We are working with an entrepreneurial, high growth enterprise software solutions provider to the construction and facilities management industries. The company has recently secured major debt financing funding and have moved to a Business Unit structure to promote their growth ambitions.

As such, we have been retained on an AVP Service Operations opportunity to lead the Professional Services, Project Delivery and People Management initiatives across their E-Invoicing Software Platform product offering. This is a highly visible role within the senior leadership team, reporting directly to the COO with responsibility for overseeing the delivery of assigned customer projects and services, ensuring that revenue opportunities are maximised, profitability targets are met, and that the customer has a positive experience with the business.

Key Responsibilities:

• Responsible for managing and responding to any customer escalations from projects, liaising with project managers, implementation consultants, technical engineers and customer support teams where necessary to ensure that all problems are resolved
• Participate in business unit leadership meetings, customer engagement meetings and steering committee meetings to ensure successful management and delivery of projects
• Build positive relationships with customers, aiming to build confidence and delight them
• Responsible for ensuring that project reviews are carried out to evaluate customer success and identify areas for improvement

Key Requirements:

• Demonstrable experience in a similar role, including the delivery of transformation projects and the commercial management of projects
• Experience with procurement, supply chain or e-invoicing software solutions
• Experience working with high volume transactions
• Being able to work on many different projects simultaneously

We are working with an entrepreneurial, high growth enterprise software solutions provider to the construction and facilities management industries. The company has recently secured major debt financing funding and have moved to a Business Unit structure to promote their growth ambitions.

As such, we have been retained on an AVP Service Operations opportunity to lead the Professional Services, Project Delivery and People Management initiatives across their Biometric Time & Attendance product offering. This is a highly visible role within the senior leadership team, reporting directly to the COO with responsibility for overseeing the delivery of assigned customer projects and services, ensuring that revenue opportunities are maximised, profitability targets are met, and that the customer has a positive experience with the business.

Key Responsibilities:

• Responsible for managing and responding to any customer escalations from projects, liaising with project managers, implementation consultants, technical engineers and customer support teams where necessary to ensure that all problems are resolved
• Participate in business unit leadership meetings, customer engagement meetings and steering committee meetings to ensure successful management and delivery of projects
• Build positive relationships with customers, aiming to build confidence and delight them
• Responsible for ensuring that project reviews are carried out to evaluate customer success and identify areas for improvement

Key Requirements:

• Demonstrable experience in a similar role, including the delivery of transformation projects and the commercial management of projects
• Experience of implementing financial commercial systems
• Strong commercial awareness – used to commercial management of contracts
• Experience of combined hardware and software solutions. A strong understanding of the physical elements of the Time & Attendance products as well as the software and logistics of delivery.

We are recruiting a Group Information Systems Director for a fast growth UK-headquartered international ICT Managed Services/Cloud Services provider.  Having grown organically and by acquisition, The group’s systems strategy is to consolidate systems to reduce diversity of architectures and systems over time. There are currently three major architectures in use in the group, but these already share a number of common systems, including Salesforce and  ServiceNow. A key part of the GIS role is to work with local stakeholders to understand their requirements and deliver services which meet those requirements.

GIS is responsible for:

• Business Analysis associated with development and continuous improvement of the application portfolio.
• Development and support of Business Support Systems (BSS).  This includes order management, customer relationship management and business intelligence.
• Development and support of Operations Support Systems (OSS),  This includes identification & authentication systems, monitoring systems and proactive alerting, automation tools for provisioning and integration between OSS and BSS such as incident management and service assurance.
• Development and support of the Enterprise Architecture, i.e. the over-arching set of principles which encompass the OSS and BSS whilst observing software best practice.
• The GIS team of 30 is split across several locations and is expected to grow to c50 staff.

We require a subject matter expert in business software integration and may come from a development or a support background.  Specific experience within IT Managed Services would also be an advantage. Experience of developing and/or delivering systems supporting the lead to cash process such as CRM, Solution configuration, order management, billing, and financials. Knowledge of Salesforce would also be beneficial as would the ability to run teams of c50 staff.

We are working with an entrepreneurial, high growth enterprise software solutions provider to the construction and facilities management industries. The company has recently secured major debt financing funding and have moved to a Business Unit structure to promote their growth ambitions.

As such, we have been retained on an AVP Service Operations opportunity to lead the Professional Services, Project Delivery and People Management initiatives across their Project Accounting software product offering. This is a highly visible role within the senior leadership team, reporting directly to the COO with responsibility for overseeing the delivery of assigned customer projects and services, ensuring that revenue opportunities are maximised, profitability targets are met, and that the customer has a positive experience with the business.

Key Responsibilities:

• Responsible for managing and responding to any customer escalations from projects, liaising with project managers, implementation consultants, technical engineers and customer support teams where necessary to ensure that all problems are resolved
• Participate in business unit leadership meetings, customer engagement meetings and steering committee meetings to ensure successful management and delivery of projects
• Build positive relationships with customers, aiming to build confidence and delight them
• Responsible for ensuring that project reviews are carried out to evaluate customer success and identify areas for improvement

Key Requirements:

• Demonstrable experience in a similar role, including the delivery of transformation projects and the commercial management of projects
• Experience of implementing financial commercial systems
• Strong commercial awareness – used to commercial management of contracts
• Experience of large scale implementation projects and track record of customer delivery.

We are working with a highly innovative, forward-looking PE backed technology provider, which has developed an innovative AI powered software analytics platform which solves software problems the world over.

The platform automatically prioritises code issues by severity, providing immediate clarity on where to allocate time and resources; reviews code in half the time, identifies which components have improved, which ones have deteriorated, where new issues have been added and how the codebase has grown. It identifies critical performance issues before they become roadblocks, effortlessly turns code issues into tasks and assign tasks using their built-in issue-tracking tool or using Jira through direct integration.

The company has recently secured further funding and is now looking to bring in an experienced CxO to set, execute and drive the growth strategy towards an exit over the next 3 years.

Key Requirements:

• Develop and execute the business strategy to ensure the company achieves its objectives
• Deliver the commercialisation of the product offering and support the company’s transition from a technology services to a software product provider
• Work closely with the Board to ensure the business realises its full market potential
• Support the Founding CEO to develop and implement the sales strategy, the GTM sales model and the market proposition
• Provide effective leadership to the SMT members and inspire, coach and motivate the key functional managers to perform at the highest level
• Support the Founders with fundraising from the existing and potential new Investors
• Ensure the company achieves its strategic goals and the value creation required to ultimately reach a liquidity event for Shareholders

Key Experiences:

• Significant general management, operational management and full P&L ownership experience gained within an enterprise software environment
• Led multi-functional teams, with a performance track record of delivering profitable revenue growth for an enterprise software provider
• Extensive experience of scaling an enterprise software business and increasing market share against the competition
• Highly experienced in working with the Founders or as a Founder of an enterprise software business
• Highly experienced in working for young, high growth venture backed software start-ups
• Experience of developing and executing the business strategy for an enterprise software provider
• Experienced in work closely with the Board to ensure the business realises its full market potential and increase shareholder value

Our client is a leading Private Equity backed SaaS provider of mobile workforce solutions. With offices across the UK and with the backing of a leading technology Private Equity firm, the company continues to grow at a significant rate and establish itself as the leading field service management software organisation in the UK.

The CTO will be responsible for leading the Development and Product teams, which will include defining, developing and executing the technical strategy in alignment with the business objectives, driving the development and delivery of best-in-class products and evolving the overall technology value proposition to support the business to deliver its revenue growth ambitions and profit performance, increase market share against the competition and realise its full market potential.

The successful candidate will have:

• Significant experience and a performance track record of successfully leading Development and Product teams, managing the Development function and driving the development and delivery of innovative products, within an enterprise software environment
• Extensive software development, full product lifecycle management and QA experience
• Strong understanding of a cloud-based, SaaS deployment model
• Inspirational, respected leader, who will motivate the Development and Product teams to perform at the optimum level and deliver to the highest standards to the business. Experience of managing software development, DevOps and Product staff
• Highly experienced in defining, owning, developing and implementing the technical strategy in alignment with the business objectives for an enterprise software provider
• Strong M&A experience, from a technology perspective, including due diligence, with a demonstrable record of effectively integrating products, people and process following each acquisition

We are working with a high-growth UK-headquartered enterprise software business.

The company has grown both organically and through acquisition and now are looking for a Group Architect to integrate all the different solutions to form one standardized platform. This is an opportunity to take overall responsibility for the whole group’s technology innovation, solution development and solution delivery – ensuring that the designs align with the architectural vision and organisational needs as well as making sure that the development teams are building products that meet the requirements.

The ideal candidate would have

• Experience in cloud related architecture, SaaS, analytics and emerging technologies
• Good understanding of Java / J2EE, SQL, SAP, Oracle, C#
• Knowledge of quality standards, legislation and best practice
• Experience working with development teams in bringing out new solutions on time and within budget

Our client are a Venture Capital backed, German Headquartered company, that have developed the next generation cooling technology. Their highly disruptive cooling system is applicable in a number of vertical markets, including data centres, industrial switchgear and factories.

They now require a CEO to take the business through this phase of moving from early commercial success into revenue growth and internationalization and so we are looking for CEO/MD with a strong sales and business development background as the business model will require strong “go-to-market” and “deal making” capability on the part of the CEO.

The ideal candidate will have:

• An experienced CEO / COO / CCO that has been through the lifecycle of a Venture Capital backed Technology Company or will be operating in a more corporate environment where experience of innovation and business unit P&L leadership can be demonstrated.
• Experience will have been gained in cooling / heating industrial systems.
• Prior to general management, will have gained a successful commercial track record in sales and marketing with experience of creating and closing complex high value deals, as well as alliances and partnerships.

• Prior experience of one or more of the following verticals markets: industrial, factory, building management, switchgear, data centres etc

• Will have worked on an international basis, with contacts and credibility in the European and international markets.
• Ideally, will have an engineering or physical science degree in order to quickly assimilate and identify with the Efficient Energy
• Will speak at least conversational German.

The company have a German HQ, but they are interested in candidates located in the rest of Europe. There is an attractive compensation and stock option package.

We are working with a high growth SaaS provider in Central Europe. Having recently completed an A-round funding, the business is now looking for a Non-Executive Chair to support the CEO and SMT achieve the planned growth ambitions.

The successful candidate is:

• A proven enterprise software sector Chair, with an impressive commercial track record of delivering enterprise value for investors and all stakeholders
• A former founder and ideally a CEO of a SaaS business
• Experienced with the full company lifecycle, from funding to exit
• Experienced in successfully building and coaching high performance management teams
• Able to commit 2-3 per days per month to the business as well as some ad-hoc support to the CEO

We are working with the most exciting technology leader in the electric vehicle revolution.

The company is in now entering a phase of accelerated expansion following funding and new customer wins.

They are now looking to hire a CFO that can support the company during this period of high growth.

The right candidate will have:

• Worked in a £100M+ revenue business with multiple business units and international operations
• Experience in manufacturing-based businesses, preferably in the automotive sector though this is not essential
• Experience of a wide array of financial transactions, which would include at least one of M&A, JV or IPO.
• A qualified accountant and holds an university degree

We are working with a company which is leading the optical computing revolution!

The company have developed patented optical processor and algorithms, that uniquely enable high resolution image data to be analysed at source or in the cloud. Their product can be embedded into smart devices and systems to deliver previously unachievable levels of processing and power efficiency. The use cases include image analysis in AI ‘change and detect’ applications such as in medical and autonomy.

The company is now looking to hire a CEO as the company moves from technology innovator into commercial growth. We require a CEO with a strong sales and business development background as well as the core business, technology and commercial leadership experiences and skills. You will have experience of growing VC backed companies gained in the data centre, server and HPC eco-system – compute, storage, networking, virtualisation etc. – from chip to systems.

The company have a UK HQ, but they are interested in candidates located in Europe and North America. There is an attractive compensation and stock option package.

We are working with an entrepreneurial, high growth enterprise software solutions provider to the Construction and Facilities Management industries. The company has recently secured major debt financing funding and has moved to a Business Unit structure to promote its growth ambitions.

We have been retained on a Development Manager opportunity to lead a number of Engineering teams. Each Development Manager will be accountable for managing up to 6 Development teams, with up to 10 Development staff per team. The Development Manager’s remit will include developing and executing the technical strategy, driving the development and delivery of best-in-class software products and evolving the overall technology proposition to support the business to deliver its revenue growth ambitions and profit performance, increase market share against the competition and realise its full market potential.

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide technical leadership and manage the teams so that all aspects of software development meet the highest standards to meet or exceed customer expectations in terms of functionality, quality, technology and the overall customer experience
• Ensure that the Development teams are building market leading products and solutions which use the latest technologies and are aligned to the company vision
• Manage the product delivery and ensure that the development teams are building products which meet the requirements, are scalable and easily maintained and supported
• Build and manage high quality teams, approve work estimates, establish budgets and communicate with the Product Owners and Scrum Masters to evaluate requirements and progress

Key Requirements:

• Previous experience of managing multiple Agile teams with responsibilities for developing and implementing the product strategy
• Experience in providing technical leadership to ensure that products and services are delivered in line within architectural frameworks
• Must be a Scrum Master and have in-depth experience of Agile methodologies
• Degree level or equivalent education preferred in a relevant subject such as Computer Sciences, Computer Engineering, Information Management Systems, Software Development or Business Information Systems

We are working with a high growth NW headquartered digital consultancy professional services business. The business offers specialist services designed to increase the enterprise value and reduce risk in mid-size companies via the use of technology.

Our client requires a strong General Manager with extensive experience in the digital consulting space to continue the rapid growth of the business. The successful candidate will have full ownership of the business strategy and operating plan for future growth.

Key Experiences:

• An experienced General Manager of a professional services business who has delivered growth; successfully scaling a services business and building enterprise value.
• An appreciation of Technology/Technology services will be very beneficial, but key is an understanding and experience of creating and building high performing geographically dispersed services teams – structuring the business operational and organisational model. International experience will be an asset.
• Mastery of the requirements for excellent consulting, project and service delivery. Outstanding operational delivery experience, with an absolute focus on the customer.
• Proven track record of managing a P&L. Strong commercial focus, underpinned by well-developed sales and marketing experience. Structured approach and used to implementing effective marketing and sales processes in a services business.