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Job Description

Working closely with the Head of Search, you will be responsible for the PPC campaigns for our UK and Irish brands as well as involvement in paid social and display campaigns.

Job Title: Digital Marketing Executive
Reporting to: Customer Acquisition Manager
Location: Worcester

In the performance of your duties, you will be expected to use your best endeavours to promote and maintain the interests and reputation of the Company at all times.

Some of the responsibilities will include:

• PPC account management in a highly competitive channel; confidence working with large budgets.
• Continual optimisation according to client brief and best practice guidelines
• Keyword research, ad copy testing, bid management and competitor analysis
• Additional involvement in paid social media and display advertising
• Working with the UI team to ensure landing pages are effectively optimised for all PPC, Social media and Display campaigns to ensure maximum ROI and conversion is possible
• Preparation of client reports and provide analysis and recommendations to drive KPIs
• Account management, administration, forecasting and budgeting
• Working closely with Search Manager and other marketing team members to ensure paid search activity falls in line as part of an integrated marketing strategy
• Keeping up to date with the latest industry trends

Required Skills & Experience

• Previous experience of paid search marketing with a track record in driving successful PPC Campaigns
• Previous Google Adwords and Analytics experience. Adwords certification preferable but not essential.
• Strong numerical and analytical skills with the ability to manipulate data, measure performance and identify areas of improvement
• Good interpersonal skills and the ability to effectively communicate with colleagues and clients
• A motivated self starter with a passion for digital and search marketing

Normal Working Hours

Your usual hours of work will be from 9:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Monday to Friday inclusive, however these may be subject to alteration in accordance with the dictates of the business. You are entitled to a one hour lunch break, which is normally to be taken between 12:00 noon and 2:00 p.m. Depending on shift and cover patterns this may have to be taken at other convenient times.

In addition, you are required to work such extra hours as are necessary to ensure the satisfactory completion of your duties.

Job Description

Working in a flexible environment providing critical support to our customers you will be answering a range of queries, providing help and support whilst looking for addition sales opportunities.

Job Title: Technical Support Advisor
Reporting to: Head of Sales & Customer Service
Location: Worcester

You will be working in a target driven contact centre with a strong sales culture.

All Contact Centre Advisors will be trained to a high level to be able to support our customer needs with technical, billing or sales advice.

Full training and support will be provided.

Some of the responsibilities will include:

• Ensuring all enquiries are logged and kept up-to-date and all problems followed through until resolved or concluded
• Technical troubleshooting of our product range
• Identifying product upgrades and cross selling opportunities
• Keeping up to date with new technologies that will assist our customers
• Ensuring all individual performance and sales targets are met
• Flexibility to be moved from team to team to ensure that we are meeting customer demand
• Escalating problems to a team leader where necessary

Required Skills & Experience

• Strong IT skills
• Resilient & confident with the ability to problem solve
• Knowledge of Microsoft Word, Excel and Outlook at an intermediate level
• Clear written and verbal communication skills
• Knowledge of web technologies such as websites, dedicating hosting and email set-up
• Previous customer care or technical support experience within an IT/Web based/technical environment

What are we looking for

• Exceptional communication and influencing skills
• Customer Service and sales mind set
• Experience working in customer service environment
• Taking pride in your working standards, behaviour and attitude § Recognising and maximising sales opportunities
• Technical awareness
• Excellent problem solving skills
• A natural flair for delivering excellent customer support
• Team Working
• An inquisitive mind and strong motivation to learn new skills

Normal Working Hours

The normal hours of business of the company are presently 6:00 a.m. to 7:15 p.m. Monday to Friday and 9.00 a.m. to 5.00 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday, including bank holidays. However these may be subject to alteration in accordance with the dictates of the business and may result in 24 hour opening. Your basic hours of work will be variable depending on shift patterns worked with a maximum of 42.5 per week. You are required to work in accordance with the shift pattern appropriate to your department from time to time notified to you by the company. Currently you are required to work 5 days per week between Monday and Sunday inclusive on a variable basis as required by the dictates of the business. Shifts worked Monday to Friday inclusive will be for 8.5 hours per day inclusive of a one hour unpaid lunch break except for the last shift on each day which will be for 8 hours inclusive of a 30 minute unpaid lunch break. Shifts worked Saturday or Sunday inclusive will be for 8 hours per day inclusive of a 30 minute unpaid lunch break.

The company reserves the right to change from time to time the system of shifts it operates, the shift pattern applicable to you and/or your basic hours of work. The company also reserves the right to require you to work in such departments of its business as it shall notify to you from time to time.

Job Description

An opportunity has arisen for a PHP/JavaScript Developer to join our established Development Team. The successful applicant must have a passion for writing clean, secure and testable code, and a commitment to ongoing professional development.

Job Title: PHP/JavaScript Developer
Reporting to: Applications Development Manager
Location: Worcester

The role requires significant experience of Object-Oriented Software design principles and best practices, such as working to PHP Standards Recommendations (PSRs), and a good understanding of the current JavaScript and CSS ecosystems. Familiarity with SQL and basic database normalisation is also required.

Web applications form the core of all of Namesco's systems, and include customer-facing sites and internal systems to manage both customers and the email and web hosting infrastructures. Working with sensitive and business critical data also requires a thorough understanding of security and data integrity issues on the Internet.

PHP, JavaScript and MySQL applications form the core of all of Namesco's systems, including the email and web hosting infrastructures. As such, an understanding of the protocols underlying these internet technologies, such as HTTP, SMTP, FTP, SSH, TLS and DNS would be beneficial.

Working with sensitive and business-critical data also requires a thorough understanding of security and data integrity issues on the Internet.

Some knowledge of dependency and package management solutions for both PHP and JavaScript would be helpful, and an understanding of asynchronous JavaScript using promises would be a bonus.

The successful applicant will have an enthusiastic attitude for their work with significant commercial experience in creating secure, high-performance web applications.

Essential Requirements:

• Extensive knowledge of Object Orientated PHP
• Core JavaScript concepts, such as Prototypal Inheritance
• Relational databases and SQL
• Unit testing with PHPUnit
• Good understanding of security issues on the internet
• HTML
• CSS

Desirable Experience

• Agile Software Development (Scrum, Kanban)
• Asynchronous JavaScript using Promises
• NoSQL databases (Memcache, Redis, ElasticSearch)
• RESTful Web Services
• Package Management (Composer, Bower, NPM)
• Frameworks (Zend, Knockout, Backbone, jQuery)
• Usability, Accessibility, SEO & W3C Standards
• MVC Applications
• HTML5, XHTML, Sass, Git, RabbitMQ
• HTTP, SMTP, FTP, SSH, TLS, DNS

Key Competencies

• Enthusiasm and a desire to learn
• Excellent problem solving skills
• Ability to communicate advanced concepts well
• Attention to detail
• Good team player
• Ability to work in a fast moving environment and to tight deadlines

Normal Working Hours

Your usual hours of work will be from 9:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Monday to Friday inclusive, however these may be subject to alteration in accordance with the dictates of the business. You are entitled to a one hour lunch break, which is normally to be taken between 12:00 noon and 2:00 p.m. Depending on shift and cover patterns this may have to be taken at other convenient times.

We are open to discussion regarding remote working for 1 – 2 days per week as we do offer flexible working arrangements. However during any induction/training period (normally 1-2 months) we would require the successful candidate to work full time from the office in Worcester.

Job Description

An opportunity has arisen for a PHP/Devops Developer to join our established Development Team. The successful applicant must have a passion for writing clean, well structured and testable code, and in maintaining a highly-automated development platform and continuous integration system.

Job Title: PHP/DevOps Developer
Reporting to: Applications Development Manager
Location: Worcester

The role requires a good general understanding of software development best practices, such as working to PHP Standards Recommendations (PSRs), in addition to basic Linux System Administration, Virtual Networking and Docker Containers.

Internet technologies and their underlying protocols, such as HTTP, SMTP and DNS. PHP and MySQL applications form the core of all of Namesco's systems and are used to manage the email and web hosting infrastructures. Working with sensitive and business critical data also requires a thorough understanding of security and data integrity issues on the Internet.

Experience with HTML, CSS, Javascript and working to applicable W3C standards is also required, along with good knowledge of current and emerging technologies for both frontend and backend web development.

The successful applicant will have an enthusiastic attitude for their work with significant commercial experience in creating secure, high-performance web applications.

In the performance of your duties, you will be expected to use your best endeavours to promote and maintain the interests and reputation of the Company at all times as well as carrying out such tasks that are required to meet the needs of the business.

Essential Requirements:

• Strong experience of Object Orientated Programming
• Experience of basic Linux Systems Administration, Virtual Networks and Docker Containers
• Strong experience of relational database systems
• Good understanding of PHP and MySQL
• Good understanding of security issues on the internet
• Good understanding of internet protocols
• HTML
• CSS
• Javascript

Desirable Experience

• Continuous Integration & Deployment (Jenkins)
• Container Orchestration (Kubernetes)
• Cluster Management (Consul, Nomad)
• RedHat & Debian Linux distributions
• Agile Software Development (Scrum, Kanban)
• PHP Tools (PHPUnit, Xdebug, PHPCS, Phing, Lint)
• PHP Dependency Management (Composer, Satis)
• Git Versioning System
• RESTful Web Services
• NoSQL databases (Memcache, Redis, ElasticSearch)
• RabbitMQ

Key Competencies

• Enthusiasm and a desire to learn
• Excellent problem solving skills
• Ability to communicate advanced concepts well
• Attention to detail
• Good team player
• Ability to work in a fast moving environment and to tight deadlines

Normal Working Hours

Your usual hours of work will be from 9:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Monday to Friday inclusive, however these may be subject to alteration in accordance with the dictates of the business. You are entitled to a one hour lunch break, which is normally to be taken between 12:00 noon and 2:00 p.m. Depending on shift and cover patterns this may have to be taken at other convenient times.

We are open to discussion regarding remote working for 1 – 2 days per week as we do offer flexible working arrangements. However during any induction/training period (normally 1-2 months) we would require the successful candidate to work full time from the office in Worcester.