Endeavour Recruitment is seeking an experienced Booking Engine Reservations System Project Manager.  Primary responsibility will be to support the overall delivery and implementation of a Booking Engine Reservation System. The role requires successful planning, leading and managing multiple technical and business initiatives.  Based in East Grinstead this is a 12 Month Contract with a day rate of £500.00.

Required Skills/Experience:

• Booking Engine Reservation System Experience
• Knowledge of Travel Industry
• Delivery of large scale projects
• Management of multi-function/multi-supplier teams
• Demonstrable leadership skills at all levels
• MS Project or similar tools
• PM Qualification
• Excellent presentation and negotiating skills
• Excellent communication and analytical skills

Personal Attributes

• A team player who willingly shares information and is committed to achieving results
• A strong communicator who can forge relationships, have a strong impact and influencing skills
• Leadership qualities, motivator and management qualities
• Attention to detail, listens actively with strong initiative and analytical thinking
• Excellent supplier management skills, a complete finisher with good problem-solving skills

If you believe you have the right experience and previous track record to successfully deliver in this role, then please apply quickly in order to be shortlisted.  

Endeavour Recruitment is seeking an extremely capable individual for the senior role of Head of Technology.  The successful candidate must come from a development/architect background and has since progressed their career to a Lead/Managerial level.  Previous experience of working within Retail, Finance, Marketing or Travel would be advantageous.  This is a permanent opportunity based in Central London, with an attractive salary in the region of £90K plus benefits package.

As an individual, you must be creative with good UX/UI knowledge, plus innovative and passionate about new technology trends.  You should have the ability to lead a talented team applying best practice principles, quality assurance and governance.   Familiarity of working in an Agile/Scrum environment is essential.   A particular interest in developing mobile applications, Native, Web or Hybrid is essential along with accompanying technical knowledge.

Essential Experience/Skills for the role:

• Creativity
• Leadership skills
• From a Development/Architectural Background
• Mobile Development
• Responsive Design
• UI/UX
• Best Practice/Governance/Quality
• Integration with CMS
• New platform knowledge: AI, NLP, 36 / AR
• Agile/Scrum
• Managing client relationships
• Industry experience in Finance, Retail, Marketing or Travel

Our client is looking to fill this role as soon as possible.   Therefore, please apply quickly.

Endeavour Recruitment has an excellent contract opportunity with longer term career prospects for our Top client based in East Grinstead.

• Responsible to fill the gap between business and technology. Liase with the development team to ensure they deliver the required solutions for the business. Will be working in a .Net/C# environment.
• A key role joining a new multi-disciplined team to drive forward a large list of items of work. To create a managed work stream for a team who are committed, work hard and aiming to make a difference.

Duties:

• Create qualified stories of work based on RFC s and bug reports. Preparing work for developers to take into sprints ensuring inclusion of clear acceptance criteria and clear description of work requirements.
• Gathering and writing requirements and specification from a number of stakeholders, challenging working processes to ensure requirement and solutions make best use of technology and offer efficiencies.
• Work closely with the development team to maximise the efficiency of development with the creation of work items.
• Develop relationships across multiple areas of the business and departments.
• Supporting an agile software development team in a fast paced environment.
• Help plan and run workshops.
• Conduct meetings with system users and managers to gather requirements and acceptance criteria.
• Join as a member of a multiple disciplined team working in an Agile working method and take a key role to support and drive them forward.
• Contribute to retrospective meetings to help maximise team efficiency.
• Help build strong working relationships with stakeholders across the entire organisation.

Essential Skills:

• Able to demonstrate the ability to build rapport and engagement with key stakeholders across the entire business and support business transformation and change alongside the delivery of new innovations
• Pragmatic approach to work levels ensuring always producing clear work item and acceptance criteria for pickup of work
• Ability to manage multiple stories.
• Possesses strong intellectual integrity. Critical thinking and problem-solving. Intellectually inquisitive.
• Very self-motivated and proactive.
• Agile/Scrum methodology experience.
• Expert analytical abilities.
• Business process understanding.
• Planning and organisation skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Great analytical skills with attention to detail.
• Commitment and enthusiasm to drive through change.
• Team player able to work within a multi-disciplinary team.
• Confidence to challenge and be challenged in a fast paced environment.
• Able to take direction and work to achieve deadlines.

Required Experience:

• Relevant experience in a similar role.
• Experience working within a multi skilled agile development team.
• Experience of work stream management using VSTS.
• Preferred - Working knowledge of the travel industry.
• Preferred Some experience of development work would be a highly desirable.

Kindly apply for further details on this excellent opportunity.

International Recruitment Consultant

If you are looking for a fast paced sales role with the opportunity to earn uncapped commission with an excellent base salary and benefits then we have just the role for you.

We are offering a highly motivated individual the opportunity to launch a career in one of the most coveted and sought after recruitment fields around.

Endeavour Recruitment is a specialist IT Recruitment agency who help find people their dream job both across the UK and internationally. Our clients range from medium sized companies to FTSE 100 listed businesses.

At Endeavour, we have modern offices and a great working atmosphere.

Daily tasks include:

•             Sourcing candidates for your clients through head-hunting, networking, advertising and use of the company’s database.

•             Contract negotiations

•             Daily communication and liaising with clients, candidates and advertising teams.

•             Sourcing new roles and client meetings

•             Dealing with general queries

Full training for this role will be provided. However we are looking for candidates with:

•             Excellent communication and research skills

•             Target driven and comfortable working in a competitive environment

•             Ability to manage own workload

•             Good knowledge of Microsoft office programmes and outlook

•             Be of smart appearance with a mature attitude

•             Ideally previous sales experience

•             No previous IT experience required

This role offers an excellent salary and commission structure, flexible holidays and onsite parking. Our offices are based in Hamble which is a 10 minute drive from Southampton and commutable by Train or Bus.

Please contact us for further information.

Business Continuity Expert / Manager / Consultant

Endeavour Recruitment has an exciting opportunity for a skilled Business Continuity Expert for an initial 3 month contract with further extensions.

The role is for a large client based just south of London close to Gatwick airport and paying £450 per day.

Our client is undergoing a complex business change and development programme and within this programme they are focusing on their continuity capability.

The candidate will be responsible for the overall delivery and implementation of a business continuity framework that also integrates crisis management and disaster recovery plans into core business activities. This will be achieved by successfully planning, leading and managing business continuity processes from conception through to delivery, culminating in a hand over to the business.

This position will provide assurance and guidance to the group’s Data Security Protection Group of a robust and appropriate business continuity framework.

Responsibilities:

• Review and validate the current continuity plan with the business
• Amend the current master plan to reflect changes that have taken place within the business since it was implemented. (circa 2007)
• Validate the revised plan against regulatory requirements such as FCA and ensure its resilience
• Ensure the business continuity requirements in the company’s Data Security Policy are fit for purpose and the plan is compliant.
• Validate the revised plan to ensure it meets the requirements of insurance underwriter audits
• Work with the team to coordinate an appropriate “test” run of the final plan.
• Ensure that the project works closely with supporting departments (such as HR, Finance and IS) to define solutions to meet the projects requirements.
• Ensure that the design and plans are produced and follow the companies project delivery framework.
• Ensure each? Department’s project resources are identified and secured by proactively monitoring progress and by identifying and negotiating use of internal resources.
• Ensure that monitoring and reporting of overall progress is taking place and that corrective action, as appropriate, is taken to ensure that the projects deliverables are produced on time and within budget.
• Ensure that engagement is taking place with all appropriate stakeholders
• Ensure that outcomes are assessed against what was predicted in the business case, and ensure that all participants are informed and involved throughout the change.
• Ensure that risks and issues are actively and effectively managed.
• Ensure that there is close working with other Departments in reviewing and challenging proposals (e.g. Business Cases).
• Ensure that regular progress reports are produced and delivered to the SCB and DSPG and for wider circulation to the business.
• Hand over to a nominated resource all plans/processes once delivered

If you are a Business Continuity Expert and looking for your next contract, please don’t hesitate to apply.