CAN YOU INSPIRE A BILLION PEOPLE?

If the answer is “YES” then we want you to join our team! OKdo is an exciting brand for global SBC and IoT products, software and services. You’ll help us grow and nurture a worldwide audience from kids working on their first STEM project to the industrial giants. It’s a demanding market that expects imagination, creativity, and technical expertise in abundance.

PERKS OF THE JOB

WELLNESS FOR EVERYONE

We offer private medical cover for those unexpected moments

ANNUAL BONUS SCHEME

We show our appreciation for your hard work and efforts

SAVE FOR THE FUTURE

We have an industry-leading pension scheme, as it’s never too early to prepare for your future

DISCOUNTS

We partner with 1000s of high street brands to bring you discounts and cashback off your shopping

FLEXIBLE WORKING

We trust our employees to get the work done

DO YOUR BIT

We give all of our employees two days per year to volunteer at a charity of their choice

LEARNING & DEVELOPMENT

We ensure that all colleagues have the opportunity to develop professionally through a range of courses and personal development plans 

GENEROUS ANNUAL LEAVE

We also offer you the opportunity to buy up to 5 additional days as we want you rested and able to do your best

FAMILY FIRST

We offer above and beyond the statutory requirements for either parent or carer. 

CURRENT VACANCIES

We will always need people with zeal, passion and a love of hard work, so if that’s you, we’d love to hear from you even if we don’t have the role for you right now, register your interest in working with us by sending your cv to lavanya.Peri@rs-components.com

Senior Marketing Executive

Who Are OKdo?

We’re a global tech company shaking up the world of Single Board Computing (SBC) and the Internet of Things (IoT). People all over the world use SBCs and the IoT to create technology that makes life better, and our mission is to help them thrive and succeed.

We work with some of the best technology companies on the planet to bring people the latest products, innovations, and services, wherever they are on their SBC and IoT journey, from hobbyists and entrepreneurs to industrial designers and resellers.

The global OKdo team is made up of talented people who bring our mission to life. Inspirers, enablers, and trailblazers obsessed with delivering the imagination, creativity and technical expertise our customers desire.

We have a start-up culture where you can bring your best self to the role and have a meaningful impact. We operate by 3 ore ‘OKdo’ principles:

People Do – It’s about our people and customers first

You Do – We want everyone to make a difference and know it is our people who make the brand

Go Do – we want positive change agents with a can-do attitude to make things happen

About The Role

In this role, report to the Global Marketing Manager and you’ll primarily be responsible for supporting OKdo’s B2B marketing activities. This includes generating ideas, writing copy and working with various internal stakeholders to support lead generation activities for our global sales teams. You will also be working with external agencies to increase brand awareness, generate thought leadership and gain market insights.

What you’ll be accountable for:

  • Work with OKdo’s global sales team and their customers to create inspiring content such as case studies to help promote our products and services.
  • Manage a range of external agencies, these include our Account-Based Marketing (ABM) partner, our lead generation partner, our content provider, our social selling agency and a range of brand awareness partners.
  • Work with internal stakeholders such as our website, design, and social media teams to share ideas and content to target new customers and nurture existing leads via our website.
  • Work with our sales team to create brochures/collateral and understand potential sponsorship opportunities OKdo could be part of to support their customers and brand awareness within new markets.
  • Organise global events, managing everything from team attendance, stand design, product demos and marketing awareness to ensure a successful event.
  • Write and send newsletters to nurture and convert leads for our sales team.
  • Manage the B2B marketing budget – ensuring ROI is proven and all spend is optimised.
  • Work with the Allied Marketing team to promote SBC products in North America through their audience (via social media, newsletters, display adverts etc.)
  • Work with the RS marketing team in EMEA and APAC to promote SBC products through their audiences.
  • Keeping up to date with the latest industry trends and sharing knowledge with the team.
  • Analysing and reporting performance of all B2B marketing campaigns, making recommendations and how performance can be improved.
  • Training the sales team on new tools, such as LinkedIn Sales Navigator and the OKdo social selling platform.

You will be responsible for supporting the sales team to achieve their annual sales targets.

You will support the sales team gain new business and work with new customers.

You will be empowered to drive existing and new marketing activities to help us reach the OKdo marketing objectives

You’ll need to be:

  • Customer obsessed, putting them at the heart of everything you do
  • A team player with the ability to stay connected with a global team
  • A great communicator, in both written and spoken English
  • A forward thinker, natural innovator, and problem solver
  • Proactive, great at taking ownership, and very results-oriented
  • Someone who knows what good process management looks like
  • An excellent negotiator with good influencing skills
  • A proactive self-starter who is motivated to deliver consistently
  • Highly organised and the ability to juggle multiple priorities at any one time
  • Careful and accurate, with a keen eye for detail.

Essential knowledge, skills and experience:

  • Experience working with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders across all levels of seniority.
  • Experience creating case studies, writing newsletters and organising events.
  • Be creative and can think outside the box to solve solutions and drive new leads.
  • Strong written and communication skills.
  • Passionate about technology, and how it can help solve many business problems

What We Offer

Innovators and pioneers. Rebels and creators. A global organization of optimists and specialists with big ambitions for the future. You can take control of your future here at OKdo. We offer all the good stuff you’d expect like:

  • 24-hour access to virtual GP
  • On top of your 24 days holiday, you can buy up to 5 extra days to enjoy how you wish
  • Annual bonus to pay for those extra holidays!
  • Generous, market-leading pension; it’s never too early to start planning for your future
  • This role can be performed remotely or as a hybrid role with 1-2 days in our Corby or London offices.

Grow in our high-performance culture and be rewarded for your success. Whoever you are, whatever you do and wherever you are; it all starts here. Are you ready to explore the possibilities?

APPLY NOW HERE: https://bit.ly/3mvGZWK

Product Content Executive

Who are OKdo?

OKdo is a unique global tech company, part of the RS Group Plc. It is an omni-channel solutions partner for industrial customers and suppliers. Our business has operations in three geographical regions – the Americas, EMEA and APAC, supported by global organisations for supply chain, corporate functions, marketing, and product & supplier management.

Role Purpose

The purpose of the NPI executive is to support & deliver best in class product content for our customers, primarily for the new product, software and services pipeline into OKdo global websites. We are looking for someone to join who is passionate about customer centric content and can help OKdo navigate the ever-changing content landscape and support our ambitious growth plans across our digital estate.

Role holder will be supporting the Global SEO and Digital Experience Manager to drive measurable results to improve the effectiveness of the NPI process and the timely delivery of products, services and software to market, via the OKdo store fronts, RS storefronts and the marketplaces.

 Key Deliverables

  • Coordinates with the category managers to plan the timely introduction of NPI based on category strategic requirements.
  • Maintains the overarching plan for NPI introductions to provide visibility across the business
  • Researches and writes content for all group sites, where applicable, under the guidance of the Global SEO and Customer experience manager
  • Gathers content for the enrichment of existing product catalogue to optimise SEO rankings and drive on page conversion improvements
  • Loads data sheets, images, videos and PDF documents for all applicable products
  • Coordinates the setup of Drop Ship trial products and resulting range launches
  • Supports the data load for all marketplace sites as part of NPI

Skills Required

  • Experience working in a digital content role at an agency / in-house 
  • Experience of the digital marketing landscape with experience of SEO
  • Experienced in writing web copy for a B2B and B2C audience
  • Experience carrying out tasks, such as, keyword research, on-page optimisation and analytics reviews
  • Experience working as part of a digital marketing team 
  • Be able to use standard reporting tools like Google Analytics to analyse website’s performance
  • You’ll keep up to date with industry changes and actively read blogs to further your knowledge
  • Being comfortable working around HTML is a bonus
  • Experience in content marketing and how it can earn backlinks
  • Experience getting hands-on with websites to make changes such as editing copy, uploading meta data or fixing problems

What We Offer?

Innovators and pioneers. Rebels and creators. A global organization of optimists and specialists with big ambitions for the future. You can take control of your future here at OKdo. We offer all the good stuff you’d expect like:

  • 24 hour access to virtual GP
  • On top of your 24 days holiday, you can buy up to 5 extra days to enjoy how you wish
  • Annual bonus to pay for those extra holidays!
  • Generous, market-leading pension; it’s never too early to start planning for your future
  • This role can be performed remotely or as a hybrid role with 1-2 days in our Corby/London office

Grow in our high-performance culture and be rewarded for your success. Whoever you are, whatever you do and wherever you are; it all starts here. Are you ready to explore the possibilities?

APPLY NOW HERE: https://bit.ly/3aSbVhB

Export Sales Co-ordinator

Who Are OKdo?

We’re a global tech company shaking up the world of Single Board Computing (SBC) and the Internet of Things (IoT). People all over the world use SBCs and the IoT to create technology that makes life better, and our mission is to help them thrive and succeed.

We work with some of the best technology companies on the planet to bring people the latest products, innovations, and services, wherever they are on their SBC and IoT journey, from hobbyists and entrepreneurs to industrial designers and resellers.

The global OKdo team is made up of talented people who bring our mission to life. Inspirers, enablers, and trailblazers obsessed with delivering the imagination, creativity and technical expertise our customers desire.

We have a start-up culture where you can bring your best self to the role and have a meaningful impact. We operate by 3 ore ‘OKdo’ principles:

People Do – It’s about our people and customers first

You Do – We want everyone to make a difference and know it is our people who make the brand

Go Do – we want positive change agents with a can-do attitude to make things happen

Role Purpose

To provide a best in class customer service experience to OKdo customers by demonstrating and driving a high-performance culture managing a portfolio of global customer accounts. To process export customer orders paying close attention promptly and efficiently to compliance regulatory requirements that will ensure goods can be shipped in a timely and efficient manner to a global customer base. To manage our 3PL in all aspects of continuous improvement, being the link between OKdo & 3PL for both supply chain and export/domestic logistics. The right person must be comfortable in a fast pace, global and dynamic environment, energetic and be experienced in handling and processing customer export orders, as well as some experience managing a 3PL and awareness of continuous improvement methodologies.

We’ve been on an incredible journey, but the best is yet to come; are you ready to join us?

What you will need to be successful in this role

  • Demonstrable ability to work under pressure; self-motivated, entrepreneurial, and a good team player
  • Solutions focused with the ability to identify improvement areas
  • Demonstrable success of delivering best in class export customer service experience
  • Experience of coaching others through change, directly or indirectly
  • Experience of creating documentation and evaluating the need for change
  • A collaborative team player across a business with fast-moving, customer-driven markets
  • Positive can-do attitude and takes ownership and accountability and results-oriented
  • Operational problem solver and good process management capability
  • Experience managing a 3rd party partnerships warehouse (3PL)
  • Export order processing experience
  • Highly numerical & analytical
  • Understands the needs of our target customers
  • Strong commercial acumen and broad communication skills

What’s Great About The Role?

Export and sales co-ordination

  • Establish and build strong relationships with OKdo export customers across multiple global territories
  • Work with customers in all relevant global markets to understand local export compliance, regulatory and customs requirements
  • Process all customer OKdo export orders promptly, accurately and efficiently running trade compliance checks through Amber Road where appropriate.
  • Checking stock availability in ERP system, informing customer of expected shipment date, maintaining close contact with the customer at all stages of order processing
  • Resolve customer enquiries on export order delivery status
  • Build knowledge by attending appropriate Export awareness courses

3PL + Logistics Management

  • Work closely with 3PL distribution partner to ensure shipments to all export customers have customs and import documentation appropriate to the country of ultimate destination (sales invoice, certificate of origin etc.)
  • Establish and maintain close working relationship with OKdo Supply Chain, Sales, Finance and Customer Services teams
  • Work with 3PL partner and freight forwarding companies to resolve any documentation queries on delayed/held shipments/short shipments and incorrect allocation of stock

Continuous Improvement

  • Drive a program of prioritised, continuous process improvement internally and externally with our 3PL, with customer experience, and operating costs in mind, for our B2B customer set in particular
  • Identify inconsistencies where processes are impacting customer experience.
  • Standardise documentation for function consistency and brand goals.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Trade Compliance knowledge (Amber Road)
  • Experience of working in a matrix environment
  • Working knowledge of SAP
  • Knowledge of Net Suite ERP system
  • Ability to operate in a second language
  • Previous experience of working in an operations environment.
  • Knowledge and experience of Single Board Computing and IoT and a passion for electronics.

What We Offer

Innovators and pioneers. Rebels and creators. A global organization of optimists and specialists with big ambitions for the future. You can take control of your future here at OKdo. We offer all the good stuff you’d expect like:

  • 24-hour access to virtual GP
  • On top of your 24 days holiday, you can buy up to 5 extra days to enjoy how you wish
  • Annual bonus to pay for those extra holidays!
  • Generous, market-leading pension; it’s never too early to start planning for your future
  • This role can be performed remotely or as a hybrid role with 1-2 days in our Corby office

Grow in our high-performance culture and be rewarded for your success. Whoever you are, whatever you do and wherever you are; it all starts here. Are you ready to explore the possibilities?

APPLY NOW HERE: https://bit.ly/3NBicg3

Electronics Applications Engineer

Who Are OKdo?

We’re a global tech company shaking up the world of Single Board Computing (SBC) and the Internet of Things (IoT). People all over the world use SBCs and the IoT to create technology that makes life better, and our mission is to help them thrive and succeed.

We work with some of the best technology companies on the planet to bring people the latest products, innovations, and services, wherever they are on their SBC and IoT journey, from hobbyists and entrepreneurs to industrial designers and resellers.

The global OKdo team is made up of talented people who bring our mission to life. Inspirers, enablers, and trailblazers obsessed with delivering the imagination, creativity and technical expertise our customers desire.

We have a start-up culture where you can bring your best self to the role and have a meaningful impact. We operate by 3 ore ‘OKdo’ principles:

People Do – It’s about our people and customers first

You Do – We want everyone to make a difference and know it is our people who make the brand

Go Do – we want positive change agents with a can-do attitude to make things happen

About the Role

The OKdo product & technology team is responsible for creating and delivering the global product & services strategy. In line with our strategy, we continue to develop our technology proposition, inhouse engineering capability and line card based on market trends and customer demand. The Global Application Engineer will Support the Segment leads on deep technical topics including technical product evaluation of NPI products, testing & failure analysis, PCB customisation support and technical supplier and customer engagement reporting into the Head of Technology Partnerships, OKdo.

Key Accountabilities

Sales and Marketing support

  • Support the sales team with technical queries and architectural propositions that arise from existing and prospective customers.
  • Provide technical support to customers using OKdo products where first line support may not have the answer.  Train the first line support team where necessary to answer future similar questions.
  • Building the technical proposition and solutions for our customer engagements.
  • Support customer meetings throughout the entire sales process, from opportunity identification to post sales and maintenance.  This includes, but not limited to, responding to  RFPs, creating customer presentations, training, liaise on custom projects between customer and design/manufacturing teams.
  • Create technical material that will help drive a technical audience to OKdo, assisted by the marketing content team.
  • Assist marketing team with technical content including text and physical products.
  • Support the OKdo team with and at industry trade show events and partner tech demos.
  • Assist with project and technical collateral creation.
  • Support community content creation and answer generic questions.

New product creation and customisation

  • Support the Sales team with customised product design services, and manufacturing projects.
  • Support the Global Category managers on technical topics including technical evaluation of NPI products, failure analysis and testing.
  • Convey the customer requirements back to the Global Category Managers to guide with roadmap and product onboarding.
  • Assist with product design and optimisation that will help secure OKdo product design-in at scale.
  • Provide technical engineering skills and customer understanding within the engineering team to help develop products and solutions.
  • Build knowledge bases on our products, FAQs, product collateral etc.

About you:

Essential skills:

Sales and marketing support

  • Able to understand a customer’s needs and document the requirements.
  • Experience in end-to-end management of design cycle from product design, prototype, production to Go to market.
  • Ability to communicate with people through all levels across the organisation to explain technical topics.

New product creation and customisation

  • Proven track record of developing electronics products.
  • Strong understanding of schematics and how they relate to Gerbers and PCB.
  • Experience of test and debugging of electronic products.
  • Experience of embedded software languages including C/C++, Python.
  • Detailed knowledge of the leading microcontroller and processor types and emerging technologies.
  • Knowledge of compliance testing.

General

  • Ability to travel nationally and internationally to support customers and events.
  • Ability to function effectively across cultures, to think and act appropriately, and to communicate and work with people from different cultural backgrounds.
  • A collaborative team player across a business with fast moving, customer driven markets
  • Expected B.EE with 7+ years of experience or Ms.EE 5+ years of experience.
  • Good influencing skills.
  • Strong Analytical capabilities and thrives on solving complex technical problems.

Desirable:

Sales and Marketing support

  • Taken products through compliance test labs before.
  • Detailed knowledge on the products and accessories within the SBC ecosystem.
  • Understands the needs of engineers and buyers (our target customers).
  • Experience of creating promotion material including short demo videos.
  • Experience working with tools like Matlab, Altium, Visual Studio, Arduino, Keil Studio, MS Office.

New product creation and customisation

  • Experience of developing web apps, mobile apps, embedded SW and PC software.
  • Experience of developing on the leading web platforms including AWS and Azure.
  • Experience of working in a matrix environment.
  • Ability to operate in a second language, Fluency in English (mandatory).

What we offer

You can take control of your future here at RS Components. We offer all the good stuff you’d expect like:

  • Private medical cover for those unexpected moments
  • Upto 10% bonus.
  • On top of your 24 days holiday, you can buy up to 5 extra days to enjoy how you wish
  • Annual bonus to pay for those extra holidays!
  • Generous, market-leading pension; it’s never too early to start planning for your future
  • Training and development opportunities

Grow in our high-performance culture and be rewarded for your success. Whoever you are, whatever you do and wherever you are; it all starts here. Are you ready to explore the possibilities?

APPLY NOW HERE: https://bit.ly/3xJYrgZ

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