develop their skills and work as a Yard Operative at one of.

The Engineering Design team is at the heart of NGED's major network investment programme, delivering EHV substation electrical designs, including protection and control systems, and providing design assurance for civil and linear assets operating at 11kV, 33kV, 66kV and 132kV. An opportunity is avai

If you meet around 75% of the criteria below, we’d love to hear from you:Extensive experience leading the development and implementation of complex Control & Instrumentation systemsProven technical leadership across integrated system architectures, implementation strategies and physical system des

As Head of C&I Systems Design & Implementation, you will provide strategic and operational leadership for the development, integration, implementation and governance of Control & Instrumentation systems across the Rolls‑Royce SMR programme. Role Title: Head of C&I Systems Design & Implementation.

Rolls-Royce SMR is seeking a Head of C&I Systems Design & Implementation to lead the integration and governance of Control & Instrumentation systems across the programme. The role drives MBSE adoption, verification & validation planning, and technical governance in collaboration with regulators, sup

We are seeking a Head of Instrument Flight Procedure (IFP) Design to lead the overall end-to-end IFP design pipeline as a market-facing vertical, with accountability for driving business performance from initial lead generation and opportunity development through bidding, project delivery, and the r

Lead design governance and technical standards for a growing datacentre developer. Oversee MEP engineering, manage relationships with consultants, and ensure designs meet performance and sustainability requirements.

Sagentia Defence seeks a Head of Instrument Flight Procedure (IFP) Design to lead the end-to-end IFP design pipeline and drive a market-facing vertical. The role requires a proven manager with an established aviation network, capable of managing a team, growing revenue, and delivering high-quality p

You will be part of a team assisting Early Learning and Childcare Officers to deliver high-quality provision for Renfrewshire's youngest children including the creation of a nurturing and homely environment during the lunchtime period. Experience of children and young people, Ability to communicate

Get 50% of your earnings instantly. Regular shifts with choice of days/nights/weekends. At Newcross Healthcare, our values are at the heart of everything we do:.

We are an equal opportunities employer and part of the Disability Confident Employer scheme. The National Autistic Society is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all children and adults who use our services. We might close this job advert early if we get lots of suitable applicati

The Role: Working on electrical designs, specifications, and attending site meetings Designing fire, security, and lighting systems Working within offices, schools, emergency services buildings, and more The Person: Building Services Design Engineer Electrical background Reference: BBBH27180 Engine

The National Autistic Society is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all children and adults who use our services. The adults we support are supported with medication and personal care depending on their level of support needs. Your working pattern in this role will require flexib

Further to promotion, were looking to strengthen the companys growing Product team by appointing a new Head of Prod.

We are an equal opportunities employer and part of the Disability Confident Employer scheme. The National Autistic Society is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all children and adults who use our services. It provides a safe, low arousal environment where, with the support of ou

The Recruitment Crowd is currently recruiting.Residential Support Workers for permanent positions.This is an exciting opportunity to join a dedicated team supporting children and young people and to build a.

Are you an Electrical Design Engineer from a building services background, looking to join an Employee-Owned Trust where you will be valued as a senior member of a close-knit team, implementing your knowledge on multi-million-pound projects for the MoD?. Electrical Design Engineer (Building Services

An excellent opportunity for an experienced Project Design Engineer to join a well-established company based in Birtley, Gateshead.

You'll start with concept and circuit design, then move through prototyping and testing, and on to supporting production. You'll be part of a small, agile team and work closely with firmware and mechanical engineers to deliver fully integrated d.

The Recruitment Crowd is currently recruiting experienced Residential Support Workers for permanent positions with our client across various locations in the North East.This is an exciting opportunity to join a dedicated team supporting children and young people and to build a long-term career withi

You will assist and develop the everyday living skills of our service users and support them to enjoy a wide range of activities. The posts also offer potential candidates the opportunity to work across other services and with other individuals who have a range of support needs. Through our award-wi

Experience of designing low-voltage signal level control circuits Demonstrated knowledge of circuit analysis, simulation and design of experiments. About You: Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Electronics Engineering or similar 2+ years' experience in electronics design or similar Experience of des

The role will focus on the design and delivery of underfloor heating (UFH) systems, supporting projects from initial design and feasibility through to installation, commissioning and handover. Design Engineer – Renewable Energy / Building Services Sunderland Pertemps are actively recruiting for a

Essential Skills and Experience? A minimum of 6 months UK experience. Good understanding of dignity, privacy, safeguarding, and person-centred care. Willingness to undertake relevant training and professional development.

This isn't an office-based role! You'll be actively involved in the day-to-day running of the service, working alongside young people and the staff team to ensure everyone receives the support, guidance and encouragement they need to thrive. An understanding of safeguarding, risk management and the

The role Youll be working as part of an experienced residential team, providing a safe, stable and nurturing home environment for children who may display behaviours that can be challenging as a result of their individual needs and experiences. This is a full-time, temp-to-perm opportunity , offer