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Business Development Operations Associate

About Downing

Downing is dedicated to delivering investments that matter – for our economy, our health, our society, our local communities and our environment.

For over 35 years, our highly experienced team and our entrepreneurial spirit has driven us to seek out long-term and unique opportunities that solve challenges faced by investors, companies and society.

From our headquarters in the City of London, and from offices in Cardiff, Glasgow, Helsinki and Stockholm, we structure and manage innovative investments that meet specific investor needs and look to the future with conviction. Our 200-plus employees drive our vision of long-term value creation, which we achieve by being bold, straightforward and ambitious.

Guided by these principles we have a broad range of investment opportunities. Our private market offerings include renewable energy infrastructure, private equity and private credit. In public markets, we have a boutique of specialist fund managers that provide a distinctive suite of investment mandates.

As a certified B Corp, we take our responsibilities, to our investors, our stakeholders and society, seriously. We invest for return while always considering our impact on the world.

Diversity is important to us, and we see the benefits that having a team with a range of backgrounds and perspectives can bring. We are bold and ambitious, straightforward and we support each other. These core values are vital to everything we do – from the businesses we invest in, to the people we hire.

Role and responsibilities

The primary function of the Business Development Operations Associate is to support the activities of the Downing Strategic Partnership Sales Team in increasing panel positions and optimising business activity to develop new sales opportunities. This person will work alongside a busy sales team in a business development environment, contributing to meetings on a day-to-day basis.

The ideal candidate will possess exceptional customer service skills, whilst being highly efficient and adaptable, with strong interpersonal skills and effective administrative abilities. Paramount to this role is an individual who is organised and who can communicate effectively with advisers, clients, and internal sales and strategy teams. Various supporting administrative tasks are involved in this role, including creating/monitoring reports for fund raising activities, as well as team event planning and delivery execution. Where appropriate, travel to regional UK events and business meetings may be required.

Responsibilities will include:

Inbound & Admin Support

• Managing the Sales Support inbound enquires and handling literature requests

• Responding to customer queries as first point of contact

• CRM system administration – updating records, logging activity, maintaining data hygiene

• Diary management or meeting coordination for the sales team

Sales Operations Enablement

• Producing illustrations or quotes for financial advisers

• Creating and maintaining call campaigns records

• Generating call lists/leads from events, centralised targets, or desk research

• Supporting region planning and team coverage logistics

• Drafting and updating a suite of email templates for business outreach

• Tracking business pipeline and reporting on progress

• Monitoring competitor activity and summarising insights

Data & Research

• Desk and data research for new business development opportunities (new prospect client firms) and to liaise with internal regional sales teams

• Creating lead lists from centralised targets or external databases

• Analysing event outcomes and generating follow-up actions

Campaign & Event Support

• Coordinating group mailings around specific business events

• Supporting roadshows campaigns – call lists, email follow-ups

• Assisting with event logistics or delegate tracking

Miscellaneous / Strategic Support

• Supporting region strategy and territory alignment

• Assisting with funds follow-ups once applications are received

• Liaising with internal teams (e.g. marketing, compliance) for campaign support

Education, experience and skills

The ideal candidate will have the following:

• Degree level or equivalent education

• Prior commercial experience, ideally within a business operations or sales support environment

• Experiencing in working within account management and knowledge of CRM databases

• Competence in Excel spreadsheets, Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Outlook

Project Manager

At Dalcour Maclaren, we’re key players in the Utilities and Infrastructure industry, bringing the UK and Ireland closer to Net Zero every day. Our land, environmental and geospatial experts work together to unlock the consents needed by our clients to deliver key projects. Our services include land access and assembly, agricultural liaison, planning, environmental impact assessments and geospatial mapping. Join us, and play your part in helping us to achieve our vision; to be the professional services team of choice, leading the Utilities and Infrastructure industry to a sustainable future.

We’re seeking a Project Manager to join our team on a 12‑month fixed‑term contract, covering an exciting period of maternity leave. Based in either Manchester or Bicester, you’ll play a key role in delivering projects across our Power Generation and Water sectors. If you’re ready to bring your expertise to high‑profile, meaningful work, we’d love to hear from you.

 

As a Project Manager you will:

• Lead the successful delivery of multiple projects from planning through to completion.
• Collaborate closely with Client Managers to ensure satisfaction and strong relationships.
• Monitor project performance, budgets, and timelines to ensure financial and operational success.
• Allocate and manage resources effectively across projects.
• Ensure all work meets the highest quality standards and complies with legal and contractual requirements.
• Identify and manage project risks, issues, and changes proactively.
• Promote continuous improvement and contribute to the evolution of our project management methodologies.
• Support and develop your team through effective leadership and line management.
• Champion the use of internal systems and tools to enhance project delivery and reporting.
• Conduct regular project reviews and implement lessons learned to improve future delivery.
• Coordinate with cross-functional teams to ensure seamless project execution.
• Drive stakeholder engagement through clear, consistent communication and reporting.
• Ensure alignment of project outcomes with client objectives and business strategy.

 

The successful candidate will:

• Have Previous experience within project management
• Have Previous experience in leading a team
• Be an excellent communicator with internal and external stakeholders
• Have great IT skills & be confident with Microsoft products
• Have good numeracy skills and financial understanding
• Be highly organised with great attention to detail
• Be a keen problem solver

Benefits:

• Annual bonus scheme
• 25 days annual leave plus 1 day to celebrate your birthday
• Vitality Health Membership (including Private healthcare, subsidised gym membership and other discounts)
• Flexible working through our ‘Flexible Advantage’ supporting working families & your work/life balance
• Pension Scheme via The Peoples Pension
• Life insurance (4x Base Salary)
• Free on-site parking in non-city centre offices
• Cycle to work scheme
• 26 Weeks paid Maternity Leave
• 4 Weeks paid Paternity Leave
• BHN Extras – provides discounted gift cards for hundreds of popular retailers
• Electric Vehicle Salary Sacrifice Scheme (provided by Octopus Electric Vehicles) effective at 1 years’ service
• Sabbatical Policy effective at 3 years’ service
• Professional development – paid study leave
• Military service paid leave (7.5 days per year)
• Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) plus wider Mental Health & Wellbeing support
• 2 x Company-wide events every year, in addition to multiple office socials throughout the year

Project Manager

This is a fantastic opportunity for a Project Manager to work on the delivery of innovative software products that are at the forefront of technology in the retail insurance sector.

We are looking for a Project Manager to manage the delivery of our more complex and challenging projects. The successful candidate will be comfortable working in a fast-paced environment and will be passionate about delivering high quality project management services to take products and services to market.

About CDL
CDL is one of the UK’s leading software development houses, employing over 600 people at its campus in Stockport. It has a consistent history in the high-volume retail insurance sector. CDL has spearheaded developments in the aggregator, web and telematics space, including connected home, enrichment and self-service solutions. As a result, the company’s robust and innovative technologies have enabled its customers to thrive in the highly competitive UK insurance marketplace. We have built a collaborative and creative culture where we employ agile techniques to deliver our pace-setting applications. We pride ourselves on cultivating an inspiring working environment with our employees at the heart of our company.

In a nutshell we are the market leading software house in our industry, creating the software, websites & apps for the Insurance & Finance sector across the UK. If you were to go on a price comparison website, approximately 65% of the companies on there are our clients!

What you will do

 

• The Project Manager works on a single medium sized project or multiple smaller projects being delivered to our external or internal customers. You will be working within a sizeable and well-established team of project managers, but will matrix manage wider teams of resources from across the business. You will manage the delivery of the projects through the full project lifecycle for which the duration might be a few months to a year for the medium sized projects.
• A key measure of our success is the ability to deliver to an agreed go live date, whilst not compromising quality or exceeding budget, therefore the Project Manager will require skills in the areas of planning, financial management, scope management and risk management.
• You will work collaboratively with stakeholders both internal and external and across all technical and non-technical disciplines to overcome complex challenges. Commercially astute and familiar with working in a technical environment, if you don’t already have knowledge of the insurance sector, you will be a quick learner with the ability to rapidly gain that understanding.

 

Key Responsibilities

Demonstrable experience and knowledge of:

• Managing software development and / or software implementation projects ideally within a software house.
• Project Management and Software Development Lifecycles.
• Waterfall and Agile methodologies.

Excellent communication skills:

• written, verbal, face to face and remote working
• PRINCE2 or other project management related training and certifications would be great but proven experience is more important.
• Strong leadership skills with extensive experience of working in a customer facing role.
• Proficient with the use of tools such as Excel, Microsoft Project etc.
• An enthusiastic, ‘can-do’ attitude to overcoming issues and challenges.

Bonus Points

• Experience in the insurance industry.

 

Benefits

Salary

The salary for the role of Project Manager pays up to £50,000p.a. providing a fantastic opportunity for career progression at CDL. Your growth and advancement within CDL are only limited by your own ambition and effort.

Benefits

• Hybrid Working (2 Days a Week in the office – SK4 2HD)
• Truly flexible working.
• 25 days holiday to start, increasing by 1 day per 1 year of service up to 30 days.
• Top employer for 10th year running
• Excellent training and development platform
• Opportunities for career progression
• Health and Wellbeing programme
• Virtual activities, lunch and learns, coffee mornings and meetups.
• Life and health assurance
• Electric Vehicle Scheme
• Established Recognition Award System
• Great Parental Benefits
• Diversity and Inclusion network
• Pension scheme
• Community projects and volunteer days
• Refer a friend bonus

Campus Benefits:

• On-site free parking
• Open plan modern offices
• Quiet Spaces are also available
• Shuttle bus to and from the station
• Subsidised restaurant
• Games room and chill out zone
• Annual Hackathon & Deep Racer Events
• Social activities, regular social events through our social group Xtra, including a summer BBQ, competitions, bowling, go-karting, football games, Winter party and much more!
• Car wash, barber, yoga classes, boot camp and massage services all on site
• Cycle to work scheme
• Shower and dry rooms

Product Manager

Tasks

Requirements

Lead Product Manager

About this role

2025 has been an exciting year at Just Eat Takeaway.com with the launch of our paid membership program JET+ (e.g. Just Eat+), and we are only just getting started. We are now accelerating our vision to become the most rewarding platform, that recognises the loyalty and behaviour of customers – where every order and key actions are rewarded, and Just Eat+ membership unlocks even more.

 

This will be a key product leadership role in crafting and evolving the product strategy and roadmap for a new loyalty program we will be launching to all our customers across the globe. You’ll work with multiple stakeholders and teams across the entire organisation, influencing across levels, and managing key initiatives end-to-end.

 

The Loyalty team sits within the Ventures pillar in Product & Tech, a pillar that is relentlessly efficient, highly collaborative, laser-focused and always tackling the company’s biggest strategic bets and opportunities to disrupt the future of this industry. You can hear more on this from Hassan, the Senior Director of Ventures in this podcast episode.

 

These are some of the key components to the position:

• Product Vision & Strategy: Define, craft, and own the end-to-end product strategy and multi-year roadmap for the new loyalty program, ensuring it is highly scalable, directly fueling our vision to be the most rewarding platform.
• Drive End-to-End Execution: Lead the entire product lifecycle from deep discovery and ideation through iterative design, flawless go-to-market execution, and continuous optimization across multiple operating markets.
• Influence Senior Leadership: Act as the product evangelist, effectively communicating the vision, strategy, and execution progress, influencing and aligning senior leadership (up to Executive Committee level) and critical cross-functional stakeholders.
• Champion Data-Driven Strategy & Impact: Champion a data-centric and user-centric approach, leveraging advanced analytics to understand customer needs, maximize positive network effects, and quantify the impact of all initiatives ensuring they deliver against key business KPIs.
• Cultivate Cross-Functional Alignment: Proactively engage, lead, and align with diverse global and local teams (e.g., across Product & Tech (Engineering, UX, Data Science),  Marketing, Commercial) to ensure seamless loyalty feature development and integration across the platform.
• Ensure Technical Scalability: Partner closely with engineering leadership and peers to ensure the loyalty architecture is technically robust, built for efficiency, and highly scalable.
• Foster Experimentation & Optimization: Instill a culture of rapid experimentation and iterative learning across all loyalty feature launches to ensure continuous optimization of program acquisition, engagement, retention, and program performance.

 

What will you bring to the team?

• Strong collaboration and relationship-building skills, across all levels, with effective communication and influencing skills
• High levels of ownership and self-starter attitude, comfortable with autonomy, change and thriving in fast-paced environments.
• Experimentation, iteration and agility first mindset
• Ability to coach, develop and mentor other PMs in the team
• Experience within loyalty and customer engagement welcome, but not mandatory
• Comfortable with key collaboration and analytical tools – e.g. JIRA, Figma, Miro, Tableau
• Problem-Solving & adaptability – demonstrated ability to thrive in the ambiguous, proactively identify challenges, and pivot strategies as needed.
• Ability to partner effectively with engineering teams, understanding technical feasibility, driving scalable solutions, and make prioritisation decisions

 

At JET, this is how we play 

Our teams forge connections internally and work with some of the best-known brands on the planet, giving us truly international impact in a dynamic environment.

Being the best at what we do isn’t just about delivering on our strategy. It’s a competition for something incredibly valuable – our customers’ choice. Every time a customer decides where to order, they’re picking a side.

At the heart of the JET Customer League are our values and behaviours. They guide every interaction, every decision, every innovation. These are the actions we need to perform consistently and brilliantly, to surpass the competition and earn our customers’ loyalty, again and again.

Fun, fast-paced and supportive, the JET culture is about movement, growth, helping one another to succeed and celebrating wins. By truly living our values and embodying our behaviours, we’re building a customer-first culture which enables us to stay one step ahead of the competition.

 

Inclusion, Diversity & Belonging

No matter who you are, what you look like, who you love, or where you are from, you can find your place at Just Eat Takeaway.com. We’re committed to creating an inclusive culture, encouraging diversity of people and thinking, in which all employees feel they truly belong and can bring their most colourful selves to work every day.

 

What else are we delivering?

Want to know more about our JETers, culture or company? Have a look at our career site where you can find people’s stories, blogs, podcasts and more JET journeys.