Careers

Salary £14,000 per annum – Commission including fully sponsored apprenticeship

With continued rapid growth and the success of our apprenticeship scheme, we are looking to recruit further Business Development Executive Apprentices. This role is heavily focused on sourcing new business along with account management of existing clients.  The scheme will provide cyber security and data protection training in addition to the sales-based learning from the apprenticeship.

What you’ll be focused on

• Researching potential clients
• Making introductory calls and setting up meetings where appropriate
• Following up on inbound leads
• Creating quotations and proposals
• Managing enquiries from prospects and clients
• General business development including attending conferences, networking events and face to face sales meetings
• Recording activity in the CRM system

To be successful in the role, you will be able to demonstrate:

• Highly motivated self-starter
• Passion for talking to people and building relationships
• Adaptable and flexible in your approach to work
• Relish working with targets
• Positive attitude
• Ability to strive to deliver exceptional customer service

The role includes a 15-month Sales Executive Apprenticeship. The scheme will focus on providing knowledge and skills on the sales cycle as follows:

• Organisational Vision & Values
• Understanding a Product Service
• Communication Skills
• Project Management
• Different Types of Customers
• Importance of Sector Intelligence
• Business Strategy
• Sales Presentations
• Negotiation & Closing Sales
• Sales Planning, Monitoring & Reviewing
• Sales Finance
• Ensuring Profitable Performance
• Account Retention
• Legal, Regulatory & Ethical Frameworks

Alongside the Apprenticeship iSTORM will provide training and awareness of the industry covering:

Cyber Security

Data Privacy

Penetration Testing

Following your end-point assessment and work-based project, you will achieve a Level 4 Sales Executive qualification. Once achieved a full-time sales role awaits with unlimited earning potential.

This is a fantastic opportunity for someone who is looking for a fulfilling job where they can work and train within a successful and rapidly growing company.

What we offer

We provide a mature and flexible ‘work your way’ culture, generous holiday allowance, enhanced family friendly leave (regardless of gender), and a cycle to work scheme. To set you up for later in life, we provide a pension scheme with employer contributions. We provide our staff with a wide range of development resources and support, including access to relevant training to support you as you develop your career with us.

Our company values

Our values are the core of our business and fundamental to the way we work. In your role, you will.

• Bring passion – Our people love what they do, and they look forward to doing it!
• Strive for success – Work in partnership with customers to achieve their goals
• Demonstrate integrity – Practice open and honest two-way communication
• Be agile – stay one step ahead

Our recruitment process

• First stage interview via Microsoft Teams
• Final stage interview (likely face to face) with the company Directors
• Harrison profile questionnaire

To apply please email your CV to careers@istormsolutions.co.uk

Location – Home based / hybrid

Full-time, permanent

Salary £40,000 per annum

What you’ll be focused on

• Delivering web application, network infrastructure testing and cloud reviews
• Understand threat activity and help implement improved security controls to better the organisation’s defensive security provision
• Arrange and attend scoping calls/meetings with clients
• Report writing
• Ensuring that SLA’s and KPI’s are consistently met
• Delivering exceptional customer experience

To be successful in the role, you will be able to demonstrate:

• CRT qualified or equivalent
• Minimum of 1 years’ experience of delivering penetration testing
• Demonstrate strong core IT skills with knowledge of networking and infrastructure, web applications and APIs
• Knowledge of tools such as Nessus and Burp Suite
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Demonstrate a proactive approach to testing
• Forward thinking and not afraid to challenge the norm

The successful candidate will be highly motivated and will enjoy delivering a world-class experience to our customers.  You will be adaptable and flexible in your work and have a positive attitude, constantly striving to do the best for our customers.

In addition:

• Location for the role is flexible, consideration for office based, remote or hybrid
• Majority of the testing will be delivered remotely but with some onsite testing at UK client sites
• Our testers are never utilised 100%! We understand research and self-development is important

Who are iSTORM®?

We believe that strong privacy and information security practices are beneficial to every organisation. Our management team has more than two decades experience, covering information security, cyber security, ISO 27001, information governance, data protection and penetration testing.

We work with organisations from across the world in sectors as diverse as charities/not for profits, pharmaceuticals, healthcare, automotive, space exploration and financial services.  We understand the issues that 21^st century businesses face, and our hand-picked team of experts provide pragmatic support to cover all governance, risk management and compliance needs.

What we offer

We provide a mature and flexible ‘work your way’ culture, generous holiday allowance, enhanced family friendly leave (regardless of gender), and a cycle to work scheme. To set you up for later in life, we provide a pension scheme with employer contributions. We provide our staff with a wide range of development resources and support, including access to relevant training to support you as you develop your career with us.

Our company values

Our values are the core of our business and fundamental to the way we work. In your role, you will.

• Bring passion – Our people love what they do, and they look forward to doing it!
• Strive for success – Work in partnership with customers to achieve their goals
• Demonstrate integrity – Practice open and honest two-way communication
• Be agile – stay one step ahead

Our recruitment process

• Technical scenario test
• First stage interview via Microsoft Teams
• Final stage interview (likely face to face) with the company Directors
• Harrison profile questionnaire

To apply please email your CV to careers@istormsolutions.co.uk