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Vitabiotics, 4 times winner of Queen’s Awards for Excellence, is widely regarded as the most innovative and fastest growing major vitamin supplement company in the UK. As Britain's leading vitamin company for specific life stages, Vitabiotics has helped define the VMS sector with leading brands such as Osteocare®, Perfectil®, Pregnacare®, Wellman® and Wellwoman.

Overview:

Responsible for managing the Sales Ledger and Credit Control, ensuring the accounts are up to date, complete, and timely. Key team member working closely with the other finance areas to ensure alignment and adherence to good accounting practice and internal control. Liaise with internal personnel and external customers to ensure efficient processing and receipt of customer debt.

Support UK National accounts team with the accurate and timely receipt, processing and invoicing of UK Wholesale customer orders.

Responsibilities:

Accounts Receivable and Credit Control:

• Ensure new customer set-up processes is followed by company personnel, gaining the relevant manager approval, and credit checks before entering new supplier into SAP.
• Issue on a timely basis customer statements
• Allocate customer receipts via the bank, to the relevant customer account in SAP
• Actively chase customers with overdue balances, and ensure the Dunning process is followed
• Regularly review aged debtors, clearing/processing any credit balances in a timely manner. Agree with Senior Finance Manager actions for outstanding/aged balances.
• Proactively liaise with Sales team for invoices in query to obtain their swift resolution
• Manage queries with customers to ensure accounts are accurate and complete, maintaining good on-going relationships.
• Maintain customer files within SAP, to ensure they are up to date and accurate
• Maintain up to date documentation for Accounts Receivable processes
• Proactively look are ways to improve efficiency in the AR area, particularly the usage of SAP and automation.
• Provide supporting documentation for audits
• Support the Senior Finance Manager and Head of Finance with any ad hoc work or projects.

E-Commerce

• Ensure E-Commerce sales/invoices are raised and reconciled with payments on a regular basis. Particularly Chinese E-Commerce sales.
• Proactively problem sole any timing or interface issues with the external partners

National Accounts order processing

• Process all UK wholesale orders received direct or via EDI daily
• Update SAP customer master file with latest sales prices, and promotional prices
• Manage the Amazon Advance Shipment Notifications in line with the customers requirements
• Manage effectively customer invoice queries with the National sales or Supply Chain teams

Other order processing:

• Support the company with the stocking of the sample room, placing orders as required
• Process internal and external sample requests
• Maintain the stocking of the stationery cupboard, placing orders as required

You will need:

• A professional qualification: AAT or ACCA
• Previous experience working in an Accounts Receivable and Credit Control role
• Excellent attention to detail and administration skills
• Experience using SAP or other ERP systems
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Must be IT literate: Microsoft suite
• Good team player
• Proactive, self starter
• Influencing skills

Location: 1 Apsley Way, London, NW2 7HF

You are a bright, creative Junior/Influencer Marketing Executive, with proven experience in developing and executing influencer marketing strategies and campaigns. You are ready to help the UK’s no.1 vitamin company to accelerate its social media programme beyond awareness and into e-commerce conversion. You will help us build our existing communities and develop the strategy and execution for new communities centred around our brand leaders in the beauty, health and wellness space.

Key Tasks

• Develop and execute influencer marketing strategies and creative campaigns
• Identify and build relationships with prominent influencers and thought leaders 
• Develop content ideas and write and curate content
• Research relevant industry experts, competitors, target audience and users
• Brainstorm new, creative approaches to influencer campaigns
• Keep abreast of emerging trends, technologies, and influencers
• Responsible for creating and managing contracts with influencers and agencies

• Responsible for planning and social media strategy across existing and new social media channels
• Maximise audience engagement, build online communities and acquire new customers
• Support community management and customer queries via social media
• Supporting the Junior Social Media Executive with copy and content for social monthly content calendars
• Managing influencer marketing campaigns
• Reporting of social campaigns
• Organising product gifting

Essential

• 1-2 years of experience managing influencer marketing campaigns, interacting within online communities, actively participating on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest
• In depth knowledge of social media marketing industry
• Professional, team player who is passionate about all things social
• Proven ability to articulate strategy based on audience research and intuition
• Uses social analytics to make clear recommendations on content and strategy
• A first class (social media) copywriter with a strong visual eye and a creative mind
• Proven record of managing social media within a fast-paced e-commerce/retail environment
• Organised and able to manage all sorts of content, including rights management
• A team player
• Excellent project management skills
• Ability to manage multiple deadlines
• Finger on the pulse’ of social trends and knows how to capitalise on them

You are a bright, creative Junior Social Media Executive, with proven experience in building new communities, creating content and driving interaction with e-commerce brands. You are ready to help the UK’s no.1 vitamin company to accelerate its social media programme beyond awareness and into e-commerce conversion. You will help us build our existing communities and develop the strategy and execution for new communities centred around our brand leaders in the beauty, health and wellness space.

Key Tasks

• Responsible for planning and social media strategy across existing and new social media channels
• Maximise audience engagement, build online communities and acquire new customers
• Support community management and customer queries via social media
• Responsible for the producing and managing content on social media channels
• Managing influencer marketing campaigns
• Monthly reporting of results to the wider team plus reporting of social campaigns
• Organising product gifting

Essential

• 1+ years experience interacting within online communities, actively participating on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest.
• Professional, team player who is passionate about all things social
• Proven ability to articulate strategy based on audience research and intuition
• Uses social analytics to make clear recommendations on content and strategy
• A first class (social media) copywriter with a strong visual eye and a creative mind
• Works with creative team members on developing content, but also able to produce content without assistance from this team
• Proven record of managing social media within a fast-paced e-commerce/retail environment
• Organised and able to manage all sorts of content, including rights management
• A team player
• Excellent project management skills
• Ability to manage multiple deadlines
• Finger on the pulse’ of social trends and knows how to capitalise on them

Desirable

• Experience managing influencer campaigns
• Confident with Social Bakers or other similar social software

Vitabiotics is the UK’s No.1 largest and fastest growing vitamin supplement company, which has helped define the VMS sector with leading brands such as Perfectil, Pregnacare, Wellman and Wellwoman. We are the first and only vitamin company to twice receive The Queen’s Award for Innovation in vitamin research.

We are looking for an HR and Recruitment Advisor to support our Human Resources department. You will act as the first point of contact for HR-related queries from employees and external partners. You should be able to ensure our HR department supports our employees while helping ensure we stay abreast of the latest changes and best practices in employment law.

Responsibilities:

• Assist with employees’ queries about HR-related issues
• Manage the recruitment process including posting job adverts, shortlisting CV’s and arranging interviews
• Assist payroll department by providing relevant employee information (e.g. new starters, leaves of absence, sick days and work schedules)
• Prepare HR documents (e.g. employment contracts, offer letters, staff handbook)
• Help organize and maintain personnel records
• Deal with Ad hoc HR related issues as they arise
• Work with the Board to continually review and improve HR practices

Person Specification:

• Proven work experience as a HR Administrative/ Assistant or other relevant role
• Able to work on own initiative
• Computer literacy (MS Office applications, in particular)
• Some working knowledge of current employment law and best practices
• Excellent organizational skills, with an ability to prioritize
• Strong phone, email and in-person communication skills
• CIPD qualifications an advantage

Requirements

• Min. 3-4 yrs relevant HR experience

Location

• North-West London, NW2 7HF

Vitabiotics is the UK’s No.1 largest and fastest growing vitamin supplement company, which has helped define the VMS sector with leading brands such as Perfectil, Pregnacare, Wellman and Wellwoman.

Vitabiotics Ltd. is currently recruiting for a Receptionist who is looking for a new challenge to stimulate their exceptional service skills.

If you are warm, energetic and have a real passion for Guest Services, you could be the one we are looking for!

Duties will include:

• Ensuring a seamless and personal guest journey
• Welcoming guests at reception
• Escorting guests within the building
• Acting upon all requests that guests might have in an efficient and friendly manner
• Handling external and internal calls in a professional manner
• Booking of meeting rooms accurately and food and beverage requirements
• Liaising with other departments to ensure efficient communication and excellent guest experience
• General administration duties when required
• Responds to customer queries in a timely manner
• Primary point of contact for customer enquiries
• Communicate with customers not only via the web but also phone and email
• Support customers in returning purchases and with complaints
• Advise and support customers on taking orders and finding information

The successful candidate will:

• Have an excellent command of the English language, both in verbal and written communication.
• Be immaculately presented.
• Be highly organised and have an eye for detail.
• Have great interpersonal skills and an outgoing personality.
• Have a passion to achieve excellent guest service in everything that they do.
• Be able to work well under pressure and have the ability to act pro-actively and intuitively
• Empathetic, caring and an active listener
• Strives for 5-star feedback
• Ability to demonstrate strong and objective complaint handling

Vitabiotics, 4 times winner of Queen’s Awards for Enterprise, is widely regarded as the most innovative and fastest growing major vitamin supplement company in the UK. As Britain's No1 vitamin company for specific life stages, Vitabiotics has helped define the VMS sector with leading brands such as Osteocare®, Perfectil®, Pregnacare®, Wellman® and Wellwoman.

Presently exporting over 110 countries, we require an enthusiastic, hardworking and experienced Export Manager to join our Export & Shipping Department.  

• Developing new markets for the Export business in the Middle East region.
• Supporting the business for export customers to ensure compliance and feasible operations
• Understand, plan and implement export strategies
• Monitor, record, analyse and report on activities, sales trends and results 
• Promoting and managing customer profile and market analysis of existing partners.
• Building relationships with all key customers and internal stakeholders
• Carrying out performance analysis and margin reviews per Export Distributor.
• Developing and managing periodic marketing activity for the Export territories.
• Making overseas trips when required (twice a month).
• Working closely with the export team to ensure the sales target are achieved.
• Assisting with any customer visits to the main office as required.

Your experience should include:

• Previous personnel management experience.
• International exposure highly desirable.
• Ability to travel overseas.
• Developing new market experience.
• Full UK driving licence.
• Working with distribution partners overseas.
• Sound skill set in PowerPoint, Excel, Word and Outlook.
• 3-5 experience in a similar position is essential
• Arabic speaker is preferred but not essential

We are looking for a PR Executive to work at our Head Office near Staples Corner. In 2013 Vitabiotics became the first Company to receive a Queen's Award for Innovation in vitamin research, and now is an exciting time to join us as we extend into a number of new categories. If you've had agency or in-house PR experience, we would love to hear from you. Ideally you will have experience in the consumer healthcare market, but more importantly you will be hard working and ambitious with a positive can-do attitude and proactive approach to the wide and varied role.

Key Skills and Abilities:

• Strong organisational skills
• A positive and ‘can-do’ attitude
• A keen interest in the health and wellbeing industry (preferable but not required: strong knowledge of the media and influencer landscap)
• Willing to go the extra mile in a fast-paced environment and do what it takes to get the job done
• Ability to work across different brands and projects and with various agencies and suppliers
• Creative and quick thinking, with an excellent attention to detail
• Calm and considered under pressure
• Fantastic written and verbal communication skills
• Takes initiative and communicates clearly and efficiently with internal and external key stake holders

Key Responsibilities Include:

• Drafting press releases and creative pitches
• Proactive media relations –handling press enquiries proactively, quickly and with attention to detail
• Monitoring and saving editorial coverage and regularly informing relevant teams of coverage
• Supporting on creative mailers and mass mail outs
• Admin support including post, reports, stock management and deliveries
• Supporting at exhibitions and events

Vitabiotics is a family business, founded over 45 years ago. We are the UK’s No.1 vitamin supplements company, helping to define the sector with leading brands such as Perfectil, Pregnacare, Wellman and Wellwoman.

We are looking for an enthusiastic science graduate to work with our in-house Technical & Quality Control Department.

Key Responsibilities:

• Handling Technical Product Data, e.g. Clinical and Pharmacological Information
• Working on standard operating procedures of the Quality Control Dept
• Involved in analytical method developments
• Validation of Production & QC methods
• Quality Control, Customer and Regulatory Issues
• Handling New Product Development (NPD) projects.

The ideal candidate:

• Highly organised
• Accurate with good computer skills and good written and verbal communication skills
• Pharmacy or biosciences postgraduate background ideal.
• Quality Control experience and some experience in pharmaceutical registrations preferred but not essential.

Vitabiotics is a family business, founded over 45 years ago. We are the UK’s No.1 vitamin supplements company, helping to define the sector with leading brands such as Perfectil, Pregnacare, Wellman and Wellwoman.

We are looking for an enthusiastic science graduate to work with our in-house Technical & Quality Control Department.

Key Responsibilities:

• Resolve and answer any scientific/technical queries from customers
• Deal with any technical complaints
• Handling Technical Product Data, e.g. Clinical and Pharmacological Information
• Working on standard operating procedures of the Quality Control Dept
• Involved in analytical method developments
• Validation of Production & QC methods
• Quality Control, Customer and Regulatory Issues
• Handling New Product Development (NPD) projects.
• Liaise with Internal departments and external organisations to acquire information that is needed

The ideal candidate:

• Pharmacy or biosciences postgraduate background ideal.
• Highly organised
• Be empathetic and able to communicate well on technical issues
• Be flexible and responsive
• Accurate with good computer skills and good written and verbal communication skills
• Quality Control experience and some experience in pharmaceutical registrations preferred but not essential.

You are a senior-interactive art director level creative looking to ‘own your own thing’. This is a major role in charge of the creative look and feel for the UK’s most popular vitamin brand, across all the digital touchpoints. With a background in agency creative or client-side e-commerce creative, you are a hands-on, but creatively led individual who is confident developing and selling-in your creative ideas to the CEO and SVP, and then able to get on and produce the agreed output with your team.

About Vitabiotics

We are the UK’s favourite vitamins, helping millions of people to be at their best with easy-yet-effective nutritional support. Our famous, market-leading brands include Pregnacare, Wellman, Wellwoman, Perfectil and Feroglobin. We are in a period of rapid e-commerce growth and are looking for a Digital Design Manager to help elevate our digital creative output.

Key Tasks

• Elevate design of digital creative output to drive improved engagement and commercial performance
• Responsible for the timely production and delivery of all digital assets, across website, photography, display ads and email (plus some social)
• Develop creative concepts for digital campaigns and new product launches
• Work with Senior Performance Marketing Manager to optimise website design and user-experience to increase conversion rate
• Work with content exec and developer to implement the design, including testing and visual QA of the builds
• Work with Senior Performance Marketing Manager to produce highly-effective digital ads
• Work with Marketing & Sales teams to produce digital creative for partners
• Manage & develop two digital designers

Essential

• Proven experience in e-commerce interaction design
• Proven experience developing campaigns across digital touchpoints
• Best in class Photoshop and graphic design skills
• Knowledge of HTML & CSS
• Experience with animation and using After Effects
• Customer-centric but revenue-driven mentality
• Razor-sharp attention to detail
• Growth-minded - always looking to looking to learn and improve
• Comfortable working within a small team in a fast-paced environment
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Solid understanding of UX design principles - this is not a UX design role but requires knowledge of designing to positively influence user-journeys
• Experience developing junior staff

Desirable

• Has worked with Shopify

You are a junior digital designer who ‘gets’ creativity AND process. You like to explore new ways of communicating with users through your craft, can take a general ‘direction’ and bring it fully to life to meet both business requirements and inspire a consumer to action. You will have an extremely good working knowledge of Adobe programmes.  

About Vitabiotics

We are the UK’s favourite vitamins, helping millions of people to be at their best with easy-yet-effective nutritional support. Our famous, market-leading brands include Pregnacare, Wellman, Wellwoman, Perfectil and Feroglobin. We are in a period of rapid e-commerce growth and are looking for a Junior Digital Designer to help us on our journey.

Key Tasks 

• Responsible for rolling out creative ideas developed with the Digital Design Manager and Head of Digital
• You will be designing across a variety of digital platforms – website, admedia banners, email newsletters and social content 
• Responsible for designing and building display advertising across various advertising and partner websites 
• Works with Marketing and Sales team to draw in and understand upcoming graphic design requirements 

Essential 

• Excellent image composition and typography skills demonstrated in work that shows balance and flow across a digital design 
• Proven experience with image editing  
• Understanding of web coding - CSS, HTML, and JavaScript (being able to code is not a requirement) 
• Best in class Photoshop and graphic design skills 
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills 
• Growth-minded - always looking to looking to learn and improve 
• Comfortable prototyping ideas on paper  
• Qualification in design (degree level or equivalent) 
• Expert level knowledge required: Photoshop, Illustrator 
• Razor-sharp attention to detail
• Good to have (not essential): After Effects, Google Web Designer, Adobe XD

Job Description

Vitabiotics is a family business, founded over 45 years ago. We are the UK’s No.1 vitamin supplements company, helping to define the sector with leading brands such as Perfectil, Pregnacare, Wellman and Wellwoman.

This is an exciting opportunity to work within an in-house design department of a leading health supplements company.

You will be working on a diverse range of print projects, principally focussed on packaging, TTL advertising (B2C and B2B publications, consumer press and outdoor), in-store POS, leaflets and brochures.

Key attributes:

• Strong creative design skills
• Fluent in Photoshop, InDesign and Illustrator Creative Cloud on Mac OSX
• Technical repro knowledge
• Excellent artworking and retouching skills
• Taking projects from initial layout through final artwork to proof checking and approval
• Excellent written English
• Proof-reading skills
• Meticulous attention to detail

Application

CV and portfolio (as either PDF or web URL) are required. Please send to jobsuk@vitabiotics.com

Location: NW2 7HF, London (nr. Staples Corner) - applicants must be within 40mins of NW2 office

Experience: As above in the description

Qualification: As above in the description

You are an experienced front-end developer looking to play a key role in growing the DTC business of the UK’s number one vitamin company. Built on Shopify, our website is the key pillar of our ambitious global e-commerce growth plans. We are looking for a Front-end Developer to join our Digital team and help deliver our e-commerce development roadmap. You are a whizz with HTML, CSS & JavaScript and have experience of working with Shopify. Highly self-motivated, you are able to work independently and multi-task with ease. You want a role where you can have a real impact on the growth of the business. 

About Vitabiotics

We are the UK’s favourite vitamins, helping millions of people to be at their best with easy-yet-effective nutritional support. Our famous, market-leading brands include Pregnacare, Wellman, Wellwoman, Perfectil and Feroglobin. We are in a period of rapid e-commerce growth and are looking for a Digital Design Manager to help elevate our digital creative output.

Key Tasks

• Work with Digital Designers to build, test and deploy new web pages
• Support with ongoing website maintenance and updates
• Work with SEO Manager to optimise website performance and speed

Essential

• 5+ years experience in front-end development
• Strong skills in JavaScript, HTML and CSS 
• Familiarity with browser testing and debugging
• Good understanding of layout aesthetics 
• Able to demonstrate examples of previous work (e.g. portfolio)  
• Razor-sharp attention to detail
• Growth-minded - always looking to looking to learn and improve 
• Comfortable working within a small team in a fast-paced environment - you will be the only front-end developer

Desirable

• Experience with Shopify and Liquid Language programming  
• Foundational knowledge of SEO principles
• BSc degree in Computer Science or relevant field

Are you a recent graduate who has had experience in 1st/2nd line support? Are you someone who wants a challenge and learn from a team of experienced IT professionals? 

We have a position available for you to take the next step in becoming a System Administrator where you will be part of a team managing a Mac OS and Windows infrastructure and Netgear/Juniper network who have also moved into Office 365 and SharePoint online and Azure. 

Having a solid understanding of Windows and network security for this position with experience in troubleshooting would be great but you will also learn a lot on the job. 

This position will allow you to gain exposure to a large and growing network whilst being part of a team allowing your future IT career.

Your principle duties will include but not limited to:

• To provide 1st/2nd line support to users in the business via phone, email and remote connections
• To provide support when technicians are on annual leave, busy or when required to as per the requirements of the business.
• Administration and support of Network Devices
• Administration and support of Windows Server 2008/2016
• Administration and support of Microsoft Exchange server 2010
• Administration and support of phone systems
• Liaise with 3rd parties when required
• Input into ad-hoc projects when required
• Hardware/Software fault finding and resolution
• System builds/software installations and configuration
• Help ensure the company’s systems align with industry related accreditations such as ISO27001 and Cyber Essentials certification’ and any other regulations such as GDPR.

Desirable Skills / Personal Qualities

Looking for someone who has:

• A passion for IT
• An IT related degree or diploma or any other IT professional qualifications
• Excellent communication skills
• A people’s person attitude/approach
• Good problem solving skills/experience

Vitabiotics, 4 times winner of Queen’s Awards for Enterprise, is widely regarded as the most innovative and fastest growing major vitamin supplement company in the UK. As Britain's largest vitamin company, Vitabiotics has helped define the VMS sector with leading brands such as Osteocare®, Perfectil®, Pregnacare®, Wellman® and Wellwoman.

This is a fantastic opportunity within our National Accounts department for a Junior Retail Sales Analyst to join a fast growing, category leading company working with some of the UK’s largest retailers including; Boots, Tesco, Holland & Barrett, Sainsbury’s, Superdrug, Asda and Amazon.

Key responsibilities:

• Assisting National Accounts team with new product set-up
• Assisting with promotional activity set-up and evaluation
• Retailer project administration
• Product sampling
• Invoice logging/monitoring
• Other general departmental duties.

There is excellent opportunity for career progression for the right candidate.

Experience:

• Any experience of working in either a major UK retailer head office or for a branded supplier to retail chains would be preferable.
• Excellent literacy and numeracy essential
• MS Excel and Word proficient
• MS Powerpoint basic

Vitabiotics, 4 times winner of Queen’s Awards for Enterprise, is widely regarded as the most innovative and fastest growing major vitamin supplement company in the UK. As Britain's largest vitamin company, Vitabiotics has helped define the VMS sector with leading brands such as Osteocare®, Perfectil®, Pregnacare®, Wellman® and Wellwoman.

We are currently looking for a Sales Team Administrator to join our team!

Responsibilities:

• Respond to any queries and requests from the sales team
• Take orders by phone on behalf of the sales team when required
• Keep the product stock list up to date and inform the sales team of any changes
• Setting up new customer accounts
• Respond to customer requests and queries efficiently
• Be a key point of contact between different internal departments
• Ensure sales team reports are logged in time each week
• Develop quarterly sales reports
• Provide general support for the sales team
• Check for incoming orders on SAP and approve deliveries
• Transfer pharmacy orders to Alliance Healthcare via an automated system
• Process bonus (free of charge) orders for direct delivery to Pharmacies
• Process health store chargeable and bonus orders for direct delivery
• EDI order processing

Requirements:

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Excellent computer skills
• Experience working with/for wholesalers
• Experience in a similar position
• Be able to organise a busy workload and multitask
• Dedicated to providing excellent customer service
• Highly organised

A truly excellent opportunity to work for the UK’s No.1 largest and fastest growing vitamin supplement company, which has helped define the VMS sector with leading brands such as Perfectil, Pregnacare, Wellman and Wellwoman. Vitabiotics is the first and only vitamin company to receive The Queen’s Award for Innovation in vitamin research in two occasions.

You will be promoting our leading brands, in the main pharmacies based in London, providing great advice, customer care and assistance on the busy shop floor, while acting as a key support to the healthcare management team in store.

Monday to Friday job (10 am - 6.30 pm)

Experience

To be successful in this role you will need some previous experience as retail level brand ambassador and/or sales assistant/customer care (at least 2 years), be a confident seller and have a passion for the world of healthcare and vitamins. You will also be a great 'people person’, with a patient and understanding nature, ability to work under pressure in a busy store environment and good customer care skills.

Specific skills required

• Good knowledge of Office package (in particular Excel and Word)
• Excellent customer service
• Confident in selling in healthcare environment
• Positive, helpful attitude

Job Description

Vitabiotics, 4 times winner of Queen’s Awards for Excellence, is widely regarded as the most innovative and fastest growing major vitamin supplement company in the UK. As Britain's No1 vitamin company for specific life stages, Vitabiotics has helped define the VMS sector with leading brands such as Perfectil^®, Pregnacare^®, Wellman^® and Wellwoman.

This is an exciting opportunity for an ambitious, dynamic and experienced individual to work with the senior management team.  This is a high profile ‘customer facing’ position. 

Your role will be to develop and drive forward the national account and multiple pharmacy retail business, in collaboration with many of the UK’s most prestigious nutritional Highstreet retailers.

Key responsibilities:

• Strategic management of some of VB’s largest customers
• Key account / new business development
• Day to day management of key account issues and joint business plans
• Oversee sales promotional strategies for each national account, across all brands including negotiating annual budgets.
• Negotiating any listings fees/exclusivity.
• Arrange regular review meetings
• Ensure all aspects of promotional planning are implemented effectively, according to budget and Vitabiotics above the line marketing
• Work with logistics department of VB and national accounts to assess their requirements and ensure smooth supply chain and deliveries.
• Create and provide forecasting and sales analysis to logistics department of VB and national accounts
• Negotiating margins, price increases and shelf positioning with national accounts.
• Monitor performance against agreed ongoing sales and distribution targets.
• Support brand image and values in store.
• Ensure successful launch of new products into all national accounts.

The Successful candidate must:

• Be educated to a degree level
• Have a minimum of 5 years’ experience handling national accounts in the multiple pharmacy and multiple grocery sectors
• Have strong negotiation skills
• Have knowledge/experience of supply chain management
• Have a full driving licence

Hours: 9am-6pm, Monday-Friday (flexibility is essential)

Benefits: 24 days holiday, contributory pension, private health cover, personal bonus scheme, company car

Experience: As above in the description

Qualification: Be educated to a degree level

STRICTLY NO AGENCIES

Apply with CV and covering letter and evidence of eligibility to work in the UK 

Job Description

A truly excellent opportunity to work in a newly created role for the UK’s No.1 largest and fastest growing vitamin supplement company, which has helped define the VMS sector with leading brands such as Perfectil, Pregnacare, Wellman and Wellwoman. Vitabiotics is the first and only vitamin company to receive The Queen’s Award for Innovation in vitamin research. You will be working on a diverse range of digital and social media projects as we increase our focus in this area.

This is a key role in the Vitabiotics marketing team, reporting to the Senior Marketing Manager. You are a junior/mid level marketing professional, with a strong understanding and passion for consumer brands.  You will be part of a small and focussed marketing team, with opportunities to make your mark on the UK’s most popular vitamin brands. The company runs a high number of campaigns and has ambitious growth plans, you will be comfortable working at speed and identifying and delivering commercial solutions.

Key Tasks

• Support a wide range of ATL and BTL marketing activities, including high profile advertising e.g. TV, print and outdoor, to build brand awareness and drive sales performance for some of the UK’s leading supplement brands
• Responsible for developing and maintaining brand assets and promotional materials to be up to date and complaint with industry regulation for newly developed and existing products  e.g. pack and web copy, brand plans, consumer leaflets and scientific product dossiers
• Management of key campaigns e.g. sampling, BTL communications
• Brief internal teams on brand plans and campaign requirements e.g. design, digital, social media
• Build relationships and act as key contact with external stakeholders for relevant brands e.g.  third party suppliers and charity partners
• Assist in the organisation of internal and external marketing events
• Prepare brand presentations for sales and export stakeholders
• Complete special projects and participate in project teams as agreed and/or directed
• Ensure cost effective campaigns negotiated and delivered
• Maintain a record of expenditure ensuring campaigns are completed within budget
• Ongoing competitor monitoring

Essential

• Educated to degree level
• 2-3 years marketing experience
• MS Office (Excel, Powerpoint, Word) to intermediate level

• Excellent attention to detail
• Good consumer and technical writing skills
• Ability to manage multiple projects and deadlines
• Proactive, personable, positive, highly organised, resilient, flexible and embraces change
• Comfortable working within a small team in a hands on, fast-paced environment

Desirable

• Degree in a marketing or scientific discipline
• Knowledge of the VMS or healthcare industry
• Interest in healthcare

Vitabiotics, the UK’s No1 vitamin company and 4 times winner of Queen’s Awards for Enterprise, is widely regarded as the most innovative and fastest growing major vitamin supplement company. As Britain's leading vitamin company for specific life stages, supplying Boots, Holland & Barrett, Superdrug and major grocery accounts, Vitabiotics has helped define the VMS sector with leading brands such as Osteocare®, Perfectil®, Pregnacare®, Wellman® and Wellwoman.

We are currently looking for a Customer Supply Coordinator to join our Supply Chain department at our office in North West London.

Key responsibilities:

• Ensure that UK major customer service and OTIF levels are achieved and maintained through the timely receipt of finished product.- attend monthly B2C teams meetings
• Send weekly OS reports to all major retailers.
• Alert planners to any low stocks /future promotions
• Liaise with the in-house Production, Supply and National Accounts department to ensure efficient communication will all customers
• Allocate and release customer orders and book in deliveries
• Arrange transport for deliveries, working alongside the VB warehouse team
• Report any shortages to the customer, VB supply and national account managers in a timely fashion
• Support the Supply Chain team with any other admin duties
• Assist with updates of Product  Master Data
• Allocate Export orders
• Produce stock report on a weekly basis

You will need:

• A minimum of 2 years experience in a B2B customer facing role
• Experience in a Demand/ Supply Chain/Logistics role
• Good knowledge and experience using excel
• Ability to work well in a fast-paced environment
• General logistics/administration skills

The UK’s fastest growing vitamin company, Vitabiotics, is one of the most dynamic companies in the UK. They have helped define the Vitamins and Minerals (VMS) sector with leading brands such as Osteocare, Pregnacare, Perfectil and Wellwoman to name a few.

We are currently looking for a Demand and Supply Planner to join our team!

Day-to-day, you’ll take charge of planning and organizing the supply of our products through optimizing inventory levels for both Finished and bulk products, advising on production requirements and ensuring we keep a 'customer-first’ approach at all times by sharing valuable business insights.

Your role will lean heavily on your excellent data and reconciliation skills, analyzing past performance, monitor and communicate the reliability of product availability with all relevant stakeholders.

Key responsibilities include:

• Updating forward forecasts on a rolling 12-month horizon for all products, creating scenarios and arbitrating the best fit taking in to account marketing plan and supply issues
• Supplying Performance Management to agreed KPI's
• Ensuring that customer service levels are achieved through the timely receipt of finished product (OTIF)
• Establishing and maintaining accurate inventory data
  - Accurate Raw Materials stock figures
  - Accurate FG stock figures
• Improving business processes to ensure timely:
  - receipt of raw materials to either UK warehouse or contract manufacturers
  - issue of raw materials to contracted production partners
  - receipt of finished goods to UK warehouse to meet customer demands
• Developing and maintaining appropriate Supply Chain/Logistics KPIs
• Ensuring all relevant systems are maintained to support the business effectively

You will need:

• Experience with using SAP Business-1
• At least 2 years experience in a Demand and Supply Planning role

Support the Operational teams to ensure the highest level of service, quality and efficiency within the operation to support the business in achieving all goals.

Key Responsibilities,

• Maintain Health and Safety, Quality and Hygiene guidelines.
• Process all goods receipts on the system in a timely manner.
• Process and file all documentation in line with the business requirements.
• Produce all required documentation & labels required for the day to day operation.
• Initiate good working practices to ensure consistency in all outputs throughout the Operation.
• Administration of daily cycle checks & investigations with minimal disruption to the operation.
• Communicate effectively with colleagues internally and externally to facilitate only the highest level of customer service.
• Communicate effectively with external suppliers building strong, long term relationships.
• Own the purchasing of all consumables & goods required for the operation.
• Process all returns to the required SLA’s.
• File & document all FLT daily checks, fire alarm checks and other HS&E requirements. Report all Non-Compliance to the Head of Warehouse Operations.
• Discrepancy investigation & Produce reporting as required by the business
• Assisting in tasks related to communication between the warehouse and the office which will involve travelling between the warehouse and the office when required.

Safety Responsibilities,

• Follow, and ensure others comply to all company Safety Procedures, processes and procedures that are in place, including (but not limited to) COSHH, PPE, accident/incident reporting, first aid and manual handling.
• Adhere to all Health and Safety at Work obligations.
• Challenge non-compliance to Health and Safety, Quality and Hygiene guidelines.
• Use any equipment at work in accordance with instructions and training.

Quality Responsibilities,

• Ensure accurate inventory movements / transactions and good working practices are applied.
• Aware of acceptable/unacceptable quality standards, challenging anything that falls short of these standards.
• Identify potential quality issues during all functions within the operation and seek resolutions.
• Ensure that personal hygiene standards are maintained during all tasks within the warehouse

Mastery & Excellence

• High Organisational capabilities, time management and working to deadlines.
• Advanced Excel user, capable to managing and co-ordinating large volumes of data effectively. Strong IT / systems awareness. b
• Effective communication

Core Competency’s       

• Demonstrates an understanding of how their role, and the various roles of others contributes to the success of the business.
• Makes innovation happen within real life constraints.
• Resilient and flexible, with the ability to create a positive dynamic out of uncertainty.
• Demonstrates relevant business knowledge and financial awareness.
• Able to act autonomously with urgency, using judgement to know when to act and when to wait.
• Is results focused and determines these results by a rigorous approach to their work.
• Strives to help ensure that all aspects of quality are maintained.
• Thrives on challenges and keeps a healthy attitude under pressure.
• Displays high standards of behaviour and hygiene and trust and respect for all.
• Achieves customer expectations & demonstrates a commitment to customer service.
• Helps others to overcome issues and understand processes as required.
• Is honest and open in communication.
• Eager to help, demonstrates integrity and good ethical judgement and builds positive relationships with colleagues.
• Makes fast decisions balancing intuition and facts
• Is a team player and works co-operatively with others.
• Has the ability to demonstrate /share knowledge to help develop others where required.
• Participate in continuous improvement processes

Vitabiotics is the UK’s No.1 largest and fastest growing vitamin supplement company, which has helped define the VMS sector with leading brands such as Perfectil, Pregnacare, Wellman and Wellwoman.

We are currently looking for a E-Commerce Team Leader to join our busy team in our Warehouse. The main tasks for this role are:

Responsibilities:

• Monitor and supervise the e-commerce warehouse team daily to ensure tasks are being completed efficiently.
• Replenish and monitor inventory levels in E-commerce picking area.
• Set and evaluate KPI’s for picking, packing and daily order volumes.
• Re-order packaging and postage materials
• Ensuring sufficient manpower to meet daily e-commerce order volume and fluctuations.
• Training new staff.
• Liaising with local and international courier providers for collection of orders and negotiating volume rates.
• Carrying out inventory checks & cycle counts.
• Implementing new warehouse automation initiatives.
• Introduce systems to reduce packing/picking errors.
• Coordinating with other departments regarding day-to-day activities.
• Ensuring health and safety and social distancing procedures are upheld at all times.

Person Specification:

The successful candidate is likely to meet all of the following criteria:

• Excellent communication and administrative skills.
• Have good people and leadership skills to successfully lead a team.
• Have previous warehouse supervisory experience, ideally in e-commerce.
• Experience using warehouse systems, preferably SAP and scanning systems.

Vitabiotics, winner of The Queen’s Awards for Enterprise in International trade is one of the most dynamic and fastest growing major vitamin companies in the UK and internationally with exports to over 100 countries. Our leading brands include Perfectil, Osteocare^®, Pregnacare^®, Wellwoman and Wellman^®.

Our expanding Warehouse Department is seeking a motivated Picker to perform various warehouse tasks. These include:

Key responsibilities:

• Picking and packing customer goods and orders
• Stock replenishment
• Reporting any damaged items to your team leader
• Ensuring you maintain our high standard of health and safety
• Take responsibility for working through your orders independently

You must have:

• Good written and verbal communication skills
• Previous warehouse experience
• Experience working within a fast paced environment
• Knowledge of Microsoft Excel, Outlook and Word
• Good timekeeping

Job Description

Vitabiotics, 4 times winner of Queen’s Awards for Excellence, is widely regarded as the most innovative and fastest growing major vitamin supplement company in the UK. As Britain's No1 vitamin company for specific life stages, Vitabiotics has helped define the VMS sector with leading brands such as Osteocare^®, Perfectil^®, Pregnacare^®, Wellman^® and Wellwoman.

We are currently looking for an enthusiastic and well-experienced Forklift Driver to join our Warehouse Department.

Key responsibilities:

• Maintain Health and Safety, Quality and Hygiene guidelines.
• Carry out pick, pack tasks, in all areas using RF handheld devices from Reach FLT’s
• Ensure that personal and warehouse targets are achieved as well as meeting customer’s requirements and maintaining quality standards.
• Load / unload and put away.
• Take part in daily stock checks/investigations.
• Communicate effectively to enable other warehouse staff to carry out their job.

The successful candidate must have:

• 2 years+ Forklift driving experience
• Possession of a Forklift licence (Reach and Counterbalance)
• Thorough knowledge and experience of warehouse stock control
• Good communication and computer skills

Please apply by sending your CV to jobsuk@vitabiotics.com

Location: Hemel Hempstead

Experience: As above in the description

Qualification: As above in the description

STRICTLY NO AGENCIES

Apply with CV and covering letter and evidence of eligibility to work in the UK