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Following significant expansion in recent years with further growth planned the business is now seeking a Business Development Manager to support its continued success. Reporting directly to the Sales Director, the Business Development Manager will be responsible for managing and developing a port

Our client is a fast-growing chemical distributor that recognises delivering value begins with its people. By placing employee development at the core of its strategy, the organisation empowers its teams to grow, innovate, and excel in their roles. Want to make an application Make sure your CV is up to date, then read the following job specs carefully before applying. Alongside this, a strong focus on employee wellbeing ensures that individuals feel supported, engaged, and able to perform at their best. This holistic approach not only enhances personal and professional potential but also enables the business to deliver exceptional service and tailored solutions to its customers. Through this commitment, our client consistently exceeds expectations and continues to set new standards of excellence within the industry. They are now seeking a Business Manager for their APIs, Excipients, Intermediates and Fine Chemicals Division. This position will be home based. The geographical territory is the UK and Ireland with regular visits to customers and to their HQ office. This position is a full-time permanent role and will report to the Division Manager. Job Purpose • To create and maintain a profitable and sustainable Business Unit, specifically for Custom Synthesis for Pharmaceutical, Agrochemical and allied markets in the UK and Ireland., • The Business Manager will develop long-term business relationships with Key Customers. The role holder will create unique and compelling sales propositions for custom synthesis of molecules, APIs, excipients, and drug delivery systems., • Develop ca. 50 Key accounts, • Build an opportunity bank of between 100 200 opportunities, • Create 30 50 active sales projects, • Drive a minimum £550k gross margin for the business unit, • Manage existing accounts portfolio, • Establish strong, long-term client relationships, • Communicate with major customers on a regular basis and respond to specific queries, • Suggest solutions and innovative ideas to meet customer needs, • Act as the liaison between key customers and internal teams, • Develop relationships with suppliers of all key product groups, • Obtain marketing information, • Ensure adequate UK stock, • Educated to BSc level (or equivalent) in a relevant scientific discipline, • Knowledge of the UK and global pharmaceutical pipeline, specifically in APIs, excipients, drug xrnqpay delivery systems and formulation markets, • Demonstrate sales experience in a B2B environment, • Proven experience in a commercial (and ideally technical role as well) in the Chemical Industry, • Excellent communication and negotiation skills, • Business acumen to attract and develop new supplier partners, • Experience of using CRM software and MS Office, • Solution seeking attitude, • Demonstrate Drive, have a growth mindset and a team player approach, • Excellent analytical and organization skills To apply for the above position, please send your C.V to Louise - Director at Atom Scientific Recruitment Ltd.

Job Type: Full time We have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Quantity Surveyor to join our team within Vistry North West Midlands, at our Wolverhampton office. As our Senior Quantity Surveyor, you will work within our wider Commercial, Estimating and Buying team, you will be responsible for supervising, managing and advising on the financial and contractual aspects of multiple construction projects. You will take responsibility for the execution of the Quantity Surveying function on allocated contract/s, in order to fulfil the requirements of the Company in maximising quality of service and profitability. You will provide a range of cost control and financial reporting duties across all aspects of construction work undertaken by the company. We value in-person collaboration and team culture, but we’re also committed to supporting flexible working where possible. We encourage you to raise any specific requirements during the interview process so we can explore how this could be accommodated. • Competitive basic salary and annual bonus, • Company car, car allowance or travel allowance, • Salary sacrifice car scheme available to all employees, • Up to 39 days annual leave plus bank holidays, • 2 Volunteering days per annum, • Private medical insurance, with employee paid cover, • Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption leave, • Competitive pension scheme through salary sacrifice, • Life assurance at 4 x your annual salary, • Share save and share incentive schemes, • Christmas company shutdown, • Employee rewards portal with many more benefits…, • HNC / HND in Surveying or equivalent, • Proven experience as a PQS / SQS / Commercial lead working within a residential house builder (dependent on position level), • Experience maybe gained from a similar position or promotion, • A good understanding or building regulations and legal obligations, • A good knowledge or construction methods and materials, • Strong mathematical and IT ability, • Ability to assess and analyse information, • Good business sense, • Good understanding of budget management, • Negotiating and networking skills, • Excellent communications skills, • Able to work under pressure, and accept criticism of work, • Good team working skills, • Accurate with an eye for detail, • A methodical approach, • Degree in Surveying or similar, • Working towards being a Member of the Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB), or Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (RICS), • Lead, support and coach your direct reports and the wider team to support their growth and development, • Be active in the recruitment of new starters to the team and then throughout the employee life cycle, including holding development reviews and succession planning exercises, • Working closely with other departments, including Land, Development and Construction, you will attend design meetings to advise on all areas that may have a cost implication, • Recognise and advise Site Managers on delays, extensions of time and loss and/or expense and ensuring relevant notices are issued., • Attend development meetings when appropriate, contract pre-start and subcontract package review meetings, • Upon receipt of Contract Documentation, you will be responsible for checking all contract drawings to identify errors, omissions, anomalies and areas where unnecessary cost may arise, • Receive initial tender information and assist in the preparation of the proposed tender lists and updating of subsequent procurement programmes, • Distribute design information packages and tender drawings, whilst preparing all tender documentation and letters including carrying out preliminary checks on subcontractors, • Preparing construction cost analysis, which includes analysis of quotations resulting from the tender enquiry, requesting additional and outstanding information as required, • Assess site staffing levels and build programmes with the Construction Director to ascertain preliminary costs, including collating all cost information and preparing the start on site budget, • Arrange and adjudicate budget settlement meetings, with the support of the wider Commercial team, • Prepare stage payment schedules to assist in the financing of the works, • Carry out pre-order meetings including all necessary Health & Safety requirements, finalising a tender sum and agreeing a stage payment schedule for payment purposes before preparing all contract documentation and placing the order, • Place subcontractor orders, including interviews and checking references on selected subcontractors. You will then negotiate the contract sum within the budget, including finalising costs to cover all late variations, • Issue variation orders and development changes alongside providing cost advice on major variations prior to issue. You will issue revised contract drawings to subcontractors; negotiating the cost of variations including liaising between Buyers and Build Managers. You will provide a full range of pricing information for purchaser’s extras, • Check all costs posted to each contract, collate and reconcile all costs resulting from subcontract works, variation orders, site instructions, material order and preliminary / running costs. This will include providing monthly analysis of costs and identify possible areas of over expenditure at future dates, • Check and arrange subcontractor payments, obtaining necessary authorisation for passing payments for all elements of subcontractor works. You will agree final accounts with subcontractors, ensuring all works have been carried out within budget and analysing costs to assist on future estimates, • Take responsibility for the preparation of documents for the basis of external valuation with the client’s agent (CSA, Stage payment schedule, Tick offs), • Keep the RAMS schedule updated and issued to all relevant parties, • Preparation of financial reports including:, • Internal Valuations/CVRs and subcontract liability reports in accordance with schedule of accounting period end dates and deadlines, • Margin Analysis reports., • Commercial Analysis (final margin) forecasts and Cost to Complete forecasts, • Cash Flow forecasts, • Turnover forecasts, • De-brief reports, • Compile and present CV2 tender summary sign-off in accordance with parameters determined in the Commercial Best Practice Manual. Compile and present CV1 tender summary sign-off in accordance with parameters determined in the Commercial Best Practice manual. Coordinate the activities of the Material Buyer and Company Estimator to achieve CV1 and CV2 sign-off., • Obtain authorisation to ‘let’ all sub-contract orders valued over thresholds as noted in Commercial Best Practice Manual., • Place and issue sub-contract orders in accordance with Group Policy and Commercial Best Practice to budget and within programme requirements., • Attend and minute all sub-contract order adjudication meetings., • Compile reports on contract letting vs. estimate for each site periodically, as required., • Liaise with build department on sub-contractors’ performance and compliance with order conditions., • Ability to deal with complex consortium sites and attend relevant meetings., • Attend and project team meetings as required., • Complete sub-contract orders to accord with site programmed build requirements in accordance with Group Policy and Group Rebate schemes and fully adjudicate prior to issue of documentation., • Set up and regularly review with the site management team the PPQA tick sheet to facilitate sub-contract contract work payment., • To liaise with company management and provide all necessary forecast and site budget information to meet the business’s reporting requirements., • Control and report post contract cost movements per development every month. Update CV1 and CV2 site specific reports and provide details of all “unscheduled” and “scheduled” order revisions i.e. Site Instructions and site purchase orders. To provide such monthly reporting as required by the Commercial Manager., • Review professional fee provisions and statutory service cost, and credits, with the technical department., • Ensure invoices/applications for payments are processed in accordance with Vistry Group Standard Terms and Conditions of Contract., • Maintain a half yearly site reserve list., • Issue Payment Withhold Notices, where a contractor application, or part thereof, is in dispute in accordance with Construction Act., • Immediately advise management of notification of impending claim or legal action arising from a disputed claim or payment from a Sub-Contractor/service provider., • Where necessary, determine a sub-contract order in accordance with Standard Terms and Conditions of Employment and liaise with Build Department in this respect., • Diligently use the Vistry Group construction system to manage site project administration, including orders, variations, valuations, etc., • Assist in the regular review of materials on-site and material valuations., • Agree and process all sales variation requests, including works to show homes, stock plots and sales incentive works in accordance with group procedures., • Properly categorise on the construction system “unscheduled” and “scheduled” order amendments., • Settle all variation invoices/applications for payment in accordance with Vistry Group Standard Terms and Conditions of Contract., • Process groundwork’s payments/applications for payment using the Vistry Group AGA payment system as outlined in Commercial Best Practice Manual., • Ensure the collection of retention against all sub-contract orders in accordance with Group Policy. Manage and certify retention releases on completion of the development., • Complete and agree sub-contract final accounts within 6 months of the last legal completion on-site and prior to the first release of retention to the individual sub-contractors., • Maintain final account schedule., • Maintain completed development provision on CV1., • Maintain CV2 reserves as part of the ‘Old Site Reserve’ central file., • Liaise with the technical department to secure site adoptions and tender, let and administer maintenance orders, as required., • Complete formal site closedown procedure in accordance with Group Policy., • Assist the Commercial Director / Manager to ensure:, • correct financial controls of sites is maintained at all times., • all sub-contract payments are recorded and processed through the surveyors and payments clerks in accordance with the general terms and conditions of purchase orders., • Inform the management team of any abnormal cost or circumstances which will have a significant effect on cost or have long term cost implications., • Ensure Quantity Surveyors are pro-active on sites within their daily control, advice and discuss any operation or method where cost savings could be achieved., • Mentor, manage and develop assistant/ junior surveyors and ensure the efficient running of the surveying team., • Ensure you keep up to date with legislation changes and attend training and technical training as and when require by the Company. 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Apply Now If you're a Head of Sales or Sales Director looking for a high‑impact leadership role within a growing manufacturing business, apply now for confidential consideration. Are you a senior sales leader looking to take full ownership of a commercial function within a well-established manufac

We have a large dedicated team, with over 25 years combined industry experience within Asbestos recruitment specifically geared to dealing with Asbestos Surveyors/Analysts/Lab Technicians, Administrators, Project/Regional /Technical/Quality/Training/Sales Managers through to Director Level for both

As part of our continued growth, we are looking for a dedicated Customer Service Administrator to join the busy sales support team on a hybrid basis at our NCH Head Office in Bilston. In this role, you will closely support the Sales Operations Director customer service team. Tasks will include but a

Major Recruitment Oldbury are delighted to be recruiting for our Coseley based client who are seeking a French Speaking Sales Executive to start immediately. Hours of work are Monday to Friday 8am to 5pm. Parking is available. Duties and tasks will include: Handling of existing and new customer accounts in the area you are in. Ensure KPI's are achieved including sales target, calls, visits, TOP prospects and new accounts etc. Ensure all paperwork/systems are adhered to i.e. Potentials sheet, call reports, HubSpot/CRM, order progressing, filing etc. Attend exhibitions and visit specific customers as required demonstrating a plan wherever possible. Introduce new business from prospective accounts and to regenerate business from dormant accounts. Building long and meaningful relationships where possible. Investigate and progress new markets and opportunities. Key Member to the Sales Team Managing accounts of existing customers and generating sales. Raise the industry profile of the company to current and prospective customers. The generation of new business within your area and within the sectors and on the terms specified by the Commercial Director in conjunction with senior Sales Managers. To assist in developing the sales and marketing strategy to include advertising & promotion. Ensure business is at or above the companies minimum approved margins (unless by prior agreement). Promote good communication across departments. Always communicate any worthwhile situations with the management team within the commercial office. Liaise with customers immediately in the event of any potential issue arising which may become or be a difficult situation. i.e. Price increases, late deliveries, etcCandidates welcome to apply for the role will have the following: Fluent French language skills Good level of education Drive and determination Ability to work to deadlines Good time keeping Attention to details Good level of education and communication skills Excellent drive and determination Ability to work on one's own initiative to achieve targets set Experience in Microsoft business packages Well presented INDLS

Safran is an international high-technology group, operating in the aviation (propulsion, equipment and interiors), defense and space markets. Its core purpose is to contribute to a safer, more sustainable world, where air transport is more environmentally friendly, comfortable and accessible. Safran has a global presence, with 100,000 employees and sales of 27.3 billion euros in 2024, and holds, alone or in partnership, world or regional leadership positions in its core markets. Safran is in the 2nd place in the aerospace and defense industry in TIME magazine's "World's best companies 2024" ranking. Safran Electronics & Defense offers its customers onboard intelligence solutions allowing them to understand the environment, reduce mental load and guarantee a trajectory, even in critical situations, in all environments: on land, at sea, in the sky or space. The company harnesses the expertise of its 13,000 employees towards these three functions: observe, decide and guide, for the civil and military markets. What does the role look like? Play a key role in shaping a high‑performing, people‑centred culture at Safran Actuation Systems. As a trusted HR partner, you'll work closely with leaders and employees across all levels, offering expert guidance and delivering practical, forward‑thinking solutions to real people challenges. You'll collaborate with the Senior Manager, Lead HRBP and Associate Director of HR to bring our People strategy to life-driving initiatives that enhance engagement, capability and organisational growth-while supporting HR colleagues with key projects and strategic goals. In this role, you will be a visible and influential presence across the site and assigned Value Stream, providing full-spectrum HR generalist support. You'll build strong, proactive relationships with functional and operational leaders, ensuring seamless integration of people priorities into everyday performance. Your work will directly support our mission to attract, retain and develop top talent, champion the Safran culture, and strengthen a performance‑driven, inclusive environment where people can excel. What will your day-to-day responsibilities look like? • Business Partner with designated Value Streams/Functional Leads to support the strategic people initiatives linked to the Business Plan., • Lead organisational transformation and change programmes, including restructuring, redundancies, variation of contracts of employment and TUPE., • Develop and maintain strong relationships across a broad range of stakeholders, including directors, senior managers, employees and trade union representatives., • Influence, coach and mentor leaders in the delivery of best people practices and encourage a culture of manager/leader responsibility and accountability., • Proactively lead, manage and successfully deliver complex cross functional people projects across the organisation with specific timeframes and budget management., • Act as a senior point of contact and subject matter expert on complex employee relations cases/initiatives, working closely with the HR team across ASUK., • Provide advice and support to the Shared Service team in all aspects of the employee lifecycle including recruitment, benchmarking, onboarding and induction, performance management, employee relations, learning and development, personal development, engagement, and employee wellbeing whilst collaborating with relevant functional leads for dedicated advice., • In conjunction with Learning and Development, deliver where appropriate coaching and training in key people management practices including employee performance and capability issues, conflict management and absence management., • Lead HR&ORG, PDM and any such business required meetings driving commerciality and key people focus., • Lead LDR discussion and effectively review talent pipelines to ensure future sustainability of talent is maintained and built into resource planning discussions. What will you bring to the role? Essential: *Proven HRBP experience in a manufacturing, engineering, or technical industrial environment. *Strong background in employee relations and coaching line leaders. *Experience supporting a site or business unit with a mix of shop-floor and professional staff. *Confident working with and influencing senior stakeholders. Desirable: *Aerospace, composites, automotive, or advanced manufacturing background. *Experience in a growth, transformation, or Centre of Excellence environment. *Understanding of lean principles and how people, skills, and performance link to operational outcomes. *Solid understanding of organisational design, performance management, and workforce planning

12-Month Fixed Term Contract 40 hours per week 3 days in the office, 2 days hybrid. Office days to be spent in Willenhall. We are a dynamic and innovative retail, wholesale and foodservice business, committed to delivering exceptional customer experiences and staying at the forefront of industry trends. A company that now owns 245 SPAR convenience stores and employs more than 5,000 people, with a turnover of £1.3 billion. Job Purpose Lead the data analysis to aid the strategic decision-making process to improve the performance of A.F. Blakemore Vape Club initiative. Reports Sales Director Key Accountabilities • Influence BTP leaders by guiding them to make decisions based on data and analysis. • Capable of working with large volumes of data. • Has a sound understanding of Microsoft Office, especially Excel and can build complex spreadsheets. • Can understand and operate within a framework to interpret the data for adoption into contractual agreements. • Is confident and engaging and can work collaboratively between various cross functional stakeholders. • Not essential but useful, has knowledge of the vape category even as a shopper. • Successfully manage all critical stakeholders, both internally and externally. Financial Responsibilities • Deliver a detailed financial plan which yields additional benefits – know how growth can impact bottom line • Work with finance to ensure business reporting is robust • Develop future plans to model future growth • Key Knowledge, Skills, Experience Required, • Experienced Business graduate • Excellent communication, and interpersonal skills. • Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced environment and manage multiple priorities. • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills. • Attention to detail and knows how to decipher key information. • Discretion and confidentiality • Behave in line with “The Blakemore Way” and demonstrate behaviours aligned to these values • Comply with Health and Safety responsibilities and all other policy and legal requirements in relation to role. You may have experience of the following: Data Analyst, Commercial Analyst, Insight Analyst, Category Analyst, Reporting Analyst, Financial Analyst, Business Insights Manager, BI Analyst, Strategy Analyst, Retail Analyst, Operations Analyst, or Performance Analyst. REF-(Apply online only)

Inside Sales & Customer Service Assistant – West Midlands – Up to £28,000 + Benefits – REF 056 Up to £28,000 + Benefits Monday – Thursday 7:30am-4pm Friday 7:30am-1pm (Early Finish on Fridays) An exciting opportunity has arisen to join a well-established manufacturing organisation supplying a wide range of specialist products across multiple industrial sectors. With a strong reputation for quality and innovation, the business continues to grow and is now looking to strengthen its commercial team. This role will play a key part in supporting future growth plans, combining inside sales, lead generation, and customer service responsibilities. You will be responsible for developing new business opportunities through outbound activity, as well as supporting existing customers with orders, enquiries, and delivery coordination. Working closely with the Commercial Director and wider sales team, this is a fantastic opportunity for someone looking to develop their career in a commercially focused, fast-paced environment. Skills & Experience Needed: • Proven experience within an Inside Sales or Sales Support role • Confident in outbound activity including cold calling, email outreach, and lead follow-up • Strong ability to identify customer needs and generate new business opportunities • Strong communication and relationship-building skills • A proactive, driven and team-oriented approach This is a fantastic opportunity to join a growing manufacturing business offering long-term stability, development, and a collaborative working environment. To apply for this role, please call and/or send your CV to David Hopkin