Firm plans 500 new jobs in town
Software company wants to create an ‘East Midlands Hub’
A SOFTWARE company with offices in Loughborough is looking to expand and create 500 new jobs when it moves to a new ‘East Midlands Hub’ - and is in negotiations to take one of the first spaces at the new Loughborough University Science and Enterprise Park.
Last year, The Access Group turned over £102m and has 14 offices, 1,290 staff and 11,000 customers across the UK and France, with an office employing around 230 people based in Ashby Road, Loughborough.
Clients of the software company include Leicester City Football Club, Leicester Tigers and the Natural History Museum in London.
The company develops software to help with everything from payroll and absence management to finance and accounting, homecare and education.
As part of the company’s five-year plan it is hoping to develop an ‘East Midlands Hub’ at the Loughborough University Science and Enterprise Park, and by October 2019 the hub would employ around 1,000 members of staff, creating 500 new jobs.
The roles being created include jobs in sales, marketing, developers, support engineers and implementation consultants.
A SOFTWARE company with offices in Loughborough is looking to expand and create 500 new jobs when it moves to a new ‘East Midlands Hub’ - and is in negotiations to take one of the first spaces at the new Loughborough University Science and Enterprise Park.
The Access Group is a software consultancy and developer, selling primarily to UK mid-market businesses.
Last year the company turned over £102m and has 14 offices, 1,290 staff and 11,000 customers across the UK and France, with an office employing around 230 people based in Ashby Road, Loughborough.
Clients of the software company include Leicester City Football Club, Leicester Tigers and the Natural History Museum in London.
The company develops software to help with everything from payroll and absence management to finance and accounting, homecare and education.
As part of the company’s five-year plan it is hoping to develop an ‘East Midlands Hub’ at the Loughborough University Science and Enterprise Park, and by October 2019 the hub would employ around 1,000 members of staff, creating 500 new jobs.
The roles being created include jobs in sales, marketing, developers, support engineers and implementation consultants.
The plan also aims for the software company to be worth £275m, with around 25,000 customers and more than 2,000 staff, which would make it one of the top 10 software companies in the UK.
Of these 2,000 staff, half of them are to be based at its new Loughborough office. Jonathan Jorgensen, 38, chief sales officer for The Access Group, told the Echo that this was going to open doors for not just graduate jobs but for anyone with the “skills and desire to learn” within the business.
He said: “We are a very fast growing company and are expanding all the time, so the vision is to have an East Midlands Hub at the Loughborough site.
“This will encompass staff already at the Loughborough office, and staff currently based in Lockington near East Midlands Airport, but it will also mean we will create around 500 new jobs.
“We are looking at also incorporating the Leicester office into the new offices in Loughborough but we are not certain about this yet.
“These jobs will not just be for new graduates from Loughborough University, they will be for anyone who is interested in working in the software industry, and who has the skills and desire to learn about the group.
“We have seen a lot of success from people who had decided to have a change of career and have started working with us when they are 30, 40 or 50 years-old.
“We already have some brilliant graduate programmes, but hopefully with such a good university on our doorstep I am sure we will benefit even more from this too.”
Loughborough MP Nicky Morgan told the Echo that she had been on a tour of the new proposed Access Group office and said: “I think it is a fantastic building and a fantastic opportunity for the whole of Loughborough.
“The fact that it is creating 500 new jobs as well is great, and I know that a lot of people will benefit from this.”
A spokesperson from Loughborough University said: “The university is currently in discussions with partners about the project, however no agreements have been reached.”