{"id":22375,"date":"2020-10-20T09:02:07","date_gmt":"2020-10-20T08:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/localhost:10003\/?p=22375"},"modified":"2024-08-14T16:18:44","modified_gmt":"2024-08-14T15:18:44","slug":"q4-2020-hiring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ecommercefulfilment.com\/resources\/news\/q4-2020-hiring\/","title":{"rendered":"J&amp;J to Recruit 140 People by Christmas, as New Building Goes Live"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>James and James Fulfilment \u2013 which stores, packs and ships products on behalf of nearly 400 online stores \u2013 is set to hire 125 seasonal team members and create another 15 permanent roles in the run up to Christmas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The company, which secured <a href=\"\/11m-investment-ldc\/\">an \u00a311 million investment<\/a> in March and signed a 10-year lease on <a href=\"\/liberty-196-announcement\/\">a brand new building<\/a> in May, has seen its growth accelerate this year, as more people turned to online shopping during and after lockdown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>James and James has already hired 60 extra fulfilment centre team members, created 18 new office-based roles and been shortlisted as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.northamptonshirebea.co.uk\/the-awards\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">a Northamptonshire Employer of the Year<\/a> in 2020. With its new Brackmills building (pictured above) going live by November, it can now safely recruit even more people, as the Black Friday to Christmas shopping season begins.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>James Hyde, CEO and Co-founder, explains: \u201cWe\u2019ve already seen many more people shopping online this year and we expect that to continue, as consumers stay at home. Our new building offers six times the space of our current one, which means we can grow the team to meet demand, while remaining COVID-secure.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The new roles will span all areas of James and James, including fulfilment centre operations, client services, marketing and technology development.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Clara Buckingham, Head of People, continues: \u201cDelivering delight for our clients and their customers is one of <a href=\"\/our-story\/\">our key values<\/a> at James and James. As such, we\u2019d love to hear from people in sectors such as retail and hospitality, who\u2019ve been badly affected by the pandemic, but have so many transferable customer service and stock handling skills.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can apply for seasonal fulfilment centre roles via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.acsrecruitment.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ACS Recruitment<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.interactionrecruitment.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Interaction Recruitment<\/a>. Or find out more about working at James and James and apply for office-based roles at <a href=\"https:\/\/careers.ecommercefulfilment.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/careers.www.ecommercefulfilment.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With eCommerce demand remaining high, James and James is set to continue its 2020 hiring spree, creating 125 seasonal and 15 permanent roles across its two sites on the Brackmills Industrial Estate, Northampton.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":22376,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_lmt_disableupdate":"yes","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[421],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"modified_by":"James Dillon","featured_image_src":"https:\/\/www.ecommercefulfilment.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/liberty_196_green_960_540.jpg","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/www.ecommercefulfilment.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/liberty_196_green_960_540.jpg","author_info":{"display_name":"J&amp;J Global Fulfilment","author_link":"https:\/\/www.ecommercefulfilment.com\/author\/james-and-james\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ecommercefulfilment.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ecommercefulfilment.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ecommercefulfilment.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ecommercefulfilment.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ecommercefulfilment.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ecommercefulfilment.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22375\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ecommercefulfilment.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ecommercefulfilment.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ecommercefulfilment.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ecommercefulfilment.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}