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 hr@icelolly.com. Please note, all applications will be processed in line with our Job Applicant Privacy Policy.
Media Sales Manager
Competitive salary
Responsibilities:
- From pitching to new and existing advertisers, devising audience powered media campaigns or helping to develop innovative product changes, no day will be the same.
- You will be responsible for developing successful sales relationships within the UK travel industry, consultatively selling icelolly.com’s suite of audience powered media opportunities, developing existing accounts and delivering new business from leading travel companies and agencies in the UK.
Lead Product and Commercial Executive
Competitive salary
Responsibilities:
- To drive Product sales and on board new advertisers.
- To assist in sourcing flash sales product for Top Deals* and any other media as directed.
- Key account management of advertising partners with their product and trading personnel.
Frontend Developer
Competitive salary
Responsibilities:
- Deliver innovative, engaging user-facing applications and features using the latest in front-end technologies.
- Collaborate with, advise, and synthesize feedback from Back-End Engineers, UX designers, Product owners and other experts to ensure that new features meet their requirements.
PHP Developer
Competitive salary
Responsibilities:
- Integration of data storage solutions and user-facing elements developed by front-end developers.
- Build efficient, testable, and reusable PHP modules.
- Solve complex performance problems and architectural challenges.
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.
We are proud to have been accredited with the Investors in People standard, and our assessor commended our approach to people management, working environment and culture, great team and dynamic working environment.
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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Gemma
Product Owner
In order to be a good Product Owner, Gemma believes that a background in analysis and statistics is vital and that you need to be an active user of the Internet to keep up-to-date with the latest trends in the industry. Gemma really enjoys the responsibility of her role and says ‘there’s lots of chances to make a difference. I can suggest a change one day and see it on the website the next day and that’s nice.
Travel Plans: Gemma has always wanted to go on safari and to see animals in the wild.
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Tom
Lead Developer
His role involves ‘lots of hands-on coding work in addition to planning systems and architecture.’ When asked what he likes most about working here, Tom said ‘We’ve got a good team here, I like that my work is multi discipline and I can work on all sorts of different projects. I want to help make us leading edge and be the best at what we do.’
Travel Plans: Tom recently visited Barcelona, somewhere he’d always wanted to visit.
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Reema
Data Analyst
Reema joined the icelolly.com team as an intern following her university degree and, as a result of her hard work, secured a permanent role as a Data Analyst. Reema is responsible for the day to day reporting of key performance measures as well as analysing facts and trends on trading patterns to support business improvements. Reema particularly enjoys seeing the data she has investigated being used to help inform business decisions.
Travel Plans: Reema likes to combine her love of travel with her passion for cooking and when she’s on holiday enjoys finding authentic local dishes and experimenting with these when she returns home.
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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.
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Sharon
Customer Experience & Compliance Team Leader
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 of us.’
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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Gohar
Technical Support
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 site servers and phone systems. 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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Georgina
Product and Commercial Executive
Georgina is responsible for to helping to source and promote Top Deals* to our customers. She enjoys working as part of a team and using her knowledge and experience in the travel industry to find deals which will appeal to customers, and working with advertising partners to ensure each campaign is successful.
Fun Travel Fact: Georgina spent two weeks living with a hill tribe in Northern Thailand. As no one in the tribe could speak English and she didn’t want to eat meals without knowing the contents, she only ate eggs in these two weeks which were given as gifts from the tribe.
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Paul
Casual Live Chat Assistant
Paul initially joined icelolly.com as Finance Assistant. His day-to-day activities included cash management and assisting with all aspects of financial control. After making the decision to return to student life to complete his MBA, Paul continues to work for us as a Live Chat Assistant around his study commitments, helping customers who visit our website with a multitude of questions to help them secure the perfect holiday.
Travel Plans: One day, Paul hopes to visit the beautiful Cape Verde islands.
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 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.
An afternoon with Hollybush Conservation Centre! Rob, Linda and Robert volunteering at the local charity which helps manage threatened green spaces across Leeds and beyond.
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 hr@icelolly.com. 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:
We generally ask all prospective applicants to complete a work based assessment. This is to help us to understand your approach and assess your knowledge which we cannot always get from a face to face interview, and to give you an appreciation of the type of work you will be undertaking if you were successful in being appointed. Depending on the role, we may ask you to complete the assessment prior to an interview, or on-site when you attend for interview.
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.