Director of Product Strategy & Portfolio
6 Month Contract
Location: Home / London
Rate: £900 - £1000 per day (Inside IR35)

We are looking to recruit a Director of Product Strategy & Portfolio for a leading software company on an initial 6 month contract. This is a senior strategic role responsible for defining enterprise-wide product vision, aligning product portfolios, and ensuring investment decisions deliver measurable customer and commercial outcomes.

Working closely with Product Directors, Engineering, and Go-To-Market leadership, you’ll build the strategic frameworks that guide how products evolve, innovate, and succeed across multiple markets.

Key Responsibilities

• Define and communicate long-term product vision and enterprise product strategy
• Establish a unified strategic framework that aligns product direction across portfolios
• Lead strategic roadmap planning and guide prioritisation with Product Directors
• Drive market, customer, and competitive analysis to inform investment decisions
• Act as a strategic advisor to senior leadership on product positioning and long-term planning
• Build strong relationships across product, engineering, and commercial teams
• Develop business cases for major initiatives, including ROI modelling and market sizing
• Lead portfolio governance, prioritisation, and lifecycle management
• Champion data-driven decision-making and customer-centric product strategy
• Provide leadership, development, and direction to senior product managers and directors

Essential Experience

• Deep expertise in product strategy, product portfolio management, and market analysis
• Strong financial and commercial literacy, including P&L and ROI modelling
• Proven ability to create clarity across complex, multi-product environments
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence senior stakeholders
• Experience operating in enterprise software, public sector, or multi-market technology environments

Desirable

• Experience shaping strategy across multiple product lines
• Background in modern product management and agile delivery principles
• Knowledge of public sector technology, policy trends, or international markets

Senior Product Manager
6 Month Contract
Location: Home / London
Rate: £650 - £700 (Inside IR35)

We are looking to recruit a Senior Product Manager on an initial 6 month contract for a leading software company.

This is a remote role however there will be an expectation to make yourself available for meetings in London at short notice.

You will take ownership of a single product, executing an agreed roadmap while driving a major programme of defect resolution. The product has a high level of outstanding defects and limited documentation, so you’ll need the confidence and seniority to challenge assumptions, push back on demands and prioritise effectively.

Success in this role will rely on your ability to navigate complex stakeholder conversations—often at C-suite level—managing expectations and defending decisions with evidence and authority.

This is not a hands-on technical role, and you will be supported by technical product resources. Your focus is strategy execution, prioritisation, and leading the product direction.

What you’ll do

• Lead the execution of the product roadmap
• Prioritise a high volume of competing defect and feature requests
• Work closely with engineering and product teams to deliver releases
• Manage difficult stakeholder conversations, including senior internal and external stakeholders
• Provide clear rationale and defend product decisions at executive level
• Improve structure, documentation and product decision processes
• Bring leadership, confidence and presence to a challenging product environment

About you

• Extensive experience as a Senior Product Manager (10+ yrs)
• Strong experience delivering complex software products
• Confident dealing with executive-level stakeholders
• Able to handle pressure, challenge decisions and influence direction
• Comfortable taking ownership in a legacy, under-documented environment
• Proven ability to deliver in organisations with multiple competing priorities
• Experience in SaaS or product-led businesses
• Gravitas and credibility when representing product decisions

Nice to have

• Local government or social housing product experience
• Experience leading geographically-distributed teams
• Understanding of SaaS environments
• Familiarity with UX or user-centred design approaches

• Reports in to Ben Snusher - lead BA, been with BI 20+ years
• Junior BA role
• Working in a more Agile way - they are moving away from Waterfall
• Sprint management type experience

• Talking about scheduling, and gaant charts - quite low level

• BI Have products / platforms – working on projects related to these

• Bridge between teams

• Product Owners in India - this role seen more as a Product Manager position focused on strategy and execution, not a Product Owner role. Product Owners based in India and the US handle requirements and backlog management – your focus will be high-level product direction, prioritisation and stakeholder leadership.

• Engagement is buffer between customer and civica
• If invoicing query raised – goes to level 1 -funelling level 1 to india
• Mike focusing on owning relatonship and dealing with complaints - focusing on ticketing experience

• If complex it goes 2 level 2 – goes to engagement biz partner – work to improve, look at process improvement – customer engagement, account manager, look at reporting
• Want more capability than market knowledge – public sector customer but being business savvy – eg they might work with product to be customer facing to deliver good comms
• Ideally servicenow, salesforce – service desk tooling
• Complaint handling, good under pressure – hybrid role but not a regular patter
• Around £57k – ideally £55k

Civica Election Services - https://www.civica.com/en-gb/campaigns/civica-election-services/ 

Democracy software - used by public and private sector orgs

Ideally someone from a SaaS background - Experience with cloud-hosted platforms, APIs, integrations, multi-tenant architectures, and configuration rather than on-prem installations. 

Preference for B2B products

Things to look out for are C# & React ideally

Account Director - Professional Services - DEFRA

Home Based with Travel

Circa 100k Basic and Excellent OTE

My client a leading providet of IT Based Professional Services within Government require an Account Director  to Manage a longf term Strategic relationship with a Key Central Government (DEFRA) - You will be responsible for owning the DEFRA Client Account and will need to understand the DEFRA ecosystem / worked with DEFRA previously.

Key responsibilities:

• Planning & Prospecting: Create and execute effective plans to build and maintain a strong, qualified pipeline.
• Consistently achieve set targets by driving strategic sales initiatives and managing a high value and complex deals with Central Government customers
• Influencing & Negotiating: Build trust, inspire change and negotiate value-driven outcomes
• Stakeholder Relationship Building & Management: Build trust, credibility and alignment with key decision-makers and influencers.
• Value-Driven Commercial Excellence: Create tailored solutions that align customer outcomes with thgeir value proposition
• Momentum & Deal Velocity: Build momentum to accelerate deal cycles and maintain prospect engagement
• Agility & Resilience In Sales: Adapt effectively to challenges, setbacks and shifting priorities
• Building Advocacy & Long-Term Partnerships: Turn satisfied customers into advocates, driving referrals and long-term relationships.

Skills & Experience:

• Experience selling complex high value solutions into Central Government
• An excellent communicator – experienced in presenting to customers
• A skilled negotiator, able to influence
• Experience of using Salesforce
• Proactive, determined and dynamic
• Full UK driving licence
• Eligibility for SC

Credit Controller
Permanent
Location: Home / Amersham (3 days on site)

We are looking to recruit a Credit Controller for a leading organisation based in Amersham. This is an excellent role for someone who enjoys owning the full billing and collections cycle while building strong relationships with clients.

The Credit Controller will combine financial accuracy, proactive chasing, and great communication to ensure cashflow stays healthy and clients receive a seamless service.

In this role, you’ll manage a portfolio of clients, acting as their trusted partner across all billing and payment activity. It’s ideal for someone who thrives in a fast-paced, target-driven environment and enjoys turning data and process insight into real financial results.

This is a hybrid role: following an initial fully onsite training period, you will typically work three days per week on site.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Managing the full revenue cycle: raising invoices, chasing overdue payments, resolving queries, and ensuring timely collections.
• Acting as the primary point of contact for clients, building trust and long-term relationships.
• Monitoring aged debt, reducing outstanding balances, and maximising cashflow performance.
• Investigating discrepancies, reconciling accounts, and ensuring accurate financial data.
• Providing regular updates and reports on client financial performance.
• Identifying opportunities to improve billing processes and increase revenue efficiency.
• Supporting operational tasks and working closely with internal teams to maintain a high-quality, compliant service.

What We’re Looking For

• Experience in credit control, billing, collections, or a similar financially focused, target-driven role.
• Strong communication and negotiation skills with the ability to influence and build rapport.
• Excellent attention to detail and accuracy when working with financial information.
• Resilient, organised, and capable of managing competing priorities under pressure.
• Proactive, team-oriented, and committed to delivering positive results for clients.

Enterprise Architect
6 Month Contract
Location: Home / Andover
Rate: £750 - £800 per day (Outside IR35)

We are looking to recruit an SC Cleared Enterprise Arcitect with deep expertise in Sparx Enterprise Architect for a leading technology consultancy.

This is a strategic role where you will shape architecture vision, frameworks, and governance while ensuring Sparx EA is leveraged as the backbone for modelling and repository management.

You will work across business, technology, and data domains to deliver architecture strategies that enable secure, scalable, and sustainable solutions for complex defence environments.

This is a hybrid role and you will be required to work 2 days a week onsite in Andover. Valid SC clearance is essential, and previous MOD / Army experience is highly desirable.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead the development and assurance of Enterprise Architecture vision, strategy, and roadmaps, including ‘as-is’, ‘to-be’, and transitional states.
• Collaborate with multi-disciplinary teams to embed architecture considerations throughout the delivery lifecycle.
• Guide client organisations on business, technology, and data decisions, ensuring reuse, sustainability, and value for money.
• Design and maintain Sparx EA repositories, including meta-model updates, MDG customisation, and governance structures.
• Create and assure architecture artefacts: Enterprise models, system context diagrams, conceptual/logical data models.
• Contribute to architecture principles, policies, and standards, ensuring compliance with corporate, industry, and defence regulations.
• Influence delivery of cross-cutting capabilities that enable change across portfolios and programmes.
• Support stakeholders in aligning decisions with enterprise architecture strategy and reference architectures.

Essential Skills & Experience:

• Expert-level Sparx Enterprise Architect experience, including repository management, meta-modelling, and MDG customisation.
• Proven track record in Enterprise Architecture across business, data, and technology domains.
• Strong knowledge of TOGAF or similar frameworks (Zachman, MODAF).
• Experience working in secure environments and applying best practice for solution security (e.g., OWASP, NCSC cloud security principles).
• Familiarity with Secure Software Development Lifecycle processes.
• Ability to work with multi-disciplinary teams and influence senior stakeholders.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills.

Sparx EA Repository Manager
6 Month Contract
Location: Home / Andover
Rate: £750 - £800 per day (Outside IR35)

We are looking to recruit an SC Cleared Sparx EA Repository Manager for a leading technology consultancy. The Repository Manager will lead the design, administration, and governance of Sparx EA repositories for complex enterprise environments. This role is ideal for someone who combines technical mastery of Sparx EA with a strong understanding of data and architecture frameworks.

You will work with enterprise architects, data architects, and business analysts to ensure our Sparx repositories are structured, standardized, and optimised for collaboration across large-scale programs.

This is a hybrid role and you will be required to work 2 days a week onsite in Andover. Valid SC clearance is essential, and previous MOD / Army experience is highly desirable.

Key Responsibilities:

• Repository Administration:
  • Set up and maintain shared Sparx EA repositories from scratch.
  • Manage repository migrations and upgrades (e.g., AWS → Azure).
  • Implement meta-model updates and merge multiple repositories across business units.
  • Configure user access, permissions, and version control.
• Customisation & Standards:
  • Develop and maintain custom Model Driven Generation (MDG) profiles to support architecture frameworks.
  • Define and enforce modelling standards and guidelines aligned with TOGAF or similar frameworks.
  • Create Sparx EA guidelines and best practices documentation.
• Enablement & Support:
  • Provide expert guidance to architects and analysts on Sparx EA usage.
  • Conduct assurance sessions and promote reuse of architecture building blocks.
  • Troubleshoot repository issues and optimize performance.
• Architecture Artefacts Management:
  • Ensure repository supports enterprise-level artefacts (business, application, technology layers).
  • Maintain consistency and integrity of diagrams, models, and meta-data across projects.

Essential Skills & Experience:

• Expert-level Sparx EA experience, including repository setup, administration, meta-modelling, and MDG customization.
• Strong understanding of architecture frameworks (TOGAF, ArchiMate, UML/BPMN).
• Proven ability to manage large, federated Sparx EA environments.
• Excellent stakeholder engagement and communication skills.
• Familiarity with version control and migration of Sparx repositories.

Client Relationship Executive

Permanent/Full time

Location: Newport Pagnell (2 days in the office)

Salary: £28,000 - £35,000

Our client who provide Channel and Sales Incentive programmes to for Companies Globally are looking to recruit  a Client Relationship Manager to deliver to deliver client projects to a high standard, and contributing to the revenue and profit for the company.company craft strategic, engaging incentives to drive maximum impact without blowing your budget. Transform your sales teamm good to great with rewards that matt

Objectives of Role: 

• Delivering client projects to a high standard, and contributing to the revenue and profit for the company
• Ensuring client retention and satisfaction. 
• Managing the financial aspects of client jobs. Working with Commercial Accountants in the Finance Department to ensure jobs are set up correctly and budgets, cost and time allocations are monitored and correct.  Ensure budgets are up to date, check redemption reports, and ensure invoices are raised within agreed timescales. 
• Within existing accounts, to work with the Client Success Lead (CSL) to upsell current projects, cross-sell our services and identify new opportunities, to maximise revenue and profit per client.

Responsibilities:

• To play the lead role in the delivery of client projects, including client liaison, management of internal resource departments and management of external suppliers.
• Ensure all technical documentation is written to ensure all client requirements are considered, documented and are clear to the delivery team.
• Lead briefing meetings with the Business System Analyst and (where required) developers.
• To be the escalation point of contact for all participant queries via phone and email.
• To manage the delivery of the programme communication plans.
• Responsible for developing, maintaining, and keeping up to date all programme websites via a content management tool.
• Overall responsibility for programme and client data by defining what data is required, in what format and the frequency the data is required. Also determining how the data can be imported / integrated into the programme’s system.
• From a systems perspective be responsible for creating, updating, and maintaining promotions within a database.
• Creating the design briefs and then briefing the internal creative department.
• Manage all technical project briefs with the Business Systems Analysts to ensure client requirements are considered, documented and clear to the delivery team and carry out User Acceptance Testing once development is completed. .
• To set up and lead client meetings (where appropriate), creating agendas, PowerPoint presentations (where required), communicating, creating, and following up on contact reports within agreed timescales.
• To manage all financial aspects of client projects, including using the in-house financial system, working with commercial accountants to set up jobs and budgets, monitor cost and time allocations, keep budgets up-to-date, issue invoices within agreed timescales, close jobs and set up purchase order trackers.
• To project manage client jobs, including taking responsibility for timelines, reporting, management of client and participant communication including contact reports, status reports and maintaining electronic and paper (if applicable) files. To work with your CSL to actively identify new business opportunities within existing accounts and upsell existing projects and to play a lead part in the account development plan for each client.
• To contribute towards a team GP target by ensuring timesheets and budgets are kept up to date and all work is quoted and approved by the client before commencement and by creating efficiencies and best practice ways of working
• To act as line manager to Client Account Executives (if applicable).

Person Specification:

• Significant client service experience in an agency environment or significant client-side experience in similar role.
• Significant project management experience, including responsibility for meeting deadlines, reporting on progress, leading project teams.
• Previous financial responsibility, with evidence of managing costs or monitoring budgets.
• Excellent interpersonal skills, able to build positive relationships at all levels and with all types of people.
• Excellent communication skills – verbal, written, presentational – with clarity of expression.
• Commercial outlook.
• Experience of working with Microsoft Office applications (Word, Excel, PowerPoint
• Passion for quality.
• Credibility in front of clients.
• Excellent time management and task management skills.
• Significant subject matter experience.
• Experience in the Performance Improvement arena.
• Experience in working with technology and systems i.e., websites.
• Experience in working with data.