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Current Positions | 5
| Position | Location | Job Ref | Posted | Closing Date | More Details |
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| SALES & CUSTOMER SUPPORT - AGRICULTURAL SECTOR | CHORLEYWOOD | CWD/BISY | March 02 2021 | March 31 2021 | Open/Close |
An exciting opportunity has arisen at our head office in Hertfordshire for an individual that can lend their skills to a newly formed role in our Biosystems team supporting growth of Tropical Marine Centre.
Biosystems is the commercial division (B2B) of Tropical Marine Centre Ltd, a world-leading marine livestock business which also manufactures and distributes a large range of products associated with fishkeeping and animal husbandry. Whilst our core business is aquatic, we have been expanding our offerings into the Agri sector, primarily through the development of our LED lighting and control systems.
Our drive and passion is to take our wealth of knowledge and understanding of the importance of light as a primary driver of biological processes, and couple this to the photic requirements of the animal. From this, we design and develop lighting systems to deliver the correct spectrum, intensity, and photoperiod to replicate natural lighting and light cycles for the animal, reducing stress and increasing animal welfare. This is an exciting area to be working in, as we are not only able to offer wellbeing benefits, but also deliver real savings through for example improved food conversion ratios, reduced aggression and mortalities as well as energy savings and a reduction in carbon footprint.
Whilst the initial focus will be on targeting the Agri sector, we will also look to round the successful candidate’s skillset out to encompass all areas of the Biosystems division. Our lighting systems, as well as our recirculating water filtration systems are also widely used in Aquatic, Aquaculture, Public Aquarium and R&D institutes.
We are looking for a confident and enthusiastic individual, who encompasses our core values: passion, expertise, pride, commitment and a "can do" attitude.
Ideally the candidate will have had experience within the pig and poultry sectors, but other agricultural/Aquaculture experience will also be considered. Full training is given with regards to our products.
This is an opportunity to lead Biosystems into the Agri-sector and achieve growth by carving out your role through high performance and support the business to explore opportunities in various markets.
We are looking for an immediate start.
Duties will include but are not limited to:
- Sales
- drive proactive sales in Agri-sector
- undertake initiatives that drive sales leads
- Customer Support
- support the Biosystems team with customer queries, quotations and order follow up
- provide excellent customer service & product support
- Marketing Support
- be involved in direct marketing content creation including MailChimp, LinkedIn, blogs & editorials on our website
- Product Development
- collaborate with the rest of the team in new product development
- hands on activity to test products and advise on recommendations for product placement within Biosystems and support technical development team in Tropical Marine Centre
This is a site based sales position, based at our head office in Chorleywood, Hertfordshire. Some travel to visit customers and for trade shows will be required.
Competencies:
- Confident with a “can do” attitude and a drive to seek new sales opportunities
- Ability to build strong, trusting customer relationships
- Strong verbal and written communications skills
- Solution finder
- Team player
- Self-managing and good time management
- ‘hands on’ work ethic
Hours of Work: 8am-5pm Monday to Friday - this opportunity starts as a 12-month contract.
| VAN DRIVER / WAREHOUSE OPERATIVE | CHORLEYWOOD | CWD/DRI | March 25 2021 | April 12 2021 | Open/Close |
We are looking for a highly motivated individual, to join our team. The ideal candidate would exhibit strong experience in delivering a good service to our internal and external customers. We are a Marine Livestock business and as such time is critical to our shipments, as is the quality and care of our goods in transit. This customer focused individual will be based in the warehouse and Cash and Carry areas at our Chorleywood site. Candidates should have strong driving experience and good customer service skills. This role would suit someone who is familiar with driving for extended periods and experience picking up and delivering shipments to the airports would be useful.
Brief Job Description
A key part of the role is the weekly collection and delivery of our marine animals and dry goods from Heathrow airport to our head office in Chorleywood, Hertfordshire. You could be dealing with all aspects of collections from the airport and in particular deliveries to our customers on our assigned courier runs. You may also be assisting with any daily warehouse tasks from time to time when required. This role fits into our Logistics team.
Key responsibilities include:
- airport deliveries and collections of livestock, including dealing with necessary paperwork.
- Inter-site deliveries and collections
- Local / non-local customer and supplier deliveries and collections
- Operation of our Counterbalance Forklift Trucks
- Demands of the role and livestock business may require the successful candidate to be flexible with start and finish times.
- warehouse duties
Key skills required include:
- Willingness to get involved, take ownership, and work on your own initiative is important.
- Hands on approach to tasks and situations
- Flexibility to adapt to sudden changes
- Work to deadlines and manage critical pinch points, so that our livestock arrives as quickly as possible
- Positive ‘can do’ attitude
- Excellent customer service
- Ability to communicate professionally, in the best interests of the company
- Building good relationships with key personnel at Head Office
- Full driving Licence (essential)
- Aquatic experience and product knowledge (advantageous)
- FLT – Counterbalance (advantageous)
Hours of Work: Monday – Friday (7.00-4.00pm flexible) start date: a.s.a.p.
| SALES & CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE | CHORLEYWOOD | CWD/SALES | March 30 2021 | April 20 2021 | Open/Close |
Full-time based in Chorleywood, Hertfordshire
An exciting opportunity has arisen at our head office in Hertfordshire for a seasoned hobbyist or interested sales driven individual who enjoys working within a sales and customer service environment. The ideal candidate will possess a good grasp of the fish-keeping hobby and have worked within a sales environment with evidenced behaviour of dealing with customers. They will display excellent attention to detail and a professional telephone manner along with the capacity to meet deadlines and maintain records to a high standard. This role requires a candidate with a customer service focus, solid administration skills and the ability to liaise with internal and external contacts at all times. The role involves handling day to day sales tasks, working in conjunction with our fish-house and cash & carry areas. This is initially a site-based position with some customer site visits required as and when possible, reporting into the Sales Team.
Duties will include but are not limited to;
• Building and maintaining excellent relationships with customers and colleagues.
• Ownership of the Sales process from conception to delivery and receipt of goods.
• Attending to calling customers and driving sales of livestock and dry goods
• Managing resolution of queries in a timely manner and issues as they arise.
• Support of other areas within the team such as the front office, C&C and Fish House in sales and customer focused activities
• Managing sales diaries for telephone calls and trips
• Retaining a high level of autonomy as set out by management.
• Attending occasional trade shows, hobbyist events and sales trips to territory areas
Key skills required include:
• Customer centric and sales focused
• Strong verbal communications skills
• Attention to detail
• Team player
• Passion for Animals and fishkeeping (min)
• Solution finder, who has a can-do attitude
• Self-managing and strong time management
Hours of Work Monday - Friday 8am-5pm with flexibility in hours to support the operational demands of the business as well as livestock welfare.
| FISH-HOUSE ASSISTANT | BRISTOL | BRI/FHA | April 01 2021 | April 19 2021 | Open/Close |
FULL-TIME - Cribbs Causeway - BRISTOL
Fish-House Assistants are critical to the daily operations of our Livestock business. You would be working as part of a very busy team in our modern marine livestock holding facilities. General duties include assisting with tank maintenance, feeding, handling livestock, and dealing with customers in the Fish-House. The role also involves occasionally driving one of our vehicles to collect livestock shipments from our Head Office in Chorleywood, Hertfordshire and unpacking and acclimating livestock shipments in our quarantine room.
Contracted working hours are 45 hours per week and due to the nature of dealing with Livestock and the current requirement for social distancing, business flexibility in hours is essential and evening and weekend work is required on a rolling shift rota. The successful candidate should have an interest in aquatics or animal care, and be enthusiastic, hard-working with attention to detail, and eager to learn all aspects of marine livestock husbandry. Full training is provided.
Key responsibilities include:
- Livestock acclimation
- Hands on maintenance of the fish-house systems
- Feeding livestock and fish welfare
- Tank cleaning
- Picking and packing of livestock in a timely manner, for sales deliveries and calling customers
- Supporting calling customers
- Fish-house housekeeping duties
- Feeding at weekends (half day - rota basis)
Key skills required include:
- Willingness to get involved, take ownership, and work on your own initiative is important.
- Hands on approach to tasks and situations
- Flexibility to adapt to sudden changes
- Work to deadlines and support critical pinch points, so that our livestock welfare standards are maintained.
- Positive ‘can do’ attitude and attention to detail
- Good interpersonal & communication skills
- Aquatic experience and product knowledge (advantageous)
- Flexibility and enthusiasm essential
Hours of Work: Fish-house shifts will include early starts and late finishes including weekend support on a rota basis. We can accommodate an immediate start.
Salary starts at national minimum wage with monthly shift attendance allowance payments. If you are looking for a challenging position in a stimulating environment, please send your CV referencing BRI/FHA
| FISH-HOUSE ASSISTANT | CHORLEYWOOD | CWD/FHA | April 01 2021 | April 19 2021 | Open/Close |
FULL-TIME - Chorleywood, Hertfordshire
Fish-House Assistants are critical to the daily operations of our Livestock business. You would be working as part of a very busy team in our modern marine livestock holding facilities. General duties include assisting with tank maintenance, feeding, handling livestock, and dealing with customers in the Fish-House. The role also involves unpacking and acclimating livestock shipments in our quarantine room.
Contracted working hours are 45 hours per week and due to the nature of dealing with Livestock and the current requirement for social distancing, business flexibility in hours is essential and evening and weekend work is required on a rolling shift rota. The successful candidate should have an interest in aquatics or animal care, and be enthusiastic, hard-working with attention to detail, and eager to learn all aspects of marine livestock husbandry. Full training is provided.
Key responsibilities include:
- Livestock acclimation
- Hands on maintenance of the fish-house systems
- Feeding livestock and fish welfare
- Tank cleaning
- Picking and packing of livestock in a timely manner, for sales deliveries and calling customers
- Supporting calling customers
- Fish-house housekeeping duties
- Feeding at weekends (half day - rota basis)
Key skills required include:
- Willingness to get involved, take ownership, and work on your own initiative is important.
- Hands on approach to tasks and situations
- Flexibility to adapt to sudden changes
- Work to deadlines and support critical pinch points, so that our livestock welfare standards are maintained.
- Positive ‘can do’ attitude and attention to detail
- Good interpersonal & communication skills
- Aquatic experience and product knowledge (advantageous)
- Flexibility and enthusiasm essential
Hours of Work: Fish-house shifts will include early starts and late finishes including weekend support on a rota basis. We can accommodate an immediate start.
Salary starts at national minimum wage with monthly shift attendance allowance payments. If you are looking for a challenging position in a stimulating environment, please send your CV referencing CWD/FHA