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Are you a team player who is commercially minded, with a solid grounding in business operations and an understanding of the challenges and opportunities faced by businesses on a daily basis?

Would you relish the opportunity to have a positive impact on .

ESS Business Advisor

6 Month Contract (Initial)

London or Warwick

Hybrid Working

Pontoon is an employment consultancy. We put expertise, energy, and enthusiasm into improving everyone's chance of being part of the workplace. We respect and appreciate people of all ethnicities, generations, religious beliefs, sexual orientations, gender identities and more. We do this by showcasing their talents, skills, and unique experience in an inclusive environment that helps them thrive.

We are happy to be recruiting for one of our high-profile Utilities clients. They are currently looking for an ESS Business Advisor to join them for an initial 6-month contract. However, there may be scope for extension.

Role Purpose/Overview:

Engineering Support Services (ESS) provides highly skilled engineering support with diverse technical, project and analytics skill via an outsource model with our delivery partner. We partner with business units (BUs) at each step through ideation, transformation and delivery covering five main key service lines; System Modelling and Early Development, Work Management Support, Asset Management Support, Project Controls and Data Management Support.

This role will lead end-to-end delivery of ESS services building relationships between ESS, business units and our delivery partner; with goals to deliver value adding propositions and enabling the company to be at the heart of a clean, fair, and affordable energy future. The role will oversee the end-to-end lifecycle of projects, ensuring alignment with business objectives and seamless execution. You will lead activities from identifying business needs, engaging stakeholders, developing proposals, and formalising agreements, to delivering solutions that drive impactful outcomes. This role requires a strong strategic mindset, exceptional leadership skills, and a focus on operational excellence.

Key Accountabilities:

Business Identification & Engagement

• Technical know-how of at least one of the key service lines that ESS has to offer with ability to grow and improve performance of all other key service lines.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with Business Units (BUs) to identify opportunities where ESS can add value.
• Facilitate initial discussions to understand business needs, challenges, and transformation goals.
• Act as a trusted advisor to BUs, ensuring alignment of ESS services with their strategic priorities.

Proposal Development:

• Collaborate with the Delivery Partner and stakeholders to design tailored solutions that address business requirements.
• Lead the development of proposals, ensuring clarity, feasibility, and alignment with business objectives.
• Present proposals to stakeholders and secure buy-in.

Statement of Work (SoW) Development:

• Oversee the drafting and refinement of SoWs, ensuring all deliverables, timelines, and costs are clearly articulated.
• Work closely with legal and procurement teams to finalise agreements.
• Obtain necessary approvals and sign-offs from all parties.

Blueprinting & Planning:

• Lead blueprinting sessions to define project objectives, scope, milestones, and success criteria.
• Ensure robust project plans are developed, incorporating risk management and resource allocation with support from our delivery partner.
• Align delivery plans with the overarching BUs strategies.

Delivery Oversight:

• Oversee the execution of projects, ensuring they are delivered on time, within budget, and to the required quality.
• Monitor progress against milestones and proactively address any challenges or roadblocks.
• Ensure strong governance, transparency, and stakeholder communication throughout the delivery phase.

Collaboration & Team Leadership:

• Lead and inspire the delivery team, fostering a culture of accountability, innovation, and excellence.
• Promote cross-functional collaboration to optimise project outcomes and operational efficiency.
• Ensure continuous professional development of the delivery team.

Knowledge, Experience & Technical Know How:

• Proven experience in end-to-end project delivery within a complex regulatory environment
• Demonstrable background in cultivating relationships at all levels within a complex organisation.
• Strong strategic and operational leadership.
• Demonstrable experience of stakeholder management, problem solving, making progress in a complex and ambiguous environment with dynamic priorities and at pace,
• Knowledge of utilities and engineering experience would be an advantage.
• Proven quantitative, analytical, problem-solving, and conceptual thinking skills.
• Technical knowledge of any of the ESS key service lines, change and project management approaches.
• Excellent stakeholder interaction skills, collaborative work style and strong interpersonal and team skills.
• Ability to lead teams, motivate others and work collaboratively with customers and colleagues.
• Ability to communicate complex ideas clearly, with excellent written and oral presentation and communication skills.
• Excellent facilitation skills.
• Demonstrated commerciality, analytical skills, stakeholder management and professionalism, working in a fluid and fast paced environment.

Location:

This is a hybrid working role, with a requirement to work from either the clients Warwick or London office at least 2 days a week

Working hours:

Standard working hours with some flex where required.

If you feel that this is a role that would suit you then please apply today.

If you do not hear from us within 48 hours of your application, please assume that you have been unsuccessful on this occasion.

Pontoon Solutions are an equal opportunities company

ESS Business Advisor

6 Month Contract (Initial)

London or Warwick

Hybrid Working

Pontoon is an employment consultancy. We put expertise, energy, and enthusiasm into improving everyone's chance of being part of the workplace. We respect and appreciate people of all ethnicities, generations, religious beliefs, sexual orientations, gender identities and more. We do this by showcasing their talents, skills, and unique experience in an inclusive environment that helps them thrive.

We are happy to be recruiting for one of our high-profile Utilities clients. They are currently looking for an ESS Business Advisor to join them for an initial 6-month contract. However, there may be scope for extension.

Role Purpose/Overview:

Engineering Support Services (ESS) provides highly skilled engineering support with diverse technical, project and analytics skill via an outsource model with our delivery partner. We partner with business units (BUs) at each step through ideation, transformation and delivery covering five main key service lines; System Modelling and Early Development, Work Management Support, Asset Management Support, Project Controls and Data Management Support.

This role will lead end-to-end delivery of ESS services building relationships between ESS, business units and our delivery partner; with goals to deliver value adding propositions and enabling the company to be at the heart of a clean, fair, and affordable energy future. The role will oversee the end-to-end lifecycle of projects, ensuring alignment with business objectives and seamless execution. You will lead activities from identifying business needs, engaging stakeholders, developing proposals, and formalising agreements, to delivering solutions that drive impactful outcomes. This role requires a strong strategic mindset, exceptional leadership skills, and a focus on operational excellence.

Key Accountabilities:

Business Identification & Engagement

• Technical know-how of at least one of the key service lines that ESS has to offer with ability to grow and improve performance of all other key service lines.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with Business Units (BUs) to identify opportunities where ESS can add value.
• Facilitate initial discussions to understand business needs, challenges, and transformation goals.
• Act as a trusted advisor to BUs, ensuring alignment of ESS services with their strategic priorities.

Proposal Development:

• Collaborate with the Delivery Partner and stakeholders to design tailored solutions that address business requirements.
• Lead the development of proposals, ensuring clarity, feasibility, and alignment with business objectives.
• Present proposals to stakeholders and secure buy-in.

Statement of Work (SoW) Development:

• Oversee the drafting and refinement of SoWs, ensuring all deliverables, timelines, and costs are clearly articulated.
• Work closely with legal and procurement teams to finalise agreements.
• Obtain necessary approvals and sign-offs from all parties.

Blueprinting & Planning:

• Lead blueprinting sessions to define project objectives, scope, milestones, and success criteria.
• Ensure robust project plans are developed, incorporating risk management and resource allocation with support from our delivery partner.
• Align delivery plans with the overarching BUs strategies.

Delivery Oversight:

• Oversee the execution of projects, ensuring they are delivered on time, within budget, and to the required quality.
• Monitor progress against milestones and proactively address any challenges or roadblocks.
• Ensure strong governance, transparency, and stakeholder communication throughout the delivery phase.

Collaboration & Team Leadership:

• Lead and inspire the delivery team, fostering a culture of accountability, innovation, and excellence.
• Promote cross-functional collaboration to optimise project outcomes and operational efficiency.
• Ensure continuous professional development of the delivery team.

Knowledge, Experience & Technical Know How:

• Proven experience in end-to-end project delivery within a complex regulatory environment
• Demonstrable background in cultivating relationships at all levels within a complex organisation.
• Strong strategic and operational leadership.
• Demonstrable experience of stakeholder management, problem solving, making progress in a complex and ambiguous environment with dynamic priorities and at pace,
• Knowledge of utilities and engineering experience would be an advantage.
• Proven quantitative, analytical, problem-solving, and conceptual thinking skills.
• Technical knowledge of any of the ESS key service lines, change and project management approaches.
• Excellent stakeholder interaction skills, collaborative work style and strong interpersonal and team skills.
• Ability to lead teams, motivate others and work collaboratively with customers and colleagues.
• Ability to communicate complex ideas clearly, with excellent written and oral presentation and communication skills.
• Excellent facilitation skills.
• Demonstrated commerciality, analytical skills, stakeholder management and professionalism, working in a fluid and fast paced environment.

Location:

This is a hybrid working role, with a requirement to work from either the clients Warwick or London office at least 2 days a week

Working hours:

Standard working hours with some flex where required.

If you feel that this is a role that would suit you then please apply today.

If you do not hear from us within 48 hours of your application, please assume that you have been unsuccessful on this occasion.

Pontoon Solutions are an equal opportunities company

Business Growth Adviser (with Marketing specialism)

Location: Cornwall (Home based but must be able to attend regular client meetings in person)

Hours: Full time preferable but part time will be considered.

If you are passionate about supporting the growth of businesses and the economy of Cornwall and Isles of Scilly, this is a wonderful opportunity to have a direct influence and make a positive .

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An opportunity has arisen within our Business Fire Safety Department for a Business Safety Advisor, based at various locations across South Yorkshire.

Business Safety Advisor
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full Time - 37 Hours per week
Work Pattern: Mon Fri (Flexi Time)
Salary: £25,584 £27,269 (Grade 4)
Location: Barnsley / Rotherham, Doncaster or Sheffield. (Agile Working)

We are looking for hungry,.

Who are we?

We’re MoneyPlus. We help people live better. Life isn’t always simple, that’s why we do what we do. Our services help to make life less complicated – and expensive. We offer advice and financial services that help our customers overcome their troubles with debt once and for all. We’re people who take care of people. We’ll be there to help with things that can easily be forgotten about, answer any complicated questions and help our customers to plan for their future and reach their financial goals.

Tough problems and challenges are no match for us. We’re a team of quick thinkers and relentless doers, with lots of ideas and plenty of passion to help improve the lives of others. If you share our passion for improving the lives of others through simple, affordable, jargon-free services, then you may have what it takes to join our team.

Why do we need you?

We’re looking for New Business Debt Advisors to join our dynamic Debt Advice team to support and advise our customers around the best solution to manage their debt effectively and enable their financial goals. Responsible for new customer acquisition and onboarding customer management, we’re looking for the best.

What’s in it for you?

We believe our people truly are our greatest asset, that’s why we make sure our MoneyPlus People have the best experience, right from our first interaction all the way through their career with us. There’s way too many to list, but here are a few of the best reasons to join the MoneyPlus team:

• Family Friendly – Having a healthy work life balance is important to us. We offer a minimum of 23 days holiday allowance per year.
• Discounts – Is there anything better than a few freebies? Join our team and you’ll have access to Perkbox, which has tons of deals for you to choose from, as well as free healthy breakfast in our on-site café, tea and coffee, and fresh fruit.
• Social – We value the relationships our employees have with one another, encouraging them to come together. Whether it’s a catch up in our café, a team trip out, or letting their hair down at one of our free annual events.
• Café – We want our people to be happy and healthy, which is why we provide an award winning subsidised café that serves free healthy breakfast every morning and discounted meals throughout the day.
• Doing our bit – We show support in every way we can to our clients, people, and company charity. We have regular fundraising activity, organised by our very own Social and Fundraising Committee.
• Wellbeing –We provide a free cashback healthcare plan, as well as discounted gym and fitness deals. We also have a cycle to work scheme to encourage our people to make healthy life changes and an on site free to access Wellbeing Counsellor to support mindset and mental health counselling.
• Training – We want our people to be the best. We care about your development, which is why we provide professional training opportunities, so that you can be the best possible you.

Visit our website to find out more about our company culture

What do we need you to do?

• Process new customer applications and set up accounts.
• Perform KYC checks.
• Verify identity and documentation.
• Input data accurately into internal systems.
• Communicate onboarding progress to customers.
• Liaise with support teams as required.
• Have a passion for helping people in need of assistance.

What skills and experience do we need you to have?

• High attention to detail.
• Knowledge of regulatory requirements.
• Strong administrative skills.
• Good judgment and decision-making.
• Clear communication.
• Ability to work in a deadline-driven environment.
• Reliability and consistency.

Are you ready to join us?

At MoneyPlus we want to create a work environment that inspires you to excel. Through our combination of support, working as a team and our ambition to be better, we want to help you achieve and create a future with us. Sound good? Apply now!

• Identify and engage new business opportunities
• Create and deliver digital marketing campaigns
• Manage CRM and lead tracking
• Support client retention and upselling
• Represent the firm at events and networking sessions

• Experience in business development or marketing (professional services a plus)
• Strong research, content creation, and digital skills
• Confident communicator with a commercial mindset
• Results-driven, hands-on, and great with people

• Identify and engage new business opportunities
• Create and deliver digital marketing campaigns
• Manage CRM and lead tracking
• Support client retention and upselling
• Represent the firm at events and networking sessions

• Experience in business development or marketing (professional services a plus)
• Strong research, content creation, and digital skills
• Confident communicator with a commercial mindset
• Results-driven, hands-on, and great with people

Business Development Executive

Monday - Friday 8:30am-5:30pm

Hybrid - 3 day office

Salary £30,000 OTE £48,000

The impact you'll have:

We’re currently looking for passionate Business Development Managers to join our exciting Sales Team at our head office in Manchester, where you’ll be championing a true mix of client relationship management and new business sales.

This role will be an account managment lead role, seeking new business opportunities within the client base. 

A typical day:

• Proactively reach out to customers through outbound calls daily to foster relationships and drive sales growth.
li>Building relationships with lapsed customers, low spenders, growth areas, trends, customers, partnerships, products and services - or new ways of reaching existing markets.
• Working with the Customer Excellence Team to ensure smooth handover, conversion and ensure transactions are efficiently completed.
• Effectively cross-sell, upsell and maintain a thorough understanding of our products and services, introducing customers to new and innovative products and educating them about the full product and service offer across our divisions.
• Meet and exceed sales targets and KPI’s such as revenue, call volumes and quality, talk time and orders raised.

What you'll bring:

< i>Proven track record in sales or business development, with a demonstrable ability to meet or exceed targets.
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written, with the ability to engage effectively with customers.
• A resilient and proactive mindset with a dynamic and dedicated attitude.
• Self-motivated and results-driven, with a proactive approach to problem-solving.
• Ability to work autonomously as well as collaboratively within a team.
• Prior experience in outbound calling or customer contact roles is desirable.