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Account Director- Canberra or Brisbane

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 12:45:58 GMT

You will be working with a variety of clients and have responsibility for all client issues and for managing client expectations.

Responsibilities will include a mixture of New Business and Account Management tasks including:
• Building excellent relationships at a variety of client levels and being a strategic partner to your clients in their digital activity
• Ensuring profitable delivery of work through effective cross-business/department relationships and processes
• Ensuring quality and timeliness of work delivered to clients
• Leading new business development
• Working on proposals and pitches to convert these leads into new clients
• Management of new clients into profitable, repeat business
• Creating new business opportunities within an existing client base
You will be:

• A team player, fun, irreverent, happy to muck in, ambitious, passionate, honest, sparky, energetic

You will not be:

• Political, defensive, insular, egotistical

We’re looking for ambitious, switched on people with experience liaising with clients, building relationships and managing expectations, and co-ordinating with internal teams. You should have significant experience working on either traditional or digital projects. You will have excellent writing, presentation and organisational skills, and the ability to juggle multiple tasks and priorities. You will also have proven success and experience at pitching and business development.

As we are an international company there may be an opportunity to travel within the role.

We have a very diverse team and we will offer you every opportunity to grow and develop your skills. We are looking for someone who takes great pride in their work. We are looking for someone with the right attitude that will fit in to our highly skilled team and have the same passion and drive that we have for every project we work on.

.Net Developer- Sydney

Mon, 16 Aug 2010 08:59:54 GMT

The successful .Net Developer will have demonstrable commercial experience of c# and asp.net, as well as knowledge of javascript, ajax, and css, and show an enthusiasm for the technology and new challenges. Experience with PHP, coldfusion and jsp would be beneficial. You will develop functionality and Content Management Systems used by client websites. You will capture technical requirements from clients and work with a mixed project team of developers, designers and production staff to ensure that those requirements are adequately documented and ultimately fulfilled.

Experience and skills required:

- Educated to degree level or equivalent in a technical area
- Experience in web development across multiple projects of varying technical requirements
- Good experience in database design across multiple projects
- Experience with multiple programming languages
- An attention to detail, rigor and willingness to take responsibility for all work and code produced.
- Ability to meet challenging deadlines
- An ability to work independently on the technical element of projects

As we are an international company there may be an opportunity to travel within the role.

.Net Developer- Canberra

Mon, 16 Aug 2010 08:58:58 GMT

Experience and skills required:

As we are an international company there may be an opportunity to travel within the role.

Technical Architect- London

Mon, 07 Jun 2010 10:02:49 GMT

Technical Architect required by our award winning digital agency to provide full technical input into our proposals and projects working collaboratively with relevant members of the new business and project teams. You are responsible for ensuring the technical solutions that we define within our proposals and present at our pitches are feasible and innovative, that we make accurate technical promises during the bid process, and that we deliver on the technical promises we make.

You are expected to ensure technical submissions are accurate, complete, compliant and demonstrate clearly to the client the value in our recommended solution. You are expected to think strategically, be client facing and to assist the entire project team in producing excellent work for our clients.

You will need to have a strong background within a similar role, showing deep and demonstrable understanding of digital communications.

SEO Consultant for the Distillery, a Reading Room Company- Manchester

Wed, 26 May 2010 15:03:07 GMT

A fundamental understanding of search engine optimisation and relevant commercial experience is required. Client facing experience is preferred.

You must be a confident individual who is comfortable presenting SEO solutions and recommendations to clients, writing actionable reports and working as part of a team. You will need to be a fantastic communicator with a knack for explaining complex technical details in layman’s terms.

Skills required:-

• Understanding of search ranking factors

• Experience in both on and off-site optimisation

• Google Webmaster Tools experience

• Excel skills (VLOOKUP & Pivot Tables)

• Report writing skills

• Client facing skills

• Basic HTML skills

• Great spoken and written English

• Understanding web Analytics and experience using Analytics systems - ideally Google Analytics

• A good understanding of website usability

Desirable:-

• Google Adwords Qualified

• PPC management

• Experience with CRO, Split & Multivariate testing

• Educated to graduate or higher level

Typical tasks include

- Keyword research

- Site analytics review

- Link analysis

- Link building strategy

- SEO Technical Audits

- SEO Copywriting

- Client SEO Strategy development

You will need to be self motivated, organised and above all have a great passion and enthusiasm for the internet and be able to articulate how SEO can help our clients. You will be expected to participate in client projects, proposals and pitches.

This is an ideal role for someone currently working as an in-house SEO or someone with agency experience who is looking to take the next step along their career path.

The Distillery is a digital performance agency providing audience and brand focused digital engagement. We drive performance towards and inside digital channels for our clients that enables them to connect and engage with their customers.

We develop campaigns that work across all channels - advertising, social media, social networking & WOM, viral, brand micros, email, Search (SEO &PPC), video, rich media and mobile that generate a transparent and measureable Return on Effectiveness.

Business Analyst/ Consultant- London

Wed, 26 May 2010 14:54:31 GMT

Business Analyst/Consultant required by our award winning digital agency. Working with a diverse group of clients, you'll lead projects and provide management consultancy, advising on how digital strategies can improve business performance, as well as support change management. You'll also work with the new business team in analysing business issues and assisting with presentations. The role will involve taking ownership of the requirements capture and specifications, and being the link between clients and internal project management, development, and operation teams.

With substantial consultancy experience you'll be used to dealing at board level with multi-national organisations. You will have demonstrable experience gathering and writing requirements specifications, a technical mindset, and a consultative approach. You'll deal effectively with ambiguity, be a confident and clear communicator, and be able to provide leadership to more junior members of staff. You will provide thought leadership and have the ability to engage, manage and inspire clients.

Procurement Manager- London

Wed, 26 May 2010 14:51:47 GMT

You will ensure that all work undertaken by Reading Room is on commercially and contractually advantageous terms and that all work under the OGC / Buying Solutions framework is managed in accordance with the framework terms and conditions.

Responsibilities:

- Selection and management of sub-contractors and suppliers
- Review and lead negotiations of terms and conditions of contracts with clients, suppliers and subcontractors to ensure the correct balance of risk / rewards.
- Close liaison with New Business, Operations and Finance on all opportunities to ensure all commercial issues and risks are identified and managed to ensure good strategy adopted to win bids.
- Ensuring that all work handed over into production is understood for its contractual, technical, people and other risks. You will take action to mitigate these risks both at the start of the project and throughout the project lifecycle.
- Client contact at a senior level throughout the project lifecycle and will be responsible for ensuring that they remain a happy client.

You will have experience and knowledge of:

- Contract management, account management and procurement within public sector and government clients
- OGC / Buying Solutions IT frameworks
- Supplier and sub-contractor management, including selection, review and flow down of terms and conditions
- Risk management
- Negotiating and closing bids and terms and conditions
- Contract law

You should be educated to degree level or equivalent, ideally supported with:
- relevant professional / commercial qualification (e.g. MCIPS)
- previous experience with ITIL v3
- project management qualification (e.g. Prince 2).

MOSS Consultant-London

Wed, 26 May 2010 14:50:36 GMT

The role will be predominantly client facing with a mix of requirement gathering, business analysis, project scoping, Functional Spec writing, implementation, post sales support and end user training.

Responsibilities:
- Analysis, design and development of SharePoint deployment/development projects
- Consulting with clients to determine requirements, performing system and architectural design
- Leading development streams, acting as the project technical lead and client liaison
- Involvement in pre-sales activities; giving technical input to proposals, delivering presentations
- Pushing the Sharepoint offering within the agency and being involved in gaining Microsoft partner status

Requirements:
- A consulting background with a record of delivering technical solutions within defined timeframes
- Strong development skills with Microsoft SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS) and the .NET framework, especially C# and ASP.NET 2.0
- Knowledge of Enterprise Content Management, Collaboration and Portals
- Excellent communication skills
- Relevant Microsoft certifications (eg MCTS, MCPD)

Account Directors/ Account Managers- Canberra or Brisbane

Wed, 26 May 2010 14:46:01 GMT

You will be working with a variety of clients and have responsibility for all client issues and for managing client expectations. Responsibilities will include a mixture of New Business and Account Management tasks including:
• Building excellent relationships at a variety of client levels and being a strategic partner to your clients in their digital activity
• Ensuring profitable delivery of work through effective cross-business/department relationships and processes
• Ensuring quality and timeliness of work delivered to clients
• Leading new business development
• Working on proposals and pitches to convert these leads into new clients
• Management of new clients into profitable, repeat business
• Creating new business opportunities within an existing client base
You will be:

• A team player, fun, irreverent, happy to muck in, ambitious, passionate, honest, sparky, energetic

You will not be:

• Political, defensive, insular, egotistical

This role could be Canberra or Brisbane based and as we are an international company there may be an opportunity to travel within the role.

.NET Developer- Brisbane

Wed, 26 May 2010 14:41:59 GMT

Experience and skills required:

As we are an international company there may be an opportunity to travel within the role.

Web Designer- Brisbane

Wed, 26 May 2010 14:38:17 GMT

You must be an exceptional creative thinker and will work closely with strategists and techies to produce the most exciting creative work for our diverse range of clients.

Responsibilities:

- Work closely with Project Managers on all aspects of design with responsibility for defining, capturing and documenting customer requirements and planning and executing deliverables against the project plan.
- Creation and development of industry leading and award winning creative interactive concepts while ensuring usability, accessibility and best practice standards are adhered to at all times.
- Support the new business team in creating outstanding pitch design creative.

Requirements:

- Proven experience in an interactive environment with a portfolio to demonstrate your skills
- A passion for design and the ability to relay this passion to colleagues and clients
- Strong conceptual skills
- Ability to develop and execute outstanding interactive design concepts
- Exceptional attention to detail
- Strong client facing skills

Web Designer- Canberra

Wed, 26 May 2010 14:36:51 GMT

You must be an exceptional creative thinker and will work closely with strategists and techies to produce the most exciting creative work for our diverse range of clients.

Responsibilities:

Requirements:

Web Designer- Sydney

Wed, 26 May 2010 13:26:13 GMT

You must be an exceptional creative thinker and will work closely with strategists and techies to produce the most exciting creative work for our diverse range of clients.

Responsibilities:

Requirements:

Designer for The Distillery, a Reading Room Company - Manchester

Tue, 13 Apr 2010 09:21:04 GMT

If you are:

- A digital designer who creates beautifully crafted interfaces.
- A master stylist with layout, composition, typography and style.
- Someone that gets obsessive about how sexy a button can look!

Then we¹d like to speak to you about this amazing opportunity to be a key part of our rapidly growing creative digital team.

We develop brand campaigns for big clients that work across all channels - advertising, social media, social networking & WOM, viral, brand micro sites, email, search (SEO & PPC), video, rich media and mobile.

We believe in big ideas delivered beautifully.

SEO Manager for The Distillery, A Reading Room Company

Mon, 07 Dec 2009 11:16:12 GMT

Reporting directly to the Head of Search you will be responsible for managing a number of SEO campaigns for clients, developing internal methodologies and assisting in new business activities. You must be a passionate advocate of white hat SEO with a deep understanding of how to effectively implement SEO strategies for clients.

Requirements
• Solid commercial SEO experience
• Knowledge of various keyword research tools and methodologies
• Experience in landing page optimization to deliver improved conversion rates on traffic
• Experience with combined SEO/PPC campaigns preferred
• Client facing experience would be a bonus
• Technical experience would be a bonus

Midweight to Senior Designer for The Distillery, a Reading Room Company

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 14:39:41 GMT

If you are:

- A sensational screen designer with amazing graphic design skills who can make anything look good enough to eat!
- Highly active online searching out the freshest styles and design innovations to bring the best in terms of digital communication and interactive design to the table.
- Able to visualise interactive ideas and campaigns quickly and efficiently and to be able to create inspirational interactive flash demos of these ideas to be presented.

Then we’d like to speak to you about this amazing opportunity to be a key part of a rapidly growing creative digital consultancy.

PHP Developers - London

Wed, 02 Sep 2009 15:44:02 GMT

Extensive experience of PHP is essential and experience of other technologies such as .net (C# / VB / ASP) is useful. You will need solid open source experience - drupal, plone, wordpress etc.

As a PHP Developer, you will work independently on smaller projects as well as working as part of a team on larger projects. Great communication skills are essential as you will be required to attend client meetings and help scope out project requirements. You will liaise with other members of the technical team as well as the creative and client services departments. You will enjoy a fast paced environment and be flexible and adaptable to changing priorities.

You'll be technically qualified to Degree level or equivalent and have solid relevant work experience. Most of all you'll be able to work with clients and come up with innovative solutions quickly.

Account Director- Manchester

Mon, 08 Jun 2009 11:00:52 GMT

You will be working with a variety of clients that includes a mix of FMCG, lifestyle and blue-chip companies. You will have responsibility for all client issues and for managing client expectations.

Main Responsibilities:
• Building excellent relationships at a variety of client levels and being a strategic partner to your clients in their digital activity
• Ensuring profitable delivery of work through effective cross-business/department relationships and processes
• Ensuring quality and timeliness of work delivered to clients
• Creating new business opportunities within an existing client base
• Leading new business development, RFI and RFP production and pitches

Project Manager - London

Fri, 29 May 2009 14:56:34 GMT

You will be responsible for the management and delivery of innovative projects, you'll provide strategic advice and act as the key contact to a diverse set of set of clients, from FMCG through lifestyle, to blue chip companies. You'll be fully involved with business development and client relationship building. You'll also head up multi-functional teams, providing project lead for designers and web developers, as well as strategic input on all projects in which you are involved.

Responsibilities:
• To ensure the smooth running of projects undertaken by Reading Room, within time and to budget
• To manage the expectations and communication with clients throughout the project lifecycle
• To work with colleagues to effectively manage resources across all projects and maximize company profitability
• To work on proposals and pitches in order to help secure new business
• End to end project management with overall responsibility for project success including: General day to day client contact, Resolve any project issues or disputes with client, Internal resource management, Produce client documentation including PIDs, functional specifications, milestone sign offs, test scripts etc

Requirements:
• Good bachelors degree or equivalent
• Solid experience in a similar role implementing Technical/Digital projects
• Excellent communicator with strong interpersonal skills and experience and aptitude in building and managing relationships.
• Persuasive and confident in new business pitching.
• Good understanding of Digital Communication and how it can be used to deliver business value.

.Net Developers - London

Fri, 06 Jun 2008 15:45:05 GMT

The successful candidate will have demonstrable commercial experience of c#, asp.net and show an enthusiasm for the technology and new challenges. You will develop functionality and Content Management Systems used by client websites. You will capture technical requirements from clients and work with a mixed project team of developers, designers and producer staff to ensure that those requirements are adequately documented and ultimately fulfilled.

Responsibilities:

- To work with designers and front end and project management staff to capture requirements for the functional elements of website projects.
- To liaise with clients and with other internal teams.
- To learn to use new third party software as required.
- To evaluate and communicate on a regular basis the resources, timescales and technical limitations associated with implementation with the project manager and with the client.
- To ensure that all work carried out complies with standards and guidelines.
- To test and validate work produced as part of the development process.
- To ensure that all work carried out is well-documented, and that the documentation is accessible to relevant parties.

Experience and skills required:

- Educated to degree level in a technical area
- An attention to detail, rigor and willingness to take responsibility for all work and code produced.
- An ability to learn new languages and new systems
- Ability to work within a team and to apply systematic thinking to the resolution of problems in a highly creative environment.
- Ability to meet challenging deadlines, and in the event of difficulty or delay, to communicate this to the project leader as early as possible.
- A demonstrable willingness and aptitude to learn and develop skills.
- An understanding of business issues
- An ability to think about technical issues in a creative way
- An ability to work independently on the technical element of projects

Senior Technical Architect/Technical Director - London

Fri, 06 Jun 2008 13:53:57 GMT

You will gain a thorough understanding of Clients technical requirements and provide solutions for the correct hardware, the correct software/functionality and the correct architecture. The nature of this role requires a deep and demonstrable understanding of digital communications, ensuring that the technical solution to every single client is presented and delivered with gravitas, credibility and in a truly creative but practical fashion.

Responsibilities:
• Working closely with project teams on solutions to help with the Functional Specifications, the Technical Specifications and the Technical Architecture to ensure technical projects are delivered.
• Working with the new business team on technical aspects of proposal writing and proposing and pitching technical solutions
• Communicating at extremely high levels of the client’s team and offering practical solutions to the clients needs.
• Working with the development team to ensure that large scale solutions meet the necessary strategic targets, research new technologies and products into business opportunities.
• Working with the operations director to ensure that technical aspects of the production process are understood well by the divisions, that adequate training is given as required to developers and to project managers.
• Resolving technical issues that arise on projects should this be required
• Provide input to improve technical documents, and assist Project Managers in the planning phases of development to aid success and efficiency in build.
• Correct Process of Development including training where needed.
• Control of budget vs the scope vs the timeline
• Management of System Administration.
• Liaison with all software and hardware Partners.
• Correct management of build processes.

Requirements:
• Experience in leading client technical workshops and specifications for complex projects (digital, web, online).
• Demonstrated experience in performing complex analysis, consulting and providing technical recommendations.
• Demonstrated knowledge of and experience with systems integration methods and technologies.
• Proven track record in driving technical delivery for large complex projects.

Senior Consultant, Business & Technology - London

Fri, 06 Jun 2008 08:39:44 GMT

Working with a diverse group of clients, you'll lead projects and provide management consultancy, advising on how digital strategies can improve business performance, as well as support change management. You'll also work with the new business team in analysing business issues and assisting with presentations.

With substantial consultancy experience you'll be used to dealing at board level with multi-national organisations. You'll deal effectively with ambiguity, be a confident and clear communicator, and be able to provide leadership to more junior members of staff. You will provide thought leadership and have the ability to engage, manage and inspire clients.