JOB TITLE: Implementation Specialist
SALARY: £35-40k
depending on experience
REPORTS TO: Relevant Programme Manager
BASED: UK, but with
regular travel to MK and hotpots across the UK
Background:
Under the
strategic direction of the Chair, Board, and Chief Executive, and in response
to our successful bids for EIF and National Skills Academy funding, Skills for
Logistics is reorganising and building capability better to serve logistics
employers and achieve sustainability by 2014.
Key to the reorganisation is the intention to embed disciplines
associated with project and programme management into SfL culture and practise. The delivery of each Programme will be
through a number of projects – sometimes running in parallel, sometimes
sequentially, through the life of that Programme. Each project will need a
multi-disciplinary team to deliver it and these teams are likely to differ
between projects.
To meet this challenge, we will run with
a pool of in-house technical specialists in each of the following four
functions:
- Skills
- Research
- Implementation
- Administration.
One person from each project team will
be designated the Project Manager for the duration of the life of that project,
according to the main specialist focus of that project.
Job Outline
As an Implementation Specialist with SfL you will be responsible
for achieving targets which ensure the work of SfL makes a difference in the
real world. This means that you will
work across the sector to deliver impactful skills solutions, on time and to
quality, thus raising the productivity of the UK workforce. In this sense, you will be on the front line
of solution delivery.
Key
Responsibilities and outcomes
·
Achieving active, practical and effective contribution from key
stakeholders in order to deliver the impacts identified in the EIF2 bid.
·
Achieving active, practical and effective engagement from
employers in logistics hotspots across the UK in order to deliver the impacts
identified in the EIF2 bid.
·
Implementing key solutions proposed under the four work programmes
and other work streams.
·
Working effectively as part of project teams to deliver the
contracted outcomes on time and to budget.
·
Securing the necessary input from employers and sector
stakeholders for future bids, including both ‘in-kind’ and cash contributions
as necessary.
Peer
Relationships
·
Other technical specialists across the organisation including:
Skills, Research, Administration and other Implementation Specialists.
·
Relevant managers and influencers in external stakeholder
organisations such as Trade Associations, Professional Institutes and Trades
Unions.
Skills
and Abilities
·
Have excellent business development skills with strong communication and
organisational skills.
·
Have excellent customer engagement skills.
·
Be accustomed to working in a challenging and ever growing environment.
·
Evidenced experience of delivering against targets.
·
Aware of the importance of using market intelligence and working with
the relevant specialists to ensure that products and services meet the needs of
the industry.
·
Insight into and experience of the Logistics Sector and the skills world.
·
Experience of working with others to deliver ambitious targets.
- Have an
excellent passion for the industry and the self-motivation to deliver to
targets.
- Have
excellent presentation skills
Qualifications & Experience
·
Demonstrate customer engagement skills leading to successful long
term relationship.
·
First degree or equivalent.
·
Evidence of achievement of financial and business development
targets.
·
Minimum of 5 years’ evidenced experience in a client facing role.
It is an exciting time for Skills for Logistics
due to the work programmes we are undertaking. The organisation is currently looking to recruit a number of new positions. If you are
interested in any of these roles then please forward a covering letter and CV
in the first instance to the H R Manager
at
Skills for Logistics
unit 12
Warren Yard
Milton Keynes
MK12 5NW
or email [email protected].
Thank you
