CAREERS
Due to our continued success and growth, we are currently inviting applications for the following roles:
Department: Sales
Title: Senior Sales Executives – Election Services
Job Purpose
The ideal candidate will have an established track record in selling election services in markets such as Trade Unions, Membership Bodies, Health Trusts etc. As a Sales Director, you will be responsible for creating and delivering sales strategies in current established markets as well as well as identifying new market opportunities. You'll play a fundamental role in developing future growth, and provide vision, direction and leadership.
Experience/Skills
- Proven track record in selling election services across Trade Unions, Membership Bodies Health Trusts etc
- Developing strategy, tactics, sales plans and profit targets
- Delivering sales by developing relationships with partners and customers
- Identifying and reporting on business opportunities in target markets
- Acting as an ambassador and role model for our business
- Taking responsibility for profit and loss
- Increasing market share in existing markets and maximise new business development opportunities
- Achieving targets for revenue, profitability and sales growth.
- Provide direction to your department.
Competencies
To be a Sales Director you'll need to have:
- Excellent sales and negotiation skills
- Good business sense
- The ability to inspire, motivate and lead a team
- Initiative, drive and enthusiasm
- Excellent communication and 'people skills'
- Good planning and organisational skills
- The ability to work calmly under pressure
- Good IT, budget and report writing skills
- A full driving licence
Department: Operations
Title: Product Manager
Job Description
The Product Manager is responsible for both product planning and product
marketing. This includes managing the product throughout the product lifecycle,
gathering and prioritising product and customer requirements, defining the
product vision, and working closely with engineering, to deliver winning
products. It also includes working with sales, marketing and support to ensure
revenue and customer satisfaction goals are met. The Product Manager's job also
includes ensuring that the product and marketing efforts support the company's
overall strategy and goals.
The Product Manager is expected to:
- Define the product strategy
and roadmap
- Deliver Market requirements
Documents and Product Requirements Documents with prioritised features and
corresponding justification
- Work with external third
parties to assess partnerships and licensing opportunities
- Be an expert with respect to
the competition
- Develop the core positioning
and messaging for the product
- Perform product demos to
customers
- Set pricing to meet revenue
and profitability goals
- Develop sales tools and
collateral
- Propose an overall budget to
ensure success
- Brief and train the sales
force at quarterly sales meetings
- Brief press and analysts and
go on press tours
- Act as a leader within the
company
Required
experience and knowledge
- Minimum of 2+ years
experience as a Product Manager or Product Development
- Demonstrated success
defining and launching excellent products
- 3+ years of experience in a
job in the IT industry
- Excellent written and verbal
communication skills
- Bachelor's degree
- Technical background, with
experience in the full software development lifecycle
- Excellent teamwork skills
- Proven ability to influence
cross-functional teams without formal authority
- Must be able to travel
- Examples and at least one
sample of an effective document delivered in the past
Department: Operations
Title: Product Support Engineer
Job Description
This
is a fantastic opportunity for an experienced Product Support Engineer to join
the team. The selected candidate will have a solid UAT testing background with
proven experience working within a software product company. This role relates
to business testing as opposed to functional testing and the programme will be
driven by business process change. The
role also incorporates general network support and maintenance for internal
systems, including resolving issues and providing product and system
maintenance.
The Product support Engineer is expected to:
- Define the internal and
external User Acceptance Test Strategy
- Work closely with the
Product manager and Software Development manager to define User Acceptance
Tests
- Record, track and monitor
the status of all errors arising from UAT testing.
- Support the product
managers, sales team and development team with demo system setup
- Attending all the necessary
project planning and status meetings.
- Working with the necessary
stakeholders to acquire ongoing resources, spearheading and conducting all
UAT communications.
- Leading go/ no-go decisions
from a client perspective and providing UAT status reporting.
- This position will
collaborate with the program management team, operations team, project
sponsors, and with other key stakeholders.
- Support the internal network
and systems
- Record, track and manage all
internal support requests
Required
experience and knowledge
- Minimum of 3+
year
Testing and UAT experience.
- Understanding of test
methodologies
- Experience with the testing
process
- Excellent written and verbal
communication skills
- Bachelor's degree
- Technical background, with
experience in the full software development lifecycle
- Excellent teamwork skills
- Understanding of network
setup and support processes
- Ability to work in a time
critical environment
- Good understanding of:
o Manual Testing
o Automated Testing
o Windows XP / Vista
o Knowledge of SQL
If you feel you are a suitable candidate and would like to join our award winning company, please send your CV with a covering letter stating the position you are interested in to HR Department, OPT2VOTE Ltd., 25d Bishop Street, Derry, BT48 6PR or via email to hr@opt2vote.com
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