Propel Finance was established in 1996 to provide flexible and accessible finance to SMEs across the country. Now, more than 20 years on, Propel has grown to become one of the UK’s largest, independent finance houses. We have continued to deliver leading-edge finance solutions through a unique combination of teamwork and technology.

From this continued success we are now looking to recruit a Business Support and Monitoring Manager to allow us to continue our exciting growth plans.

Our aim is to take the service we offer to the next level, to push the boundaries of what’s available, and to create great customer experiences consistent with our values. Does that sound like something you’d like to be part of?

**Role responsibilities;Monitoring & Assurance**

*   Design, implement, and maintain multiple monitoring and quality assurance frameworks aligned to regulatory expectations and business risk appetite.
*   Conduct and oversee thematic reviews, file checks, and QA testing across multiple channels.
*   Produce clear monitoring reports with findings, risk assessments, and recommendations for remedial action.
*   Track and oversee the closure of actions arising from monitoring activity and regulatory feedback.

**Regulatory Advisory**

*   Provide expert compliance advice to business stakeholders on FCA regulation (CONC, PRIN/Consumer Duty, DISP, SYSC), complaints handling, fraud prevention, and data protection.
*   Act as a senior point of escalation for complex compliance queries and incidents.
*   Support with regulatory horizon scanning and impact assessments for new/changed regulation.

**Governance & Reporting**

*   Support the Head of Compliance with the production of board and committee MI, highlighting key risks, themes, and compliance performance.
*   Ensure compliance documentation (policies, procedures, frameworks) is current, proportionate, and effective.

**Generalist Compliance Support**

*   Provide complaints handling support, ensuring adherence to DISP requirements and FCA reporting standards.
*   Work with fraud prevention colleagues to maintain strong financial crime controls and support Suspicious Activity Report (SAR) handling.
*   Support GDPR compliance through oversight of data protection controls and processes.

**Leadership & Collaboration**

*   Line management responsibilities for up to three monitoring analysts
*   Mentor and develop junior compliance colleagues, contributing to succession planning and team resilience.
*   Develop strong, constructive relationships with internal teams and external partners.

**Key skills required;**

*   Regulated compliance advisory background with strong monitoring and QA management and implementation skills.
*   Significant experience in a compliance role within financial services, ideally credit/asset finance or wider lending sector.
*   Strong knowledge of FCA regulation (CONC, PRIN, SYSC, DISP, Consumer Duty).
*   Proven experience in compliance monitoring, QA, and building monitoring frameworks.
*   Exposure to complaints handling, financial crime/fraud risk, and data protection.
*   Strong leadership skills with the ability to mentor, influence, and build credibility.
*   Proven experience of designing and implementing monitoring and quality assurance frameworks to identify and minimise risk to the business and our customers.

**So, why would you want to work here?**

We have a great working environment and we’re an ambitious business. We achieve so much because of our people. Everyone in the business, no matter their team or role can shape the outcome, share ideas, make suggestions, and have their voice heard. It’s a truly collaborative place to work.

At Propel, we embrace hybrid working and with modern offices in Newport, London and Manchester, plus a field-based sales team, you’ll never be too far away from colleagues.

This is a hybrid role, with travel to our Newport office 1 day a week

**Benefits you can expect:**

*   25 days annual leave + bank holidays
*   2 additional days holiday after 5 years’ service
*   Birthday day off
*   Opt in Private Medical Insurance
*   Subsidised gym membership at £18.75 a month
*   Cycle to Work Scheme
*   Electric Car Scheme
*   Buy Annual Leave Scheme
*   Half day seasonal shopping
*   Auto enrolment pension – 3% employer contribution subject to eligibility
*   Life Assurance 3 x basic salary
*   Employee Assistance Programme available 24/7
*   Company events and reward schemes

We are proud to be a member of Stonewall’s Diversity Champions programme and are committed to improving workplace inclusion.

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Compliance Monitoring Manager

**About Kennametal** _With over 80 years as an industrial technology leader, Kennametal Inc. delivers productivity to customers through materials science, tooling and wear-resistant solutions. Customers across aerospace and defense, earthworks, energy, general engineering and transportation turn to Kennametal to help them manufacture with precision and efficiency. Every day approximately 8,700 employees are helping customers in nearly 100 countries stay competitive. Kennametal generated $2.1 billion in revenues in fiscal 2023. Learn more at_ _www.kennametal.com__. Follow @Kennametal: Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn and YouTube._ **Customer Service RepresentativeKennametal in Newport** is currently recruiting a Customer Service Representative. The purpose of the role is to undertake all sales office administrative functions and maintain effective communications with the sales team, customers other Kennametal sites and agents. **Duties To Include But Not Limited To**

*   Preparing quotations
*   Liaising with Machine Shop for lead times and cost information
*   Raising production orders
*   Shipping and invoicing all orders, ensuring that the correct documentation is in place
*   Preparing BOMs, routings, cost roll-ups and work files
*   Liaising with customers, agents and production departments to ensure that all orders are shipped to the agreed production schedule and ensuring that all parties are kept informed in cases where schedules are changed
*   Maintaining accurate and up to date paperwork and electronic files of all orders and deliveries including freight costs, ensuring each delivery can be traced back to the original order
*   Maintaining accurate and up to date paperwork and electronic files of all imports and exports
*   Maintaining customer files and records
*   Acting as a key point of contact between the Sales team and Machine Shop
*   Managing inter-plant replenishment and the washed boats process
*   General reception and administration duties

**Requirements**

*   Experience of working in an office environment in a customer facing role
*   Experience of order processing
*   Strong working knowledge of MS Word, Outlook and Excel
*   Knowledge and understanding of export procedures, shipping and transport documentation preferred
*   Working knowledge of SAP

**Hours Of Work And Benefits**

*   37.5 hours per week, worked on a flexible basis
*   25 days holiday per annum, plus statutory and bank holidays
*   Health cash plan
*   Private medical insurance
*   4% Pension contribution
*   Death in service cover
*   Company sick pay of up to 5 weeks per year

Equal Opportunity Employer

Customer Service Representative

We are hiring **Part\-Time Sales Assistants** to join one of our exciting stores based in **Newport.** _Please note: this is a part-time job, working 8 hours per week. The ideal candidate will be flexible Monday - Sunday, but mainly working during our busiest days at the weekend._ _**We don’t look at CVs - just your answers to our application questions about customer service. If you have the availability we’re looking for and show that initial spark for delivering great service, we believe you deserve an interview!** All applications are anonymous until the interview stage to help eliminate unconscious bias._ **The Role:** As a Sales Assistant, you are the heartbeat of our business. A Sales Assistant lives and breathes our products. We’re seeking passionate team members who are enthusiastic about showcasing our diverse products and going above and beyond for all of our customers. Your number one objective as a Sales Assistant is to help provide the best shopping experience for our guests. We want to offer the best experience on the high street! You’ll **DEFY ORDINARY** by asking insightful questions to understand each customer’s needs and showcase our products with style, piecing together sets, accessories and product add-ons. As a Sales Assistant, you will be involved in creating a first-class shopping experience for our customer through your exceptional service, attitude and behaviours. From day one you will receive in-depth training on our products, their specifications including fabric and weather durability, plus product care and best matched product companions, making you a well-rounded FOOTASYLUM **_Sales Ambassador._About you:** Don’t worry too much about previous experience. We are looking for outgoing people with a friendly, outgoing, organised and can-do attitude. You will be positive and approachable. You must not be shy and will be able to approach customers with ease to spark up enthusiastic conversations. **Responsibilities:**

*   Greet and welcome customers with a friendly and positive attitude.
*   Make our customers feel like VIPs with your service, ensuring they leave with smiles and a great impression of your shop.
*   Become a PRO on all our products, helping customers make perfect choices that suit their needs and preferences.
*   Provide expert product knowledge and advice to customers.
*   Team up with your colleagues to hit store targets, keeping the shop floor fun and delivering excellent service together as a team.
*   Keep our store sparkling clean and inviting, maintaining an organised and visually appealing store environment.
*   Dive into training sessions with excitement, soaking up knowledge to grow both personally and professionally.
*   Stay up to date with current trends and product knowledge to effectively assist customers.
*   Handle transactions with a smile, and make sure every purchase is the perfect way to end a shopping experience.

As a Sales Assistant working on our shop floor, you will be the go-to for customer questions; resolving issues and making sure our customers are genuinely cared for. **Diversity:** We recognise and value the importance of diversity to help make sure we have lots of different perspectives when we are providing services to our colleagues and customers. We know that this will help us build a great service, which our customers will love. This is great news for our business. Diversity for us is also, importantly, about building happy teams full of people that want to learn and want to be inspired by each other and our different experiences. **Recruitment process:** We review applications on an individual basis, and if we feel you would be a good fit we’ll invite you for a group interview for the role, and to see if we’re a good fit for you. **Footasylum is an equal opportunities employer. Please let us know if there are any reasonable adjustments that need to be made, prior to you attending an interview.** We value open and honest conversations and collaboration, giving you a chance to learn about what we are doing in an informal and friendly environment. We want to know about you, and why you feel this is the opportunity for you. Under 18 working restrictions: _If you are under 18, you will not be able to work past 10pm. Some of our stores have extended opening hours over the festive period._ **_You must bring along your Right to Work documentation to the interview in order for us to progress with your application!_**

Part-Time Sales Assistant

**Role overview:Sales Colleague** Newport Currys, Newport IOW Permanent Full Time and Part Time 8-39 hours per week, with flexibility to work additional hours. £12.21\* per hour plus an average bonus per hour of 89p (\*rising to £12.51 on successful completion of probation period) At Currys we’re united by one passion: to help everyone enjoy amazing technology. As the UK’s best-known retailer of tech, we’re proud of the service our customers receive – and it’s all down to our team of caring and committed colleagues. Join us and you’ll work in a great team where you can be yourself and bring your personality. Working as one team, we learn and grow together, celebrating the big and small moments that make every day amazing. As a Retail Sales Colleague you don't need an in-depth knowledge of tech before you join the team as all our new colleagues attend a two to three day induction either virtually or at our fantastic academy in Fort Dunlop, Birmingham. Here, you’ll gain valuable skills and knowledge to help you sell, serve and support our customers and make amazing happen. From supplier training and demos ahead of launches to testing the latest products, we'll give you the confidence you need to ensure your recommendations are top notch. Our Sales Colleagues work flexibly across our opening hours which typically includes Saturdays and Sundays. Our stores are open 7 days a week generally between 9am and 8pm but will vary locally. **Role overview:** As part of this role, you’ll be responsible for:

*   Asking the right questions to match customers with products.
*   Making every customer interaction memorable.
*   Offering support services like delivery and installation, recycling and ways to pay.
*   Contributing towards the overall sales performance of the store.
*   Working across different departments and product ranges.
*   Supporting with the running of the store by completing operational tasks.

Our Sales Colleagues all possess the same passion for doing great work. And once you see the pleasure customers get from discovering how amazing technology can help them, you won’t want to do anything else. You will need to be:

*   Approachable and friendly.
*   Keen to learn about the latest technology.
*   Comfortable achieving personal sales, service and customer experience targets.
*   A strong team player, confident working across all parts of the store and winning as a team.

We know our people are the secret to our success. That’s why we’re always looking for ways to reward great work. Alongside 30 days of annual leave (including bank holiday entitlement) and a competitive pension scheme (for permanent colleagues), you’ll find a host of benefits designed to work for you. They include:

*   Monthly performance-related bonus.
*   Product discounts on the latest tech.
*   A range of wellbeing initiatives.

**Why join us:** Join our Retail team and we’ll be with you every step of the way, helping you develop the career you want with new opportunities, on-going training and skills for life. And where possible, we’ll offer you the flexibility to help fit your work around your other commitments, all with the support of your manager. Not only can you shape your own future, but you can take charge of ours too. As the biggest recycler and repairer of tech in the UK, we’re in a position to make a real impact on people and the planet. Every voice has a space at our table and we’re committed to making inclusion and diversity part of everything we do, including how we strengthen our workforce. We want to make sure you have a fair opportunity to show us your talents during our application process, so if you need any additional assistance with your application please email careers@currys.co.uk and we’ll do our best to help.

Sales Colleague

**Job Type:** Full Time **Contract Type:** Temporary **Your next career starts with Acosta Europe.** Acosta Europe is an exceptional business that cares about its people. We are part of one of the largest Sales and Marketing agencies in the world, and currently seeking **Seasonal Field Sales Executives** to represent our partner, **Nestlé.** The festive season sees the demand for Nestlé products increase. The **Season Field Sales Executives** will work with a team who are responsible for raising Nestlé Confectionery brand performance, awareness, and availability across UK retailers. You will act as the face of the brand, carrying out retail store visits within a defined territory, with responsibility for driving brand sales to enhance turnover and market share. The purpose of the role is to gain additional display spaces, maintain and enhance them throughout the season. The role runs from September to 23rd December and gives you the opportunity to work with our Nestlé Confectionery operation across the top four grocery retailers. We are recruiting nationwide. This is a full-time opportunity whereby you will work 7.5 hours per day between 07:00 and 19:00. If you can bring the passion for sales and have the enthusiasm to succeed, we can offer you the opportunity to develop in an engaging and rewarding environment, where no two days are ever the same! **Role Details:**

*   A competitive basic salary of circa £26,000 with a bonus scheme
*   A flexible approach to working
*   Mobile telephone
*   Small van provided for transporting marketing material
*   Enhanced holiday entitlement

As a **Field Sales Executive** you will:

*   Build relationships with key retail decision makers (department and store managers)
*   Identify and implement in store merchandising opportunities to increase brand visibility and availability and ensuring stock levels are maintained
*   Ensure Nestlé’s promotional activity is implemented and that products are on display in the correct location and with good availability

What skills can I expect to develop in this role? Relationship Building, Product Knowledge, Commercial Awareness, Influencing skills and Negotiation Who are we looking for? You will possess demonstrable experience within FMCG, retail or a sales environment, although we will also consider applications from motivated individuals with experience from other sectors. You will be passionate about the amazing brands we market and have the drive and tenacity to succeed. You must hold a **full manual driving licence** and be able to travel within a defined territory. **What’s in it for you?** This role offers a genuine opportunity to develop your commercial skills. You will receive excellent training and enjoy superb benefits including a bonus (subject to performance). Passion is at the heart of everything we do. We encourage boldness, curiosity, and new ideas. We are motivated to learn, and constantly strive to exceed expectations. We truly care, and that is what makes us exceptional. We are looking to recruit for this role immediately for a September 25th start – please send your application without delay. **JOIN THE TEAM** Got what it takes? In your application we want to see your personal style - what makes you tick and why you think your next opportunity is here with us.

Seasonal Retail Field Sales Executive - Nestle Grocery

**Job Title:** General Manager

**Company:** The Garden Kitchen by Pugh's

**Location:** Abergavenny

**Reports To:** Head of Retail Operations / Directors

**Company:** The Garden Kitchen by Pugh’s

**Salary:** Up to £36k

**Job Summary:**

The General Manager at The Garden Kitchen is responsible for leading all aspects of both restaurant and retail operations. This role ensures a consistently high-quality experience for guests and customers, aligning with our values of sustainability, fresh seasonal offerings, and community engagement. The GM will oversee staffing, service, product quality, merchandising, and financial performance, while fostering a culture of excellence across kitchen, front-of-house, and retail teams.

**Key Responsibilities:Restaurant & Café Operations:**

*   Manage daily restaurant operations, including scheduling, service standards, and cleanliness.
*   Ensure compliance with health and food safety regulations.
*   Coordinate closely with kitchen leadership to maintain food quality and menu execution.
*   Drive service consistency and guest satisfaction across dine-in and takeout experiences.

**Retail Operations:**

*   Oversee retail space including product selection, inventory, merchandising, and layout.
*   Collaborate with local suppliers and vendors to source high-quality, seasonal, and sustainable goods.
*   Monitor retail stock levels and implement systems for ordering, receiving, and rotation.
*   Train staff in product knowledge, visual merchandising, and sales techniques.

**Team Leadership:**

*   Hire, train, schedule, and manage all restaurant and retail staff.
*   Build a positive, team-oriented workplace culture focused on excellence and accountability.
*   Conduct regular staff meetings, provide ongoing coaching, and handle performance management.

**Customer Experience:**

*   Ensure guests and retail customers receive warm, knowledgeable, and attentive service.
*   Resolve issues with professionalism and a solution-oriented approach.
*   Promote customer loyalty through community events, feedback initiatives, and membership programs.

**Financial Management:**

*   Develop and manage budgets for both food service and retail departments.
*   Monitor sales, margins, and costs (labour, food, and product inventory).
*   Identify growth opportunities, reduce waste, and improve profitability.

**Marketing & Community Engagement:**

*   Work with the owner or marketing partners to execute campaigns for seasonal products, promotions, or events.
*   Oversee in-store signage and digital communications to reflect brand identity.
*   Represent The Garden Kitchen in community outreach, partnerships, and events.

**Qualifications:**

*   Proven experience managing both restaurant and retail environments.
*   Strong knowledge of food service operations, merchandising, and customer service best practices.
*   Financial literacy with ability to manage P&L, budgets, and KPIs.
*   Excellent leadership, communication, and problem-solving skills.
*   Passion for fresh food, sustainability, and community-driven retail.

**Work Environment & Schedule:**

*   Full-time leadership role requiring availability during evenings, weekends, and holidays as needed.
*   Hands-on position in a fast-paced, guest-focused environment with a blend of service and administrative responsibilities.

TO APPLY PLEASE SEND YOUR CV & COVERLETTER TO - abergavenny@pughsgardenkitchen.co.uk

General Manager

**Sales Engineer**

Yolk Recruitment is exclusively supporting this exciting opportunity for a Sales Engineer to join a leading manufacturing and engineering business.

If you're a technically minded professional with a background in engineering and coatings, and you enjoy solving customer problems, supporting complex projects, and driving process improvements, this could be the perfect opportunity.

You'll play a key role in developing and maintaining strong technical relationships with clients, supporting enquiries through the full project lifecycle, and helping shape the company's growth through technically led business development. This is an excellent chance to join a highly skilled team in an innovative and forward-thinking environment.

**Key Responsibilities:**

*   Develop and maintain strong technical relationships with both new and existing customers through regular communication and site visits.
*   Act as a key liaison between customers and internal departments (engineering, production, quality) to ensure the successful delivery of services and projects.
*   Identify and pursue new business opportunities aligned with the company's technical capabilities, including generating high-quality enquiries and engaging with key decision-makers.
*   Analyse customer feedback, monitor performance trends, and support continuous improvement initiatives.
*   Manage and process customer enquiries efficiently, producing accurate and competitive quotations in collaboration with internal teams.
*   Conduct market research to identify emerging trends and inform commercial and technical strategy.
*   Ensure a smooth handover of projects from enquiry through to production, maintaining documentation and supporting internal systems and processes.
*   Maintain a strong understanding of quality standards and specifications, supporting internal and customer quality requirements throughout the sales and production process.

**And this is what you'll need:**

*   Have experience in Thermal Spraying.
*   Background in Engineering.
*   Experience working within a similar role.

**And this is what you'll get:**

*   Competitive salary.
*   Car allowance.
*   Bonus.

If you feel you have the skills, experience and passion to be successful in this Sales Engineer role apply now by sending your CV or calling me directly on 07458161748

_\*Please note, whilst we do our best to contact all candidates, due to the high number of applications we receive we cannot guarantee this for every role. If you have not heard anything from us within 7 days of applying - then unfortunately you have been unsuccessful. Please keep an eye on our website for more opportunities_

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