Fresh Opportunities at GCubed Boutique Recruitment

You will be responsible for:

Sales:

• Achieve company financial hurdle rates in line with the regional budget 
• Develop, implement and drive the regional sales strategy in line with the company strategy to increase revenue and profit 
• Execute the regional industry sector strategy in order to achieve a sustainable competitive advantage
• Meet and exceed regional targets in line with the business units’ strategy and budget
• Grow national and regional corporate client base 

Commercial:

• Grow the business regionally in line with group strategy  
• Structure and close deals 
• Represent the company at company negotiations – client or government, to secure the most effective costs

Operational Management:

• Oversee and manage the regional branches / satellite offices 
• Work with cross functional teams including finance, marketing, operations and human resources departments

Projects and Innovation: 

• Finding smart, better ways every day to disrupt the market 
• Stay abreast with customer trends and insights within the Regional industry / sector 
• Implement new Technology within the region (delivery methods) 
• Customer experience 
• Implement new products within the region (innovate new customer needs)

Finance:

• Manage the costs of the region effectively
• Manage the regional monthly and annual Profit and Loss (P&L) (budget)

Customers:

• Ensure customer retention by servicing and visiting existing clients with the aim to extend and explore potential new business
• Cultivate and maintain relationships among business partners 

People Management: 

• Lead, support and manage regional staff - championing an effective talent strategy through succession management, career management, performance management and leadership management
• Lead culture in line with the organisation’s Employee Value Proposition (EVP) 
• Manage regional staff disciplinary or poor performance processes and procedures 
• Motivate employee performance (mastery, purpose and autonomy) 

Requirements:

• Minimum 5 years’ experience within the staffing and temporary employee services industry
• Relevant Undergraduate Degree
• Postgraduate Degree would be advantageous
• Comprehensive understanding of labour legislation
• Preferably based in East London or Port Elizabeth
• Proven management experience
• Financial acumen (budgeting/reporting) 
• Proficient in Microsoft Excel, Word and PowerPoint (Advanced level)
• Valid driver’s license

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Responsibilities:

• Providing billable professional services to Customers in developing applications leveraging industry best practices.
• Managing activities including needs analysis, data review, product demonstrations.
• Becoming a Multi-Qlik Product expert in its features, benefits and application.
• Communicating via In Person, Phone, Email, and Web meetings with customers assisting and guiding them through the design, development, implementation and deployment process of applications.
• Driving all aspects of successful implementations from requirements and design to mentoring and delivery.
• Generating Discovery meetings and document final solutions for customers and provide Knowledge transfers.
• Providing product feedback to Product Management.
• Playing an active role in the sales process providing technical support.
• Analysing customer requirements and develop proposals of technical solutions.
• Providing onsite customer mentoring and professional services.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree
• Business level English mandatory
• 5+ years’ experience of software implementation.
• Multiple years of experience with QlikView or QlikSense.
• Must be willing to learn and adapt to new features and functionality with evolving products.
• Comfortable working in Agile development environments.
• Must be self-managed, responsive, and dedicated to exceptional customer support.
• Strong hands-on experience with relational databases and data modeling.
• Experience of BI tools and/or enterprise-type (ERP, CRM) applications.
• Experience developing web-based apps with complex JavaScript interaction with web services is preferred.
• Responsive web development experience (Bootstrap, Foundation, media queries, etc.)
• AngularJS experience or equivalent JS frameworks
• Understanding of wireframing, UX design or UI patterns
• Experience with QlikView or QlikSense is preferred, though we are willing to train the right consultants with our technology. BI platform experience outside of Qlik is relevant as well.
• Source code versioning/control systems, code branching and merging practices.
• Must be able to travel 80-100% of the time - required