Jobs at icelolly.com
Current Vacancies
We are always on the lookout for talented people with commitment and enthusiasm to join our team and we would love to hear from you if you share our enthusiasm and feel you can make a positive contribution to our business.
To apply for any of the current vacancies, or to submit your CV speculatively, please email [email protected] Please note, all applications will be processed in line with our Job Applicant Privacy Policy.
Software Engineer
Competitive salary
Icelolly.com are seeking an outgoing, dynamic, creative, and delivery-focused Go (Golang) individual to become part of our team as an expert Software Engineer with the skills to craft engaging, modern user experiences.
Based in our modern offices in the centre of Leeds, just a five minute walk from Leeds Station, you'll be working on a variety of small and
large-scale enhancements to our customer facing website and back-end services, within a mixed team of UX designers, developers, testers
and product owners.
To apply, email your CV to [email protected]
We would love to hear from you if you share our enthusiasm and feel you can make a positive contribution to our business.
Due to the high volume of applications we receive for our vacancies, we are not able to reply to everyone individually. If you have not heard from us within 28 days of submitting your application for one of our vacancies, please regard your application as unsuccessful.
Strictly no agencies.
Who Are We?
icelolly.com helps millions of people save time and money when comparing holiday deals. Featuring Love Holidays, Jet2 Holidays, On The Beach, TUI and Thomas Cook to name a few, we’ve the biggest brands in travel all under one roof.
Established in 2005, we’re now going through an exciting period of change. With investment from private equity we’ve developed market leading meta search technology, developed a media solutions arm and we’re now starting to invest heavily to grow our brand awareness even further.
We’re genuinely passionate about serving our audience the best deals, content and services to help them plan their holiday. To our advertiser partners, we want to ensure we’re promoting their brands to the right audiences, guaranteeing a higher quality of booking conversion than through traditional media channels. And with close to a million monthly visitors, a database of 2 million, and social media followers of over 400,000 icelolly.com is in a strong position to deliver for its clients.
We cannot achieve our aspirations without the commitment and enthusiasm of our dedicated employees who share in our desire to help our customers get the holiday they want and deserve. We want to attract and retain the best talent available to us and our aim is to have a diverse workforce which reflects the local community we recruit from. We provide an informal, friendly and fun working environment to support individuals achieving high standards of service to our customers and achieve our aims.
icelolly.com’s growing stature as one of the UK’s leading travel brands was recognised by customers and the industry alike in 2018 – a trend which has continued into 2019.
Our 2* accreditation from Best Companies recognises our commitment to excellence and is a credit to all of the icelolly.com team whose dedication and enthusiasm make a great place to work.
We have been awarded the Business Transformation Management Team by Yorkshire and North East BVCA in recognition of the progress within the business since September 2013. The BVCA awards are the premier annual gatherings of regional private equity and venture capital professionals in the UK.
We have been shortlisted as a finalist in the Employee Engagement category at the highly prestigious Personnel Today Awards for 2017. The award recognises high performance linked to employee engagement and creating the right environment to drive business improvements and outcomes for customers.
Our Values
We want to inspire and encourage the highest quality people to deliver success through these Commitments. The Commitments are about how we behave in work so everyone can work to the best of their ability and support how we successfully deliver our business aims.
We consulted with everyone and gained commitment about how should work together – the result is ‘The Commitments’.
What We Offer
Meet Our Team
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Sarah
Head of Deal Publishing
Sarah works at Icelolly as our Head of Publishing, running our product & deals department to ensure we've got the best holidays in the market to offer customers. Sarah has 8+ years experience in digital publishing, most of this in the travel deals space. She enjoys working with a team of publishing superstars and likes to delve into finding ways we can improve our processes and product.
Interesting Fact: Sarah lived in Australia for 5 years and has visited every state. Her favourite place in the land down under is Tasmania, thanks to its art galleries, ridiculous scenery and abundance of oysters and good wine.
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Chrissie
Publishing Executive
Chrissie has worked in travel for 20+ years and has had 3 different roles during her time at icelolly. She now works with advertisers to source, build and publish deals. Chrissie is encouraged to build a rapport and get the best deals possible – even if that means pushing back if one is not good enough or making her own suggestions. She enjoys seeing her deals go live and finding photos to go alongside them. She loves that the job is flexible as it means she can be there for her kids.
Interesting Fact: Chrissie is a Beaver leader which involves lots of adventurous outdoor activities and camping, but when it comes to holidays, she's more of a 5 star all inclusive beach kind of person!
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Paulina
Publishing Assistant
Paulina joined icelolly.com as a Publishing Assistant after studying Travel and Tourism at college. Along with the rest of the publishing team, she spends her days spotting, creating and loading the best deals to the website to ensure the company provides the most up to date and spectacular holiday offers.
Interesting Fact: Paulina has lived in and visited quite few European countries since leaving Lithuania, but Iceland is her all time favourite. She lived there for a whole summer and goes back every year for a short visit - mostly because of amazing nature, black sand beaches, delicious food and hot springs.
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Peter
Head of Search and Programmatic
Peter heads up the search marketing and programmatic activities and is responsible both for ensuring we drive quality traffic to icelolly.com at a positive ROI, and also to grow revenue from ad publishing. Peter has 15+ years’ experience in search marketing, split evenly between agency and in-house roles. The thing he likes most about Icelolly is the team of fantastic people that work both in his team and the rest of the business.
Interesting Fact: Peter loves all things computing/technical and his house contains an unhealthy number of servers, computers and smart devices. York is where the robot uprising will start!
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Riccardo
Paid Media Manager
Riccardo looks after all the Pay Per Click activity, making sure to send the best quality traffic to the icelolly.com website at the lowest price. He joined after spending 3 years working in an agency as a PPC Executive. When he isn't thinking about decreasing spend and improving ROAS, he likes to have an espresso and a chat with the team. Riccardo says, "icelolly.com has the right growth mindset and atmosphere for me to improve my skills and knowledge within digital marketing."
Interesting Fact: Riccardo has a not so hidden talent for baking, especially when it comes to tiramisu - a dessert that combines his Italian heritage and love of coffee.
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Rae
Digital Marketing Executive
Rae is predominately in charge of growing organic traffic and making everything rank better in search engines, but she also manages our affiliate programme and dabbles in PR. She joined icelolly.com fresh out of University, after working as a proofreader, and was given hands on training both in the office and off-site. Rae likes that she's trusted to delegate her own tasks and get on with what needs to be done.
Interesting Fact: Rae spends her spare time reviewing holidays, theatre shows, comedians and gigs over on her blog, aptly named ‘RAEviews’.
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Charlotte
Finance Assistant
Charlotte works hard to ensure that all our partners get invoiced correctly and pay their bills. She is currently studying CIMA alongside working full time. She spends her days counting pennies to make sure there is enough money for staff parties and free bar tabs.
Interesting Fact: Charlotte's handbag collection is so vast that she is looking to move into a bigger house.
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Chris
Head of Human Resources
As Head of Human Resources, Chris' role is very varied and includes the developing and implementing of HR initiatives, leading the organisation’s talent acquisition, learning and development, employee onboarding, employee engagement, compensation and benefits, talent management and HR systems.
Interesting Fact: Chris has three main hobbies: playing electric guitar, watching Liverpool FC, and listening to heavy metal music, with his favourite band being Metallica who he has seen live in concert 42 times.
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Sharon
Compliance and Customer Experience Manager
Sharon oversees our Customer Experience team to ensure the smooth resolution of any customer issues. Having spent much of her career working in travel Customer Services, Sharon thinks that to do well you need to have a really good understanding of customer service and how to implement this consistently so everyone, regardless as to who you interact with, gets the best impression.
Fun Fact: Sharon once had a scary experience whilst camping on the beach in Australia when a komodo dragon decided to visit her tent. Thankfully, we don’t have many of these in Leeds.
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Rachel
Customer Liasion Assistant
Rachel has been with icelolly.com for 3 years and came fresh out of college after studying Travel and Tourism. She works within our Customer and Compliance Team, making sure our customers have a great experience whilst using the website.
Interesting Fact: Rachel is a keen traveller. Her favourite place to visit is Amsterdam and she’s been there no short of 5 times! She is also the number 1 supporter of Bradford Bulls so when she is strutting her stuff at Popworld you will see her cheering on “The Bulls”!
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Gohar
DevOps Engineer
Gohar joined icelolly.com to further his experience in all fields of IT. His role supports our advertising partners and employees with technical queries and he also has responsibility for managing the IT infrastructure. Gohar says, "There’s a nice friendly atmosphere and I’m given the freedom to do my job. The company is also really encouraging and provides me with any training I need."
Interesting Fact: Gohar finds it difficult not to smile – seriously! Even when he’s really stressed he always has a smile on his face and the other members of IT don’t know how he does it!
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Tawseef
Test Analyst
As Test Analyst and a certified software tester, Tawseef makes sure that everything is in complete working order on our website no matter what device is being used to access it, picking up errors and bugs as part of the testing process. He likes the relaxed working environment as the role requires a great deal of concentration, and enjoys being part of new and exciting developments.
Interesting Fact: Tawseef can speak four languages and is currently learning a fifth language.
Giving Something Back
We are committed to supporting local charitable and community organisations and actively support team volunteering for deserving charities as well as fundraising initiatives. During the past twelve months we have volunteered with the Children's Heart Surgery Fund, Simon on the Streets, The Princes Trust, Hollybush Conservation Centre, The Real Junk Food Project and St Gemma’s Hospice.
Here are Richard, Sharon and Rachel presenting the Children's Heart Surgery Fund with a cheque after the team raised £4383.38 by completing the Yorkshire Three Peaks challenge.
Here are Darren, April, Neil and Fizz visiting the Children's Heart Surgery Fund to drop off some Christmas presents in 2016 and assist with decorating the ward in festive fittings.
icelolly.com team members Reema and Jon helping out at Simon on the Streets - a charity that offers street-based support for those in need.
Recruitment Process
Our recruitment process at icelolly.com is designed to ensure we recruit the best possible talent. We want people who are passionate and dedicated about helping our customers have a great experience and for our people to have the right skills, abilities and attitude to help us achieve our objectives.
Advertising & Applying for Vacancies
We advertise our vacancies internally within the business and also externally using a range of advertising media.
All applications can be made by emailing your CV to [email protected] We would love to hear from you if you share our enthusiasm and feel you can make appositive contribution to our business. So we encourage you to forward your CV to us, so that we can retain your details on file for any future vacancies that arise.
Selection
We use a wide range of selection and assessment techniques depending on the vacancy we have.
This could include:
Offers
Once all interviews for a role are complete, we will contact you as soon as possible to give you feedback on the outcome of your application. You will be offered the opportunity to request feedback on your application, regardless of the outcome.
If you are offered a position with icelolly.com, we will send you an offer letter and contract of employment soon afterwards and agree a potential start date with you. All positions are offered subject to receipt of satisfactory references and medical assessment.
Your CV
Your CV is your opportunity to sell yourself to us, and show you have the skills, knowledge and experience for the role you are applying for.
We will only shortlist individuals who demonstrate that they meet the requirements of the role, so here are some useful hints and tips to consider before submitting your CV for a vacant role at icelolly.com.
Include essential information such as name and contact details but do not include your gender, date of birth, age or marital status – we don't need to know this.
Your CV should:
Be easy to read.
Have clear and concise content and formatting.
Focus on your skills, knowledge and experiences relevant to the role you are applying for.
Detail any significant achievements which you are proud of and demonstrate skills you need for the role you are applying for.
Detail any relevant employment history with your most recent role shown first, and include your responsibilities and achievements for each role.
Have accurate spelling and grammar.
It is advisable to include a covering letter with your application which could include why you want the job, why you will be good at the job, and what in particular makes you a suitable candidate for the position.