Total 6 Director/C-Level job vacancies in Rugby, Warwickshire

Job Ref: AM13550Branch: Mercure Walton Hall Hotel & SpaLocation: Mercure Walton Hall Hotel & Spa, WarwickSalary/Benefits: Competitive SalaryContract type: PermanentHours: Full TimeHours per week: 40Posted date: 24/10/2024Closing date: 07/12/2024

Klarent Hospitality are recruiting for a Director of Sales Description

Would you like to work for a company that gives you:

• £250, up to £1000 cash incentives when referring a friend to come and join our team - T&C’s apply
• Long service recognition Cash bonus and free overnight hotel stays for services from 2 years and up.

Rewards your hard work by offering you the below team benefits when you join us:

• Meals provided whilst on shift
• Sales incentives and initiative rewards
• Discounted / Free use of leisure facilities – “Hotel specific”
• Free Car Parking – “Hotel specific”
• Stays in our hotels at discounted prices or
• Even free stays in our hotels as one of our rewards & recognition incentives,
• Opportunities for your personal development within the Hotel
• Group Brand Portfolio
• Fully funded apprenticeships – T&C’s apply
• Annual Holidays entitlements inclusive of Bank Holidays
• Opportunity to buy additional holiday entitlements
• Pension enrolment

Does the below sound like you?

• Passionate and willingness to learn
• Positive attitude and someone who makes our guests smile
• Genuinely friendly and caring
• Enjoys working as part of a team
• Ambitious and hard working and able to develop their team
• Excellent standards
• Lead from the front Good organisational / time management skills.
• Resilient, creativity, able multitask and can work under pressure
• Ability to work morning, afternoon/evening, and weekends
• Able to deliver exceptional customer experiences all the time

Klarent Hospitality are recruiting for a Director of Sales

We offer our employees excellent opportunities to grow and develop within the Klarent Hospitality Group Brand Portfolio, we pride ourselves on ensuring that our staff are rewarded and recognised for their hard work, commitments, and long service.

Klarent Hospitality operates branded hotels in key locations across the UK and Ireland.

We will nurture talent and smart investment to drive superior performance and growth.

The Role:

What will I be doing?

• As Director of Sales, you will analyse local market trends and competitor activity to recommend strategies that keep the hotel a leader in the marketplace
• Integral part of the growth & development of future and repeat business
• Analysis local market trends and competitor activity to identify business leads
• Develop customer accounts and travel within the local area to drive business into the specific hotel/cluster and to increase market/customer share in all revenue streams
• Negotiate room rates/packages with corporate clients
• Develop and implement creative local marketing channels, including social media channels
• Prepare company contracts for the hotel in accordance with current business and pricing conditions
• Work within current business strategies and recognising potential opportunities
• Cooperate with other departments in the hotel to create an exceptional Guest experience and build strong, comprehensive sales programs
• Attend Sales events, as required
• Produce accurate and timely reports that meet the needs of the Sales Director and senior management to include the reporting of appointments, calls made and business leads
• Answer customer queries in a prompt and professional manner
• Manage staff performance in compliance with company policies and procedures
• Recruit, manage, train and develop the Sales team

Set on 26 hectares of grounds, this resort style hotel with a 1500s annexe is 8 miles from Shakespeare's Birthplace and 11 miles from the iconic cars at the British Motor Museum.

The informal rooms have a modern vibe and feature Wi-Fi, TVs, and tea and coffeemaking facilities. Refined suites in the annexe add Nespresso machines, sitting areas and 4-poster beds. The 1- and 2-bedroom apartments offer kitchens, dining areas, and living rooms with sofabeds. Room service is available.

Amenities consist of 2 chic restaurants, 2 bars and a gym, plus a heated indoor pool. Massage service is available.

Chief Engineer - Rail Delivery

Chief Engineers at Telent take on a key leadership role for an engineering team on a specific project. This is a very senior role and so excellent communication, and leadership skills are vital. You will be expected to work alongside other managerial staff and external consultants, report into senior management, interface with clients and recruit, lead, support and guide your own team.

You will be responsible for creating practical solutions to engineering challenges and overseeing projects to implementation and mobilisation safely, within budget and agreed timeframe. Ensuring all technical standards and compliance activities required for the project complies with both company specifications and legal and regulatory requirements.

Leading a large, multi-disciplined Delivery function, this role is responsible for providing direction on key project deliverables with a strong focus on aligning activities with the Design and Programme Management/Build functions, driving continuous improvement, and the successful delivery of our products and services.

Key Deliverables:

The Chief Engineer will have a responsibility for engaging with the Engineering Director, Rail Director & Group Engineering Director, in developing delivery strategies incorporating the latest technologies, ensuring the necessary resources are allocated to a given programme and that programmes are delivered on time, compliantly and to the required technical standard and budget. The deliverables will be:

• Engineering management of development programmes and any sub-contract packages.


• Ensure Telent processes are followed for all delivery activities.


• Ensure compliance with Client type approval procedures for products and solutions.


• Ensure delivery, consider environmental and sustainability requirements to meet the Customers obligations.


• Establish & manage robust Verification and Validation processes.


• Establish & manage robust methods of change management for developing and released product versions.


• Support other disciplines and design teams in delivering innovative solutions and resolving project technical issues.


• Manage engineering resource to deliver against agreed project programmes.


• Interface to all other elements of the rail 2.0 organisation i.e. Business Development, Programme management, Enable & Services.

The responsibilities for this role include:

• Working closely with your peers in the full design process from concept through to execution, the Chief Engineer oversees the installation of equipment or processes and ensures all the necessary quality and safety checks, are in place.


• Assisting with the design concept development and solutions architecture for meeting new and existing customer solutions including developing bid responses and working collaboratively on continuous improvement of existing solutions and projects.


• Leads all engineering delivery activities for rail projects within Telent.


• To act as a single point of contact with client representatives on all matters relating to project engineering aspects.


• To implement digital systems, processes, and tools that support our design teams and take our stakeholders into account.


• Responsible for delivery & entry into service for all engineering solutions developed by the engineering design teams.


• Deliver engineering support to bids and other pre-sales activities.


• Accountable for ensuring that all delivery team members understand their legal safety obligations, follow Telent processes, comply with client approval procedures, and consider environmental and sustainability requirements.


• Manage the competence and performance of all engineering resources, identify and address areas for improvement, and develop the Delivery function to meet current and future business demands through recruitment and training.


• Drive innovation, efficiency, and cost reduction, through a culture of continuous improvement.


• Financial accountability for engineering delivery budget.

Skill Requirements:

• You will have experience in the successful delivery of products and services into a transport related market with an emphasis on Rail.


• You will have experience of technical leadership of a medium to large sized multi-disciplined function.


• You will be fully aware of the current legislation associated with products and services in the UK rail market and have experience of the systems required to enable their successful delivery.


• Must be able to act as a single point of contact with client representatives on all matters relating to project engineering delivery.


• Provide specialist knowledge in key areas of the project delivery lifecycle.

Qualifications:

• Depth and breadth of experience and demonstrable evidence of success on comparable projects


• Strong Leadership skills


• Chartered status


• Signatory responsibility (work sign-off)


• Stakeholder management skills


• Engineering degree from a recognised university in related engineering subject matter (Project/Software/Electrical/Design)


• Well-proven experience, most of it in a managerial role (preferably leading a team of 10 or more engineers).


• Master's degree in engineering.


• In-depth strategic understanding of the objectives of the organisation and interpreting these into deliverables for the team


• Excellent demonstrable project management experience


• Experience of managing and influencing work schedules


• Proven ability to plan and meet programme deliverables


• Proven ability to manage budgets and finical accountability for profit and loss for engineering


• Resource planning, mobilisation and delivery execution


• Excellent communication skills at all levels


• Demonstrable skills in database, and software applications, including Microsoft office suite (eg Visio, Excel, Oracle)

What we offer:

• Car Allowance


• 34 days holiday, including public holidays, plus the option to buy or sell five days each year


• Company pension scheme


• Healthcare Scheme


• A range of family friendly policies


• Occupational health support and wellbeing Portal


• Discounts on Cinema, Restaurants and Shopping with Telent Reward scheme.

About Telent

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Location: Alcester

Since 1989, we’ve supported adults of all ages to maintain their independence and stay in the place they know and love. Because life is better at home.

Helping Hands is the nation’s most widely rated home care provider and the only one to be endorsed as a Centre of Excellence by Skills for Care. We have over 140 branches across England and Wales as well as our Support Office in Alcester, Warwickshire. We’re now looking for a Quality Director to join our team in Alcester.

As the Quality Director, you will lead a premium quality strategy and function that delivers outstanding customer care and service. You will be the custodian of a ‘quality care’ culture, developing and implementing strategies that meet our customer requirements. You will ensure robust internal insight, transparent reporting, and drive service improvements through innovative actions.

Main Responsibilities

• Develop and deliver a market-leading premium quality strategy and plan
• Influence business-wide delivery of a ‘quality care’ culture through strong leadership and quality infrastructure
• Generate internal customer and carer insight to drive service improvements and minimise risk
• Ensure transparent reporting of safeguarding, complaints, and advocate whistleblowing
• Lead a high-performing quality team and provide broader business leadership
• Identify and escalate compliance issues, recommend corrective actions
• Develop and monitor a risk-based audit strategy, ensuring inspection readiness
• Act as the business DPO (Data Protection Officer)
• Ensure the quality strategy supports key commercial business objectives
• Monitor and apply external quality best practice

About You

To be successful in this role, you’ll need:

• Extensive experience in a senior quality role in a care/healthcare setting
• Proven experience leading a quality function in a regulated environment
• Degree level qualification, or equivalent
• In-depth knowledge of quality systems and home care legislation
• Strong project management, analytical, and decision-making skills
• A passion for customer service and continuous improvement
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• Digital and technology skills

Benefits

• Bonus scheme
• 25 days annual leave, rising to 27 after 2 years of service
• Blue Light Card offering discounts from businesses and services
• Access to our employee assistance programme
• Refer a friend scheme

Helping Hands is committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive workforce. All applications will be treated fairly in line with our Equality and Diversity Policy.

What skills and experience we're looking for

If you are confident and a good communicator with excellent organisational skills, and enjoy working with young people, you could make an excellent Director of Inclusion. The successful candidate with ensure that key students have their curriculum needs met by identifying gaps in learning and providing opportunities to close those gaps. You will also ensure that interventions related to Social, Emotional and Mental Health are specific and that work done by your colleagues, in these areas, are student specific.

What the school offers its staff

£33,514 - £35,175 p.a. for 37 hours per week over 40 weeks of the year (£37,336 - £39,186 p.a., pro-rata)

Your health and wellbeing are important to us at Myton School with all staff having access to the Westfield Health ‘Healthy Extras’ provision. This includes access to a 24 hour Doctor line, emotional support and counselling, financial advice and debt counselling and specialist information on a wide range of work-life issues. You will also have access to the Local Government Pension Scheme.

Further details about the role

At Myton, we are proud of the supportive and rewarding environment we have created. We have high standards and a good reputation, built upon the hard work and dedication of our staff. We recruit people who are passionate about education and young people, and who have the knowledge, drive and personal qualities to inspire our students.

For further information on the role, our Deputy Head (Behaviour and Welfare), Mr Neil Phipps, would love to hear from you on phipps.n@myton.co.uk.

Interviews will take place on 21 August 2024

Commitment to safeguarding

Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment. Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance. Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant): childcare disqualification Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) medical online and social media prohibition from teaching right to work satisfactory references suitability to work with children You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.

Opportunity for a Senior Commercial Account Executive to take on a Branch Director position at an independent brokerage based in Warwickshire.

Due to the current MD looking to take a step back and eventually retire in around 5 years' time, my client seeks an experienced Commercial Account Executive who has ambitions to become an MD / Branch Director.

The MD will 'drip feed' you his clients, eventually handing his whole book over to you to service alongside running the business. Initially you'll receive c£100,000 of income to service, you'll also be involved in senior level decisions, P&L and other areas of running the business.

The ideal candidate will currently work at a commercial insurance brokerage and will have ambitions to move into a senior Director level position.

In a perfect world you'll be ACII or DIP CII qualified, however this isn't essential and experience will always be just as good as qualifications for the right candidate.

Package open to negotiations dependant on candidate.

Proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme

We are recruiting a Chief Driver Trainer into our Proving Ground team. This exciting role will be responsible for the daily management of our driver training function.

The role will also include but is not limited to:

delivering driver training courses for key customers,
developing new courses to expand our offering to a wider customer base.
The supervision or other team members is key to the role, managing their workflow and ensuring that all training is carried out to the required standard.
Overall responsibilities include project management, preparing quotations and liaison with our commercial team and external customer contacts..
Ownership of operational budgets and monthly reporting on performance
There will also be regular interaction with other team members when working on Proving Ground events or assisting with Engineering based projects.
Maintenance of the driver training fleet of vehicles including the maintenance of customer owned vehicles ensuring they are fit for purpose.
Experience
Experience in a relevant vehicle development or engineering role
Experience of driving vehicles near to the limit of adhesion for testing purposes
Experience of Driver Training
The ability to produce robust risk assessments covering all activities
Data collection and subjective vehicle appraisals
Have a broad understanding of the automotive industry
Technical background (biased towards a Vehicle Dynamics)
Previous experience of working for an OEM or Tier 1 supplier or consultancy
Experience of managing multiple projects, preparation and pricing of proposals
Woking in a supervisory of management role
Experience of improving processes or delivering improvements in a customer focused role
Skills
Demonstrate proficiency in Excel and other Microsoft office applications
Ability to communicate clearly whilst training customers with varying abilities and English language skills
Must have good presentation and communication skills
Ability to multitask
Project management skills
Considerable driving skills and the ability to drive in a consistent manner
Qualifications
Essential Qualifications:

Formal vocational qualification in vehicle engineering or related degree
Clean driving licence
Preferred Qualifications

Degree in Automotive Engineering
HGV Licence holder
ADI Licence holder
Other information
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HORIBA MIRA has 75 years of heritage in developing some of the world’s most iconic vehicles, our engineers utilise the latest test facilities and simulation tools to make vehicles and journeys safer, cleaner, more efficient and rewarding.

At HORIBA MIRA we have a wide range of benefits including:-

27 days holiday + statutory days (with the option to participate in a holiday buy/sell scheme)
A generous contributory pension plan
A company performance related bonus scheme
A fantastic Employee Assistance Programme which offers a range of wellbeing services to staff.
Reimbursement of fees for corporate memberships for relevant Chartered/professional institution
A range of tax efficient salary sacrifice options including a cycle to work scheme.
Right to work: - HORIBA MIRA actively promotes diversity and inclusion across our organisation, however this role does not meet the criteria to be considered within the current Home Office Shortage Occupation list.