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Since our launch in March 2000, we have developed an award winning team of industry specialists, account developers, website designers, builders and developers from across Europe, who work in partnership with our clients.
We are the market-leading specialists at helping listed companies use the Internet for corporate communications. We work with 400 companies in eleven European countries, from the smallest companies to the largest.
We have a highly service-oriented culture, where people go the extra mile. Driven by new challenges and a highly dynamic environment, our talented team of more than 80 people spanning Europe has emerged as the clear leader in its field.
At Investis we operate an equal opportunities policy in all aspects of recruitment and employment regardless of sex, age, marital status, religion, race, colour, ethnic origin or disability.
If you would like to join an exciting leading edge organisation, where you get the opportunity to make a visible impact and develop your career, please use our online job application form, email your CV with a covering letter to recruitment@investis.com or telephone +44 (0)20 7038 9000.
Design Director, London
Sales Executive, London
Technical Project Manager
Client Website Manager
Front-end Developer/Web Producer
Associate Director, Europe
Consultant – Client Strategy
Applications Support Manager, London
Developer – Tridion/RedDot CMS Developer, London
IT Production Support, London
Associate Director (new business), London
Italian-speaking Web Content Builder/Junior Producer
Design Director, London
Job outline:
Driven by new challenges and a highly dynamic environment, our talented team is now looking for a Design Director. This is an exciting opportunity for an innovative and inspiring creative leader.
- To conceptualise creative ideas to communicate our clients’ strategic and brand messages in an online environment
- To produce and passionately present innovative, top of the range designs for high-profile clients
- To lead and inspire a growing team of designers
- To manage the creative output and constantly push the boundaries of creativity
- To lead the design and creative process
Candidate profile:
- You have at least five years of leading design agency experience, with a proven track record and strong portfolio of recent corporate design for major brands
- You possess a solid understanding of brands and how to communicate a brand, reach an audience, lead discussions with the client about their brand strategy and translate this into creative concepts across a wide range of media
- You have a minimum of two years’ experience in leading and motivating a design team and the ability to demonstrate effective management of performance and workload of a busy studio
- You are articulate and confident to pitch, present and liaise with high profile clients
- You benefit from a good understanding of information architecture and usability
- Knowledge of animation, video editing and 3D modelling is an advantage
This is a pivotal role and it is essential that you can demonstrate confidence in your own creative and technical abilities with an outstanding portfolio of work presenting intelligent ideas-led solutions across packaging and web…
To apply, please use our online job application form or send your CV with a covering letter to recruitment@investis.com.
Sales Executive, London
Job outline:
We are looking for a sales executive to help grow our business in the UK. Working within our Product Sales Team, in our London office, your main task will be to identify, engage and close sales opportunities within the online investor and corporate communications community. There will also be the opportunity to manage client accounts on an ongoing basis.
On a day-to-day basis key tasks will include:
- Making outbound business-to-business calls
- Developing and closing opportunities
- Managing client relationships
- Creating leads for consultative sales team
- Gathering essential business information
You will also be responsible for updating the CRM system with client information and making sure all records are up to date.
This is a fantastic opportunity for a highly ambitious candidate looking to develop a career in sales and gain experience in investor relations and the Internet, working with some of the industry’s leading professionals.
Candidate profile:
The ideal candidate will:
- Have six months’ plus sales / telesales experience
- Be well-spoken with a confident, professional and articulate phone presence
- Have the ability to penetrate the 'gatekeeper' and get through to the 'decision maker'.
- Have a proven track record of working within a target driven environment and achieving these targets
- Be enthusiastic and self-motivated
Salary will be commensurate with experience and the role comes with a generous performance-based bonus structure.
To apply, please use our online job application form or send your CV with a covering letter to recruitment@investis.com.
Technical Project Manager
Job outline:
Due to continued growth and expansion an exciting opportunity has arisen for a Technical Project Manager within the Project Management Team.
As a Technical Project Manager you will be responsible for the simultaneous delivery of web application and CMS projects on time, in budget and to exceptional quality.
From day one, you will be involved in a fast moving and creative environment, working alongside an award winning team of industry specialists, account managers, designers, and developers. The role therefore provides extensive opportunities for you to grow and develop your career.
The role includes the following responsibilities:
- Effective day-to-day management of technical web application and CMS projects
- Creation and management of build budgets, ensuring project profitability
- Primary communication channel between the client, internal teams and third parties
- Organise, run and lead client meetings
- Effective project planning and risk management
- Effective management of internal project team, including design, development and technical disciplines
- Management of client expectations
- Documentation of user requirements and functional specifications
- Produce all project life-cycle documentation, including project plans, risk registers and lessons learnt reports
- Enforcement of project controls, including status reporting, client sign-offs and change control
Candidate profile:
The ideal candidate will offer the following:
- Five years’ technical project management experience
- Excellent knowledge and experience of:
- PRINCE2 Practioner qualification
- Confident and effective client and internal communication skills
- Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously and work well under pressure
- Proven track record of effective time management, excellent written communication, attention to detail and diplomacy
- Fluency in French, German and Italian is an advantage
- - Web technologies including HTML, javascript, XML and .NET.
- - Content management systems including Stellent and Microsoft SharePoint
- - Website design and usability
To apply, please use our online job application form or send your CV with a covering letter to recruitment@investis.com.
Client Website Manager
Job outline:
You will proactively manage the website content and builds for a portfolio of blue chip clients.
The role includes management of planned updates and content maintenance for a portfolio of our investor relations and corporate website accounts. You will also manage build projects involving standalone websites, investor tool applications and other interactive features.
You will develop proactive and effective relationships with your clients to improve ongoing management of their websites. You will also work together with the Investis production team to ensure that client requests are completed accurately and on time.
Candidate profile:
You will have customer service and support experience, as well as knowledge of managing web-based projects. You must be a good team player with excellent communication (oral and written) skills. You are well organised and excel at time management. You are used to working under pressure and can prioritise appropriately. You love to troubleshoot and are excellent in multi-tasking. Fluency in European languages is an advantage.
Knowledge of online investor relations and corporate communications or the financial regulatory environment is a bonus, as is an IT or new media related degree.
To apply, please use our online job application form or send your CV with a covering letter to recruitment@investis.com.
Front-end Developer/Web Producer
Job outline:
You will be involved in technical build and maintenance work using standards compliant XHTML/CSS (for layout and styling) and content management systems on corporate web sites to meet client requirements within agreed timescales. You will also be required to carry out flash projects.
Candidate profile:
The right candidate will have strong technical skills and be very comfortable using Dreamweaver, Fireworks and Photoshop. A thorough knowledge of CSS, XHTML, JavaScript, Flash/Actionscript and website-building experience is essential. You should be conversant with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines and latest initiatives.
Knowledge of a content management system and end-to-end project experience from briefing through to completion is a bonus.
You must have excellent English and fluency in other European languages is an advantage.
You should be a good team player with excellent communication and organisational skills and a flexible highly motivated self-starter.
Your application must include URLs of hand-coded CSS-driven XHTML to a high standard.
To apply, please use our online job application form or send your CV with a covering letter to recruitment@investis.com.
Associate Director, Europe
Job outline:
We are looking for an associate director to help build our business in continental Europe. The candidate will have excellent sales and client handling skills and a good knowledge of corporate communications and web-related technology. He/She will have fluent English and an additional European language(s) would be a plus but is not essential.
In 7 years, Investis ( http://www.investis.com) has emerged as a leading pan-European provider of online investor relations and corporate communications services with more than 450 clients in 11 European countries. New regulatory changes for stock-exchange quoted companies in Europe that came in to effect in January 2007 means demand for our services is increasing substantially.
Investis provides a wide range of web-based communications services for publicly-listed companies including the construction and maintenance of corporate websites, interactive web tools, webcasts and consultancy. We are a very fast-growing company with offices in London, Milan and Vadodara, India.
The position will be based in London and the role will involve travel throughout Europe.
Key responsibilities will include:
On a day-to-day basis key tasks will include
- Work with the rest of the European team to meet sales targets by directly selling services to existing clients and new clients and through channel partners.
- Manage existing accounts throughout Europe
- Create and manage a sales pipeline
- Manage client relationships and maintain our reputation for superior service
Candidate profile:
- Strong sales experience in the corporate communications/ financial services and/or website sector including lead generation
- Experience of working with clients outside the UK
- Client management experience
- Interpersonal skills
- Negotiation skills
- Entrepreneurial outlook/self-starter
- The ability to communicate fluently in spoken and written English
- Further European languages or Russian would be a bonus but not essential
- A passion for corporate communications and/or web-based technology
To apply, please use our online job application form or send your CV with a covering letter to recruitment@investis.com.
Consultant – Client Strategy
Job outline:
Investis is a leading provider of online corporate communications services to blue chip organisations across the UK and Europe. In six years, we have won almost 400 clients, including half of the FTSE 100.
For many clients any meaningful interaction with their stakeholders will drive traffic to their corporate website, which has become the default information source for investors, the media or potential employees and the communities in which they operate.
By applying a high degree of creative and original thought and harnessing the power of technology, Investis is helping its clients to realise the full potential of the web for stakeholder communications.
The Client Strategy team
As a consultant you will work with some of Europe’s most high-profile companies that entrust Investis with their online representation. You will work closely with Investis creative and production teams to marry business requirements with technology and usability with design to create sites that support our clients’ businesses and help them meet their communication challenges.
Main responsibilities
- Business discovery and requirements evaluation
- Stakeholder workshop preparation and management
- Design concept and information architecture creation
- Wireframe and functionality design.
Candidate profile:
- Excellent written and oral communication skills
- At least four years’ relevant experience in web technology/design
- Good knowledge of Microsoft Office/Adobe programs
- Confident and capable of presenting to large groups
- Good analytical and reasoning skills
- Educated to degree level.
Salary
Dependent on experience.
To apply, please use our online job application form or send your CV with a covering letter to recruitment@investis.com.
Applications Support Manager, London
Job outline:
Investis is looking to recruit an Applications/IT Support Manager to manage the triage and workflow of Applications/IT support requests through a growing IT team. The support team will be responsible for:
- Support of our various platforms, including the performance of service work associated with the live implementations of those platforms and websites builds (MCMS, MOSS 2007, Tridion, Stellent, RedDot and our suite of bespoke CMSs).
- Support of Mediasurface platform (our core shared platform) issues that arise from the Production group, including providing expertise to solve ad-hoc Mediasurface issues which fall outside Production expertise.
- Keep our applications up and running and available to our users.
The Support Manager will be responsible for monitoring all work requests through the team, ensuring on-time delivery and quality of output for all requests. The Support Team will be made up of a 8-10 experienced back-end and front-end developers who will be responsible for website builds on the different Content Management Systems we employ as well as ongoing support.
Candidate profile:
- Dedicated to excellence in customer service; understands and empathises with the issues customers face and is tireless in solving them
- Delivering to SLAs in 24x7 environment
- Experience with client communications and issues management
- Excellent inter-personal communication skills, including experience of solving disputes and communicating calmly when under pressure and in high tension situations
- Excellent problem solving skills and ethos – capable and willing to own and solve problems and committed to getting to the bottom of issues
- Attention to detail
- Ability to think laterally and cope in a time constrained SLA environment
- Client-facing
- Calm under pressure
- Ability to drive and motivate the support team
- Experience of working with complex multi-tiered environments (Unix/Windows/CMS) with ability to understand all of them
- Ability to plan and estimate IT initiatives and to deliver to deadlines
- Network management and administration experience
- Production environment support experience
- Experience with UNIX and/or Windows system administration
- Experience with application development technologies such as Web Servers, Application Servers, Databases
- Experience with Java/Perl and/or .Net programming
This is a key role in a fast-growing company and represents a great opportunity for personal development.
To apply, please use our online job application form or send your CV with a covering letter to recruitment@investis.com.
Developer – Tridion/RedDot CMS Developer, London
Job outline:
Investis is recruiting a Tridion/RedDot CMS Developer to form a key part of a newly formed IT Website Build & Support team. The role will be split between:
- Building new Tridion and RedDot based sites from site set up, template and component build and site creation (CSS, HTML/XHTML, Javascript).
- Full software lifecycle development expertise and responsibility in an Internet environment
- Documenting procedures and assisting in developing a knowledgebase
- Support and maintenance of existing systems that run on Tridion and RedDot
- Development of new tools and Components for clients
Candidate profile:
- Have Tridion and / or RedDot CMS experience, VBS, experience of developments of .Net Development Framework, COM/DCOM, PHP, IIS, Tomcat, MS SQL, XML, CSS, HTML/XHTML, XSLT, Javascript
- Be a graduate level, professionally trained developer with at least 3 years experience with a high client service ethos
- Be a strong self-starter with good initiative and a resourceful approach to their work
- Be dedicated to excellence in customer service; understand and empathise with the issues customers face and be tireless in solving them
- Possess excellent problem solving skills and ethos – capable and willing to own and solve problems and committed to getting to the bottom of issues
- Possess first-class communication skills
This is an opportunity to be part of a rapidly growing IT team and is a role that offers significant career development opportunities within IT Development.
To apply, please use our online job application form or send your CV with a covering letter to recruitment@investis.com.
IT Production Support, London
Job outline:
Investis has a new vacancy for a crucial role in IT Production Support which will form a key part of a newly formed IT Support team. Responsibilities will include:
- Providing our Production team with daily support on our core shared Mediasurface CMS platform to ensure our 400+ clients receive a high level of ongoing service
- Delivering to SLAs in 24x7 environment
- Reporting to an Applications/IT Support Manager with daily progress on all support requests
- Building websites end-to-end on alternative Unix-based platforms, most importantly Stellent
Candidate profile:
- Have strong HTML and Javascript skills
- Have knowledge of Perl (or Shell scripting) and SQL
- Have CMS, Linux and XML experience (beneficial but not essential)
- Show a willingness to learn the specifics of our in-house Content Management Systems and their associated support needs
- Be dedicated to excellence in customer service; understand and empathise with the issues customers and internal stakeholders face and be tireless in solving them
- Possess excellent problem solving skills and ethos – capable and willing to own and solve problems and committed to getting to the bottom of issues
- Show a desire to provide a high level of service, both to our internal Production team and also to our many high-profile blue chip clients
- Possess first-class communication skills
This is an opportunity to be part of a rapidly growing IT team and is a role that offers significant career development opportunities within IT Development.
To apply, please use our online job application form or send your CV with a covering letter to recruitment@investis.com.
Associate Director (new business), London
Job outline:
Investis is a market leading provider of online corporate communications services to blue chip organisations across the UK and Europe. In less than 6 years we have won almost 400 clients, including half of the FTSE 100. However, we believe that this is only the beginning. We have ambitious growth targets and we need exceptional new business professionals to help us to meet them. If you have an outstanding track record selling tailored communication solutions to senior executives within publicly listed companies in the UK, then we want to talk to you.
Candidate profile:
In order to be considered for this role, you will need to convince us that you have the commercial acumen, confidence and experience to sell complete corporate and investor website solutions. You will be a polished up-and-coming sales professional, with at least 5 years' of consultative sales experience in a comparable business environment.
Importantly, you can clearly demonstrate consistent success at opening and closing new business with board level prospects. You will have a history of exceeding expectations as well as targets, and you are now ready to move your career up a gear, selling award-winning solutions to high profile companies.
In return you can expect to receive a high basic salary with an uncapped commission structure. Just as importantly, you will also have the opportunity to make a major impact within a young, rapidly expanding company, which rewards excellence and has an enviable reputation within its market place. You will join a small, ambitious sales team, reporting to the Head of UK Sales, and be based in our central London office.
To apply, please use our online job application form or send your CV with a covering letter to recruitment@investis.com.
Italian-speaking Web Content Builder/Junior Producer
Job outline:
As part of the Web Production team, you will be involved in maintaining our client websites and assist with corporate website building using a CMS. You will be responsible for prioritising and keeping track of updates, and making sure these are being done within tight deadlines and according to clients’ expectations, and reporting back to the project / client website managers when necessary.
Candidate profile:
You are very comfortable using Dreamweaver and Fireworks and have a good basic knowledge of XHTML and CSS. You must be computer literate with excellent knowledge of MS Office (Word, PowerPoint, Excel and Outlook) and any experience updating websites using a CMS would be an advantage.
You will need to be fast and accurate to produce work of the highest standard in a pressured environment. You will be a team player with good people skills, a strong administrator, and a flexible highly motivated self-starter with good attention to detail. Experience in processing work orders is required.
Excellent English and Italian language skills are a must and your communication skills, both verbal and written should be exemplary. You will need to demonstrate that you are confident liaising with project/client website managers within the company. The successful candidate will be proactive, punctual, reliable and committed.
The ability to maintain a high level of confidentiality and discretion is imperative.
We have a highly service-oriented culture, where people go the extra mile. Our team has emerged as the clear leader in its field.
At Investis we operate an equal opportunities policy in all aspects of recruitment and employment regardless of sex, marital status, religion, race, colour, ethnic origin or disability.
Location: London E1
To apply, please use our online job application form or send your CV with a covering letter to recruitment@investis.com.
T. +44 (0)20 7038 9023
F. +44 (0)20 7038 9001
E. Lee Harris
Recruitment:
T. +44 (0)20 7038 9000
E. recruitment@investis.com
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