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Project Manager, Sustainable Office Furniture Company Apply to:
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Summary: Rype Office, a disruptive circular economy business with strong social and environmental aims, is looking for a capable Project Manager to lead aspects of the development of the business, working directly with the Founder. This role will involve managing projects – including creating distribution partnerships, marketing campaigns, company improvement initiatives and client furniture design and installation projects. This variety offers the chance to learn about and shape the business from the bottom up. This is a rapid growth business and this role may, in time, become a senior executive leadership position, for the right candidate. As we expand the business internationally, the incumbent should be well positioned to take a leadership role within a country division, if this is of interest. The variety of projects means that we require an organised and practical generalist who can work well with other people and solve problems with minimal supervision. Location: The role will be based at Rype Office’s premises at Park Royal in west London. Travel to clients, channel partners and suppliers across Great Britain will be required. Package: The expected base salary is £30,000 to £40,000 p.a., possibly with a performance bonus or shares in the company. Position: The Project Manager is at the centre of the business, collaborating with customers, distribution partners and suppliers. This role will manage a number of projects (in parallel), including client furniture projects from the first sales meetings (initially accompanied by a Rype Office Director) through to project completion. Specifically, we are looking for a Project manager who can: • Develop new sales and marketing channels (working directly with the CEO). • Maintain existing marketing channels • Coordinate the design of office furniture layouts (working with our design associates and the client) • Work with suppliers to source high quality furniture • Maintain ongoing relationships with customers for further sales • Provide suggestions and work on projects to improve every aspect of Rype Office’s activities
This is an empowered role. We provide training on furniture and how we currently do things but because we are a new and ambitious company, we are keen for the Project Manager to suggest and implement improvements. Key attributes: While we can train the successful applicant on the product and how we make and sell it, we cannot train for the following attributes which the successful candidate will bring: • Project management skills (i.e. able to manage several projects in parallel using a systematic approach which ensures that promises are kept). The successful candidate will be a very organised person. • Strong attention to detail and high quality standards (quality is vital for us so we need our people to be extremely discerning) • Strong customer service ethic and people skills • Passion for more sustainable alternatives to traditional approaches • Focus on continuous improvement/innovation (i.e. looking for ways to continually improve the business) • Strong data management and analysis skills using Excel • Copywriting • An interest in office furniture and sustainable office design • Drivers licence Useful but not essential traits: • • • • •
Experience in the office fitout sector or office furniture industry Marketing/business development experience, particularly B2B Design experience (particularly interior design) Experience using Wordpress Fluency in Dutch, German or a Scandinavian language
About the Company: Rype Office’s core business is remanufacturing office furniture. We are a leader in the Circular Economy and are disrupting the office furniture market. Remanufacturing reuses the long-life components of high quality used furniture (e.g. steel and aluminium parts) and rebuilds the items around them to as-new condition (or as required by the client). Because the long-life components are expensive to create from virgin resources (both financially and environmentally), remanufactured furniture is lower cost and more sustainable than furniture made from virgin resources. This provides us with a structural cost advantage (we sell at half the RRP of new furniture) as well as a differentiated marketing position thanks to a significantly smaller environmental footprint. We deal directly with customers to own the relationship over multiple furniture cycles, assist with the furniture specification process, and to deliver what customers want: a beautiful, sustainable, productive and budget-friendly office. To do this we provide interior design assistance to clients.
We have distribution agreements with furniture manufacturers Senator, Orangebox, Steelcase and Bisley who provide us with access to their surplus stock and, where we are not able to source items for remanufacturing, new furniture. Our value proposition is proving attractive to every size of organisation including blue-chip customers like Royal Bank of Scotland and Imperial College London and we are now seeking additional staff to enable us to grow. Our ambition is to become a global sustainable furniture company showing that sustainability (and the Circular Economy) is a more profitable alternative to conventional approaches. More information is at www.rypeoffice.com Contact: If you feel that you are the right candidate, please send your application, comprising a cover note explaining why you are suitable for this role and your CV, to
[email protected].
Image: The canteen of the new Public Health Wales headquarters in Cardiff, designed and furnished by Rype Office. All of the furniture shown is remanufactured or refurbished.
