Jobs at Smiths Group plc

Develops and executes regional B2B marketing strategies to support growth, sales performance, customer engagement, and brand consistency. Responsibilities include creating marketing content, supporting channel partners and account-based marketing, managing trade shows and customer events, developing sales enablement materials, coordinating product communications, and measuring campaign effectiveness. The role collaborates closely with sales, product management, global marketing, and regional stakeholders across industrial markets.

Lead medium- to large-scale IT, technology, and business transformation projects from initiation through implementation and transition. Manage plans, schedules, budgets, resources, governance, risks, vendors, and stakeholder engagement across global business and technology teams. Projects include MES, SAP, treasury systems, ERP deployments, and manufacturing technology initiatives. Support change management, training, business readiness, and executive reporting while ensuring delivery meets operational, technical, and business requirements.

Data Analyst Apprentice supporting pricing and commercial teams through data collection, validation, analysis, reporting, dashboard creation, and visualization. The role involves examining pricing, sales, margin, customer, product, and competitive data; supporting profitability reviews; maintaining data governance; identifying process improvements; and collaborating with Sales, Finance, CRM, and Commercial teams. The two-year Level 4 apprenticeship includes rotations, structured training, and practical experience with Excel, Power BI, SAP, and related analytical tools.

Owns delivery of the John Crane Sense digital solutions portfolio, translating product strategy into quarterly roadmaps, user stories, sprint plans, and prioritized backlogs. Coordinates Agile software teams, offshore partners, suppliers, and internal stakeholders while managing risks, dependencies, timelines, quality, compliance, and release stability. The role also drives supplier accountability, stakeholder communication, continuous improvement, and successful delivery of connected condition-monitoring and predictive-maintenance products.

Provides advanced mechanical engineering support to UK customers, sales, aftermarket, and service teams. Develops technical proposals, analyzes customer specifications, performs calculations and FEA, conducts field troubleshooting, inspections, site surveys, and root cause analysis. Recommends engineering solutions for rotating equipment and flow control products, supports projects through delivery, mentors junior engineers, and collaborates across multidisciplinary teams while maintaining quality, safety, and compliance standards.

Supports global HR transformation initiatives, especially a Workday implementation. Responsibilities include designing future-state HR processes, gathering requirements, facilitating workshops, developing reports and dashboards, coordinating project plans and governance, supporting testing and change readiness, and preparing leadership communications. The role requires strong analytical, organizational, stakeholder-management, and Excel skills, with preferred experience in HR, payroll, HR systems, Workday, project management, or business transformation.

Reviews and tests financial controls across international business units, identifies risks and control gaps, supports control framework improvements, conducts assessments, recommends remediation, tracks corrective actions, and contributes to governance, process improvement, and automation initiatives. The role works closely with global finance stakeholders and includes occasional international travel for in-person control reviews.

Provides legal and commercial support to procurement and business teams by reviewing, drafting, and negotiating supplier, commercial, technology, NDA, lease, and facilities contracts. Conducts legal research across jurisdictions, prepares documentation, supports data protection and compliance activities, manages contract workflows, and provides practical guidance to stakeholders during business transformation initiatives.

Coordinates regional supply chain activities across planning, procurement, operations, and logistics. Supports material availability, orderbook management, and production scheduling while maintaining ERP and MRP data accuracy. Analyzes performance, develops Excel and Power BI dashboards, identifies risks and trends, performs root cause analysis, and supports corrective actions and supply chain improvement projects.

Creates technical sales enablement content, including videos, presentations, case studies, digital assets, playbooks, and partner materials. Translates complex engineering concepts into compelling customer-focused narratives, manages creative production from scripting through delivery, supports channel training and certification, and shapes the content roadmap. Uses generative AI and analytics to improve production and content effectiveness while maintaining quality and consistency across global sales and partner communications.

Manage global treasury operations, including cash forecasting, liquidity, intercompany funding, loan administration, foreign exchange transactions, debt activities, banking relationships, controls, and reporting. Support Treasury Management System implementation, automation, policy development, and transformation of a newly established multinational treasury function. Partner with global finance teams, banks, executives, and shareholders across multiple countries and currencies.

Lead the business side of a global Salesforce CRM transformation, from requirements definition through deployment, adoption, governance, and benefits realization. Redesign commercial processes, manage implementation partners, drive change management and training, establish governance, and align sales, marketing, service, finance, legal, digital, and IT stakeholders. Extensive travel across the US, Europe, and APAC is required.

Supports UK HR operations across recruitment, onboarding, employee lifecycle administration, employee relations, engagement, reporting, audits, absence management, and learning and development. Acts as a first point of contact for employees and managers, maintains accurate HR records, coordinates inductions and training, prepares employee relations documentation, produces HR metrics, and escalates complex matters to the Senior HR Generalist.

Develops and supports engineering design automation applications using Rulestream, .NET technologies, CAD systems, and databases. Responsibilities include full-stack development, configurable design systems, CAD automation, API and database integrations, design standards, BOM generation, documentation, troubleshooting, and technical guidance. The role collaborates with engineering, drafting, operations, and application teams to improve design productivity, accuracy, quality, and compliance.

Lead global external communications, media relations, thought leadership, social media strategy, agency management, and reputation initiatives. Develop narratives, support executive visibility, translate complex security and technology topics, and improve brand discoverability across search engines and AI platforms. Manage social content, analytics, KPIs, stakeholder reporting, and integrated campaigns across marketing, content, creative, and communications teams.

Execute MPS and MRP outputs in ERP systems, release planned orders, stabilize production schedules, and manage stock transfer orders. Coordinate with procurement, inventory, and operations teams to resolve supply issues, investigate data inconsistencies, support capacity and scenario planning, implement corrective actions, and maintain accurate planning processes and documentation.

Lead complex bid and proposal activities from opportunity through submission. Review contracts and terms, identify and mitigate commercial risks, develop proposals and Statements of Work, coordinate cross-functional contributions, support negotiations and governance, and improve bid management processes, templates, and best practices.

Leads Value Analysis and Value Engineering activities across security and detection products. Facilitates functional analysis workshops, applies design-to-cost and target-costing methods, influences product architecture, conducts benchmarking and reverse engineering, and develops value-improvement business cases. The role partners with engineering and supplier teams to reduce lifecycle costs while maintaining safety, performance, quality, serviceability, and compliance. It also coaches teams in VAVE methodologies and supports NPI, make-versus-buy, and technology-selection decisions.

Design, develop, and maintain embedded software for low-power microcontrollers and Linux-based detection systems. Lead technical investigations, define requirements and interfaces, contribute to architecture, perform testing and code reviews, and collaborate across hardware and systems teams. Own software work packages, support Agile delivery, improve engineering practices, and mentor junior engineers. The role focuses on mission-critical chemical and explosive trace detection technology.

Provide senior in-house legal support for M&A, strategic partnerships and joint ventures across the transaction lifecycle. Lead due diligence, negotiate and draft transaction documentation, coordinate external counsel, manage legal entity governance, handle ethics and internal investigations, and advise senior stakeholders on legal and commercial risks to support deal execution and integration.