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Project Estimator

High Wycombe, head office based

healthcare, medical bedhead containment systems

Application deadline: Open (published 01 August 2022)

Location: High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire

Job Title: Sales team estimator

Vacancy Reference: 2022/HO/PE

Applicant Overview:

We are looking for an energetic and ambitious colleague to join our successful internal business support team in our High Wycombe head office.

As an ideal applicant you will have experience of working within an SME and ideally have some engineering background or understanding. You will be well-presented, committed and keen to develop your career within an ambitious fast-paced, high-growth SME.

You will be numerate and demonstrate a high level of literacy skills alongside exceptional administration and communication skills both written and orally with an organised work ethic.

Ideally, you will have worked in an enterprise where detailed estimating has been undertaken although full training will be given and a personal development plan created by our highly experienced internal sales team.

As a successful applicant you will be challenged by our driven work ethos and be expected to bring innovation and foresight to our operations, sharing our vision of progression in all that we do across all areas of the business. We are a sales driven business and our vibrant knowledgeable team lead the market in many ways, especially on technical advice and compliance. However, we consistently aspire to be better and keep leading our market. You should share those values and aspirations as a core team member.

We are interested in people first, supported by their skill-sets in the role to contribute as a key player in our aspirations to expand, develop and evolve our Cableflow family and industry footprint. We value our brand highly and our ethos reflects this.

The successful applicant will demonstrate an ability to forge key relationships with our client base and demonstrate a desire to learn about the product, understand the role, our offer, our systems and processes whilst contributing through their skill-sets towards refinement and change to achieve our goals.

You should be calm under pressure and frequent workload, patient and above all diligent. You should be personable and able to build and maintain strong relationships with clients and colleagues alike.

In return, we aim to fully support job satisfaction, personal development and high value self-esteem through our collective contribution to improved healthcare solutions.

The role:

This is an exciting opportunity to join our highly successful and growing sales team as we embark on our next stage of corporate growth.

The position will report directly to our Operations Director that will also embrace a day-to-day interface across our wider senior leadership team. You will work closely alongside our design and production teams to ensure our product offers are accurate, commercially focused and reflect our product placement ambition and importantly reflect best value in the markets we operate.

Working closely with our external Regional Specification Managers you will take responsibility for supporting their work and keeping them informed and updated. You will be a reliable extension to their function and a reliable source of commercial administration support.

Whilst we are looking for a goal oriented team player, you will be expected to work on your own initiative whilst taking a proactive approach to client enquiries.

As an estimator you have a core role maintaining the viability of our product offer and the commercial impact of our sales activity. You will be required to exercise judgement when preparing commercial offers and provide technical assistance in establishing solutions across our team to meet the designers intent, and cost these accordingly.

A huge volume of overall sales are repeat business, derived from established clients who understand the worth and value of our products and the technical and design support they receive from us, which is often unquantifiable in terms of added value. You will be expected to uphold these philosophies when dealing with clients on a daily basis so that you become a trusted ‘go to’ person by name for those clients.

You will benefit from full head office support and appropriate product training to enable you to excel in your role leading to developing and growing the position and your own personal contribution across our small team. You should be able to demonstrate initiative and show innovation in a changing approach to business administration post COVID.

The Job:

The day-to-day responsibility for assessing in-bound enquiries from various sources, creating and documenting product specifications to meet the design intent and pricing these.

Your work will involve frequent updates to estimates and the tracking of these through to order receipt in collaboration with our Regional Specification Managers, and keeping them updated.

You will also become adept at dealing with technical sales enquiries supporting both our external sales team and clients alike. Full product training will be given and

we aspire to helping the successful applicant become a product champion and reliable resource for our client base.

Documentation and procedural care is a vital component of this role ensuring that as estimates develop and mature that there is traceability in change throughout the documentation process and the document packs are logical.

You will work closely as part of a small and focused internal administration team, all towards a common corporate goal to ensure our sales footprint grows in line with expectation.

Indicative responsibilities within this role will include, but not be limited to;

  • Reviewing design information;
  • Preparing take-off schedules from drawings;
  • Reviewing written performance specifications;
  • Producing specification sheets defining what our offer is;
  • Preparing the document pack to issue:
  • Preparing technical submission documentation from our electronic information library for the client to seek their approvals;
  • Selecting the best product solution to meet the specification;
  • Creating performance specifications to aid the specifiers in their role;
  • Costing up the projects based upon those specifications and setting out a clear offer and the terms of the offer;
  • Receiving purchase orders and preparing the job files to move to production;
  • Issuing drawings for approval prior to manufacture;
  • Dealing with drawing amendments to co-ordinate drawing re-issue and advising clients of any cost and delivery impacts;
  • Client interface via email or telephone;
  • Co-ordinated monthly reporting interface alongside the RSM’s to our Operations Director.
  • Maintaining a project tracker from enquiry through to estimate and order.

Essential Criteria:

As a people orientated business, we are seeking candidates who will add value to our Cableflow ‘family’. You must demonstrate a strong match for our vibrant entrepreneurial culture and our core values; Listen, Empower, Accomplish and be measured on each of these values together with the following skills and experience;

  • A willingness to learn a bespoke role using your skill sets;
  • A good administrative background where attention to detail has been vital;
  • Ability to interface with technology; eg; CRM, databases, Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Outlook and other Microsoft 365 apps etc;
  • Excellent communication and presentation skills;
  • Organised, detail driven work ethos, understanding the significance of processes and documentation.

Essential Personal Qualities

  • High energy, passionate, collaborative, tenacious and resilient;
  • High thresholds of personal achievement;
  • Committed;
  • Inquisitive, innovative and problem-solving personality;
  • Motivated and ambition to take responsibility for the role whilst driving the contribution of procurement to our corporate objectives across the business;
  • Excellent communication skills – both written and verbal;
  • Confidence and capability to engage with people at all levels;
  • Patience and resilience;
  • Excellent organisational and time management capability;
  • Ability to collaborate in different ways with colleagues;
  • Someone who thrive son responsibility;
  • Proactive ‘can-do’ attitude;
  • Solutions finder;

Industry Sector:

Manufacturing medtech.

The offer:

Remuneration: £18- £21k per annum subject to applicant.

Supplementary benefits:

Our people are important to us and we want to make sure that we reward and recognise all of the great work that they do. Some of our benefits include:

  • 21 days annual leave plus Bank and Public Holidays in accordance with current employment law;
  • Flexible working;
  • Workplace Pension scheme following the regulated entitlement period;
  • Dynamic & diverse working environment;
  • A day at Cableflow is never the same due to all the different areas we work in;

We are passionate and committed to the learning and development of our people, making sure they have the right skills and knowledge to be successful and to help achieve their potential. We prioritise Health and Safety in everything that we do.

About us

Cableflow were established in 1989 and quickly grew to be amongst the UK’s leading bedhead services trunking system / medical supply unit manufacturers. We are recognised and admired by our peers as a pro-active leader in the healthcare sector.

We see ourselves as innovators. Having been the only company in our sector to be conferred a Queens Award for Enterprise: Innovation our experience in the sector and focus towards breaking down barriers, leading through innovative product design and excelling in product offer are hallmarks of our approach to sales growth and reputation.

With a product footprint that is broad across the NHS, we have significant scope for development in both allied and vertical markets and it is here that we see future growth across the business.

Our primary manufacturing facility and head office base is in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire from where our southern footprint has been well established over more than three decades. As part of a wider restructure across our business to drive further growth also seek to spread the Cableflow offer with broader national coverage.

Renowned for our innovative solutions, product quality and customer service these guiding principles underpin our business ethos. We are a driven organisation benefitting from being privately owned with active day-to-day engagement across our markets by our founders such that our offer always remains relevant.

We are an equal opportunities employer and committed to a diverse workforce. We are selective in our hiring and shortlisting for this vacancy which will be completed on the basis of merit and skill-sets. Candidates should tailor their CVs to reflect our essential criteria.

Interviews will be held in person at our High Wycombe facility.

To Apply:

Applicants should send a comprehensive CV, in confidence to stating the vacancy reference in the email title: 2022/HO/PE

We do not appoint through recruitment agencies or third parties.

Buyer

High Wycombe, head office based

healthcare, medical bedhead containment systems

Application deadline: Open (published 01 August 2022)

Location: High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire

Job Title: Buyer

Vacancy Reference: 2022/HO/Buyer

Applicant Overview:

We are looking for an energetic and ambitious colleague to join our successful internal business support team in our High Wycombe head office.

As an ideal applicant you will have experience of working within a procurement setting, ideally within an SME. You will be well-presented, committed and keen to develop your career within an ambitious fast-paced, high-growth SME.

You will be numerate and demonstrate a high level of literacy skills alongside exceptional administration and communication skills both written and orally with an organised work ethic.

Ideally, you will be familiar with SAGE accounting and inventory management software although full training will be given to the successful applicant. You will be fully familiar and versatile across all Microsoft 365 product apps.

As a successful applicant you will be challenged by our driven work ethos and be expected to bring innovation and foresight to our operations, sharing our vision of progression in all that we do across all areas of the business.

We are interested in people first, supported by their skill-sets in the role to contribute as a key player in our aspirations to expand, develop and evolve our Cableflow family and industry footprint. We value our brand highly and our ethos reflects this.

The successful applicant will demonstrate an ability to forge key relationships and a desire to learn and understand the role, our offer, our systems and processes whilst contributing through their skill-sets towards refinement and change to achieve our goals.

You should be calm under pressure, patient and above all diligent. You should be personable and able to build and maintain strong relationships with our supply-chain partners whilst developing new opportunities for procurement.

In return, we aim to fully support job satisfaction, personal development and high value self-esteem through our collective contribution to improved healthcare solutions.

The role:

This is an exciting opportunity to join our highly successful team as we embark on our next stage of corporate growth.

The position will report directly to our Operations Director that will also embrace a day-to-day interface across our wider senior leadership team.

Being the recipient of a Queen’s Award for Enterprise: Innovation our brand and it’s association with quality speaks for itself across our markets, although we constantly strive to improve and grow our offer across new build and refurbishment healthcare contracts.

Whilst we are looking for a goal oriented team player, you will be expected to work on your own initiative, contributing towards a collective goal through our procurement strategy. We have a reliable and structured local supply-chain with whom we have forged working relationships over many years to ensure reliability, quality and competitive costing. We consider our suppliers part of us and therefore within the role these relationships require managing and developing the strong partnerships we enjoy. Our supply-chain partners are integral to our operation and these long-term relationships are testament to the successes we bring and share with each other – we are partners first!

You will benefit from full head office support and appropriate product training to enable you to excel in your role leading to developing and growing the position and your own personal contribution across our small team. You should be able to demonstrate initiative and show innovation in a changing approach to business administration post COVID.

The Job:

The day-to-day responsibility for materials flow into the business ensuring our inventories for standard or bespoke items are appropriate for the demand.

Issuing tenders and pricing enquiries, advising on and establishing value engineering solutions alongside our in-house technical support, establishing best value in line with our obligations, expediting orders within the supply-chain and ensuring every day consumables are appropriately stocked are key priorities of the role.

Constant overview of stock inventory in collaboration with our warehouse and stores personnel to ensure we are suitably stocked, completing the document audit trail from order to delivery and addressing any invoice, quality and performance issues howsoever arising are also key requirements.

You will work closely with our internal team to ensure our manufacturing obligations are met, whilst contributing in the role to ensure that our growth aspirations are maintained and the quality of product we produce is reflective of our market status.

Additionally, you will be responsible for sourcing new opportunities with new supply-chain partners and broadening the offer from existing partners.

You will work as part of a small and focused internal administration team, all towards a common corporate goal.

Indicative responsibilities within this role will include, but not be limited to;

  • Issuing pricing enquiries and tenders;
  • Raising purchase orders;
  • Expediting orders across the supply chain;
  • Inventory management (collaborative approach across team);
  • Evaluating best value and ensuring on time responsiveness of the supply chain to enquiries and order completion;
  • Evaluating manufacturing picking lists to ensure materials requisitions are fulfilled and appropriate;
  • Liaison with our finance team on invoice queries;
  • Liaison with estimating where costs increase;
  • Work with estimating and design to ensure project budgets are met;
  • Resolving supply-chain partner issues or queries;

Essential Criteria:

As a people orientated business, we are seeking candidates who will add value to our Cableflow ‘family’. You must demonstrate a strong match for our vibrant entrepreneurial culture and our core values; Listen, Empower, Accomplish and be measured on each of these values together with the following skills and experience;

  • At least 5 years’ experience in a relevant buyers role within a manufacturing organisation;
  • Ability to interface with technology; eg; CRM, databases, Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Outlook and other Microsoft 365 apps etc;
  • Excellent communication and presentation skills;
  • Organised, detail driven work ethos, understanding the significance of processes and documentation.

Essential Personal Qualities

  • High energy, passionate, collaborative, tenacious and resilient;
  • High thresholds of personal achievement;
  • Committed;
  • Inquisitive, innovative and problem-solving personality;
  • Motivated and ambition to take responsibility for the role whilst driving the contribution of procurement to our corporate objectives across the business;
  • Excellent communication skills – both written and verbal;
  • Confidence and capability to engage with people at all levels;
  • Patience and resilience;
  • Excellent organisational and time management capability;
  • Ability to collaborate in different ways with colleagues;
  • Someone who thrive son responsibility;
  • Proactive ‘can-do’ attitude;
  • Solutions finder;

Industry Sector:

Manufacturing medtech.

The offer:

Remuneration: £24- £28k per annum subject to applicant.

Supplementary benefits:

Our people are important to us and we want to make sure that we reward and recognise all of the great work that they do. Some of our benefits include:

  • 21 days annual leave plus Bank and Public Holidays in accordance with current employment law;
  • Flexible working;
  • Workplace Pension scheme following the regulated entitlement period;
  • Dynamic & diverse working environment;
  • A day at Cableflow is never the same due to all the different areas we work in;

We are passionate and committed to the learning and development of our people, making sure they have the right skills and knowledge to be successful and to help achieve their potential. We prioritise Health and Safety in everything that we do.

About us

Cableflow were established in 1989 and quickly grew to be amongst the UK’s leading bedhead services trunking system / medical supply unit manufacturers. We are recognised and admired by our peers as a pro-active leader in the healthcare sector.

We see ourselves as innovators. Having been the only company in our sector to be conferred a Queens Award for Enterprise: Innovation our experience in the sector and focus towards breaking down barriers, leading through innovative product design and excelling in product offer are hallmarks of our approach to sales growth and reputation.

With a product footprint that is broad across the NHS, we have significant scope for development in both allied and vertical markets and it is here that we see future growth across the business.

Our primary manufacturing facility and head office base is in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire from where our southern footprint has been well established over more than three decades. As part of a wider restructure across our business to drive further growth also seek to spread the Cableflow offer with broader national coverage.

Renowned for our innovative solutions, product quality and customer service these guiding principles underpin our business ethos. We are a driven organisation benefitting from being privately owned with active day-to-day engagement across our markets by our founders such that our offer always remains relevant.

We are an equal opportunities employer and committed to a diverse workforce. We are selective in our hiring and shortlisting for this vacancy which will be completed on the basis of merit and skill-sets. Candidates should tailor their CVs to reflect our essential criteria.

Interviews will be held in person at our High Wycombe facility.

To Apply:

Applicants should send a comprehensive CV, in confidence to stating the vacancy reference in the email title: 2022/HO/Buyer.

We do not appoint through recruitment agencies or third parties.

Production Administrator

High Wycombe, head office based

healthcare, medical bedhead containment systems

Application deadline: Open (published 01 August 2022)

Location: High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire

Job Title: Production administrator

Vacancy Reference: 2022/HO/ProdAd

Applicant Overview:

We are looking for an energetic and ambitious colleague to join our successful internal business support team in our High Wycombe head office.

As an ideal applicant you will have experience of working within an SME and ideally have some engineering background or understanding. You will be well-presented, committed and keen to develop your career within an ambitious fast-paced, high-growth SME.

You will be numerate and demonstrate a high level of literacy skills alongside exceptional administration and communication skills both written and orally with an organised work ethic.

Ideally, you will be familiar with SAGE accounting and inventory management software although full training will be given to the successful applicant. You will be fully familiar and versatile across all Microsoft 365 product apps.

As a successful applicant you will be challenged by our driven work ethos and be expected to bring innovation and foresight to our operations, sharing our vision of progression in all that we do across all areas of the business.

We are interested in people first, supported by their skill-sets in the role to contribute as a key player in our aspirations to expand, develop and evolve our Cableflow family and industry footprint. We value our brand highly and our ethos reflects this.

The successful applicant will demonstrate an ability to forge key relationships and a desire to learn and understand the role, our offer, our systems and processes whilst contributing through their skill-sets towards refinement and change to achieve our goals.

You should be calm under pressure, patient and above all diligent. You should be personable and able to build and maintain strong relationships with colleagues towards a common goal.

In return, we aim to fully support job satisfaction, personal development and high value self-esteem through our collective contribution to improved healthcare solutions.

The role:

This is an exciting opportunity to join our highly successful team as we embark on our next stage of corporate growth.

The position will report directly to our Operations Director that will also embrace a day-to-day interface across our wider senior leadership team. You will work closely alongside both our design and internal sales teams to ensure materials scheduling and component requests are accurate through the timely production of picking lists and deficit requisitions.

In completing the cycle you will be responsible for despatching, raising invoices and adjusting stock through the automated process on our SOP/MRP system.

Whilst we are looking for a goal oriented team player, you will be expected to work on your own initiative, contributing towards a collective goal through our manufacturing and fabrication strategy. Our objective that we are on time, every time is our aim and hallmark. Ensuring the correct components through timely issuance of picking lists and procurement requirements are key to this objective especially as our innovative approach to product development frequently presents new component demands.

As a production administrator you will be an integral thread between sales, design, procurement and production.

You will benefit from full head office support and appropriate product training to enable you to excel in your role leading to developing and growing the position and your own personal contribution across our small team. You should be able to demonstrate initiative and show innovation in a changing approach to business administration post COVID.

The Job:

The day-to-day responsibility for converting approved designs into component picking lists on our automated system such that stores can allocate components, purchasing procure shortfalls in a timely manner and production can build product to meet the clients approved design.

In preparing picking lists you will audit and identify component shortfalls alongside our procurement team with whom you will have a day-to-day liaison. This will require a constant overview of stock inventory as art of our procedures with a forward look on demand to provide insight to our order pipeline.

Documentation and procedural care is a vital component of this role.

Foresight and the ability to plan and predict will be key assets of the successful applicant.

You will work closely as part of a small and focused internal administration team, all towards a common corporate goal to ensure our manufacturing obligations are met, whilst contributing in the role to ensure that our growth aspirations are maintained and the quality of product we produce is reflective of our market status.

Indicative responsibilities within this role will include, but not be limited to;

  • Evaluating approved design drawings;
  • Creating picking list to reflect the components required on each production build;
  • Managing and liaising with some dedicated component fabricators outwith our usual procurement team and auditing that stock;
  • Raising and co-ordinating despatch documentation for completed orders;
  • Adjusting stock to reflect these despatches;
  • Raising invoices against despatches;
  • Liaison with our carriers and freight forwarders to ensure timely collection and delivery of all orders;
  • Ensure project file administration tasks are completed and closed out during and post production;

Essential Criteria:

As a people orientated business, we are seeking candidates who will add value to our Cableflow ‘family’. You must demonstrate a strong match for our vibrant entrepreneurial culture and our core values; Listen, Empower, Accomplish and be measured on each of these values together with the following skills and experience;

  • A willingness to learn a bespoke role using your skill sets;
  • A good administrative background where attention to detail has been vital;
  • Ability to interface with technology; eg; CRM, databases, Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Outlook and other Microsoft 365 apps etc;
  • Excellent communication and presentation skills;
  • Organised, detail driven work ethos, understanding the significance of processes and documentation.

Essential Personal Qualities

  • High energy, passionate, collaborative, tenacious and resilient;
  • High thresholds of personal achievement;
  • Committed;
  • Inquisitive, innovative and problem-solving personality;
  • Motivated and ambition to take responsibility for the role whilst driving the contribution of procurement to our corporate objectives across the business;
  • Excellent communication skills – both written and verbal;
  • Confidence and capability to engage with people at all levels;
  • Patience and resilience;
  • Excellent organisational and time management capability;
  • Ability to collaborate in different ways with colleagues;
  • Someone who thrive son responsibility;
  • Proactive ‘can-do’ attitude;
  • Solutions finder;

Industry Sector:

Manufacturing medtech.

The offer:

Remuneration: £20- £24k per annum subject to applicant.

Supplementary benefits:

Our people are important to us and we want to make sure that we reward and recognise all of the great work that they do. Some of our benefits include:

  • 21 days annual leave plus Bank and Public Holidays in accordance with current employment law;
  • Flexible working;
  • Workplace Pension scheme following the regulated entitlement period;
  • Dynamic & diverse working environment;
  • A day at Cableflow is never the same due to all the different areas we work in;

We are passionate and committed to the learning and development of our people, making sure they have the right skills and knowledge to be successful and to help achieve their potential. We prioritise Health and Safety in everything that we do.

About us

Cableflow were established in 1989 and quickly grew to be amongst the UK’s leading bedhead services trunking system / medical supply unit manufacturers. We are recognised and admired by our peers as a pro-active leader in the healthcare sector.

We see ourselves as innovators. Having been the only company in our sector to be conferred a Queens Award for Enterprise: Innovation our experience in the sector and focus towards breaking down barriers, leading through innovative product design and excelling in product offer are hallmarks of our approach to sales growth and reputation.

With a product footprint that is broad across the NHS, we have significant scope for development in both allied and vertical markets and it is here that we see future growth across the business.

Our primary manufacturing facility and head office base is in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire from where our southern footprint has been well established over more than three decades. As part of a wider restructure across our business to drive further growth also seek to spread the Cableflow offer with broader national coverage.

Renowned for our innovative solutions, product quality and customer service these guiding principles underpin our business ethos. We are a driven organisation

benefitting from being privately owned with active day-to-day engagement across our markets by our founders such that our offer always remains relevant.

We are an equal opportunities employer and committed to a diverse workforce. We are selective in our hiring and shortlisting for this vacancy which will be completed on the basis of merit and skill-sets. Candidates should tailor their CVs to reflect our essential criteria.

Interviews will be held in person at our High Wycombe facility.

To Apply:

Applicants should send a comprehensive CV, in confidence to stating the vacancy reference in the email title: 2022/HO/ProdAd

We do not appoint through recruitment agencies or third parties.

Regional Specification/Commercial Sales Manager

Midlands & North

(specification sales) – healthcare, medical bedhead containment systems

Application deadline: Open (published 01 August 2022)

Location: Midlands & North

Job Title: Regional Specification Sales/Commercial Manager (specification sales) – healthcare, medical bedhead containment systems

Vacancy Reference: 2022/RSM/MN

Applicant Overview:

As an ideal applicant you will be an existing Area Sales Manager, ideally within the healthcare construction sector, selling similar or allied systems used within the patient environment. You may have some nurse call, medical gas or healthcare lighting sales experience although that is not essential, but an indication of allied market sectors. A proven track record with key knowledge of our target client groups is essential.

You will demonstrate a heavy lean towards specification sales with supporting knowledge and connections of the role that main contractors now play under Procure 22 (moving in to P23) and traditionally funded healthcare project schemes.

The role:

We are looking for an energetic and ambitious colleague to join our successful sales team at Cableflow. We seek to expand and develop our footprint across NHS and private healthcare provider sites throughout the territory.

Being the recipient of a Queen’s Award for Enterprise: Innovation our brand and it’s association with quality speaks for itself across our markets, although we constantly strive to improve and grow our offer across new build and refurbishment healthcare contracts.

The successful applicant will demonstrate key relationships and understanding of specification sales to architects, interior designers, M&E consulting engineers, M&E contractors and main contractors alike. Knowledge of NHS Procure 22 (moving in to P23), modern methods of construction (MMC) and experience in these areas are key requirements as will a track record of sales to healthcare project teams.

You will demonstrate an understanding of this route to market to bring the Cableflow brand and our product offer to the fore on healthcare infrastructure projects of all sizes throughout the territory.

Whilst we are looking for a goal driven team player, you will be expected to work on your own initiative. You will benefit from full head office support and appropriate product training to enable you to excel in your role leading to developing and growth across the territory. You should be able to demonstrate initiative and show innovation in a changing approach to product sales across the specification market post COVID.

The Job:

This is an exciting opportunity for a professional, energetic, articulate and well- presented regional manager keen to develop their sales career within an ambitious fast-paced, high-growth SME. You will work closely with our internal team to convert potential leads with existing and new customers which are already in the sales pipeline. Additionally, you will be responsible for seeking new opportunities within the defined territory and progress these to order status. Your overriding task will be to develop and diversify our client facing business to drive revenues and profits such that our ambitious growth targets for the region are met.

You will work as part of a national sales team, recognising the broad spread of projects and the variable locations of professional design team components across the UK, and all towards a common corporate goal.

Responsibilities for this role will include but not be limited to;

  • Develop plans for attaining the growth target utilising a three year strategic plan as the anchor;
  • Work from multiple project lead sources to meet target (established existing client base, referrals, lead generation & self-discovery);
  • Utilise our available technology to identify and create opportunities;
  • Work to targeted revenue generation and profitability levels set by strategic goals, feeding into metrics, KPI’s and reports;
  • Create and maintain a healthy pipeline of both potential (identified) and verified opportunities, developing and converting;
  • Develop existing and create new key accounts, mining all potential opportunities and looking for ways to replicate the success in similar areas/industries – e.g; be innovative in order and enquiry generation;
  • Broaden our reach for new business;
  • Be tenacious to ensure that all project team members are aware of our offering;
  • Collaborate with our internal and external sales team to aid our delivery and interact effectively and professionally with all areas of the business;
  • Provide credible, concise, accurate and timely sales activity reports within a defined structure through our Senior Leadership Team;
  • Utilise and maintain our CRM, entering all info from customer interactions real time;
  • With additional educational support from our internal team develop a sound knowledge of medical supply unit design and regulation to be able to advise our varied customer profiles on best options, best practice and cost benefits and maintain our philosophy of ‘best in market’ approach;
  • Demonstrate a commitment and interest in the healthcare industry, staying up to date and relevant with what is happening and how our corporate offer can benefit a variety of schemes;
  • Maintain a respectful professional approach towards customers and colleagues whilst being supportive and supported;
  • Contribute through your skill-sets to make us better.

Essential Criteria:

As a people orientated business, we are seeking candidates who will add value to our Cableflow ‘Family’. You must demonstrate a strong match for our vibrant entrepreneurial culture and our core values; Listen, Empower, Accomplish and be measured on each of these values together with the following skills and experience;

  • At least 5 years’ experience in a relevant, targeted, driven business development/sales creation role within the construction industry, preferably on healthcare infrastructure delivery schemes (irrespective of size);
  • Experience of forming and attaining targets for both new and existing customers;
  • Demonstrable experience of forming sales strategies independently and executing;
  • Ability to collaborate with team members;
  • Demonstrable experience of creating new sales opportunities across the specification sector of construction;
  • Proven track record of successfully converting sales leads into tangible business wins and developing these into long terms business relationships;
  • Ability to interface with technology; eg CRM, databases, Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Outlook and other Microsoft 365 apps etc;
  • Ideally you have previously sold electrical or mechanical items into the healthcare construction sector although consideration will be given to experience selling other construction products through the specification route.

Essential Personal Qualities

  • High energy, passionate, collaborative, tenacious and resilient;
  • High thresholds of personal achievement;
  • Committed;
  • Inquisitive, innovative and problem-solving personality;
  • Personable;
  • Drive and ambition to take responsibility for growing sales and a desire to develop your career;
  • Excellent communication skills – both written and verbal;
  • Confidence and capability to engage with people at all levels;
  • Excellent organisational and time management capability.

The job activities will involve, but not be limited to:

  • Field sales position selling a manufactured range of bedhead trunking and other bedhead containment solutions used in clinical locations;
  • All of your time will be spent selling into architects, interior designers, M&E consulting engineers, NHS Trusts Estates & Capital works teams, Electrical contractors and some main contractors;
  • Assume responsibility for regional profit generation;
  • Developing a territory largely untouched by our small sales force to develop a footprint and grow sales in the region;
  • Manage and grow our corporate presence and identity throughout the region to improve awareness of our product & service offering leading to improved sales opportunity;
  • Generate new sales and exploiting existing opportunities;
  • Regular reporting on sales generation activity and forecasting;
  • Identifying and converting projects with values varying from £10k – £500k+ depending on size and scope;
  • Evolve a pipeline of projects with a good mix of general account management and new business creation for projects within the region and on a more national basis;
  • Attend trade shows when required;
  • Attend national and regional sales meetings as required both in person and via Microsoft Teams;
  • Reporting into and working closely with our internal estimating team and Operations Director;
  • Occasional management of a small number of ‘central accounts’ across the region as required.

Industry Sector:

Construction, refurbishment & new build, NHS Trusts Estates & Facilities Directorates, Private healthcare facility providers, architects, interior designers, consulting engineers (M&E), main contractors, mechanical & electrical sub-contractors.

The offer:

Indicative areas to be covered by County: Lincolnshire, Leicestershire, Rutland, Staffordshire, Shropshire, Cheshire, Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, Yorkshire, Gtr Manchester, Merseyside, Lancashire:

Remuneration: We aim to offer an attractive package with strong OTE to reflect our aspiration of appointing the market leading professional we seek to join our team.

Supplementary benefits: Fully expensed Hybrid or electric company car (or car allowance plus mileage allowance subject to the applicants preference), private healthcare cover after qualifying period, workplace pension, 29 days annual leave, cell phone, tablet & laptop.

About us

Cableflow were established in 1989 and quickly grew to be amongst the UK’s leading bedhead services trunking system / medical supply unit manufacturers. We are recognised and admired by our peers as a pro-active leader in the healthcare sector.

We see ourselves as innovators. Having been the only company in our sector to be conferred a Queens Award for Enterprise: Innovation our experience in the sector and focus towards breaking down barriers, leading through innovative product design and excelling in product offer are hallmarks of our approach to sales growth and reputation.

A product footprint, albeit broad across the NHS, still has significant scope for development in both allied and vertical markets and we recognise this as a prevailing opportunity for the right applicant.

Our primary manufacturing facility and head office base is in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire from where our southern footprint has been well established over more than three decades. As part of a wider restructure across our business to drive further growth we now seek to spread the Cableflow offer with broader national coverage.

Renowned for our innovative solutions, product quality and customer service these guiding principles underpin our business ethos. We are a driven organisation benefitting from being privately owned with active day-to-day engagement across our markets by our founders such that our offer always remains relevant.

We are an equal opportunities employer and committed to a diverse workforce. We are selective in our hiring and shortlisting for this vacancy which will be completed on the basis of merit. Candidates should tailor their CVs to reflect our essential criteria.

Interviews will be held in person at our High Wycombe facility although subject to applicant we may consider initial dialogue through Microsoft Teams.

To Apply:

Applicants should send a comprehensive CV, in confidence to stating the vacancy reference in the email title: 2022/RSM/MN.

We do not recruit through Agencies or third parties.

Regional Specification/Commercial Sales Manager

South West & Wales

(specification sales) – healthcare, medical bedhead containment systems

Application deadline: Open (published 01 August 2022)

Location: South West & Wales

Job Title: Regional Specification Sales/Commercial Manager (specification sales) – healthcare, medical bedhead containment systems

Vacancy Reference: 2022/RSM/SW

Applicant Overview:

As an ideal applicant you will be an existing Area Sales Manager, ideally within the healthcare construction sector, selling similar or allied systems used within the patient environment. You may have some nurse call, medical gas or healthcare lighting sales experience although that is not essential, but an indication of allied market sectors. A proven track record with key knowledge of our target client groups is essential.

You will demonstrate a heavy lean towards specification sales with supporting knowledge and connections of the role that main contractors now play under Procure 22 (moving in to P23) and traditionally funded healthcare project schemes.

The role:

We are looking for an energetic and ambitious colleague to join our successful sales team at Cableflow. We seek to expand and develop our footprint across NHS and private healthcare provider sites throughout the territory.

Being the recipient of a Queen’s Award for Enterprise: Innovation our brand and it’s association with quality speaks for itself across our markets, although we constantly strive to improve and grow our offer across new build and refurbishment healthcare contracts.

The successful applicant will demonstrate key relationships and understanding of specification sales to architects, interior designers, M&E consulting engineers, M&E contractors and main contractors alike. Knowledge of NHS Procure 22 (moving in to P23), modern methods of construction (MMC) and experience in these areas are key requirements as will a track record of sales to healthcare project teams.

You will demonstrate an understanding of this route to market to bring the Cableflow brand and our product offer to the fore on healthcare infrastructure projects of all sizes throughout the territory.

Whilst we are looking for a goal driven team player, you will be expected to work on your own initiative. You will benefit from full head office support and appropriate product training to enable you to excel in your role leading to developing and growth across the territory. You should be able to demonstrate initiative and show innovation in a changing approach to product sales across the specification market post COVID.

The Job:

This is an exciting opportunity for a professional, energetic, articulate and well- presented regional manager keen to develop their sales career within an ambitious fast-paced, high-growth SME. You will work closely with our internal team to convert potential leads with existing and new customers which are already in the sales pipeline. Additionally, you will be responsible for seeking new opportunities within the defined territory and progress these to order status. Your overriding task will be to develop and diversify our client facing business to drive revenues and profits such that our ambitious growth targets for the region are met.

You will work as part of a national sales team, recognising the broad spread of projects and the variable locations of professional design team components across the UK, and all towards a common corporate goal.

Responsibilities for this role will include but not be limited to;

  • Develop plans for attaining the growth target utilising a three year strategic plan as the anchor;
  • Work from multiple project lead sources to meet target (established existing client base, referrals, lead generation & self-discovery);
  • Utilise our available technology to identify and create opportunities;
  • Work to targeted revenue generation and profitability levels set by strategic goals, feeding into metrics, KPI’s and reports;
  • Create and maintain a healthy pipeline of both potential (identified) and verified opportunities, developing and converting;
  • Develop existing and create new key accounts, mining all potential opportunities and looking for ways to replicate the success in similar areas/industries – e.g; be innovative in order and enquiry generation;
  • Broaden our reach for new business;
  • Be tenacious to ensure that all project team members are aware of our offering;
  • Collaborate with our internal and external sales team to aid our delivery and interact effectively and professionally with all areas of the business;
  • Provide credible, concise, accurate and timely sales activity reports within a defined structure through our Senior Leadership Team;
  • Utilise and maintain our CRM, entering all info from customer interactions real time;
  • With additional educational support from our internal team develop a sound knowledge of medical supply unit design and regulation to be able to advise our varied customer profiles on best options, best practice and cost benefits and maintain our philosophy of ‘best in market’ approach;
  • Demonstrate a commitment and interest in the healthcare industry, staying up to date and relevant with what is happening and how our corporate offer can benefit a variety of schemes;
  • Maintain a respectful professional approach towards customers and colleagues whilst being supportive and supported;
  • Contribute through your skill-sets to make us better.

Essential Criteria:

As a people orientated business, we are seeking candidates who will add value to our Cableflow ‘Family’. You must demonstrate a strong match for our vibrant entrepreneurial culture and our core values; Listen, Empower, Accomplish and be measured on each of these values together with the following skills and experience;

  • At least 5 years’ experience in a relevant, targeted, driven business development/sales creation role within the construction industry, preferably on healthcare infrastructure delivery schemes (irrespective of size);
  • Experience of forming and attaining targets for both new and existing customers;
  • Demonstrable experience of forming sales strategies independently and executing;
  • Ability to collaborate with team members;
  • Demonstrable experience of creating new sales opportunities across the specification sector of construction;
  • Proven track record of successfully converting sales leads into tangible business wins and developing these into long terms business relationships;
  • Ability to interface with technology; eg CRM, databases, Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Outlook and other Microsoft 365 apps etc;
  • Ideally you have previously sold electrical or mechanical items into the healthcare construction sector although consideration will be given to experience selling other construction products through the specification route.

Essential Personal Qualities

  • High energy, passionate, collaborative, tenacious and resilient;
  • High thresholds of personal achievement;
  • Committed;
  • Inquisitive, innovative and problem-solving personality;
  • Personable;
  • Drive and ambition to take responsibility for growing sales and a desire to develop your career;
  • Excellent communication skills – both written and verbal;
  • Confidence and capability to engage with people at all levels;
  • Excellent organisational and time management capability.

The job activities will involve, but not be limited to:

  • Field sales position selling a manufactured range of bedhead trunking and other bedhead containment solutions used in clinical locations;
  • All of your time will be spent selling into architects, interior designers, M&E consulting engineers, NHS Trusts Estates & Capital works teams, Electrical contractors and some main contractors;
  • Assume responsibility for regional profit generation;
  • Developing a territory largely untouched by our small sales force to develop a footprint and grow sales in the region;
  • Manage and grow our corporate presence and identity throughout the region to improve awareness of our product & service offering leading to improved sales opportunity;
  • Generate new sales and exploiting existing opportunities;
  • Regular reporting on sales generation activity and forecasting;
  • Identifying and converting projects with values varying from £10k – £500k+ depending on size and scope;
  • Evolve a pipeline of projects with a good mix of general account management and new business creation for projects within the region and on a more national basis;
  • Attend trade shows when required;
  • Attend national and regional sales meetings as required both in person and via Microsoft Teams;
  • Reporting into and working closely with our internal estimating team and Operations Director;
  • Occasional management of a small number of ‘central accounts’ across the region as required.

Industry Sector:

Construction, refurbishment & new build, NHS Trusts Estates & Facilities Directorates, Private healthcare facility providers, architects, interior designers, consulting engineers (M&E), main contractors, mechanical & electrical sub-contractors.

The offer:

Indicative areas to be covered by County: Cornwall, Devon, Somerset, Dorset, Hampshire, Wiltshire, Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, Worcestershire, Warwickshire & Wales.

Remuneration: We aim to offer an attractive package with strong OTE to reflect our aspiration of appointing the market leading professional we seek to join our team.

Supplementary benefits: Fully expensed Hybrid or electric company car (or car allowance plus mileage allowance subject to the applicants preference), private healthcare cover after qualifying period, workplace pension, 29 days annual leave, cell phone, tablet & laptop.

About us

Cableflow were established in 1989 and quickly grew to be amongst the UK’s leading bedhead services trunking system / medical supply unit manufacturers. We are recognised and admired by our peers as a pro-active leader in the healthcare sector.

We see ourselves as innovators. Having been the only company in our sector to be conferred a Queens Award for Enterprise: Innovation our experience in the sector and focus towards breaking down barriers, leading through innovative product design and excelling in product offer are hallmarks of our approach to sales growth and reputation.

A product footprint, albeit broad across the NHS, still has significant scope for development in both allied and vertical markets and we recognise this as a prevailing opportunity for the right applicant.

Our primary manufacturing facility and head office base is in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire from where our southern footprint has been well established over more than three decades. As part of a wider restructure across our business to drive further growth we now seek to spread the Cableflow offer with broader national coverage.

Renowned for our innovative solutions, product quality and customer service these guiding principles underpin our business ethos. We are a driven organisation benefitting from being privately owned with active day-to-day engagement across our markets by our founders such that our offer always remains relevant.

We are an equal opportunities employer and committed to a diverse workforce. We are selective in our hiring and shortlisting for this vacancy which will be completed on the basis of merit. Candidates should tailor their CVs to reflect our essential criteria.

Interviews will be held in person at our High Wycombe facility although subject to applicant we may consider initial dialogue through Microsoft Teams.

To Apply:

Applicants should send a comprehensive CV, in confidence to stating the vacancy reference in the email title: 2022/RSM/SW.

We do not recruit through Agencies or third parties.

CABLEFLOW International Limited are a privately owned business who have built our reputation as the UK’s primary designers and manufacturers of medical supply units used across a global healthcare market.

Continued demand for our products drives our growth and expansion necessitates the evolution of our in-house teams, and our finance team are recruiting.

Cableflow medical supply units are installed in almost every NHS Acute Trust and private hospital throughout the UK as a core element of new build or, refurbishment projects across a broad and varied healthcare estate. We are an accredited NHS Procure 22 provider of bedhead services containment systems.

Our extensive product and service offering is delivered by our in-house, highly-adaptable and dedicated workforce. We take pride across our organisation in being a compact yet dynamic corporate family, with more than 60% of our staff having completed 17 years or more continued service.

Would you like to be part of a team who are responsible for the safe and quality driven manufacture of our technology led products which are impacting the style of healthcare provision throughout the UK and worldwide?

What’s it all about?

Our small but dedicated finance team are seeking additional support for our day-to-day sales and purchase ledger administration activities.

The applicant should be able to:

  • Demonstrate an understanding of SAGE 50 accounting software
  • Working knowledge of general book-keeping
  • Have a good understanding of Microsoft programmes such as Outlook, word, excel etc
  • Be able to work on your own initiative
  • Engage with any of our remote workers across our entire team
  • Be methodical, organised and numerate
  • Engage in changes or improvements to increase accuracy, efficiency, and cost reductions
  • Adhere to the company’s or organisation’s financial policies and procedures
  • Answers question and provide assistance to stakeholders, customers, and clients as needed
  • Demonstrate clear and open communication skills both oral and written
  • An understanding of health and safety around self and others
  • Bed fastidious and a good problem solver, with a ‘can-do’ attitude
  • Demonstrate good research skills and be genuinely interested in your job

You will be based at our High Wycombe manufacturing &administration facility.

You’ll need to be responsive and diligent in terms of working hours, and we are flexible in the hours to suit the right candidate.

We envisage this may entail four to five mornings a week but we are flexible to satisfy the right applicant.

You will report to and work with an experienced finance team.

You should have an eye for detail, demonstrate excellent communication skills both oral and written and recognise the quality of product we aspire to, taking pride in the end product whilst sharing our values and those of our clients.

What will you be doing?

The role will entail some or all of the following from time-to-time:

  • Enter purchase ledger details into our system
  • Produce reports as required
  • Purchase ledger administration
  • Set up supply-chain partner accounts on our system as required
  • Set up monthly schedules of payments to suppliers ready for management approval
  • Validate supply-chain invoices and set up supplier payments
  • Other office administration duties as required
  • Sales ledger administration
  • Progress client payments

What do you need?

You should be able to manage your time efficiently, be punctual and work well within a small team and deliver an efficient, reliable and accurate service to all of our customers and your colleagues. You will ideally be educated to at least GCSE standard or equivalent and demonstrate basic IT skills with a neat and tidy approach to your work.

What benefits do we offer?

Being a highly successful manufacturer in a bespoke and unique market doesn’t come easy!

Our people are important to us and we want to make sure that we reward and recognise all of the great work that they do. Some of our benefits include:

  • Annual leave entitlement commensurate with the agreed number of hours worked in accordance with current employment law;
  • Flexible working;
  • Workplace Pension Scheme following the regulated entitlement period;
  • Dynamic & diverse working environment;
  • A day at Cableflow is never the same due to all the different areas we work in;

We are passionate and committed to the learning and development of our people, making sure they have the right skills and knowledge to be successful and to help achieve their potential. We prioritise Health and Safety in everything that we do.

 Essential attributes:

  • Clear and open communication skills
  • Health and safety understanding around self and others
  • Be fastidious and a good problem solver, with a ‘can-do’ attitude
  • Good research skills and actively interested in your work
  • Keen to learn more about the field and increase existing skillsets with training etc
  • Ability to work on your own initiative

 Job Type: Part-time

Salary: subject to experience

To Apply:

Send an up to date CV which provides sufficient detail for us to evaluate your application in the first instance to with the email title: “Finance Assistant

Only successful first stage applicants will be contacted.

Closing date: Open

We do not appoint via recruitment consultants/agencies so please don’t contact us

CABLEFLOW International Limited are a privately owned business who have built our reputation as the UK’s primary designers and manufacturers of medical supply units used across a global market.

Continued demand for our products drives our growth and expansion necessitates the evolution of our in-house UK manufacturing teams, and we are recruiting.

Cableflow medical supply units are installed in almost every NHS Acute Trust and private hospital throughout the UK as a core element of new build or, refurbishment projects across a broad and varied healthcare estate. We are an accredited NHS Procure 22 provider of bedhead services containment systems.

Our extensive product and service offering is delivered by our in-house, highly-adaptable and dedicated workforce. We take pride across our organisation in being a compact yet dynamic corporate family, with more than 60% of our staff having completed 17 years or more continued service.

Would you like to be part of a team who are responsible for the safe and quality driven manufacture of our technology led products which are impacting the style of healthcare provision throughout the UK and worldwide?

 What’s it all about?

As a Cableflow Manufacturing Technician you’ll be recognised as an industry specialist. You will be supporting our Operations Manager on manufacturing our product systems to be integrated within new build or refurbishment healthcare projects across the UK for our NHS and private sector healthcare clients as well as our global markets.

You will be based at our High Wycombe manufacturing facility.

You’ll need to be responsive and diligent in terms of working hours, and have the ability to interface with project and line managers. You will report to and work with an experienced team leader as a core member of our project delivery team.

You should have an eye for detail, have good communication skills and recognise the quality of product we aspire to, taking pride in the end product whilst sharing our values and those of our clients.

The work involves some manual handling and some key technical interfaces, but don’t worry if you haven’t been in a factory assembly environment previously as we will train you and you will generally work as part of a fully supervised team, although some individual working requiring initiative and a ‘can do’ attitude is vital.

We are looking for people who thrive on challenges and although previous assembly experience is not key, it would be advantageous. You will ideally have an interest in DIY and possess some key skill-sets which reflect this.

What will you be doing?

The key purpose of this role is to assemble our product systems.

What do you need?

You should be able to manage your time efficiently, be punctual and work well within a small team and deliver an efficient, reliable and accurate service to all of our customers and colleagues. You will ideally be educated to at least GCSE standard or equivalent and demonstrate basic IT skills with a neat and tidy approach to your work.

Flexibility is key as you will be expected to work to suit our project flow and release of installation areas across various projects. Occasional Saturday work should be expected although this only occurs in exceptional circumstances.

 What benefits do we offer?

Being a highly successful manufacturer in a bespoke and unique market doesn’t come easy!

Our people are important to us and we want to make sure that we reward and recognise all of the great work that they do. Some of our benefits include:

  • 21 days annual leave plus Public and Bank Holidays;
  • Flexible working (dependent on your role);
  • Statutory Pension scheme;
  • Dynamic & diverse working environment;
  • A day at Cableflow is never the same due to all the different areas we work in;
  • Technician team clothing & PPE.

We are passionate and committed to the learning and development of our people making sure they have the right skills and knowledge to be successful and to help achieve their potential. We prioritise Health and Safety in everything that we do.

 Key areas of responsibility:

  • You need to have a flexible mentality, be aware that there can be early days and later nights from time-to-time although our assembly line operates Monday to Friday 08:00 – 17:00.
  • Work closely with all of our internal & external teams to meet our defined project programmes.
  • Good communication skills are essential, given the nature of some builds that require a quick and effective response to emergency/Ad-hoc requests often in live hospitals.
  • Support our project managers and internal teams with technical assembly advice.
  • Read basic technical drawings to facilitate build accuracy.
  • Ability to review technical drawings.
  • Supporting other areas of the business on an ad-hoc and as required basis.

 Essential attributes:

  • Clear and open communication skills
  • Health and safety understanding around self and others
  • Be fastidious and a good problem solver, with a ‘can-do’ attitude
  • Hands-on during assembly, with a flexible approach to helping wherever you can for the benefit of us and our client partners
  • DIY attributes
  • Good research skills and actively interested in your work
  • Keen to learn more about the field and increase existing skillsets with training etc
  • Clean Driver’s License preferable. If you are offered a role, the status of your driving licence will be checked.
  • Ability to work on your own initiative
  • Fork Lift Truck Operators Licence would be an advantage but not essential.

Desirable attributes:

  • Electrical or joinery apprenticeship / experience.
  • “A people person”

Job Type: Full-time

Remuneration: subject to experience

To Apply:

Send an up to date CV which provides sufficient detail for us to evaluate your application in the first instance to with the email title: “assembly technician

Only successful first stage applicants will be contacted within 5 days of the closing date.

Closing date: Open

We do not appoint via recruitment consultants/agencies so please don’t contact us