Passionate people. Inspirational thinking. Extraordinary results.

At Chase Zander, we’re always on the lookout for outstanding people to grow our business. We’re pretty picky, but if you’re passionate, driven and all-round inspirational, you could fit in nicely. We like our people to shine from the inside. You have to ‘get’ our whole company ethos though, because unlike many recruitment companies, our clients and candidates aren’t just sales numbers on a board. We want relationship builders, genuine big picture thinkers, and people who are excited to spend their lives making other people very, very happy.
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At Chase Zander, we recruit for IT, Business Change and Executive Appointments. We’ve been leaders in the field since 2002, delivering Search and Selection, Permanent, Interim and Contract recruitment solutions for top-flight candidates and clients across the UK.

We started Chase Zander with the vision to shake things up in the recruitment industry. From humble beginnings in 2002 we’re amongst the most respected in the industry. Initially specialising in IT and Business Change in the financial services sector, we’ve broadened our consultancy offering to cover executive roles in virtually every major industry and sector.

Unlike your typical sales-focused recruitment company, we reward our people for living up to our values as much as we reward them for performance. That’s the best way to ensure our team members focus on the quality of their service, rather than just the end results – unlike our purely commission-driven competitors. Our work culture is one of integrity, respect, and continuous improvement. We have extremely high standards, and we work with each and every member of our team to give them the best possible tools for success. That’s why our clients know they will always receive the same first-class standard of service, care and attention from any one of our consultants.

It’s an exciting time to join us as we’ve recently invested in state-of-the-art new premises in the centre of Birmingham, upgraded our IT infrastructure, launched a brand-new website and have set our sights on doubling our size each year for the next two years.

For successful candidates there is an excellent graduate trainee programme which will help you become one of the best in the industry and quickly equip you to deliver intelligent recruitment solutions to board level to the world’s leading companies whilst your peers start at the bottom. You’ll be working alongside some of the best in the industry which with hard work and application will give you every chance to make it to the top.

The ideal candidate will;

*be a graduate or of degree calibre
*have superlative communication relationship building skills and a professional attitude *have a real desire to learn, progress and build a career.

Being successful has its rewards, and at Chase Zander, our remuneration packages are amongst the best in the industry. We pay top-end salaries, have generous commission schemes, and offer share options to all our staff so everyone has a big stake in the future of the company. Whats more we want you to be incentivised so if you excel you could be joining us on one of our Top Biller weekends. This year we’ve already been to Paris and whats more you get to decide where you go!

To find out more visit the work for us section of our website at www.chasezander.com/work-for-us, call us or apply now by emailing your CV to james.gittins@chasezander.com quoting ‘work for chase zander’ in the subject box of the email.

Key words: Birmingham, Midlands, Graduate, Trainee Recruitment Consultant.

Skills:
DIVISION – work for chase zander -

Senior Change Manager, Business Change, Payments, Cards, Acceptance, Acquiring, Northampton, Northamptonshire, East Midlands.

The sheer variety of our clients change projects is enormous. For high calibre Change Managers, that creates an exceptionally stimulating environment as you deliver a number of projects ranging in complexity, innovative challenge and scope, and typically from £5-10 million in value. After defining their objectives in close collaboration with internal customers, you’ll oversee the entire lifecycle from design through to testing.

To be considered for this role you must be a high calibre Change Manager with experience of managing a variety of change projects in the Payments or Cards sectors, experience of acceptance and or acquiring in these sectors is highly desirable but by no means essential.
You’ll have excellent stakeholder management skills, a keen eye for detail, have excellent change project management skills, be a valued contributor to the team and be highly motivated to make change projects work and have major impact.

If you are a Change Manager with experience of change programmes in the Cards and or Payments sectors and looking for a highly rewarding role with a global giant in the financial services sector, please apply now quoting VP1060 in your application for feedback.

Senior Change Manager, Business Change, Payments, Cards, Acceptance, Acquiring, Northampton, Northamptonshire, East Midlands.

Skills:
AGENCY SECTOR – business change – BUSINESS SECTOR – credit cards – financial services – payemtn processing – DIVISION – business change -

Business Process Improvement, Process Improvement Manager, Business Analysis, Project Management, PMO, Change Management, Travel, Leicestershire, East Midlands.

This is an excellent role for a candidate with demonstrable Process Improvement, Business Analysis, Project Management or PMO experience to join one of the travel industry’s most respected companies. The role will suit a dynamic individual who may be looking for their first or second position since graduating in a business related discipline although applicants are welcome from all backgrounds.

Suitable candidates must have excellent general business acumen, have experience of Business Process Improvement from a Process Improvement Management, Business Analysis, Project Management or PMO perspective, have strong Change Management experience, excellent stakeholder and relationship management skills, the ability to rationalise business processes and associated SLA’s and make suggested improvements to these to Senior stakeholders.

The projects vary from IT, to Marketing, Infrastructure, Finance and will suit candidates with well rounded general business awareness, candidates with experience of the travel sector would be highly desired.

The client offers excellent career progression and development opportunities, competitive salaries and an excellent working environment, therefore if you are an high calibre candidate with Business Process Improvement experience from a Business Process Improvement Management, Business Analysis, Project Management or PMO perspective and are keen to further your career with a leading client in the travel sector, please apply today for immediate response.

Business Process Improvement, Process Improvement Manager, Business Analysis, Project Management, PMO, Change Management, Travel, Leicestershire, East Midlands.

Skills:
DIVISION – business change – executive appointments – ROLE – business analyst – project analyst – project coordinator – project manager -

An experienced UAT Test Manager is required by Chase Zanders prestigious financial client based in the East Midlands region. This is a fantastic opportunity for a UAT Test to join a very large well known Financial organisation. This is a fantastic opportunity to work on some sizeable programmes of work coming up and require an experienced Test Manager to drive the testing process and work on multiple large scale programmes. The experienced UAT Test Manger must have the following skills and experience:

o Must have experience of UAT Testing
o Must have had exposure and experience of technical testing
o Must be technically proficient
o Have excellent stakeholder management skills
o Have experience of leading testing with large programmes
o Be analytical and be able t provide solutions to client problems
o Strong communication skills
o Must have excellent leadership skills
o Negotiation and influencing skills
o Must have excellent presentation skills

The successful UAT Test Manger’s day to day responsibilities will include:

o To lead the UAT testing function with large change programmes
o To provide advice, support and guidance on the test function to business clients and senior stakeholders

If you are an experienced UAT Test Manger who is looking to join a large Financial organisation and tick the above, then send in your CV straight away!

Skills:
DIVISION – it – ROLE – team leader – tester -

This is an excellent opportunity for a high calibre Senior Java Developer (preferably with experience of EJB3, JPA, JMS, JSF, Servlet, Hibernate), to work as part of a small fun technology provider developing an outstanding product to a high profile client base. The clients offers the opportunity to play a key role in developing cutting edge solutions, a fun working environment, an excellent team culture and the opportunity to grow the role as your own and grow with the company.

Suitable candidates will have an excellent track record developing Java solutions using technologies such as EJB3, JPA, JMS, JSF, Servlets, Hibernate, whilst any experience with Oracle Coherence, JUnit, JAXB/XStream, SQL (Postgres), Jasper Reports, JBoss, JVM Tuning is highly beneficial.

If you are an experienced Java Developer, with experience of Java, JavaEE 5 (EJB3, JPA, JMS, JSF, Servlets, Hibernate) and wish to provide an impact with a growing company with an outstanding product in Oxfordshire, please apply today quoting VP318 in the reference for immediate feedback.

Senior Java Developer, Java, JavaEE 5 (EJB3, JPA, JMS, JSF, Servlet, Hibernate) Oxfordshire.

Skills:
DATABASE – jboss – oracle – DIVISION – it – GENERAL – hibernate – junit – spring – LANGUAGES – ejb – java – jsp – sql -

Senior Test Engineer, Test Team Lead Senior System Tester, Ethernet, Silicon, Networking, TCP/IP, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire.

This role is for a high calibre Senior Tester / Test Team Leader to lead a high calibre Systems Testing team (4-6 people), testing innovative Systems for their suite of Ethernet products. The successful candidate will be responsible for; definition of detailed test plans, day to day line management of the team to complete the agreed test cases to schedule, maintaining test metrics and generating reports on test progress.

Candidates with strong System Testing experience for low level Ethernet, Silicon, Networking, TCP/IP products, test tracking tools and Python or C/C++ software are highly preferred. The client offers excellent salaries, career progression (with potential team leading opportunities), great working environment and an outstanding benefit package (stock options, private health and dentistry, critical illness cover, pension, death in service).

Suitable candidates will have excellent System Testing experience for low level Ethernet, Silicon, Networking, TCP/IP products be well educated (have a 2:1 degree or higher from a reputable University) and will have experience of test tracking tools and Python or C/C++

If you are a high calibre Senior System Tester/Senior test looking to further your career with an innovative Cambridge based company that’s a leader in its field, please apply today quoting VP320 in the subject line of your application for immediate feedback.

Senior Test Engineer, Test Team Lead Senior System Tester, Ethernet, Silicon, Networking, TCP/IP, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire.

Skills:
CLIENT GRADING – c – DIVISION – it – GENERAL – embedded – tcp/ip – LANGUAGES – c++ – ROLE – team leader – tester -

This is an outstanding opportunity for a high calibre Java Software Engineer / Developer to work for a world leading media technology company, developing cutting edge solutions (including greenfield applications) for use by consumers all over the world. Suitable candidates will have excellent Java Software Development experience, be familiar with tools such as Spring and or Hibernate and have a familiarity with web concepts such as HTTP, REST, XML and JSON although this is not a pure web development role.

This award winning client offers excellent career prospects, fantastic working environment and the chance to work with some of the most talented people in the business developing Java based media technology solutions.

Suitable candidate will have excellent Java Development experience for real time environments, have sound knowledge of frameworks such as Spring, JMS and JPA/Hibernate and a thorough understanding of web concepts and technologies such as HTTP, REST, XML and JSON or similar.

If you are a high calibre Java Developer/Software Engineer with experience of Spring, JMS and JPA/Hibernate and an understanding of web concepts and technologies such as HTTP, REST, XML and JSON and wish to push your career to the next level with an award winning media technology company, please apply today quoting VP322 in the subject for immediate feedback.

Java, Spring, Hibernate, JMS, JPA, HTTP, REST, XML, JSON, London.

Skills:
DIVISION – it – GENERAL – hibernate – spring – xml – INDUSTRY – broadcasting – LANGUAGES – java -

A Chase Zander client is looking for a Project Manager / IT Development Manager to perform a hybrid role of Managing a team of developers as well as ensuring projects are completed on time and budget.

This is a fantastic opportunity for a Hands on Software Project Manager who also has line managed software developers to join a highly respected company in the Livingstone area.

Your main responsibilities will include:

Working with clients to ensure clear customer requirements
Ensuring the smooth running of the office
Preparing detailed project plans and ensuring they are adhered to
Line management of a team of developers.

Your background will include:

Operational Management of an IT Development team
Proven experience of structured Project Management
Excellent communication and influencing skills
A Project Management qualification would be a distinct advantage

If you are a Project Manager who has managed software developers this could be the role for you. Please send your CV in quoting VC80 in the subject line. Keywords – Project Manager, Development Manager, Operations Manager, Prince2, PMI, APM, Software Development, Scotland, Livingstone

Skills:
DIVISION – it -

Flash/Flex/ActionScript (Action Script) Developer / Programmer with experience of Flash Remoting, Flash Communication Server, XML, JavaScript and HTML, Coventry, West Midlands.

These are urgent contract roles for high calibre Flash/Flex/ActionScript (Action Script) Developers / Programmers to assist delivery of a key project for a client which is truly a leader in their field.

Suitable candidates will have excellent experience developing Flash applications delivering first class user experience, have excellent Flash and Flex OOP development experience and experience demonstrating scripting abilities that adhere to best practices – e.g. ActionScript 3, Actionscript 2,JavaScript, HTML, CSS, XSLT, XML.

If you are an experienced Flash/Flex/ActionScript (Action Script) Developer Programmer with experience of Flash Remoting, Flash Communication Server, XML, JavaScript and HTML and are available for a three month contract please apply now quoting VC81 in the subject of your application.

Flash/Flex/ActionScript (Action Script) Developer / Programmer with experience of Flash Remoting, Flash Communication Server, XML, JavaScript and HTML, Coventry, West Midlands.

Skills:
DESIGN – css – flash – DIVISION – it – GENERAL – xml – LANGUAGES – html – javascript -

Graduate / Trainee Software Engineer, C or C++, Programming, Software Engineering, Software Development, Cambridge (Cambridgeshire, East Anglia).

These are fantastic opportunities for Graduate / Trainee Software Engineers / Programmers to join a world class technology company developing cutting edge silicon solutions for use all over the world. The company offers you the chance kick start your career gaining experience of all aspects of the software life cycle before moving into a core software development role, working with an amazing group of highly talented individuals developing bleeding edge technology solutions. An industry leading salary, benefits package (private health, pension, life insurance) and stock options coupled with the opportunity to work for such a prestigious client makes these some of the best Graduate / Trainee Software Engineering positions in the Cambridge (Cambridgeshire, East Anglia) region.

To be considered for these positions YOU MUST HAVE either a PhD, first class or 2:1 degree from a well ranked university, be able to prove your ability to learn quickly and have an experience of C or C++ programming. Any understanding of scripting languages is a distinct advantage.

If you are a Graduate / Trainee Software Engineer with experience of C or C++ Programming/Software Engineering or Software Development experience and want to work for a leading technology company in beautiful Cambridge (Cambridgeshire, East Anglia), please apply today quoting VP326 in your application for immediate feedback.

Graduate / Trainee Software Engineer, C or C++ Programming, Software Engineering, Software Development, Cambridge (Cambridgeshire, East Anglia).

Skills:
CLIENT GRADING – c – DIVISION – it – INDUSTRY – software house – ROLE – programmer – software engineer -