Career Opportunities
Join the company that has been named one of the 50 fastest growing technology companies in New England for five consecutive years. BuyerZone is the leading online marketplace for business purchasing and has facilitated more than $5 billion in purchasing transactions over the last three years. BuyerZone makes it possible for small to large sized companies to find great suppliers for the products and services they need to run their business.
Career development at BuyerZone is a two-way street. We look for outstanding candidates who have the intelligence, energy, and can-do attitude that will help drive our continued success. In return, we offer a rewarding, collaborative, and fun environment that makes BuyerZone a great place to work.
BuyerZone is part of the Reed Elsevier family, which also owns Lexis-Nexis, Variety, Reed Business Information and North America’s leading business publications.
If you would like to join a growing company where you can make a difference and fulfill career growth objectives, please consider the opportunities listed below.
Note: BuyerZone greatly values diversity in the workplace and is an equal opportunity employer.
Full Time Positions Available
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Online Marketing Analyst
Position Description:
This position provides an excellent opportunity to become an outstanding search engine marketer from one of the leaders in the industry. With profit and loss responsibility for a multi-million dollar marketing portfolio, you will work with all the leading search engine marketing (SEM) platforms including Google, Yahoo and MSN, and learn many related techniques to create, optimize and grow our results. Your creativity will also be tapped as our entrepreneurial culture greatly encourages refining our current practices and testing new ideas in our constant quest to improve results. Your innovation, creative thinking and success will be rewarded with ownership of new projects, programs and channels.
Relevant job experience is not required for this position. Outstanding candidates, however, will thrive in fast-paced quantitative operation, work well with a team and have a strong intellectual curiosity, a roll-up-your-sleeves attitude and a constant desire to over achieve.
Responsibilities:
- Monitor day-to-day financial results
- Collect, synthesize and analyze data for program performance
- P&L (profit and loss) management for sectors of the overall business
- Work collaboratively and cross-functionally with Online Marketing and other cross-division colleagues
- Identify expansion opportunities within and outside current marketing plan
- Prepare ad-hoc analysis where needed
- Conduct competitive research and present actionable findings
- Propose and implement changes to copy, creative, and user experience to improve results
- Manage relationships with representatives from the major online advertising channels
Requirements:
- 0-2 years of work experience
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent
- Outstanding quantitative and analytical skills
- Comfortable manipulating numbers, primarily within Microsoft Excel
- Capable of managing multiple projects simultaneously, hitting deadlines and performing under pressure
- Outstanding ability to execute swiftly with a strong attention to detail
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Java Software Engineer
Position Description:
We are seeking a highly qualified, highly motivated Java Software Engineer who enjoys the challenges of creating enterprise-caliber Java systems. This person is expected to interface extensively with the rest of the team, but also be able to carry out a project or task independently with little supervision. The ideal candidate will have a strong Java and object-oriented design background and will help create and maintain web-based e-commerce applications for BuyerZone's web site (www.buyerzone.com). Looking for individuals who want to work in the JBoss, Spring, Hibernate, Java Environment.
Responsibilities:
- Make enhancements to transactional quoting engine, reporting, and internal management applications.
- Develop/Maintain Java code.
Requirements:
- BS in Computer Science or equivalent.
- 3-5 years industry experience with 3+ years experience in Java software design and development.
- Strong object-oriented design, software reusability, testing, and debugging skills required.
- Experience with Java, J2EE, JDBC, Spring, and Servlets.
- Experience with any RDBMS accepted, knowledge of Oracle preferred.
- Solid skills in JSP, HTML and JavaScript for creating interactive web applications required; knowledge of other web services and distributed technologies a plus.
- Experience with the JBoss application server.
- Ability to develop in both the Microsoft Windows and Linux environments.
- Experience working with Subversion or CVS, and Maven or Ant a plus.
- Experience working on high availability, transactional applications.
- Attention to details and quality.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to communicate technical information to both technical and non-technical audiences.
- The ability and willingness to proactively interact creatively and achieve results in a dynamic environment.
- Excellent analytical and pro
blem solving skills.
- Self-motivated, result oriented, and able to successfully manage multiple priorities effectively and efficiently.
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Client Services Representative
Position Description:
BuyerZone.com, the leading b2b e-marketplace for small and mid-sized business purchasing is seeking a Client Services Representative to join its team and continue its record growth pace. Profitable since mid-2002, the company has facilitated approximately $1 billion in purchasing transactions in the last year between buyers and suppliers.
Responsibilities:
In this position, you will handle customer calls in a call center environment, handle customer inquiries and e-mails, and you will educate customers on BuyerZone.com's offerings by positioning and aligning products and services within the context of the customer’s interest.
Ideal candidate is someone who thrives in a fast-paced, positive team environment, is able to work independently and as a team member to solve problems, and is interested in possible growth opportunities.
Requirements:
- 1-2 years of previous customer service experience
- Excellent phone voice – tone and clarity
- Excellent written communication skills
- Ability to continue relationships with clients and renew current business
- Ability to build relationships internally and externally
- Able to work under pressure and change priorities while working with interruptions
- Self-motivated, stress and pressure resistant
- Proficiency with Windows 2000/Windows NT applications including MS Office
- Excellent knowledge of Internet navigation
- Positive, upbeat, and professional attitude with customers and co-workers
- Strong decision-making and organizational skills
- Detail oriented team player with superior follow through
- Great listening and negotiation skills
- Excellent interpersonal, communication, organizational and time management skills
- BA/BS not required but preferred
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Forward resumes for full time positions to: jobs@buyerzone.com
Attn: Michelle Misuraca, Human Resources Manager
Human Resources
BuyerZone
225 Wyman Street
Waltham, MA 02451
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