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Simitive is an expanding company with a growing team
We employ excellent communicators, IT specialists and industry specialists, all with a passion for performance and performance management.

We live what we do, applying our philosophy, strategies and goal-oriented solutions to the way we manage our business. Work at Simitive and you’ll be working as part of an engaged, confident and motivated team.

Our customers value our commitment and ‘can do’ attitude, characteristics we look for when recruiting new people to join us.

You can apply direct for current vacancies listed below or alternatively send your CV to info@simitive.com

Current vacancies

Senior Project Manger

Salary: Competitive Salary 
Location: Bristol City Centre
Full Time: Permanent 

Simitive, the market leader in Cloud software for Universities is recruiting a Project Manager to join the growing Services team. Reporting to the Head of Services, the role of a Simitive Project Manager is to plan, coordinate and ensure successful implementations of our software systems to clients around the world. The Project Manager is responsible for ensuring that all Simitive implementation projects are delivered on time and within budget whilst ensuring client satisfaction is maintained at a high level.
We have an opportunity for the right person to join the Simitive Project Management Team. You will have a keen interest in innovative ways to make organisations and people work better and want to give clients the best possible experience. Simitive Project Managers are known for their professionalism, in depth industry knowledge and firm but friendly approach not just delivering projects but helping clients in achieving the cultural change that Simitive solutions effect.
 
Responsibilities:
  • Act as the main point of contact to the client and or key internal stakeholders, on behalf of all other Simitive departments associated with the project.
  • Coordinate resources to effectively ensure successful execution of the project plan to ensure that the project is delivered on time, to budget and meets the committed specification.
  • Manage project risks, issues and changes; ensuring appropriate controls and mitigations are in place.
  • Prepare estimates and detailed project plan for all phases and workstreams of the project.
  • Manage project scope and changes.
  • Monitor, track and control outcomes to resolve issues, conflicts, dependencies and critical path deliverables.
  • Manage project quality control and participate in quality issue resolution.
  • Define success criteria and disseminate them to involved parties throughout project life cycle.
  • Deliver appropriate and effective executive level communication.
  • Ensure that projects and programs are proceeding according to scope, schedule, budget and quality standards.
  • Create and maintain all project documentation, to the Simitive standard, identifying resource and budgetary needs.
  • Host project meetings, at least once a week with the project team. Document all meetings.
  • Coordinate with vendors and suppliers as required.
  • Report on project success criteria results, metrics, test and deployment management activities
  • Provide leadership for project team by building and motivating team members to meet project goals, adhering to their responsibilities and project milestones
  • Manage multiple projects, of varying size and scope, simultaneously.
 
Key Behavioural Characteristics:
  • Communicates in a professional, concise manner, both verbally and in writing, with both technical and non-technical staff to develop strong working relationships throughout the project.
  • Has knowledge of the principles and methods of project management and practical experience of their employment.
  • Able to engage stakeholders and successfully transfer knowledge.
  • Skilled in the creation of documentation that is clear and user-friendly.
  • Able to monitor and report on project progress, highlighting the remaining project time and pro-actively escalating issues where necessary.
  • Able to make appropriately thought through recommendations to ensure successful completion of the project.  
  • Has the capability to work independently and as a member of a team with minimal supervision.
  • Can engage client staff in delivering necessary decisions and outputs to ensure that project timelines are maintained.
  • A collaborative approach, learning from other members of the team and contributing to the continuous improvement of Simitive project delivery.
  • Ability to cope with the occasional long day for more distant clients (UK).
 
In return you will receive:
  • Competitive Salary
  • 28 days holiday (including bank holidays)
  • An extra day’s holiday for every full year of employment
  • Company pension
  • Perkbox subscription
  • Some remote working on a case-by-case basis
  • Flexible working hours
  • A Nespresso machine with free coffee
  • Free fruit
  • Staff events throughout the year
  • A structured career development programme with regular 1:1 meetings
 
If you would like to be considered for this position, please send your CV and covering letter to info@simitive.com 


Junior/Mid-level QA Analyst 

Salary: Competitive Salary 
Location: Bristol City Centre
Full Time: Permanent 

An exciting opening for a QA analyst with 2 or more years’ experience has arisen based in central Bristol. We are a dynamic, fast-growing organisation offering a competitive salary plus benefits, the opportunity to develop new skills and receive additional training and qualifications.

We have a broad range of existing products as well as several new development projects and are looking to continue improving our current QA process. This includes the introduction of new testing tools, workflows and the addition of automated testing to complement our ongoing need for manual QA.

The ideal candidate will be experienced in QA testing of web-based applications and able to respond quickly and effectively to new work and requirements. They will need to be an effective communicator, liaising with other QA team members the development team and the product owner in order to ensure that the quality of the software delivered is at a high level.

Duties and Responsibilities
  • Manual testing of bug-fixes and enhancements to existing web-based applications through varying methods (scripted, sanity, smoke and exploratory testing)
  • Clear documentation of testing steps, cases and processes where required
  • Involvement in the creation of test strategies and workflows for new products/applications, working alongside Business Analysts and Developers
  • Providing time estimates for testing on projects for both existing and new applications
  • Ticket Management including screening and triage of new bugs and enhancement requests, working closely with our Client Services team
  • Supporting the introduction of new testing processes and technologies
  • Providing guidance, feedback and support to other QA team members and the wider Technical Service team
  • Reporting to the QA Lead

Requirements and Qualifications
Essential for this role
Technical:
  • 2 years’ experience providing QA across web or mobile applications
  • Clear understanding and experience of testing API’s using tools such as Postman
  • ISTQB Foundation level qualified
  • A clear understanding of the most popular Software Development Lifecycles
  • A basic understanding of Git and version control
  • Experience being involved in defining new processes within a QA team
  • Experience writing test plans, test cases and supporting documentation
  • Very strong written and verbal communication skills
 
Key Behavioral Characteristics:
  • Great critical thinking and problem-solving
  • Deals well with ambiguity and adapting to change
  • Enjoys being an integral part of a dynamic team
  • The ability to work independently and be self-motivated
  • A passion to develop technical and personal skills through guided training and self-development

Desirable/Beneficial for this role
  • Comfortable using the Mac/Linux Command-Line Interface
  • Experience testing complex web-based applications, covering both front and back-end parts of the systems.
  • Any knowledge of, or experience using automated testing frameworks
  • Experience verifying data in mySQL
  • Experience in Agile and/or Scrum environments
  • Experience either running or participating in User Acceptance Testing
  • Understanding of browser compatibility requirements and knowledge of WCAG Compliance
  • Experience being involved across multiple projects/workflows simultaneously, with varying team member and stakeholders

In return you will receive
•     Competitive Salary
•     28 days holiday (including bank holidays)
•     An extra day’s holiday for every full year of employment
•     Company pension
•     Perkbox subscription
•     Some remote working on a case-by-case basis
•     Flexible working hours
•     A Nespresso machine with free coffee
•     Free fruit
•     Staff events throughout the year
•     A structured career development programme with regular 1:1 meetings

If you would like to be considered for this position, please send your CV and covering letter to info@simitive.com 


Senior QA Analyst - Automation experience beneficial

Salary: Competitive Salary 
Location: Bristol City Centre
Full Time: Permanent 

An exciting opening for a QA Analyst with 4 or more years’ experience has arisen based in central Bristol. We are a dynamic, fast-growing organisation offering a competitive salary plus benefits, the opportunity to develop new skills and receive additional training and qualifications.

We have a broad range of existing products as well as several new development projects and are looking to continue improving our current QA process. This includes the introduction of new testing tools, workflows and the addition of automated testing to complement our ongoing need for manual QA.

The ideal candidate will have broad web-based application QA experience that includes being a senior member or the lead of the QA team that deals with multiple products/services/applications. They will be expected to be pivotal in implementing QA strategies for new product development as well as refining/updating existing strategies for legacy products. The candidate will ideally have business proven experience in designing, implementing and maintaining an Automated Testing framework.

Duties and Responsibilities
  • Improving the manual QA processes for bug-fixes and enhancements to existing web-based applications through varying test methods (scripted, sanity, smoke and exploratory testing)
  • Supporting the transition to a TDD approach through implementation of an automated framework that will support the functional, acceptance and regression testing of existing web-based applications
  • Involvement in new product development, working closely with Business Analysts, Project Managers, Developers and Stakeholders
  • Creation of test strategies and workflows for new products/applications that are follow a TDD or BDD approach
  • Providing time estimates for QA on projects for both existing and new applications
  • Ticket Management including screening and triage of new bugs and enhancement requests, working closely with our Client Services team
  • Providing guidance, feedback and support to other QA team members and the wider Technical Service team
  • Reporting to the QA Lead
 
Requirements and Qualifications
Essential for this role
Technical:
  • A minimum of 4 years’ experience providing QA for all elements of web-based applications including
    • Front-end/UI
    • Backend/Server-side
    • API’s
    • mySQL (or similar database frameworks)
  • ISTQB Foundation level qualified
  • Experience either running or participating in User Acceptance Testing
  • Experience with different software/testing deployment environments such as Docker, Kubernetes and Virtual Machines
  • A clear understanding of the most popular Software Development Lifecycles
  • A clear understanding of Git and version control
  • Experience creating test strategies including planning, implementing and executing
  • Very strong written and verbal communication skills
  • The ability to define, assess and demonstrate new processes within QA and also the wider Technical Services team ((Development, Business Analysis, Devops/Sysops))
  • Exposure to working with automated testing frameworks
 
Key Behavioral Characteristics:
  • Great critical thinking and problem-solving skills
  • Can provide guidance and mentorship to others
  • Deals well with ambiguity and adapting to change
  • Enjoys being an integral part of a dynamic team
  • The ability to work independently and be self-motivated
  • A passion to develop technical and personal skills through guided training and self-development
 
Desirable/Beneficial for this role
  • Testing complex web-based applications that use PHP and Javascript frameworks such as
    • Symfony
    • React and Vue
    • Drupal
  • Experience in Agile and/or Scrum environments
  • An Advanced level ISTQB qualification
  • Experience with designing, implementing and maintaining automated testing frameworks
  • Experience integrating automated testing within a CI/CD pipeline
 
In return you will receive
•     Competitive Salary
•     28 days holiday (including bank holidays)
•     An extra day’s holiday for every full year of employment
•     Company pension
•     Perkbox subscription
•     Some remote working on a case-by-case basis
•     Flexible working hours
•     A Nespresso machine with free coffee
•     Free fruit
•     Staff events throughout the year
•     A structured career development programme with regular 1:1 meetings

If you would like to be considered for this position, please send your CV and covering letter to info@simitive.com 


Implementation Specialist - Costing

Salary: Competitive Salary 
Location: Bristol City Centre
Full Time: Permanent 

The role of the Implementation specialist is to work with clients to successfully implement the Activity Based Costing Product for Higher Education, ABC-HE. This product supports universities in having transparent planning, modelling and ongoing management and reporting for activity-based costing and contribution analysis. The role of an implementation specialist is to work with the client to gather requirements, implement Simitive software using sector best practice, and train and support users on its use.

We have an opportunity for the right individual to join the Simitive Client Services Team. You will have a keen interest in innovative ways to make organisations and people work better and want to give clients the best possible experience. Simitive Implementation specialists are known for their professionalism, in depth knowledge of Simitive products and the Higher Education sector, combined with the ability to translate customer requirements into a fully configured system.

Responsibilities:
  • Work directly with the client to create and administer the implementation of the Simitive Activity Based Costing for Higher Education (ABC-HE) Product.
  • Deliver configuration requirements gathering, implementation and training work streams within an ABC-HE project on time and budget whilst maintaining high client satisfaction.
  • Lead configuration requirements gathering sessions and translate university costing practices into the configuration of the Simitive software.
  • Be confident in offering knowledgeable and relevant advice and expertise to clients to help them improve their institutional performance through the Simitive software whilst meeting their specified objectives.
  • Be able to assuredly advise on best practice processes seen across the sector.
  • Lead and assist in Simitive configuration, testing and user training.
  • Work closely with Simitive project managers to support the client needs throughout the project.
  • Document implemented solutions to improve project processes, striving to continuously improve the Simitive product implementation.
  • Ensure problems are appropriately foreseen, identified, managed and escalated where necessary.
  • Contribute to planning project activities and provide logistical support.
  • Be an advocate for the business, by providing high quality service.





Key Behavioural Characteristics and Experience:
  • Knowledge and understanding of, with the ability to apply, sound costing principles and standards.
  • Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to convey complex concepts simply and clearly.
  • Well organised with the ability to manage multiple priorities.
  • Analytical and problem-solving skills to evaluate internal and external business processes and recommend effective solutions.
  • Previous experience of implementing systems.
  • Knowledge of Higher Education accounting practices, including TRAC would be an advantage.
  • Willing to travel up to 2-3 days per week.
 
 In return you will receive -
  • Competitive Salary
  • 28 days holiday (including bank holidays)
  • An extra day’s holiday for every full year of employment
  • Company pension
  • Perkbox subscription
  • Flexible working hours
  • A Nespresso machine with free coffee
  • Free fruit
  • Staff events throughout the year
  • A structured career development programme with regular 1:1 meetings 

If you would like to be considered for this position, please send your CV and covering letter to info@simitive.com 


Support Agent

Salary: Competitive Salary 
Location: Bristol City Centre
Full Time: Permanent ​

Reporting to the Head of Services, a Support Agent is responsible for ensuring that all Support Service Levels with Clients are met and that Clients satisfaction is maintained at a high level.
A Support Agent is expected to learn all Simitive systems to a high level of proficiency, with an ability to identify and resolve client issues. Support Agents provides a critical interface between clients and the other functions in the company, especially Account Managers. With this in mind, it is a responsibility of Support Agents to identify the need to escalate issues to the Head of Services.
The aim of the Support Team is to achieve the highest standards of client support. We also work alongside other teams in the company to provide training on the system to other colleagues.

Client Support Responsibilities:
  • Ensure that all Support Processes and Procedures are adhered to.
  • Ensure that all product and support manuals and documentation are kept up to date and are of an appropriate standard.
  • Work with the Support Team to ensure client portals are maintained to an appropriate level with up to date and relevant help and FAQ sections.
  • Ensure all support calls and emails from clients are responded to appropriately, professionally and within Company SLAs.
  • Escalate Support calls as required to the Head of Services.
  • Ensure that all support calls are correctly logged on the Simitive Support system.
  • Where required ensure that any bugs are correctly logged on Assembla and if needed discuss them further with Development team.
  • Ensure Client teams are kept informed of Client issues, requests or information.
  • Assist the Head of Services in identifying training needed by clients.
  • Provide support with Client data migration and on-boarding process.
  • Ability to provide exhaustive and complete troubleshooting before escalation and ensuring all escalation procedures are adhered to.
 
Necessary abilities and behaviours:
  • Very good level of IT literacy.
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
  • A strong ability to pick up new technical details quickly.
  • Good attention to detail.
  • Good timekeeping.
  • Resourceful, energetic and enthusiastic.

In return you will receive -
  • Competitive Salary
  • 28 days holiday (including bank holidays)
  • An extra day’s holiday for every full year of employment
  • Company pension
  • Perkbox subscription
  • Flexible working hours
  • A Nespresso machine with free coffee
  • Free fruit
  • Staff events throughout the year
  • A structured career development programme with regular 1:1 meetings 

If you would like to be considered for this position, please send your CV and covering letter to info@simitive.com 


Business Analyst

Salary: Competitive Salary 
Location: Bristol City Centre
Full Time: Permanent 
 
A Simitive business analyst is responsible for ensuring both internal improvement projects and product development projects are appropriately defined. This involves the understanding, documentation, and communication of all business requirements within each project.

Reporting to the Head of Client Services you will be responsible for supporting the business in the delivery of projects within Simitive.
 
Responsibilities
  • Works alongside the project manager to define project requirements by identifying project milestones, phases and establish the project budget.
  • Facilitates scoping and business priority-setting for change initiatives and product development projects.
  • Supports the operational objectives by studying business functions; gathering information; evaluating output requirements and formats, as required by key stakeholders and project scope.
  • Maintains business analysis documentation, standards and ensures the quality of these documents within each project.
  • As defined within project process and scope, constructs processes and workflow charts and diagrams; studies system capabilities and writes specifications.
  • Improves systems and processes by studying current practices, alongside required stakeholders and documenting modifications where appropriate.
  • Monitors project BA workstream progress by tracking activity, resolving problems, publishing progress reports and recommending actions.
  • Analyses, understands, documents and communicates the operational and financial impact of any changes in a clear and succinct format.
  • Always support proposed changes using analytics and evidence-based analysis when delivering to stakeholders and actively participate in the implementation of any approved changes.
  • Identifies specific measures and mechanisms by which benefits can be measured, and plans to activate these mechanisms at the required time.
  • Employs the most appropriate method and style of communication to ensure timely and accurate understanding for all stakeholders.
 
Necessary abilities and behaviours
  • Ability to identify areas of improvement, propose controls and write procedures that will drive efficiency.
  • Flexibility to support the needs of the business.
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to talk and present to a range of audiences, and articulate complex concepts in a simple but accurate way.
  • The ability to motivate and encourage others and be a facilitator of change.
  • To work under pressure on multiple projects whilst using organisational skills to ensure delivery against project timeframes.
  • A passion for creating solutions with a positive attitude towards change.
  • Excellent analytical skills and an informed, evidence-based approach.
  • A strong interest in the development of the business.
  • An interest in, and understanding of, project management techniques and methodologies.
  • Ability to share an understanding of problems, outline the parameters of the project, and determine potential solutions.
  • The ability to work constructively and positively within multi-functional teams, engendering and supporting a common understanding across the team and business functions. 

 In return you will receive -
  • Competitive Salary
  • 28 days holiday (including bank holidays)
  • An extra day’s holiday for every full year of employment
  • Company pension
  • Perkbox subscription
  • Flexible working hours
  • A Nespresso machine with free coffee
  • Free fruit
  • Staff events throughout the year
  • A structured career development programme with regular 1:1 meetings 

If you would like to be considered for this position, please send your CV and covering letter to info@simitive.com 


Developer 

Salary: Competitive Salary 
Location: Bristol City Centre
Full Time: Permanent (Flexible)

Simitive is a company involved in improving the way businesses and other organisations run, we make systems and advise on how our clients can make the most out of their people. We’re a fairly young company, that's in a strong position due to our fantastic products and loyal client base.
In return for your skills and desire to progress, you’ll be rewarded with a great package plus fantastic long term prospects as we have big plans for the future. We have a fantastic working environment based in central Bristol, and a strong focus on learning and development. We value our work highly, share skills and ideas and constantly strive to produce high-quality tools for our clients.

It would be good if you have:
  • Experience as a front-end developer in JavaScript (in particular React.js and Vue.js)
  • And/or experience as a back-end developer using PHP frameworks (in particular Symfony and Laravel). There will also be the opportunity to cross-train.
  • Comfortable working on HTML5 and CSS3
  • Good communication skills, and a willingness to collaborate
  • The ability to work in team
  • Excellent attention to detail and is serious about producing quality work whilst working to deadlines
  • Comfortable working in a fast-paced environment, and being across multiple projects simultaneously
 
In return you will receive:
  • 28 days holiday (including bank holidays)
  • An extra days holiday for each full year of employment
  • Work from home policy
  • Flexible working hours policy
  • A structured career development programme with regular 1:1 meetings
  • Staff events throughout the year
 
If you would like to be considered for this position, please send your CV and covering letter to info@simitive.com 

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​Account Development Manager

Salary: Competitive Salary 
Location: Bristol City Centre
Full Time: Permanent (Flexible)

This is an Account development role only for existing accounts, as such you will be expected to build relationships across all areas of the account, understand their challenges and strategies and convert their needs into sales of the company’s products.
You will:
  • Have at least 24 months sales account management experience in software, preferably Software as a Service
  • Have experience of selling solutions to Universities
  • Have a track record and examples of account development and selling/ upselling multiple products to the same client
  • Be able to provide a P60 for proof of last 2 year’s earnings
  • Be able to work with a team not ‘go it alone’ and provide evidence of this
  • Be able to demonstrate the ability to successfully network and grow relationships at senior levels within Universities
  • Show evidence of selling business solutions i.e.: hr, review, learning, talent management, accounts
  • Be able to demonstrate knowledge and experience of how the University sector works
  • Have a proven track record of exceeding substantial targets
  • Have exceptional work rate and energy
  • Be able to demonstrate a consultative selling approach
 
In return you will receive:
  • Competitive Salary
  • 28 days holiday (including bank holidays)
  • An extra day’s holiday for every full year of employment
  • Company pension
  • Perkbox subscription
  • Flexible working hours
  • A Nespresso machine with free coffee
  • Free fruit
  • Staff events throughout the year
  • A structured career development programme with regular 1:1 meeting’s

If you would like to be considered for this position, please send your CV and covering letter to info@simitive.com