Regional Manager, CX Support Operations — EMEA 

Leeds / Hybrid - 3 days from office 

About the role: 

You will be the EMEA execution lead for CX Support Operations — owning day-to-day operational delivery and running a ‘Find It | Fix It’ rapid action cadence to spot smoke, remove friction, and protect the post purchase consumer experience. 

This is a hands-on operator role: you will run daily controls and tasking, translate Cx insights into clear defect hypotheses, and drive fast cross-functional fixes with Logistics, DTC/eCommerce, Finance, Fraud, Technology/IT and CX Delivery partners. 

What You’ll Own 

EMEA day-to-day operational execution 

• Run daily/weekly operational routines that keep order support healthy across EMEA markets. 

• Lead triage and prioritisation of live order issues (payments, refunds, returns, carrier escalations, backorders, order corrections, address changes, exception handling). 

• Own the EMEA escalation pathway for operational defects and exceptions: clear intake, severity rules, updates, and closure criteria. 

• Maintain operational controls that reduce risk exposure and consumer harm. 

Find It | Fix It (rapid action continuous improvement) 

• Operate a repeatable ‘Find It | Fix It’ cycle: 

• Find It: detect smoke via Cx signals (contacts, defect tags, WISMO, payment failure trends, refund ageing, carrier scan anomalies, backlog aging). 

• Fix It: drive rapid root-cause, propose the smallest effective fix, mobilise the right partners, confirm impact, then standardise. 

• Build and manage the EMEA defect backlog (what it is, why it matters, who owns it, by when, and how we’ll measure improvement). 

• Drive closure of recurring defects by fixing process, policy, content, tooling, or partner handoffs. 

CX data → insight → action 

• Use CX operational and contact data to: 

• Identify friction and failure demand. 

• Quantify impact (contacts, cost, refunds, SLA misses, delivery promise performance). 

• Prioritise the backlog with clear rationale. 

• Create simple, trusted reporting that tells the story: “what’s broken, what we’re doing, what moved.” 

Partner leadership across EMEA 

• Act as the day-to-day operational partner for Logistics, DTC/eCommerce, Finance, Fraud, and Technology. 

• Create clear working agreements for: 

• Escalations and incident response 

• Ownership of fixes 

• Release/rollout comms to CX Delivery 

• Documentation and training 

Standards, documentation, and enablement 

• Maintain EMEA process and policy documentation (SOPs, playbooks, escalation guides). 

• Enable front-line and Tier 2 teams through: 

• Clear workflows and decision trees 

• Templates/macros/content updates 

• Targeted training for new changes 

Key Relationships 

• Director, Cx Support Operations (manager): priorities, escalation, governance, performance. 

• CX Delivery leaders (BPO and/or in-house): operational outcomes, readiness, training, defect feedback loop. 

• Logistics / Supply Chain / Carriers: delivery exceptions, claims, scan issues, warehouse exceptions. 

• DTC/eCommerce & Order Management: order flows, promise rules, promotions, cancellations, substitutions. 

• Finance / Payments / Fraud: disputes, chargebacks, failed payments, refund controls, risk. 

• Technology / IT / CX Systems: incident response, access governance inputs, defect remediation. 

What Success Looks Like  

Operational control: daily routines in place; escalations are predictable, fast, and closed with clear outcomes. 

• Friction reduction: measurable reduction in EMEA order-related contacts (WISMO, refunds, payment failures, delivery exceptions). 

• Defect closure: an EMEA defect backlog exists with owners and dates; recurring issues are reduced and prevented. 

• Speed to fix: time from ‘smoke spotted’ → ‘fix released’ decreases; fewer repeat incidents. 

• Partner confidence: Logistics/DTC/Finance/IT partners trust the process and see clear value in prioritisation and communication. 

• Team enablement: front-line teams have better tooling, SOPs, and training; less manual firefighting. 

Required Experience 

• 5+ years in CX Operations / Postpurchase operations / eCommerce operations / Logistics exception management. 

• Proven experience running daily operational routines and handling live escalations. 

• Strong analytical capability: turning operational/contact data into clear priorities and actions. 

• Track record delivering process improvement in a matrix environment. 

• Comfort working across multiple EMEA markets and nuances. 

Preferred Experience 

• DTC or omnichannel retail experience. 

• Exposure to OMS/CRM and contact center tooling (no deep engineering required). 

• Experience working with payments (Klarna/PayPal/Braintree), refunds/returns, and carrier escalation paths. 

• Experience operating incident response / defect management cadence. 

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Senior Credit Controller 

Leeds / Hybrid - 3 days per week in office 

About the role 

As we grow our Leeds finance team we're looking for a Senior Credit Control position to join a team of 3 credit controllers, reporting to the Credit Manager EMEA. Responsible for managing complex customer accounts, ensuring timely debt recovery, and maintaining the accuracy of financial records. The role goes beyond day-to-day credit control, requiring strong stakeholder engagement across Sales, Operations, and Finance, as well as a proactive approach to identifying and mitigating credit risk

• Process and allocate monies received from remittances
• Monitor and manage complex customer accounts to ensure timely payment and swift resolution of billing queries.
• Maintain accurate records of customer interactions and transactions
• Liaise with the Sales and Operational teams to address customer inquiries and disputes
• Report on aged debt and providing regular updates to management
• Identify and escalate any potential credit risks to management
• Organize and maintain shared email inboxes
• Working closely with Credit Control manager to review and improve team processes
• Involvement in the development and execution of test scenarios for finance systems
• Ownership of audit requests
• Take ownership of shortage and price claims, managing the end to end process and working with Credit Control, Sales & Ops to ensure timely resolution, reporting back to key stakeholders on progress
• Provide support to the team, first POC for queries/support
  
  

Some of the skills and experience you'll bring 

• Proven experience in a credit control or finance role
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Strong numerical and analytical abilities
• Proficient in Microsoft Office, particularly Excel; experience with accounting software is a plus
• A can-do attitude, with a strong team working ethic

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Objective

The Sales Associate works to achieve store sales goals by setting the standard of the ALO experiences & Brand Mission. Creating an authentic, organic experience of excellence for every guest through genuine connection, product education and educating customers about our community and culture. This individual is an expert in all facets of product knowledge, including features, benefits, fabric, usage, design, and care. The Sales Associate thrives working on a team and relishes a culture of feedback and excellence.

Key Job Responsibilities

• Impacts the business and store environment in a positive manner aligning with store leadership and company goals.
• Drive and exceed sales goals by leading ALO’s initiatives, while optimizing productivity and efficiency
• Ensure engagement with customers and provide a friendly and easy to shop environment
• Continue to build the client relationship daily with our customers
• In partnership with the leadership team, analyse reports in order to strategize and deliver results; support achieving action plans focusing on deficient areas and highlight growth opportunities
• Ensure effective sales floor coverage through the development of workforce solutions and leading selling initiatives throughout the store as needed.
• Knowledge of store goals, company communication, initiatives, new product launches and any additional information required by the Store Leadership Team; educate on guest-facing initiatives on the floor
• Confidently introduces all facets of the ALO business model (Retail, Yoga, Café) through personal testimony and knowledge of all aspects and details
• Leverages company tools, incentives, and strategies to support meeting store goal
• Resolve client needs quickly & effectively ensuring customer satisfaction
• Educates guests and staff on our product, community and culture
• Understand and protect the Daily schedule that prioritizes the best business strategy, in partnership with the Store Leadership
• Assists in processing shipment and ensuring product flow including but not limited to visual merchandising placement and daily replenishment excellence
• Ensure all front and back of house procedures are executed in accordance to the company Policy & Procedure
• Support other areas of the business, including Sales and Cashier, as needed

Sales Associate Qualifications

• Preferred prior work experience in a client-centric, sales environment
• Passion for customer service and delivering exceptional experiences
• Self-motivated with a desire to achieve results and excel individually, and as a team
• Fosters genuine connection through empathy, compassion, integrity and building trusting relationships
• Aligns with and embodies ALO’s Guiding Principles
• Ability to lift, push, carry or otherwise move up to 50 pounds
• Ability to lift, bend, kneel, climb, crawl and/or twist, and safely climb up/down a ladder
• Ability to stand and move for an entire shift
• Proof of right to live and work in the UK

Sales Associate Schedule

The Sales Associate will spend 100% of their work week on the sales floor. They must be willing to work a flexible schedule including evenings, weekends, and holidays to meet the needs of the business, which are subject to change. All Employees are expected to be able to work from the week of Thanksgiving including “Black Friday” (the day after US Thanksgiving) and that weekend until the end of the holiday season, first week of January.

Diversity and Inclusion statement 

As an Equal Opportunity Employer, ALO does not discriminate against applicants or employees because of race, colour, creed, religion, sex, national origin, veteran status, disability, age, citizenship, marital or domestic/civil partnership status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression or because of any other status or condition protected by statutory law. We are committed to an active Inclusion, Diversity and Equal Opportunities Policy, which starts with our recruitment and selection process, and we are happy to talk flexible working.

Interview Process adjustments  

If you consider yourself to require reasonable adjustments to any part of our recruitment process, we invite you to share those requirements with us when completing your application or by emailing europehr@aloyoga.com.We will make every effort to ensure your needs are met to provide a fair and transparent process of assessment. 

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Objective 

The Operations Associate is critical in the store team and is responsible for driving to profitability and efficiency. The Operations Associate will work closely with the Operations & Visual Manager & Operations Lead in initiating, completing work, and providing feedback to the team to achieve optimal results supporting total store operations.   

Key Job Responsibilities 

• Execute inventory management processes effectively with a focus on maximizing inventory accuracy and reducing shrink
• Investigate and root cause inventory accuracy issues, partnering with the General Manager to escalate process or system gaps
• Support execution of key operational functions including shipment, receiving and processing, reverse transfers, sales floor recovery, intra-day sales floor replenishment, floor set updates, and supply management
• Maintain and champion strong visual standards for the sales floor
• Work closely with reporting, budgets, expenses, inventory control, supplies, vendor relationships, technology, and facilities to ensure maintained and maximized
• Support a safe work environment and efficient operation through strong stockroom standards and processes
• Move dynamically on the retail floor to assess and fulfill the needs of the business, team and guests
• Execute company-level operations-focused directives, projects and initiates, in partnership with the Operations & Visual Manager & Operations Lead.  
• Assists in processing shipment and ensuring product flow; including but not limited to visual merchandising placement and daily replenishment excellence
• Demonstrate strong business acumen by leveraging metrics to support business-driving strategies
• Resolve client needs quickly & effectively ensuring customer satisfaction
• Identify product concerns and communicate inventory needs to support the business goals
• Support other areas of the business, including Sales & Service and Cashier, as needed 

Operations Associate Qualifications 

• Preferred prior work experience in a client-centric, sales & operational environment 
• Passion for customer service and delivering exceptional experiences
• High energy, upbeat and enthusiastic with the ability to integrate fun and work
• Self-motivated with a desire to achieve results and excel individually, and as a team
• Fosters genuine connection through empathy, compassion, integrity and building trusting relationships
• Aligns with and embodies ALO's Guiding Principles
• Proof of right to live and work in the UK 

Operations Associate Schedule 

Part-Time associates are expected to work up to 29 hours per week; Full-Time associates are expected to work 32-40 hours per week with 100% of their work week in operations and floor support. All employees' availability must suit the needs of the business, which are subject to change. The General Manager determines availability needs and creates a schedule including morning, evening, and weekend shifts, which may be subject to change. All Employees are expected to be able to work from the week of and including “Black Friday” until the end of the holiday season, first week of January. 

Diversity and Inclusion statement 

As an Equal Opportunity Employer, ALO does not discriminate against applicants or employees because of race, colour, creed, religion, sex, national origin, veteran status, disability, age, citizenship, marital or domestic/civil partnership status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression or because of any other status or condition protected by statutory law. We are committed to an active Inclusion, Diversity and Equal Opportunities Policy, which starts with our recruitment and selection process, and we are happy to talk flexible working. 

Interview Process adjustments  

If you consider yourself to require reasonable adjustments to any part of our recruitment process, we invite you to share those requirements with us when completing your application or by emailing europehr@aloyoga.com. We will make every effort to ensure your needs are met to provide a fair and transparent process of assessment. 

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Role Purpose

We are looking for an Open Banking Product Manager who will own and develop the bank’s Open Banking capabilities (AIS & PIS), ensuring regulatory compliance, strong governance and reliable operational performance. You will be responsible for Driving the evolution of Open Banking from compliance-led delivery to customer and commercial value, improving implementation quality, technical understanding and customer outcomes.

This is a hands one role where you are responsible for platform capabilities (APIs, consent, authentication and integrations), operational performance (availability, incidents, reliability), regulatory reporting and controls, and vendor/partner management. Overseeing customer-facing Open Banking use cases (e.g. payments, deposits) and identify opportunities to enhance the proposition.

This is also a collaborative role where you will work closely work closely with Engineering, Operations, Risk and Compliance to deliver scalable, customer-ready solutions. As part of a small, high ownership team, flexibility and support across other product areas is expected.

Key Responsibilities:

Product Ownership & Delivery:

• Own end-to-end delivery and prioritisation
• Define problems, outcomes and success metrics
• Make informed trade-offs and drive through to optimisation

Performance & Operations:

• Monitor performance (availability, errors, usage)
• Lead incident management with Engineering and vendors
• Continuously improve reliability

Engineering Partnership:

• Collaborate on APIs, consent, authentication and integrations
• Contribute to solution design and scalability

Customer & Proposition:

• Use data and insight to identify customer needs
• Enhance the proposition beyond compliance

Strategy & Roadmap:

• Own roadmap and align with wider product strategy
• Track regulation, market trends and innovation opportunities

Platform & Partner Management:

• Manage vendors and platform performance
• Ensure scalable, effective solutions

Regulatory & Governance:

• Ensure compliance with Open Banking regulation
• Maintain strong controls, testing and audit readiness

Stakeholder Collaboration:

• Align Engineering, Risk, Compliance, Operations and Product teams
• Communicate clearly and drive delivery

Skills & Experience

• Significant experience within Open Banking expertise (AIS & PIS)
• API and integration knowledge
• UK financial services experience
• Proven delivery of Open Banking solutions
• Vendor management experience
• Strong product management and technical fluency
• Clear communication and ownership mindset

The role

At GoCardless, we’re on a mission to revolutionise how businesses get paid. As we scale, equipping our commercial teams with the right knowledge, tools, and content at the right time is critical to our success.

The Revenue Enablement Manager – Readiness & Content, ensures commercial teams have the right assets and plays at the right moment. You own how enablement content is created, governed, distributed and optimised to support faster execution and higher quality deals, globally. 

You work closely with the Global Enablement Lead, Product Marketing, Sales and Customer Success to ensure the enablement strategy is activated through governed, usable and revenue impacting content.

You’ll bring a mix of frontline commercial experience, strong content sensibility, and operational rigour to drive tangible business outcomes.

What excites you 

• Content Strategy & Creation
  • Develop and maintain a library of high-impact enablement content (pitch decks, one-pagers, playbooks, talk tracks, objection handlers).
  • Partner with Product Marketing, Sales, and Customer ops teams to ensure messaging is consistent, relevant, and aligned to buyer needs.
  • Translate complex product/solution capabilities into digestible, value-led collateral for internal and external use.
• Readiness & Best Practice Enablement
  • Own the “last mile” of readiness: ensuring commercial teams know what to use, when to use it, and how to use it to influence pipeline.
  • Run content-specific enablement sessions and office hours to drive adoption and front line readiness.
  • Support customer enablement by collaborating with CSMs and CS Ops to create assets that drive onboarding, expansion, and retention.
  • Reinforce learning and coaching programmes through practical assets and templates
• Content Governance & Operations
  • Own and optimise our content management system to ensure content is easy to find, up to date, and used effectively.
  • Establish a process for content lifecycle management, working with stakeholders to audit and sunset outdated assets.
  • Track content performance and usage to continuously improve effectiveness and inform new asset creation.
  • Feed real execution needs back into enablement and GTM planning
• Cross-Functional Collaboration
  • Act as a tactical bridge between Enablement and all commercial functions eg. Sales, Product, Legal, Pricing etc to ensure consistency and clarity.
  • Influence go-to-market motions by aligning enablement content to product launches, campaign initiatives, and market shifts with clear, ready to use materials

What excites us  

Experience

• Essential: 3+ years in a revenue enablement, content marketing, or revenue operations role – ideally with experience managing a content system and/or proficient in owning systems.
• Essential: Track record of creating and driving adoption of impactful enablement materials that move the needle on commercial outcomes.
• Bonus: 2+ years in a commercial role (AE, CSM/AM, SDR, Partnerships, Marketing) with a proven understanding of the B2B sales lifecycle, preferably in SaaS or FinTech

Skills & Attributes

• Commercial Acumen: Deep understanding of sales and customer success motions – you can spot what’s missing in a deck or playbook because you’ve been there.
• Content Fluency: Exceptional writing and content development skills; able to simplify complexity into powerful narratives and assets.
• Operational Rigor: Skilled at managing processes, systems, and workflows to keep enablement materials accurate, accessible, and impactful.
• Collaboration & Influence: Comfortable working cross-functionally with senior stakeholders to align on messaging, needs, and outcomes.
• Analytical Mindset: Able to track content performance and make data-driven decisions about what to scale, fix, or retire.
• Bias to Action: You’re a self-starter who thrives in ambiguity and takes ownership to make things better without waiting to be asked.

The above is a guideline and we welcome applications from all backgrounds and experiences. If you feel like you have what it takes to do this role, please apply! 

Bonus Points

• Experience working with enablement platforms (i.e Showpad, BigTinCan, Gong).
• Familiarity with SFDC, Revenue Intelligence, Buyer Enablement and/or content analytics tools.
• Background in B2B fintech, payments, or high-growth SaaS environments.

Base salary range: £32,800 - £49,200

Base salary ranges are based on role, job level, location, and market data.  Please note that whilst we strive to offer competitive compensation, our approach is to pay between the minimum and the mid-point (£32,800 - £41,000) of the pay range until performance can be assessed in role. Offers will take into account level of experience, interview assessment, budgets and parity between you and fellow employees at GoCardless doing similar work.

The role

Sales Ops is a force multiplier and "the critical link between the development and the execution of the sales strategy and go-to-market strategy." The team's mission is to increase the productivity and effectiveness of our customers and our GC colleagues by reducing friction in the sales process.

The Sales Ops Analyst will play a vital role in this mission, directly empowering our commercial teams and driving efficiency through robust system management, data integrity and user support. Diagnosing and fixing issues in Salesforce.com and in our commissions data will be a large part of this role.

Our Tech Stack and Tools: Salesforce, Qobra, Revenue Cloud, Docusign, Kernel, Cognism, LinkedIn Sales Navigator, Salesloft, Gong, ChiliPiper, Crossbeam.

What excites you

• Acting as a key partner to our Commercial teams, providing essential deal desk support and collaborating with a broad range of stakeholders across Sales, RevOps, Legal and Finance to guide deals from lead to close
• Taking ownership of system health across our sales tech stack, triaging user issues via Jira, performing audits and maintaining configurations for security, permissions and data integrity
• Translating business needs into effective tooling and process solutions, including gathering requirements, building configurations and supporting business process automations
• Enabling user adoption through clear training and communications, and proactively identifying productivity-boosting improvements across the stack
• Applying best practices and conducting rigorous testing to ensure robust, scalable outcomes
• Translating a technology-driven vision into tangible business outcomes
• Driving alignment on our vision and strategy, so every GeeCee has a clear understanding of our priorities, why they're important, and how their work impacts GoCardless' success
• Building trust and connection, so GeeCees are engaged as true advocates of the business, feel they have a clear voice, are listened to, and continue to deliver outstanding work through periods of transformational change
• Contributing to a vibrant culture where everyone feels a sense of belonging and loves working here
• Co-owning a significant portion of our commissions operations, approximately 40% of this role, including managing commissions data accuracy, supporting monthly/quarterly payment cycles, working closely with Finance and administering commissions tooling (primarily Qobra).

What excites us

• Proven experience in a Sales Operations, Revenue Operations or similar analytical role
• Hands-on experience working with CRM and sales tools, including building and maintaining configurations, custom objects and workflow automations
• Comfortable working with large, complex data sets in Google sheets or Excel.
• Experience managing or supporting commissions processes, including data validation, payment support and working with commissions platforms
• Strong communication skills and a partnership mindset to support and enable commercial teams

(Nice-to-haves)

• Salesforce Admin Certification
• Direct Deal Desk experience is a strong plus
• Familiarity with CPQ, Revenue Cloud or commission management tools such as Qobra
• An understanding of how CRM and sales tools integrate across a broader tech stack
• Experience in a Fintech or SaaS environment is beneficial, but not essential

Base salary range: £27,976 - £39,600

Base salary ranges are based on role, job level, location, and market data.  Please note that whilst we strive to offer competitive compensation, our approach is to pay between the minimum and the mid-point (£27,976 - £33,000) of the pay range until performance can be assessed in role. Offers will take into account level of experience, interview assessment, budgets and parity between you and fellow employees at GoCardless doing similar work.

The role

Working with customers across the UK & Ireland,  you will be responsible for the successful adoption and growth of your portfolio across a variety of customers. 

Your primary responsibility will be identifying a path to increase the breadth and depth of GoCardless usage and value across the customers footprint. You will need to work closely with your account team to map the scope by customer, identify stakeholders, assess risk/opportunity and create an execution plan. 

As a part of our wider success team, you will also work closely with Professional Services to drive implementation and time to value, our Customer Advocacy team to enhance the customer experience and share success stories, and Renewal Managers to work towards retention alongside a dedicated Account Executive for expansion and growth opportunities.

You will own the customer lifecycle, delivering value at each milestone and will be excited to drive the awareness and uptake of GoCardless as an account to account payments provider offering Bank Debit alongside our Open Banking capabilities.

As CSM at GoCardless you will:

• Manage a book of business (BOB) and ensure delivery against milestones throughout the customer lifecycle, aligned with our team’s business KPIs.
• Drive commercial discussions with customers by devising strategies to drive positive Net Revenue Retention.
• Own and execute Account Plans tailored to each customer's strategic goals, positioning GoCardless as a trusted partner.
• Partner with the Account Management and Sales team on Account Planning and driving total book of business growth through competitive, market and whitespace analysis.
• Share commercial ownership of the Account Commercial Success including the need to Identify, nurture and close expansion opportunities across the base.
• Identify and build a strong relationship with key stakeholders including C-suite, champions and end-users.
• Work Cross functionally and collaboratively involving leadership across the business to drive customer value.
• Mitigate risk including managing renewals for existing customers  
• Forecasting accountability for your owned book of business 

What excites us:

• 2+ years experience in complex end-to-end client facing work environment
• 2+ years experience with Sales/CS and/or Account Management 
• Additional languages a plus
• Be a team player and have a growth mindset 
• Strong listening and verbal communication skills: you will need to quickly understand customer needs or issues and deliver a clear and concise response via video calls, emails, in person meetings
• Ability to manage conflicting priorities and thrive in a fast-paced environment
• Be a good collaborator and can motivate or maintain enthusiasm of your team members
• Finance/Payments industry experience is a plus

Base salary range: £27,976 - £33,570

Base salary ranges are based on role, job level, location, and market data.  Please note that whilst we strive to offer competitive compensation, our approach is to pay between the minimum and the mid-point of the pay range until performance can be assessed in role. Offers will take into account level of experience, interview assessment, budgets and parity between you and fellow employees at GoCardless doing similar work.

Kao Professional Hair is home to a portfolio of iconic professional salon brands, including Goldwell, KERASILK, KMS Hair, Oribe, and VARIS. Our mission is simple: to enrich the lives of stylists, salon owners, and their clients. Through innovation, education, and partnership, we're dedicated to making life more beautiful.

About the Role:

Colour-Focused Salon Educator – covering Northern England, ideally located in Sheffield, Manchester or Leeds area.

This is a varied and rewarding role for someone who loves being on the move. You'll travel across your region, working to a structured journey plan, engaging directly with salons and building meaningful, long-term relationships. The role includes regular travel, with some overnight stays required depending on location and business needs.

As a trusted expert and brand representative, you'll play a key role in developing hairdressers' technical skills -particularly in colour - helping them deliver exceptional results using Goldwell products. You'll also collaborate closely with the sales team to grow the business, identifying new opportunities and supporting salons in transitioning to Goldwell.

This role is ideal for someone who enjoys a mix of hands-on education, commercial awareness, and relationship management.

Key Responsibilities:

• Deliver engaging, high-quality training to salon teams, supporting both new and existing accounts in your region
• Partner with the sales team to align on customer needs and drive best practice across salons
• Showcase new products, promotions, and education initiatives at meetings and events
• Plan and manage your territory effectively to maximise impact and coverage
• Continuously develop your own skills through ongoing training and industry insights
• Represent Kao as a passionate Brand Ambassador at industry and company events
• Maintain accurate reporting and administrative records

What We're Looking For:

• Minimum of 8 years' experience within the professional hairdressing industry.
• Proven experience delivering hair education is required
• Prior expertise across all aspects of hairdressing, including cutting, colouring, styling, and retail within a salon environment.
• Experience in presenting and basic management, with the ability to support, guide, and influence salon teams.
• Knowledge of commercial salon operations, including the pressures of long working days, varied salon cultures, and the ability to prioritise workload effectively.
• Ability to adapt communication and training styles to suit different personalities and team dynamics within salon environments.
• Commercial awareness with an understanding of how education can support business growth and product distribution.
• Basic working knowledge of Microsoft Office programs (such as Outlook, PowerPoint, and Excel).

What We Offer

• Company car and company card.
• Flexible working and competitive compensation packages.
• Pension and insurance plans.
• You will enjoy 25 days holiday, plus your birthday off, with the option to buy up to 5 extra days (pro-rata).

Hiring Process Kao values diversity and individuality, believing equal opportunity and inclusion make us stronger. We welcome applications from all areas of the global community.

Want to Learn More? Discover why 33,000 people worldwide have chosen a career with us. Visit our website: (https://www.kao.com/americas/en/) or EMEA website (https://www.kao.com/emea/en/)

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The Role 

We are looking for a Senior Infrastructure Manager who is, first and foremost, a people leader.

In this role, your primary responsibility is the health, performance, and career growth of your engineering team. While you must possess a solid technical background to understand the challenges your team faces, your day-to-day focus will not be hands-on technical work. Instead, you will use your experience to remove blockers, guide decision-making, and ensure your engineers have the environment they need to succeed.

You will act as the bridge between technical execution and business strategy, team budget management, defining roadmaps, and ensuring operational excellence across a complex hybrid (predominantly on-prem and some cloud) estate.

The Team You Will Lead 

You will lead the Infrastructure Solutions team within the wider Technical Operations department. Your engineers are responsible for building the environment, delivering projects as requested by Engineering and Product, and ensuring we remain available, scalable, and secure. They are not responsible for the BAU function of the platforms that is managed by another team within Technical Operations. The Infrastructure Solutions team takes a concept or idea and makes that into a reality within the boundaries and constraints of our platforms. 

You will be managing a team of engineers who individually possess experience in:

• On-Premise Linux systems, Container solutions, Debian packaging, Ansible, data streaming and queuing technologies such as Kafka or RabbitMQ
• Advanced database management knowledge (MySQL, Postgres) in replicated environments.
• Physical Network management, with an on-prem estate that is Juniper focused. 
• Cloud environments: GCP and AWS
• Platform engineer focused on building, maintaining and supporting an Internal Developer Platform (CI/CD)

The Operational Reality

It is important to be transparent about the environment you are joining. We operate at high velocity with a broad and complex technology estate. However, we are a lean team, not a giant corporation with endless resources.

• Context Switching is the Norm
• You will rarely have the luxury of focusing on a single task for weeks at a time. You will be required to shift focus multiple times a week, and sometimes multiple times a day, as business priorities evolve.
• Agility over Silos
• Because we are a lean team, we wear many hats. You must be comfortable pivoting from a strategic discussion to an operational challenge without losing momentum.
• Focus Management
• Success in this role requires the ability to maintain high standards while navigating a workload that changes dynamically. This is not a role for those who prefer a slow, singular focus; it is for those who thrive on variety, pace, and solving complex problems in real-time.

As the Senior Infrastructure Manager, You Will:

People Leadership & Talent Development

• Team Management
• Lead, mentor, and motivate a team of infrastructure engineers. Conduct weekly 1-2-1s, manage performance reviews, and handle all aspects of people management.
• Formal Training & Growth
• Go beyond ad-hoc mentoring to schedule and lead formal training sessions regarding operational improvements. Actively create professional development plans for your direct reports.
• Recruitment & Retention
• Own the hiring process for your team, ensuring we attract top talent and maintain a supportive, inclusive culture.
• Culture of Learning
• Foster a "Self-Learner" mindset. Create a transparent environment where failures are treated as learning opportunities and documented as such for future reference.

Strategic & Operational Management

• Budget & Capacity Planning
• Ability to own your team's budget and lead capacity planning initiatives. You will forecast future infrastructure needs to ensure we remain scalable while managing spend for subscriptions and hardware.
• Risk & Contingency
• Proactively identify operational risks and form contingency plans immediately to ensure business continuity.
• Procedure & Frameworks
• Ability to define, maintain, and cascade operational procedures (SOPs) and ITIL standards.
• Prioritisation
• Shield your team from noise by effectively prioritising workloads (Changes, Problems, and Projects) and managing stakeholder expectations.

Technical Support & Oversight

• Performance Optimisation
• Measure and optimise system performance with a focus on improving reliability and time-to-market. You will drive innovation to get ahead of internal customer needs rather than just reacting to them.
• Visual Documentation
• Ensure the team produces detailed system design documentation, specifically enforcing the inclusion of visual representations to support understanding. Ability to technologically assess it as a technical editor.
• Hybrid Estate Management
• Ability to oversee the management of both On-Premise and Cloud (GCP/AWS), ensuring high availability across all environments.
• Unblocking Issues
• Act as the senior escalation point for complex technical issues. Your goal is not to fix the issue yourself, but to coordinate the right resources and provide air cover.

General Duties

On-Call DutiesWillingness to participate in the Management On-Call Rotation to support the department and the business (Current frequency: Once every three weeks).Ad-HocCarry out other strategic or technical duties required to support the Director/VP of Technical Operations.

Essential Knowledge, Skills, and Experience

Leadership & Management Competencies

• Proven Management Experience
• Significant experience leading a technical team, with a specific focus on the people management aspect (performance reviews, career growth etc).
• Project Management
• Strong project management experience with the ability to delegate effectively to meet tight deadlines. You must be able to multitask and maintain focus in a high-priority environment.
• Communication
• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills. You must be able to liaise effectively with management and other business areas. Engagement may also include interactions with senior technical engineers/leaders within other teams and C-Team members. 
• Goal Oriented
• You must be highly goal-oriented with strict attention to detail, capable of prioritising workload and demand to ensure targets are met.
• ITIL Application / Lean Six Sigma
• Deep knowledge of and experience with ITIL practices, with the ability to apply them to improve team workflows. Demonstrated ability to apply Lean Six Sigma concepts.

Technical Environment & Team Capabilities

Focusing on the technical skills that your engineers possess, it would be ideal if you had a decent working knowledge of each of the areas. Hands-on expertise in every area is not required, but the ability to hold and facilitate discussions, know when to push or hold back and when to ask poignant questions will help you effectively mentor the team and guide architectural decisions. 

For reference from above these areas are: on-prem and AWS/GCP solutions; system design from network to application level; resilient database availability strategies; automation and configuration management via Ansible, Docker and CI/CD; programming awareness in Python; Linux administration.

Your willingness to learn what you don’t know is required to succeed in this role and we will support you through that journey.

Desirable Knowledge, Skills, and Experience

The following skills or experiences are advantageous but not strictly required. They would be utilised for facilitating tasks rather than for direct, hands-on implementation.

• Innovation & Debt Management
• A keen interest in new technologies and innovation, specifically supporting development teams in the refactoring of technical debt.
• Advanced Containerization
• Deep knowledge of Kubernetes, Docker, and container ecosystems.
• Observability
• Experience with monitoring systems (e.g., Zabbix, Grafana) and logging stacks (Elasticsearch, Kibana).
• Data Streaming
• Experience with data streaming and queuing technologies, specifically Apache Kafka and Druid.
• Web & Storage
• Knowledge of Nginx (or other web server technologies) and storage technologies like Gluster.
• Tooling
• Proficiency with JIRA and Confluence for project tracking and documentation.
• Version Control
• strong understanding of Git and version control best practices.

Why This Role?

If you are an experienced technical leader who finds more satisfaction in growing people and building high-performing teams than in closing tickets yourself, this is the role for you. You will have the autonomy to shape the culture of the Infrastructure function and the strategic backing to make a real impact on the business

A Note to Candidates

At Partnerize, we recognise that the perfect candidate doesn't exist. If you are a strong people manager with a background in tech, but maybe haven't touched a command line in a few years - that’s okay! We are looking for leadership first. We encourage you to apply if you feel you have the management skills to help our team thrive.

UK Benefits & Perks

• 25 days holiday in addition to bank holidays 
• Enhanced Parental Leave: 6 months full pay for birth parent, 4 weeks non-birth parent at full pay after one year employment
• 5 extra 'Partnerize Parental Days' each year
• Private Medical Insurance through Vitality 
• Enhanced pension contributions
• Cycle to Work scheme 
• Eye Care Vouchers 
• Life Assurance
• Enhanced Wellness Program including access to EAP, Wellness Coaching & Wellness Fridays program
• Regular company events and activities

The Role

As an SDR, your main goal will be to prospect and qualify new business opportunities with senior decision-makers across the UK&I. You will work highly collaboratively with experienced Sales Account Executives to win new business. 

You will be responsible for introducing GoCardless to new customers, identifying their pains, uncovering opportunities, and growing the pipeline through email outreach, LinkedIn messaging, video and phone calls. This will entail researching and identifying relevant stakeholders in the sales decision-making process. 

The Training

You don't necessarily need prior experience although having some sales, customer facing experience in any setting (recruitment, property sales, B2B, B2C) would be a plus. GoCardless will train you to become an expert on the value proposition and the market.

The Growth 

Tech/SaaS sales is a career with a clear growth path. GoCardless provides you with an opportunity to progress into a closing Account Executive role over time. 

The Team

This role will be part of an established, high performing and collaborative SDR team that consistently overachieves against their targets.

What excites you

• Introducing how GoCardless can make a real difference to new customers
• Passionately articulating GoCardless’ value proposition in new sectors
• Nurturing prospects through to a fully qualified lead
• Thinking creatively about how best to engage new customers
• Maintaining and tracking your activity on Salesforce.com
• Developing the skills necessary for promotion to a closing or leadership position

What excites us 

• Experience in an outbound B2B sales role is always beneficial
• Experience in customer-facing roles and competitive target oriented environment is beneficial
• Highly motivated to maximise activity and to overachieve targets
• Entrepreneurial mind-set with a hunger to succeed
• Experience using Salesforce, working in a start-up or FinTech company are all beneficial 
• You can talk passionately about what GoCardless does 
• You are good at finding ways to motivate yourself and teammates. We pride ourselves on positivity and camaraderie 
• You embody the core values of GoCardless

Base salary range: £27,976 - £40,800 + OTE

Base salary ranges are based on role, job level, location, and market data.  Please note that whilst we strive to offer competitive compensation, our approach is to pay between the minimum and the mid-point of the pay range until performance can be assessed in role. Offers will take into account level of experience, interview assessment, budgets and parity between you and fellow employees at GoCardless doing similar work.

About Blank Street

At Blank Street, we’re on a mission to become the defining food and beverage brand of our generation. From the very beginning, we’ve set out to add a spark to ordinary experiences through elevated products, attention-to-detail, and a commitment to making every moment memorable. We’re motivated by the millions of customers we serve across cities, and know that our potential is unlimited. It all starts with our people and their commitment to make magic happen each and every day.

Start Something Extraordinary…

As a Shift Leader at Blank Street, you are a born player-coach who thrives when working alongside a team to deliver quality products. You are a proven people-person who takes pride in giving amazing service experiences and influencing your team to do the same. You thrive for opportunities to serve your community and make a big local impact. You are customer centric and believe in quality products through flawless execution, making every effort to give your customers exactly what they need, every day, in their way. You excel in fast paced environments and enjoy an inclusive, collaborative workplace, where your voice genuinely counts, and you can really make a difference.

You will spearhead individual, team and location initiatives to drive sales and business performance. Along with supporting your General Manager to lead these important company initiatives, you will regularly meet with the Senior Leadership team to voice feedback, improvements and overall be hands on in the success of your store, your customers and your teams’ best interests. You would be one of the first staff members to work in this location, which means you get the exciting opportunity to set the tone and create lasting connections in the neighbourhood.

Who We’re Looking For

• Love for cafe culture and people
• Friendly, open and approachable person who is able to work well with others
• Strong knowledge of coffee and equipment is a must
• Strong decision-making and multi-tasking skills
• Strong interpersonal communication skills
• Passionate about delivering excellent customer connections to create a regular customer base
• Able to work at a fast pace in high-volume environments
• Be an exemplary ambassador of our brand to new neighbourhoods

What You’ll Own

• Craft beautiful coffee products and serve all Blank Street customers with energy, warmth, and empathy
• Support your GM and our Training Team to help train new employees to succeed at Blank Street, including ensuring that new team members are following all recipes and training for menu items and processes and that they are in the correct uniform, are upbeat and vibes are positive
• Open and close the location safely and responsibly (Key holder) and ensure that cleaning duties for the store are followed at the beginning, during and end of the shift
• Positive and solution-focused handling of any minor customer issue
• At a store level, leads all initiatives with the operations and marketing teams to increase foot traffic, new customers, daily sales, and operational profitability and develop a loyal neighbourhood customer base for your store

Requirements

• Experience in the customer service or hospitality industry
• Availability that meets the needs of our cafes
• Full Time: 35 hours per week, 5 days of availability required and must be available to work 2 peak days (Peak days: Friday, Saturday, Sunday)
• Availability to work between 6:30 am and 9:00 pm
• Weekend and holiday availability preferred
• You must be authorised to work in the UK