business development manager Plymouth, England
Job description
Role: IT Development Manager
Department: IT Department
Locations: Central Plymouth (North Hill) with hybrid working after initial training
Hours: 35 per week, Monday to Friday
The Opportunity:
At Wolferstans, we care passionately about the experience that clients have when doing business with us. Clients who contact us to deal with sensitive legal matters are placing a great deal of trust in us and it is critical that we repay this trust by treating them with the warmth, professionalism, understanding and courtesy that they deserve.
We were the first firm in Plymouth to be awarded the title of Compassionate Workplace and in recent years we have won “Large Business of the Year” at the Plymouth Business Awards, won “Law Firm of the Year” and “Team of the Year” at the 2022 LawNet Awards and secured our place in the Times Legal Top 200 – why not come and be a part of our success?
You will be part of a supportive and flexible working environment where you have the ability to further your career aspirations. Our benefits package includes 5 weeks annual leave plus bank holidays and an extended break over the Christmas period, you are also awarded a day off for your birthday and will be signed up to our Health Care Plan designed with wellbeing in mind.
What will you do?
Technology is vital to our firm and we are in an exciting period of development and transformation. You will join our IT team and work alongside our current IT Development Manager. Providing in-house project management as well as having to be hands on where required, you will be critical in defining, designing, managing, and implementing system changes to maximise the operational effectiveness of the business. You will have a particular focus on implementing BPA and utilising our Microsoft 365 and existing software stack to maximum effect.
You will be based in our central Plymouth office with flexibility to work from home part of the week after a period of training.
What do you offer?
The candidate must be organised, comfortable working in an accelerated environment, demonstrate the ability to communicate to technical and non-technical stakeholders and be driven to scale an existing team to meet our growth and performance objectives.
The ideal candidate will have law/professional service firm experience.
You will be able to demonstrate experience of:
- Business Process Automation
- Getting the most out of Microsoft 365 and integrating it with other solutions.
- Planning projects so that progress can be monitored, and correct decisions made.
- Taking ownership of assigned projects through the development lifecycle and ensuring that projects are delivered on time and to budget.
- Ensuring IT changes do not compromise data integrity or security, or impact adversely on our staff and clients.
- Ensuring sufficient functional and integration test coverage is in place for all changes, to ensure the delivery of high-quality system changes.
- Ensuring that all projects have all associated documentation.
- Managing a team, providing leadership and support.
- A natural understanding of the need for high level of accuracy, attention to detail and conscientiousness.
- Presenting problems and solutions clearly and logically whilst inspiring confidence and trust from others.
- Positive stakeholder management with the ability to manage and deal with competing priorities.
- Being 'Hands on' where required.
We are looking for candidates that are as ambitious as we are and are excited by continuous improvement and the opportunities that offers. If that is you but you don’t have all of the experience described above, we would still like to hear from you.
Applications will officially close on 31 July 2023. However, we are keen to talk to suitable candidates at the earliest possible opportunity and will close the vacancy to new applications once conversations reach an advanced stage to avoid a delay. We would therefore urge candidates who are interested in this vacancy to get in touch ASAP and discuss the opportunity with us.
Job Types: Full-time, Permanent
Salary: £30,000.00-£60,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- Company events
- Health & wellbeing programme
Schedule:
- 8 hour shift
- Monday to Friday
- No weekends
Ability to commute/relocate:
- Plymouth: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)
Work Location: Hybrid remote in Plymouth
Application deadline: 31/07/2023
