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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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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IT Manager
Job Description:
We are seeking a dynamic, smart, results-oriented person to be the IT leader for our industry-leading marketplace, focusing exclusively on the Internet-related environment. This position reports directly to the VP of Engineering and includes management responsibility. As our IT manager, you will be responsible for ensuring the continuous operation of BuyerZone.com’s websites.
Primary Roles and Responsibilities:
- Leads and manages IT department
- Ensures the availability of resources (internal and/or outsourced) to implement and maintain industry competitive
- technology within agreed upon standards
- Owns the management of all Internet-related hardware and software-related activity
- Manage all network hardware and equipment including configuring, maintaining, supporting, and optimizing all network hardware
- Manage email servers, including bulk email and transactional e-mail
- Conduct research on network products, services, protocols, and standards in support of network procurement and development efforts
- Perform network design and capacity planning
- Recommend, schedule, and perform all network improvements, upgrades, and repairs
- Interact and negotiate with vendors, outsourcers, and contractors to secure network products and services
- Serve as a cross-functional leader to other departments across the company including engineering, product development, and marketing
- Inform and educate technical and non-technical colleagues as needed about relevant hardware and software topics
- Collaborate with cross-departmental colleagues to analyze and resolve operational issues from customers, end users, or internal customer in a timely and accurate fashion
- Lead and direct website security policies and disaster recovery procedures
- Develop, implement, maintain, and oversee enforcement of policies, procedures and associated plans for system security administration and user system access based on industry-standard best practices
- Design and implement disaster recovery plan for operating systems, databases, networks, servers, and software applications
- Perform system backups and recovery
- Perform server and security audits
Required Skill Set:
- Experience in Linux production systems, Apache, running J2EE web applications using JBoss
- Candidate must have a minimum of 7 - 10 Years of being in a *hand*s on* technical engineering position
- Candidate must have a minimum of 2 Years in a leadership/management position
- History of working in an e-commerce environment a plus
- Advanced knowledge of Server/desktop hardware, SAN/NAS technology, proficiency in supporting DNS, DHCP, and other network services/protocols, as well as knowledge of Windows XP, Office 2003, and Oracle
- Bachelor Degree in Computer Science or related field required
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National Sales Manager
Reporting to (title): Vice President of Sales
Location: Waltham, MA
Join the company that has been named one of the 50 fastest growing technology companies in New England for five consecutive years (ranked #6 in 2004). BuyerZone, the leading online marketplace for business purchasing, is seeking a National Sales Manager to play a key role in helping continue its record growth pace.
The National Sales Manager will be responsible for identifying, structuring, negotiating, and implementing strategic alliances with major national corporate partners. You will manage a portfolio of existing business categories as well as launch new categories with a focus on recommending and implementing actions to grow revenues within your portfolio.
Responsibilities:
- Closing new sales prospects and building revenue within your assigned product/service categories
- Monitoring competitive offerings with your sales category portfolio and developing new strategies for growth.
- Demonstrate persistence, tenacity, ability to overcome obstacles, and strive to improve skills and achieve goals
- Maintaining close relationships with strategic partners with focus on providing outstanding client service.
- Demonstrated personal organization, time management and resource use skills
- Demonstrated ability to inform and influence colleagues, clients and prospects
- Consistently move the customer or prospect towards commitment, and close sales
- Desire to make sustained contributions to work group and organization success
- Manage and maintain a detailed pipeline to achieve assigned monthly quota
- Direct report to the Vice President of Sales and will work closely with marketing and customer care teams to achieve sales goals.
Requirements:
- College degree and at least 5-8 years previous sales experience preferably in a business-to-business sales environment.
- Proven Inside Sales skills with track record of sales success and over-achievement of sales quotas/goals
- Proven experience and success prospecting and closing accounts.
- Excellent phone and communication skills
- Proven ability in cold calling senior level executives
- Account management experience with track record of growing and maintaining accounts over the long-term
- “Hunter mentality” and a desire to over-achieve.
- Team-player with high-energy, drive and maturity
- High energy level along with outstanding time management, organizational and communication skills.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office including Word, Excel, Outlook and related CRM database, customer relations and reporting software
About BuyerZone
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.
BuyerZone is part of the Reed Elsevier family, which also owns Lexis-Nexis, Variety, Reed Business Information and North America’s leading business publications.
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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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