http://www.xbridge.com/careers/ en Copyright 2008 Thu, 20 Dec 2007 13:57:54 +0000 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/ http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Role: Partner Manager The Partner Manager will fulfil a key position. You will be responsible for the ongoing development and implementation of a key partner account in the financial services sector. You will be expected to effectively manage and optimise these top level partners. Role Requirements: • Ability to authoritatively manage external relationships • Proven commercial finance experience within the UK / European market • An understanding of the online channel and appropriate marketing tactics • Excellent analytical ability • Demonstrated ability to manage complete initiatives to their successful completion • Excellent presentation skills You should be a confident, driven and focused individual, who will put in what it takes to get results. Strong interpersonal and communication skills are essential to integrate into an excellent working and social environment within a highly focused and professional company. As part of a dynamic and rapidly expanding company, you will be provided with an excellent opportunity to gain experience and develop further within the company. Compensation: • Base £35k (commensurate with experience), with OTE up to £45k • Quarterly performance based-bonus • Excellent company benefits including free comprehensive private health plan ]]> http://www.xbridge.com/careers/2007/12/partner_manager.html http://www.xbridge.com/careers/2007/12/partner_manager.html Thu, 20 Dec 2007 13:57:54 +0000 Position: Reporting Analyst You will be a highly motivated and professional person. You will be used to working quickly with large amounts of data and having to identify what is important. You will have a high level of attention to detail and be good at spotting errors hidden amongst the data. You will be patient and good at dealing with members of the business teams and understanding requests from a reporting and management information point of view. The role mainly involves: Provision of management information • Daily and weekly reports to measure the performance of the insurance sales centre in terms of number of policies sold, amount of premium written • Weekly and monthly reporting to track the volume of users requesting a quote, and tracking where these users are coming from • Producing all the monthly management figures that are used by the management team to measure business performance • Logging sales that are sold on behalf of our lending team and tracking changes to the profile of businesses being written • Providing one off snap shots of insurer by insurer analysis Providing reporting support to the search marketing team • Producing weekly and monthly reports for Xbridge Pay-Per-Click activities per vertical and partner • Produce weekly and monthly ROI+ reports for XB’s own brand, Simply Business. This (and the above) is done combining data from a bid management tool and the internal reporting system • Assist Pay-Per-Click with in-depth analysis on certain verticals or partners (down to keyword level) on ROI or volume basis • Assist the natural search efforts with the collating and understanding of our search term rankings Invoicing & Pay Aways • Carry out the invoicing for the business teams • Track the issuing of invoices and liaising with the finance manager to ensure that financial and analysis numbers match • Calculating the revenue owed to partners on a monthly basis Required Experience • Degree in analytical related subject (e.g mathematics, science, economics, business etc) • Good knowledge of Excel • Experience of analysis in a business environment desirable Compensation / package • Base £25k (commensurate with experience) • Quarterly performance based-bonus • Excellent company benefits including comprehensive private health plan]]> http://www.xbridge.com/careers/2007/11/reporting_analyst.html http://www.xbridge.com/careers/2007/11/reporting_analyst.html Fri, 09 Nov 2007 15:07:16 +0000 Position: Search Marketing Assistant You will be a highly motivated and professional person. You will be good at seeing projects through to completion. You will have good project management skills. You will be patient and good at dealing with members of the business teams. You will be good at interpreting numbers to help make business decisions. You will be a quick learner and good at adapting to new situations. The role mainly involves: Natural Search Optimisation • Managing and promoting new content • Research new keywords • Monitor blogs, message boards and social networks • Analysis and reporting • Monitoring keyword rankings • Online conversion optimisation • Work with marketing and design to produce new landing pages • Methodical approach to allow analysis of results • Use of best of breed tools such as Omniture Sitecatalyst • Work with the business analysts to understand how to improve conversion on a segment by segment basis of our potential customer pool Pay Per Click Search Marketing • Assist in day to day management of accounts • Produce reports to business teams and management • Help increase ROI of all campaigns • Research keyword lists and work on creatives for all major search engines • Benchmarking our competitors PPC behaviour • Identifying click fraud and low quality sources of traffic Required Experience • Degree in business, marketing or technology based subject • Good knowledge of Excel • Experience of web analytics desirable (Google Analytics, Omniture, Webtrends) Compensation / package • Base up to £20 - £25k, commensurate with experience • Quarterly performance based-bonus • Excellent company benefits including comprehensive private health plan ]]> http://www.xbridge.com/careers/2007/11/search_assistant.html http://www.xbridge.com/careers/2007/11/search_assistant.html Fri, 09 Nov 2007 14:38:33 +0000 Position: Key Account Manager The account manager role plays a key part in the marketing team. Reporting to the Head of Marketing, you will be responsible for driving the acquisition of new online partners for Simply Business and managing & optimising existing key accounts. This role also involves strategic marketing input that will add to the value of department. Requisite Experience • 2+ years of experience successfully selling on the telephone • 1+ years of experience in the online channel • Proven track record of closing sales on the telephone • General knowledge of all online marketing tactics helpful • Ability to authoritatively manage external relationships • B2B & financial services marketing expertise useful but not necessary You should be a confident, driven, focused person willing to put in what it takes to get results. Strong interpersonal and communication skills are essential to integrate into an excellent working and social environment within a highly focused and professional company. As part of a fast growing company you will be provided with an excellent opportunity to gain experience and develop with the company. Compensation Base commensurate with experience; commission; quarterly performance based-bonus; participation in equity option scheme ]]> http://www.xbridge.com/careers/2007/11/key_account_manager.html http://www.xbridge.com/careers/2007/11/key_account_manager.html Fri, 09 Nov 2007 14:19:52 +0000 The role mainly involves: • Requirements review and business-case sanity check • Co-ordination of pre-development project deliverables with internal stakeholders • Ownership of project planning documentation, weekly status reporting and communications • Documentation and tracking of Iteration deliverables • Daily/weekly update meetings with Technical Team Lead and project sponsors • Liaison with other Technical teams such as QA, Systems, Design etc. to ensure smooth roject running and delivery • Supporting, troubleshooting and managing the interface between the business sponsors and technical teams • Coordination of the bug-fixing and Change Request processes • Involvement in the co-ordination and organisation of code releases to QA and Live environments • Working closely with and reporting to the Technical Team Lead. Requisite Experience • Proven commercial experience coordinating IT Development teams • Commercial client-facing experience • Practical experience of e-commerce environment and exposure to web technologies • Practical exposure to Prince2 or similar industry-standard project management methodology • Practical exposure to Agile project methodologies and processes • Experience of writing formal business communications • Excellent knowledge of MS Project • Practical experience of working within tight commercial deadlines • Good understanding of all aspects of an operational e-commerce business You will be a driven and focused individual willing to put in what it takes to get results. Strong interpersonal skills are essential to integrate into an excellent working and social environment within a highly focused and professional company. Excellent attention to detail with good verbal and written communication skills. Able to work as part of a team or on your own initiative you will have a pragmatic approach to business requirements. Ability to follow process and instructions. ]]> http://www.xbridge.com/careers/2007/11/it_project_manager.html http://www.xbridge.com/careers/2007/11/it_project_manager.html Fri, 09 Nov 2007 14:02:50 +0000 Essential Skills and Experience • Graduate of leading university with science or computer-related degree • Proven commercial experience in a similar position • You will be extremely methodical and organised • Experience of black box testing of web and java applications in multiple technical environments • Automated testing of Java and web applications with tools such as Mercury QTP at the scripting level. • Knowledge and use of HTML, Jscript, SQL, VBScript, XML • Experience of working in an agile environment Desirable but not essential Skills and Experience • ISEB foundation level certification • Non-functional testing (performance, stress etc.) with tools such as Mercury LoadRunner and JMeter • Java, J2EE, Perl, Advanced Microsoft Excel You should be a driven and focused individual willing to put in what it takes to get results. Strong interpersonal skills are essential to integrate into an excellent working and social environment within a highly focused and professional company. Compensation £commensurate with excellent benefits package Download file 51KB]]> http://www.xbridge.com/careers/2007/06/test_analyst.html http://www.xbridge.com/careers/2007/06/test_analyst.html Fri, 29 Jun 2007 17:11:54 +0000 The role mainly involves: • Working with internal business clients to understand their requirements and translate into value-generating technical solutions • Designing, developing and implementing new systems or components of Xbridge’s application portfolio • Enhancing and developing existing application systems or components • Supporting, troubleshooting and managing production applications • Enabling bespoke and standardised data integration with clients and partners • Managing and reviewing development team coding practices, including enforcement of approved architectures, methodologies and standards. Requirements • Proven commercial experience building experience building dynamic database driven Web applications using J2SE & J2EE components & frameworks. • Experience with enterprise database servers such as Oracle 10g/MS SQL Server. • Experience with Web Services and SOA. • Good Unix skills, including experience with various OS flavours, underlying daemons, protocols and tools. Linux, Solaris, Apache, etc • Experience with XP development methodologies, as well as other approaches; strong knowledge of source control tools and release management, build and unit testing tools (Perforce, ANT, JUnit, etc.) • Deployment / Administration experience with one of Tomcat, Weblogic or Websphere. • BSc or MSc (preferred) in Computer Science, Maths or similar, with a minimum 2.1 from a top tier university (or equivalent). • Analytical mind and creative approach to problem solving. • Object Oriented Design & Development using UML. • Excellent written and verbal communication skills. Desirable • Experience in financial services and/or a strong e-commerce experience is very useful. • Experience of Spring, Hibernate, AJAX, OO Design Patterns is a bonus. You should be a driven and focused individual willing to put in what it takes to get results. Strong interpersonal and communication skills are essential to integrate into an excellent working and social environment within a highly focused and professional company. Download file 360KB]]> http://www.xbridge.com/careers/2007/06/java_developer.html http://www.xbridge.com/careers/2007/06/java_developer.html Fri, 29 Jun 2007 17:08:49 +0000