ROMO, a leading privately owned textile and wallcovering design house, is looking for an enthusiastic and confident Showroom Sales Associate to permanently join our flagship showroom based at the Design Centre Chelsea Harbour, London.

Family run since 1902, The Romo Group specialises in the supply of furnishing fabrics and wallcoverings to both the domestic and contract markets. There are currently 6 design houses operating within The Romo Group, each with its own unique style. For more details about the company and our brands please visit: www.romo.com

The Showroom team are our first point of contact for Romo customers and provide excellent customer service through their knowledge and passion for our products. The successful candidate should be friendly, polite and approachable with preferably previous sales experience within the interiors industry.

Main responsibilities:

• Assisting customers with their selection of products for use in interior schemes, taking an active approach to understand their needs and requirements
• Being knowledgeable and familiar with products, being able to offer an effective and accurate answer to customer questions
• Forming and maintaining relationships with clients
• Support with the day to day running of the Showroom, ensuring it is well presented at all times
• Preparing sample packs for customers
• Working in collaboration with colleagues to manage and update the sample library on a daily basis
• Supporting telephone and email enquires

Skills and Experience:

• Excellent communication skills, with outstanding English language, written and spoken
• A strong eye for colour and design
• Be highly organised and able to prioritise
• Good attention for detail
• A proactive team worker with a flexible attitude and the ability to use ones initiative
• A friendly and welcoming approach with outstanding customer service skills
• IT competent with the ability to use Microsoft Office: Word & Excel

The successful candidate will have a positive ‘can do’ attitude, will be well presented and enjoy working as a member of a busy, proactive team.

Salary dependant on experience

If you believe you have the relevant skills that match our role please submit an up to date CV and covering letter demonstrating your experience and interest in this role. Please email these to recruitment@romo.com for the attention of the Showroom Manager.

Full time, Permanent, Kirkby-in-Ashfield

Family run since 1902, The Romo Group specialises in the supply of furnishing fabrics and wallcoverings to both the domestic and contract markets. There are currently 6 design houses operating within The Romo Group, each with its own unique style. For more details about the company and our brands please visit: www.romo.com

Wehave an exciting opportunity for an experienced Web Developer to expand the small team responsible for the development and support of all internal and external web-related functions. This is a unique opportunity to take a leading role in the development and future direction of our corporate web sites.

Main responsibilities of the role include:

Writing website modules, to expand and enhance website functionality, this may include:

• specifying requirements
• some graphic design (Usually graphic design is provided, and the web team convert that that into working web code.)
• ability to test (writing automated tests would be useful)
• deploy code using git
• enhancement, maintenance and bug-fixing of existing website modules
• write code to interface with our internal systems/databases, through a variety of methods, including web API's and bash scripting
• The web-team also maintain the email marketing database/system using OpenEMM, which is Java based.

Skills and Experience:

Required Languages

• PHP
• HTML5
• Javascript (including JQuery)
• CSS

PHP Framework

• Yii2 or similar preferred

Database

• MySQL (or similar)

Platform

• Linux (Centos 6) (or similar)

Source Control

• Git (or similar)
• An appreciation of good website design and layout.
• An understanding of responsive website design.
• An understanding of linux command line usage.
• Ability to do basic linux system maintenance.
• Ability to think creatively and bring ideas to the table.
• Ideally holds an IT related qualification
• Excellent planning skills and the ability to respond to time frames and deadlines
• Be highly organised in managing own workload
• Able to adapt to change at short notice
• Clear and confident communication skills both written and verbal

If you believe you have the skills and experience that match our role please submit an up to date CV and covering letter demonstrating your experience and interest in this role. Please send these to recruitment@romo.com for the attention of John Whitehead.

Full time, Permanent, Kirkby-in-Ashfield

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced and professional Catering Supervisor to join The Romo Group. The Catering Supervisor will be responsible for the overall supervision of the catering department including: planning, organising and developing the food and beverage service to the business, ensuring compliance with food safety regulation, health and safety requirements, and customer expectations.

Main responsibilities of the role include:

• Supervision of Catering Assistants to ensure food and beverages are produced to set standards and timeframes
• To organise, lead and motivate the catering team
• To be hands on in the day to day running of the operation
• To ensure health and safety and food hygiene regulations are adhered to at all times including training and certification
• Ensuring compliance with fire, licensing and employment regulations
• To ensure the cleanliness of the kitchen, its equipment and surrounding areas
• To manage food and beverage provision on a daily basis to include functions and events
• Plan menus in consultation with Catering Assistants and Managers
• To manage and monitor catering expenditure
• To monitor the quality of the product and services provided, identifying opportunities for improvement
• To maintain stock levels and order new supplies as required
• Interacting with customers and supporting front of house work
• Liaising with suppliers and clients
• Planning and developing the catering department including equipment and services provided

Skills and experience required:

• Food hygiene / Health & Safety qualification or certification
• 3 years previous experience working within the catering industry
• Customer facing experience
• Excellent written & verbal communication
• Numeracy and strong computer literacy (e.g. Microsoft Word, Excel)
• Experience of improving service delivery
• Experience of producing hot and cold food to a high standard
• Full clean driving licence

To be successful in this role, candidates should be customer focused with a desire to succeed, have a Friendly can do attitude with the ability to motivate others, have excellent interpersonal skills with a proven ability to multi-task, plan and prioritise workloads with a practical, flexible and innovative approach, have meticulous attention to detail and be eager to lend themselves to any task.

If you believe you have the skills and experience that match our role please submit an up to date CV and covering letter demonstrating your experience and interest in this role. Please send these directly to recruitment@romo.com.

Full time, Permanent, Kirkby-in-Ashfield

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced and professional Facilities Manager to join The Romo Group. The Facilities Manager will be responsible for the successful delivery of central services ensuring the business meets safety, maintenance, and security standards.

Main responsibilities of the role include:

• Coordinating and leading a maintenance team
• Directing, coordinating and planning essential central services such as reception, security, fire alarms and systems, maintenance, building and grounds maintenance, plant machinery maintenance, mail distribution, archiving, cleaning, catering, waste disposal and recycling
• Ensuring buildings meet health and safety requirements by proactively keeping up to date with all legislation ensuring compliance to all standards and laws
• To manage the Health & Safety policy, procedures and risk assessments, ensuring action is taken to mitigate risks and corrective and preventative action is taken
• To manage the fire alarm systems and fire risk assessments, ensuring action is taken to mitigate risks and corrective and preventative action is taken
• Ensuring appropriate training and certification is in place to support health and safety, and when required designing and delivering training
• Project management and supervising and coordinating the work of contractors
• The hands on maintenance and repair of the building and services, plant machinery, and equipment. To ensure the implementation and ongoing compliance with all Health & Safety regulations are met

Skills and experience required:

• NEBOSH Health & Safety qualification or equivalent
• BIFM / ILM Facilities management qualification or equivalent
• Excellent written & verbal communication
• Numeracy and strong computer literacy (e.g. Microsoft Word, Excel)
• Ability to problem solve at an advanced level and make decisions confidently
• Previous project management experience
• Procurement and negotiation skills

To be successful in this role, candidates should have a desire to succeed with a Friendly can do attitude with the ability to motivate others, have excellent interpersonal skills with a proven ability to multi-task, plan and prioritise workloads with a practical, flexible and innovative approach, have meticulous attention to detail and be eager to lend themselves to any task.

If you believe you have the skills and experience that match our role please submit an up to date CV and covering letter demonstrating your experience and interest in this role. Please send these directly to recruitment@romo.com.

Full time, maternity cover, Kirkby-in-Ashfield

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a passionate, creative copywriter to join The Romo Group, an outstanding textile design house recognised worldwide as an international market leader of designer curtain and upholstery fabrics, wallcoverings & accessories.

A family run business, now in its fifth generation, ROMO are developing the best in-house creative team and require an experienced Copywriter / Marketing Executive to join our growing marketing department based at our head office in Nottinghamshire. The role will initially be to cover maternity leave but has the potential of becoming a permanent position depending on the candidate, their skills and ability.

The role

As Group Copywriter you will develop captivating copy for a wide range of literature in order to promote our brands within the luxury interiors industry. Working across all six fabric and wallcovering brands you will work closely with our in-house design studios and creative marketing team to come up with original and compelling communication concepts. You will enable us to engage with our customers in a competitive global market in order to drive sales and raise the profile of our prestigious brands.

The ideal candidate

With an interest in textiles and design, you will have the ability to create impactful copy for our internationally renowned interiors brands, being able to uphold and develop each brand’s unique tone of voice. You will possess outstanding written communication skills and will demonstrate an innovative and proactive approach to developing marketing content for both printed and digital media. You will be working on various projects simultaneously, so will need to be highly organised and efficient in order to deliver to strict launch deadlines.

Key Responsibilities

• Create compelling copy for a range of marketing material including brochures, press releases, customer letters, sales literature, presentations, internal employee publications, websites and e-marketing campaigns
• Proof read and edit copy
• Liaise with design studios to extract key information about new products and design concepts
• Uphold and develop brand tone of voice
• Create and publish engaging content for digital and social media platforms including Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Pinterest
• Maintain and update brand websites

Skills & Experience

• Creative and innovative with an exceptional talent for creative writing
• A keen eye for grammar and consistency
• Flexible and adaptable with a proactive approach to tasks
• Be able to communicate your ideas and collaborate as a team
• Excellent time management and organisational skills
• Able to work well under pressure and to strict working deadlines
• Superb written and spoken English ideally with a degree in English, communications or journalism
• Min 2 years experience in a copywriting role
• An interest in textiles and design

Proven experience in Copywriting is essential. Experience in the interior textiles industry or a similar industry would be highly beneficial.

If you believe you have the skills and experience that match our role please submit an up to date CV and covering letter demonstrating your experience and interest in this role. Please send these directly to: recruitment@romo.com

Full time, Permanent, Kirkby-in-Ashfield

Salary dependent on experience

Part of The Romo Group, Black Edition, is a leading design house in the textiles and wallcoverings industry. Family run since 1902, The Romo Group now has six established brands, all with their own unique character and style, that specialise in the supply of furnishing fabrics and wallcoverings to both the domestic and contract markets. Since launching in 2013, the Black Edition brand has continued to forge its own identify creating designs with a distinctive, edgy style and characteristic colour palette for the luxury interiors market. For more information on our brand please visit: www.blackedition.com

We have an exciting opportunity for anexperienced Textile Designerwithexceptional talent and creativityto join our dynamic and busy Black Edition design studio to work alongside a team of designers on a variety of tasks.
Main responsibilities of the role will include:

• Creating original, unique designs for a variety of applications.
• Actively researching into design and colour trends.
• Interpreting trends appropriately for the brand.
• Working proactively with all members of design, buying and production teams, supporting and developing business relationships to ensure successful results at all levels of the product journey.
• Liaising with suppliers to provide feedback on trials and developments throughout the design and production process.
• Visiting suppliers to assist in overseeing fabric and wallcoverings production.

Applicants will need to demonstrate the following:

• A minimum of 5 years’ experience as a Textile Designer in a commercial setting.
• A high achieving degree in Textile Design or similar qualification.
• Be a dedicated, passionate and industrious designer with an aspirational taste level to meet the complexity of this role.
• Good knowledge of all aspects of the commercial fabric printing and production process including digital, rotary and flat bed.
• A strong knowledge and previous experience of CAD.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to work closely with all members of the design team and with other relevant departments.
• Be flexible and practical with task management and with an ability to work under pressure and within time scales.
• Exceptional organisation skills.
• A sound understanding of Intellectual Property rights and all aspects of copyright related to design.

The successful candidate will help oversee and create exclusive designs that meet the ethos of the Black Edition brand and should display an affinity with and understanding of the brand. Working with the design team and working in collaboration with the Brand Director and other senior members, external suppliers, and internal departments to deliver quality fabrics and wallcoverings to be launched into the international market.

If you believe you have the skills and experience that match this role please submit anup to date CVandcovering letterdemonstrating your experience and interest in the role. In addition, to support your application, we would also require you to submitrecent examples of your work. Please send these directly torecruitment@romo.com