Opus-UK is a successful and expanding IT support, installation, consultancy and telecoms company based in Sheffield, South Yorkshire. We have an established and loyal customer base and a stream of new business customers has allowed us to grow consistently year on year since the company was formed in 2003. Due to new contract wins and further expansion we are now looking for additional technical staff to increase the capacity and skill sets of our existing support and installations team as we continue to grow in 2018.
We are looking for enthusiastic, dedicated and hardworking people that are looking to join established and successful IT and Telecoms company.
Account Manager – Job Description
Job Title: Account Manager
Reporting to: Commercial Director
Location: Sheffield, South Yorkshire
Working Hours: 8:30AM – 5:00PM
In the role of Account Manager, your primary role is to be responsible for building up business through gaining new customers and accounts. You will be expected to carry out the following:
• Generate new sales and business opportunities
• Identify new sales opportunities
• Create a revenue stream for volume hardware sales
• Identify opportunities and increase sales of the Opus product stack
• Follow up new business opportunities and setup sales meetings
• Establish and maintain working relationships
• Communicate new product developments to prospective clients
• Provide the Directors with market feedback
• Provide the Directors with sales performance reports
• Work to deadlines and targets Hours and Environment
Skills & Requirements
In the role of business development you will require:
• A good business acumen
• Understanding of our competitors
• Understanding about the market and competitors’ products
• Good communications skills, both writing and verbally
• To be self-motivated but able to work as part of a team
• Good organisational and time-management skills
• A positive attitude
• Good negotiation skills
• Confidence presenting to people & groups of people
• Initiative and enterprise
• Trustworthiness and discretion when handling confidential information
• The ability to work to work with management to set and work to target & deadline
• A smart appearance and professional manner Personal qualities, particularly the ability to communicate, plus sales experience and market knowledge, are considered on a par with formal qualifications.
Opus-UK has experienced growth year on year since it was founded in 2003 and we actively support employees who want to grow their area of the business. This is an excellent opportunity for a candidate to come in and make their mark on a range of both customer and internal projects.
Please forward your most recent CV along with a covering email to tmerryweather@opus-uk.co.uk . If you are called for an interview, examples of previous work may be requested.
Field Engineer – Job Description
Job Title: Field Engineer
Reporting to: Operations Director
Location: Sheffield, South Yorkshire
Working Hours: 8:30AM – 5:00PM
Working as part of the technical team you will be providing support to a broad range of businesses throughout the region. Your time will be split between onsite work at customer premises and office based remote work. You will be responsible for the planning and deployment of customer server upgrades, migrations, workstation replacements, workstation upgrades as well as day to day maintenance and support of customer networks. This will require a good understanding of TCP/IP routing concepts, Windows Server Operating Systems (including Small Business Server), server hardware platforms, Microsoft exchange and knowledge of backup and disaster recovery models.
Key Attributes
You will need to be well presented, articulate, personable, confident, professional and well organised. It is essential that you are able to prioritise effectively and integrate into an existing team, working to ensure that new projects are delivered on time and that customer service level agreements are maintained. You will be required to take ownership of projects and tasks to ensure that the desired end result is achieved.
Key skills and requirements:
- Microsoft Certified Professional or above
- Apple Certified or Apple & MAC familiarity (Desirable )
- All Versions of Windows Server (2003 to 2012) including Small Business Server
- Microsoft Exchange 2013/2010/2007/2003 and Office 365
- Vmware ESXi & Veeam
- ADSL / Print Server / Router & Firewall configuration
- VPN principles & setup
- Good understanding of TCP/IP and DNS
- Backup software & disaster recovery
- Hardware diagnosis & problem solving
- Sound understanding of server hardware and RAID
- Any software / programming experience (useful not essential)
- Any exposure to telecoms, specifically Mitel (Useful , not essential)
- UK driving license and own car
Please forward your most recent CV along with a covering email to chaigh@opus-uk.co.uk . If you are called for an interview, examples of previous work may be requested.
