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I Want One Of Those is the sort of company where even on a hot sunny day, we still look forward to coming in to work. Established in 1999, IWOOT (as we have become known) has grown to become one of the UK's leading on-line retailers. We work in an environment that is constantly having to evolve and adapt to both emerging technology, and a changing marketplace.

The culture and ethos of our brand runs through every part of the company, even the filler in the parcels we send out is 'on brand'. We are here entirely for the benefit of our customers, and our goal is to consistently strive to over-perform for them. We're not content with being the best, so much as enjoying constantly trying to be even better.

We are the Number One on-line retailer of Gifts and Gadgets in the UK and are passionate about everything we do to keep the top spot. Are you?

Associate Web Designer

We have an 'Associate Web Designer' opportunity to work with us on a part-time basis (2-3 days per week) implementing various projects to enhance the usability and functionality of our site while providing support to the Site Manager.

Reporting to the Creative Director, you will be a key member of a small, expert and very influential team which has a central role in our business. It is a fun place to work and it is also challenging and demanding!

Key responsibilities and duties:

Adding features to the site and improving functionality of existing ones.
Website design & content management.
Ensuring usability and accessibility across multiple websites.

To shine in this role you must have:

Minimum 3 years commercial experience or more.
Strong, hand-coded (X)HTML, CSS and Javascript (DOM scripting).
Web development experience, preferably JSP.
Strong familiarity with latest web standards, accessibility and cross-browser compatibility issues.
Good working knowledge of Photoshop and/or Fireworks, manipulating artwork produced by the Creative team, ensuring it is optimised and incorporating it into the website.
Experienced in Flash, including .flv video and ActionScript.
Experience creating HTML emails and an awareness of cross-platform issues.
Good command of Analytics (Google Analytics), including placing, customising and maintaining tracking codes, generating reports and responding to queries from colleagues.

Skills

Ability to work under pressure, with attention to detail.
Work autonomously, setting your own deadlines and priorities.
Manage several projects simultaneously as well as completing day to day tasks expediently.
Good communication, liaising with the Technical, Commercial and Creative departments of the business.
React quickly to new situations and changing business demands, creating landing pages, providing input in meetings and coming up with creative solutions.

Would be nice

Experience working with templates such as Velocity or Freemarker.
E-Commerce experience.
Some artistic flair - the ability to generate the odd banner.
Experience with AJAX.
Familiarity with Java.

Please forward your CV to jobs@iwantoneofthose.com with a covering letter explaining why you feel you are the right person for the role.

Please note applications without a covering letter will not be considered.

Due to the high volume of applications, we regret we will only be able respond to candidates who meet the recruiting criteria.

STRICTLY NO AGENCIES!

Brand Marketing Assistant

We have a 'Brand Marketing Assistant' opportunity and we would welcome applications from individuals who are up for a challenge.

Successful candidates can look forward to a rewarding, challenging role in a dynamic and friendly team in a company where new opportunities to shine come up every week.

Key responsibilities and duties:

Assisting with acquisition and branding leads coming into the Marketing Department.
Assisting with media campaigns, administration, delivery of artwork and creative content, time efficiency, problem solving and communication.
Sourcing regular exceptional competition prizes and developing and managing competitions on the site, from concept through to announcement of winner and delivery of prizes.
Close observation of events, festivities and outside influences which may provide content for the site.
Ownership of content of STDWYB pages. Including project managing IWOOT games.
Picking appropriate prizes for PR purposes whilst maintaining strong knowledge of stock levels and critical path.
Developing and maintaining a contact pool for future branding and acquisition campaigns.

Should demonstrate:

Rigorous project management skills - must be implementation focused.
Must be reliable and have excellent admin and time management skills.
Meticulous eye for detail as conversion and search results depend on many small alterations.
Creative sensitivity to understand and respond to customers "on brand".
Enthusiastic communicator.
Strategic thinker with holistic perspective of Marketing.
Strong analytical capabilities to dissect the component elements in complex campaigns and evaluate and report ROI.
Ability to work autonomously and use own initiative.
Must be Technology and Internet-literate.
Proficiency in Word, Excel, Outlook.
Strong team working ethics.

Salary will be £18-20,000 p.a. negotiable depending on experience, plus discretionary profit and performance related bonus.

A CV with covering letter explaining why you feel right for this position should be sent to: jobs@iwantoneofthose.com.

Location: SE21 London

Due to the high volume of applications, we regret we will only be able respond to candidates who meet the recruiting criteria.

STRICTLY NO AGENCIES!

Java Developer

In the last year we have moved onto a completely Open Source ERP platform based on the Apache "Open for Business" project (www.ofbiz.org). This is a java framework which leverages the Apache Project's technologies to provide 1000s of services which can be configured to provide business functionality.

We are seeking a Java Developer that is up for the challenge of helping us shape this leading edge project.

Main responsibilities include:

Development of business services within the OfBiz framework.
Working with the ecommerce architecture (Elastic Path, Struts) in developing new end-to-end functionality.
Producing new and innovative business services.
Working with the business to deliver new and changing business requirements.
Working as a member of a talented java programming team.
Devising ways to improve the business functionality.
Providing input into the development of the systems architecture.

Skills and experience we look out for are: