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LONDON
Account Manager
We are seeking a talented Account Manager to join our Client Account Management teams. The successful candidate’s principal role will be to manage the delivery of high calibre corporate communications projects for our clients (including Annual Reports, Sustainability Reports, investor relations communications and digital projects) and to support our Research and Strategy team in producing our industry leading research publications. The role will provide you with the opportunity to develop an intimate understanding of your client’s strategy and business model as well as a deep understanding of best practice and market trends in financial and non-financial reporting.
The successful candidate will have the following qualifications and skills:
- Degree level qualification or equivalent
- Additional qualifications in investor relations or corporate communications would be beneficial
- Excellent writing, editing and communication skills are essential
- One to three years’ experience in project managing communications projects or experience within an investor relations role
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Strong ‘can do’ attitude with an innate ability to take initiative and work by yourself as well as in a team
- Fully conversant with Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint
- An excellent sense of humour is a must!
HOW TO APPLY
Please email our Recruitment and Talent Manager, Matthew: mconnor@blacksunplc.com
London
Account Director
We are seeking a talented Account Director to join our Client Account Management teams. The successful candidate’s principal role will be to manage the delivery of high calibre corporate communications projects for our clients (including Annual Reports, Sustainability Reports, investor relations communications and digital projects) and to support our Research and Strategy team in producing our industry leading research publications. The role will provide you with the opportunity to develop an intimate understanding of your client’s strategy and business model as well as a deep understanding of best practice and market trends in financial and non-financial reporting.
For more information on our vacancy, please email our Recruitment and Talent Manager, Matthew - mconnor@blacksunplc.com
LONDON
Marketing Executive
We’re looking to hire an ambitious Marketing Executive for our busy Marketing team who are responsible for promoting Black Sun, the work we do, and building relationships with our prospects and clients. This role plays a critical part in the team helping to plan and execute various multi-channel marketing campaigns. The role works closely with the business development team helping to organise a busy event calendar, generating high quality new business leads and building strong relationships with prospects. You will play an integral role in supporting Black Sun’s continued relationship development, growth and award-winning success.
What you’ll be doing:
- Work with the Head of Marketing to plan, manage and implement campaigns and deliver on the marketing and new business strategy
- Evaluate and review marketing campaigns
- Support internal social media activities and work closely with our internal design team to create assets
- Support the delivery of internal communications
- Support the business with entering awards
- Help to manage Black Sun’s website content
- Supporting the execution of marketing events
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LONDON
Senior Digital Project Manager
Our role:
We are looking for an ambitious Digital Project Manager to join our growing digital team to deliver high-quality and innovative digital corporate communications solutions – and to help build Black Sun as thought leaders for digital excellence. You will scope, specify, and project manage the development and delivery of digital solutions such as corporate websites, extranets, and social media. The role entails defining solutions to meet our clients requirements, building project delivery schedules and budgetary estimates and driving the programme of work from inception through to successful delivery. We are interested in finding someone who not just enjoys managing projects but is also interested in helping out with our research into digital trends and best practices.
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LONDON
Head of Digital Delivery
As Head of Digital Delivery you will be responsible for leading and developing our digital client relationships and successfully defining, delivering and managing our digital communications yourself as well as through the digital project management team.
You will have responsibility for leading your team and delivering high calibre and profitable solutions for clients, for client retention and development, leadership of new business pitches, resource planning, team management and engagement, contributing to the strategic offer and services and engaging in broader management duties to help facilitate the operational effectiveness of the company.
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London
Sustainability Consultant
We are seeking a talented and passionate Sustainably Consultant to join our Research and Insight team. The successful candidate’s principal role will be twofold; to provide ongoing research in the wider communications arena, focussing on the future of sustainability communications with stakeholders as well as to lead the strategic development of sustainability communications for our clients, focusing on communications planning and strategy, message development, preparing opportunities presentations and conducting assessments. In addition, the successful candidate will be leading SD Reporting activities for our clients, completing activities such as benchmarking, content development and copywriting and providing advice on assurance and reporting standards. A part of this role will also entail supporting our client teams with marketing activities, presenting and pitching as well as delivery of projects.
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London
Office Manager
We're currently looking for someone to join our busy HR team to work alongside our current Front of House Manager. You will have experience in supporting a busy team and the right person will also have Executive PA experience as you will be working closely with our board of directors.
We can be flexible with your hours and how many days a week you work, if this is something you need!
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SINGAPORE
Front End Developer
We have a great opportunity for a talented Front-End Web Developer to join our growing Application Development team in Singapore. We are looking for someone to lead our front-end team, to help mentor and grow our front-end developers, to bring in new ideas and to shake up how we do things, and to produce high quality websites, intranets, etc. for our clients.
The successful candidate will have the following skills and qualifications:
Extensive commercial experience of the following is essential (expert knowledge of):
- HTML 5 & CSS 3 (XHTML, CSS, DOM)
- JavaScript/AJAX, JQuery Framework and other JavaScript UI frameworks/patterns;
- Pixel-perfect HTML rendition of Photoshop templates; and
- Image manipulation through Photoshop/The GIMP;
- Strong attention to detail and quality;
- Strong interpersonal and communications skills
- Ability to manage many urgent and often conflicting priorities;
- Flexibility and team focused
- A great sense of humour and fun!!
HOW TO APPLY
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SINGAPORE
AEM Developer
We are looking for a AEM Developer to join our growing Digital team in Singapore. You must be a keen team worker and collaborator but with great aptitude for autonomous work and pride yourself in creating high quality code and polished websites that accurately match the original designs. You love what you do, and you are excited to improve your skills as well as learning new ones. You have the ability to work under pressure and to tight deadlines and have a positive and fun attitude.
Person requirements
Essential skills and experience required:
- Relevant Computer Science / Information Technology Degree (or equivalent);
- Certified Adobe AEM (CQ) 6.0 Developer and certified Oracle Java 6 professional with proven experience;
- Extensive experience developing bespoke Adobe AEM components;
- Extensive experience in Java/J2EE, with particular focus on of various AEM building blocks like templates, dialogs, workflows, etc. And with specific tools such as AEM SiteAdmin, CRXDE Lite, Felix Console with understanding and experience on AEM foundation concepts like JCR and Apache Sling
- Expert level experience in optimizing web application performance through distributed caching mechanisms (such as Memcached or Hazelcast);
- Working experience of HTML/XHTML, JavaScript, jQuery;
- Working experience of RDBMS such as MySQL and/or Oracle;
- Working experience of Persistence frameworks such as JPA (JSR220);
- Extensive experience with tools like Eclipse, Maven, SVN, Jenkins, JIRA;
-Strong attention to detail is essential.
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SINGAPORE
Research Manager
Our role:
We are looking to hire a Research Manager to work with the wider Research and Strategy team with project managing client assessments and other client projects, as well as helping to gather high quality market intelligence on corporate reporting policy, issues, news and trends.
We regularly publish research reports, papers and thought pieces which are widely read by the industry and commented on by both the trade and national press. A key part of this role is the development of these documents and, where appropriate, take ownership of writing and promoting them.
We are searching for a highly motivated and ambitious individual with excellent academics, a curious and innovative mind, who can work to their own initiative and has a friendly persona and 'can-do' attitude. The successful candidate must be comfortable communicating with internal teams, have a keen eye for detail and strong communication and interpersonal skills.
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