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Role: Functional Lead Research Finance Systems Location: Birmingham (Hybrid) Salary: £47,000 £63,500 Network IT are supporting a leading organisation in the search for a Functional Lead to take ownership of their Research Finance systems (Oracle Projects and WorkTribe) as a part of their Core Systems Team. This is a senior role combining technical expertise, process improvement, and stakeholder e... ZIPC1_UKTJ

Job Title: Business Development Manager Location: UK (Field-Based – UK, Ireland & Europe) Salary: Competitive + Benefits Contract Type: Full-time, Permanent About the Role: We’re recruiting for a Business Development Manager to join a global manufacturer operating within the vehicle OEM and thermal solutions market. This is a highly commercial, client-facing role that plays a key part in delivering the company’s growth strategy by identifying new opportunities, opening new markets, and developing long-term customer partnerships. Working closely with senior stakeholders across Sales, Engineering, Operations, Finance and Quality, you’ll take full ownership of the sales cycle — from lead generation through to deal close. This is a fast-paced, rewarding role suited to someone who is driven, consultative, and confident engaging with senior decision-makers. Key Responsibilities: New Business Development & Sales Growth • Proactively identify, qualify and pursue new business opportunities, • Open doors with senior decision-makers including Engineers, Directors and CEOs, • Convert warm and cold leads into live commercial projects, • Own the full sales cycle from first contact through to deal close, • Build and maintain a strong, predictable sales pipeline Customer Engagement & Market Development • Conduct regular customer visits, attend events and exhibitions to generate new leads, • Build long-term, value-driven customer relationships, • Understand customer challenges and requirements to offer tailored solutions, • Carry out market research to identify new opportunities, products and partnerships, • Support growth across the UK, Ireland and European markets Pipeline Management & Reporting • Maintain accurate CRM data, pipeline reporting and sales forecasts, • Provide regular updates on key account activity and future outlook (3, 6 and 12 months), • Maximise revenue and profitability to meet or exceed budget targets Collaboration & Internal Support • Work closely with internal teams including Engineering, Sales, Operations, Finance and Quality, • Support the Business Development Director to maximise wider sales opportunities, • Contribute to promotional activities, events and communications as required Candidate Profile: • Minimum 5 years’ experience in a Business Development–focused role, • Proven track record of delivering sales results in a B2B environment, • Experience within thermal solutions, automotive, engineering or technical manufacturing (desirable), • Confident managing longer sales cycles and handling objections, • Strong negotiation, influencing and closing skills, • Highly organised with excellent follow-up discipline, • Consultative sales approach with strong listening skills, • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, • Proficient in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), • Self-motivated, proactive and able to adapt to changing priorities, • Full UK driving licence required What Our Client Offers: • Competitive salary package, • 4-day working week (Monday–Thursday, 7am–5pm), • High-visibility role with real commercial impact, • Collaborative, driven and supportive working environment, • Opportunity to work on international OEM projects, • Long-term career growth within a global business How to Apply: If you’re a commercially driven Business Development professional with a passion for winning new business and building long-term client relationships, we’d love to hear from you. About Us: We are a recruitment agency specialising in commercial, technical and field-based roles across the UK and Europe. We partner with ambitious organisations and help connect them with professionals who can drive growth and long-term success.

Youll act as the go-to specialist for Research Finance systems, driving enhancements, shaping functionality, and managing a small team. As Functional Lead, you will provide direction and oversight for Research Finance systems, ensuring they are optimised and aligned with business needs. This is an o

Global University Systems is building a modern AI platform to power how our universities recruit, teach, support, and serve students. The Director of AI will lead this transformation, turning promising ideas into production-grade AI solutions that create real value for students and staff. This role owns the AI roadmap end-to-end: from identifying high-impact use cases, to running rapid experiments, to scaling successful solutions across multiple Higher Education Institutions. What you’ll do: Set vision and strategy • Own and continually refine the AI initiatives portfolio and roadmap for the group., • Run a structured intake process for new ideas, assessing value, feasibility, data readiness, ethical risk, and compliance., • Run time-boxed PoCs (2–8 weeks) and MVPs (8–16 weeks) using Agile methods (Scrum or Kanban) with regular demos and retrospectives., • Build and lead cross-functional squads including Product Owner, Data Scientists, ML Engineers, Integration Engineers, Solution Architect, and domain experts from Admissions, Registry and Student Services., • Design experiments, test hypotheses, and iterate quickly, ensuring human-in-the-loop for critical decisions such as admissions triage or student risk flagging., • Take validated MVPs into production with robust architecture, integration patterns, security controls, SLAs, and operational runbooks., • Establish MLOps across the university environment, including model registry, CI/CD for ML, feature stores, monitoring for drift, and retraining policies., • Build reusable AI platform capabilities (e.g., orchestration, RAG services, prompt safety, connectors) that support multiple domains such as:, • Recruitment & Admissions: enquiry triage, lead scoring, document extraction, and decision support., • Student Records & Registry: data quality checks, anomaly detection, and predictive alerts for progression and retention., • Timetabling & Operations: demand forecasting, optimization support, and conflict detection., • Teaching & Learning: content summarization, tutoring assistants, accessibility tools, and feedback synthesis respecting academic integrity., • Student Support & Wellbeing: intelligent case routing, early warning signals, and proactive nudges designed with strong ethics and safeguarding., • Research Administration: grant discovery, compliance support, and metadata enrichment., • Implement a practical AI governance framework that includes a use case register, risk scoring, impact assessments, model documentation, and audit trails., • Ensure compliance with GDPR, accessibility standards (e.g., WCAG), information security policies, and emerging AI regulations., • Partner with Deans, Registry, Admissions, Student Services, IT, Legal and other stakeholders to align on priorities and rollout plans., • Communicate progress through clear dashboards and storytelling, highlighting wins and lessons learned to build momentum., • Lead RFPs and SOWs for AI vendors, data providers, and implementation partners, including evaluation of cost, performance, and scalability., • Track and optimize cloud and AI platform spend, balancing cost with value; negotiate campus-wide licensing where beneficial. What you bring: Education • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Data Science, Computer Science, Business Analytics, or a related discipline. Knowledge and skills Essential • Product and outcome mindset: frames problems as hypotheses, focuses on measurable impact, and is willing to stop or pivot when evidence is weak., • Delivery excellence: strong Agile practices, risk-based planning, and disciplined stage-gates from idea to production., • Technical fluency: able to bridge data science, engineering, security, and business stakeholders, and make informed technical decisions., • Responsible AI and data literacy: understands and embeds ethics, privacy, and accessibility by design., • Experience with major cloud and AI stacks such as Azure OpenAI / OpenAI, Azure ML, Databricks, Kubernetes, and Docker., • Familiarity with data platforms such as Azure Data Lake, Synapse/ADF, Delta Lake, and messaging platforms (e.g., event hubs, service bus)., • Exposure to MLOps and observability tools (e.g., MLflow/model registry, GitHub Actions, Prometheus/Grafana, Evidently AI)., • Knowledge of integrating with SIS (Banner/Workday Student), LMS (Moodle/Canvas), CRM (Salesforce), ERP (Oracle/Workday), and IdP (Azure AD)., • Comfort with collaboration and reporting tools such as Jira/Azure Boards, Confluence, and Power BI. Experience Essential • 6+ years in IT delivery, product, or program leadership roles, including at least 3 years leading AI/ML or advanced analytics initiatives end-to-end., • Proven track record running Agile PoCs and MVPs and scaling them into production within complex organizations., • Strong understanding of AI/ML techniques (e.g., classification, NLP, GenAI, RAG, prompt engineering), data pipelines, APIs, and microservices., • Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (Azure preferred; AWS or GCP also valued) and MLOps tools (e.g., MLflow, Azure ML, Databricks, SageMaker or Vertex) plus observability practices., • Familiarity with higher education processes and integrations across SIS, LMS, CRM, and ERP environments., • Knowledge of data privacy, accessibility, security, and Responsible AI in academic or similarly regulated contexts., • Experience designing or operating an AI platform or shared AI services used across multiple domains or business units., • Hands-on work with vector databases and retrieval pipelines (e.g., Azure AI Search, Pinecone) and guardrails for GenAI., • Background in enterprise architecture and integration patterns (event-driven, REST, GraphQL)., • Relevant certifications such as Agile/Scrum (PSM/CSM), Azure AI Engineer/DP-100, PMI-ACP/SAFe, or security/privacy certifications. If you are excited by the opportunity to shape the future of AI in higher education and deliver impact at scale, we encourage you to apply and join us on this journey.

Why join? If you’re an engineer who wants true ownership, visibility, and the chance to shape how agentic systems transform profitability in an analogous sector, this is the role for you. You won’t be a small cog in a big machine(team of 7) — you’ll be helping to define the machine itself. • Build production-grade agentic AI systems that automate the workflows of elite law firms., • Work with a world-class founding team and colleagues with backgrounds from leading academic, startup, and financial institutions., • Join a startup that’s both cutting-edge and commercially proven — a rare chance to scale a product already trusted by leading global clients., • Benefit from equity ownership and remote-first working, with opportunity to join the team in London when suits you. If you want to build agentic solutions that can operate in ambiguity, be deployed in one of the most complex environments, and supercharge your skills with agentic frameworks, and use your commercial skills to develop their feature roadmap, this is for you/ About The Business Law firms are in the business of selling time and not outcomes — and AI is shrinking that ability. Our client is a London-based startup that builds the GenAI platform that will bring the legal sector into the AI age and future proof, and expand their revenue opportunities. Their product empowers lawyers and finance teams to maximise value from engagements through: • Pricing agents that create data-driven, lawyer-friendly quotes., • Management tools that predict overruns and help avoid costly late bills., • Enrichment engines that clean and structure messy legal datasets for pricing. They are backed by some of the leading early stage investors in the UK/EU and exceptional angels with rapid commercial traction across top UK & US firms, they are scaling fast and this is the time to join. The Role: AI/ML Engineer – Agentic Systems You will design and deliver intelligent agentic workflows, leveraging frontier LLMs. Working with their data scientists and backend engineers, you’ll be responsible for making unstructured legal data usable, scalable, and impactful. This is not a prototyping role — you’ll ship well-engineered, production-ready systems that directly impact customers. Responsibilities: • Designing and building LLM-powered agentic systems that automate and augment law firm workflows., • Integrating external APIs and internal data pipelines into intelligent, maintainable systems., • Deploying AI-driven features at scale on AWS cloud infrastructure., • Driving the roadmap for intelligent systems and ensuring scalability, compliance, and robustness. Requirements • Strong programming experience with Python., • Proven track record building production-grade AI/ML systems (emphasis on implementation and integration over pure research)., • Practical experience with AWS (and ideally Terraform, GitLab CI)., • Experience with agentic systems or LLM-powered automation (e.g. tool-augmented LLMs, RAG workflows, agents for complex workflows). If this sounds like you, reach out!

Job Description Role:Research Finance Systems Lead Location: Birmingham (Hybrid) Salary: £47,000 £63,500 Network IT are supporting a leading organisation in the search for a Functional Lead to take ownership of their Research Finance systems (Oracle Projects and WorkTribe) as a part of their Core

Research Grants Finance Officer – Research Strategy and Services – 106424 – Grade 6.

A leading organisation in Birmingham is seeking a Functional Lead for Research Finance systems. The ideal candidate will have expertise in research finance capabilities and system optimisation, along with strong stakeholder engagement skills.

An institution of higher education in Birmingham seeks a Research Grants Finance Officer to provide essential financial administration for externally funded projects.

A leading organisation in Birmingham is seeking a Research Finance Systems Lead to take ownership of their Research Finance systems, including Oracle Projects and WorkTribe.

A prestigious educational institution in Birmingham seeks a Research Grants Finance Officer to provide financial administration for externally funded research projects.

A degree, Oracle certification, and experience with WorkTribe or Oracle Projects are essential.

A leading organisation in Birmingham is seeking a Research Finance Systems Lead to take ownership of their Finance systems, including Oracle Projects and WorkTribe.

Finance Business Partner – Birmingham. They are looking to onboard a Finance Business Partner, responsible for the provision of all aspects of financial services to senior budget holders and department heads. Understand the complexities and risks around externally funded research activities and ho

Research Finance systems (Oracle Projects and WorkTribe).

The Department of Accounting and Finance at Techwaka is seeking a full-time faculty member at the Professorial level as Head of Department. The ideal candidate will demonstrate extensive experience in education, a strong research record, and effective leadership skills within an interdisciplinary en

A leading AI research organization is seeking Corporate Finance/Investment Banking Professionals in the UK for a fully remote role. You will summarize banking workflows, design finance scenarios for AI development, and work flexibly with top professionals in the field.

Research Finance systems (Oracle Projects and WorkTribe).

Areas covered will include: Finance, Operations, HR (including all people costs), Facilities, Strategy and Exec and Product and Technology. Finance Business Partner - Corporate Costs. This is an exciting opportunity for an ambitious Finance Business Partner to join our team.

Research Finance systems (Oracle Projects and WorkTribe).

A leading quantitative finance technology firm based in the UK is seeking a Software Engineer to contribute to developing high-quality software for a petabyte-scale data platform.

A leading AI research firm is seeking experienced professionals based in the U.

Strong understanding of research finance processes and system capabilities. Network IT are supporting a leading organisation in the search for a Functional Lead to take ownership of their Research Finance systems (Oracle Projects and WorkTribe) as a part of their Core Systems Team. You’ll act as t

A growing mobile app company in Central London is seeking an Operations & Finance Analyst.

The Research Grants Finance Officer plays a key role as part of the wider Post Award management within the Research Strategy & Services Division (RSSD), supporting academic colleagues to deliver successful, well-managed research projects. Central to this ambition is the Research Strategy & Services

The role requires a Bachelor’s Degree by May 2026, a keen interest in Finance or FinTech, and excellent communication skills.

A leading organisation in London is seeking a Functional Lead to oversee Research Finance systems, specifically Oracle Projects and WorkTribe. Ideal candidates will have experience in system configuration and a strong understanding of research finance processes.

Own the functional roadmap for Research Finance systems (Oracle Projects and WorkTribe). Strong understanding of research finance processes and system capabilities. Research Finance systems (Oracle Projects and WorkTribe).

G-Research is a leading quantitative research and technology firm, with offices in London and Dallas. Creating value by co‑owning growth and resource allocation dynamics, and being recognised as a leader beyond the finance function. G-Research is committed to cultivating and preserving an inclusiv

A leading research institute in the UK is seeking a Financial Planning & Analysis Assistant Manager to deliver high-quality financial insight supporting their research strategy.

A leading quantitative research firm in London is seeking a Finance Business Partner to support financial decision-making and drive commercial strategy.

A prestigious academic institution is seeking a Reader for the School of Finance and Accounting. The successful candidate will play a key role in improving the research profile and reputation of the College. Applicants must hold a PhD and demonstrate strong research leadership and mentoring skills.

HPC Storage Engineering Lead | Quant Finance Research Firm. We’re supporting a global quantitative research and engineering organisation that depends on extremely high‑throughput, low‑latency storage systems to fuel large‑scale modelling, simulation, and data‑driven research. Strong abilit

Research Fellow (Political Finance in Africa (POLFINA)). Candidates should have completed their PhD in Political Science or a related field by the post start date and have excellent research skills, the ability to work independently and in a diverse team, and to solve complex research challenges cre

A leading research firm in Greater London is seeking a Finance Business Partner to manage corporate costs. The ideal candidate will have over 5 years of finance experience and strong skills in cost control and financial reporting.

A leading university in the UK is seeking a Research Fellow specializing in Political Finance in Africa. This role involves contributing to a significant research project focused on political finance legislation and reforms across Sub-Saharan Africa. Candidates must hold a PhD in Political Science o

Finance Business Partner - Corporate Costs. This is an exciting opportunity for an ambitious Finance Business Partner to join our team. The Finance Business Partner supporting Product and Tech and Corporate costs will lead cost control and capital expenditure planning across the business.

Operations and Finance Analyst – Market Research / Survey App – £50k-£70k. The Operations & Finance Analyst role supports both client-facing and internal operational and analytical activities, combining elements of client servicing, operations, and finance, offering exposure to multiple parts

A dynamic research company based in London is seeking a Finance Business Partner to manage corporate costs and collaborate across divisions.