Opportunity to work with and support top performing yacht brokers. New and brokerage business. Firm specializing in rapidly expanding sail and power catamaran global market and conventional monohull power and sailing yachts.
The Catamaran Company is a leading boat and charter specialist in the sale of new and used boats and also operates a charter fleet in the Caribbean.

Seeking qualified candidate to assist in all office functions. Working closely with vendors, service department, crew, brokers and other internal departments. Good peoples skills and understanding of how an office environment generally works. Must be proficient with computer skills. Salesforce experience and Yachting industry knowledge plus.

I will be at the 2008 Annapolis Boat Show B Dock from October 9th thru the 13th, if interested please stop by the booth and we can do a on-site interview. Please email your resume prior to your visit.

Please send your resume to gaida@catamarans.com

The hired individual will have responsibility for support and enhancement of The Catamaran Company Contact Management system full time basis including weekends.

Responsibilities:

• Main responsibility during the weekends is to assign leads to their appropriate destination based on the Leads/Contacts Policies.
• Provide system administration of the contact management system know as Salesforce
• Create new reporting capabilities as needed.
• Provide support functions as needed.
• Maintain, enhance and create workflows, functions and configurations within the Salesforce environment.
• Back Up of Salesforce Data

Training will be provided

Salesforce experience not required but recommended.
We are looking for a candidate who is detail orientated and has good computer skills with excel and other Microsoft Offices features.

If you are interested please contact Katherine crm@catamarans.com

The Catamaran Company, which owns and manages the world’s largest catamaran website, www.catamarans.com, is looking for a permanent onsite Web Editor to help architect and re-build our sister website, www.2hulls.com.
2hulls.com has an excellent history in the yachting industry and is considered one of the pioneers in web boat publishing.

The Editor will be responsible for giving the 2hulls.com website a new lease on life and help it reemerge as a major resource for boat buyers and boat sellers.

The Web Content Editor is a good communicator with the ability to simplify and clearly present detailed information on the website for our customers.

This person will use customer feedback and their own initiative to create simple and effective websites that allow our customers to find their dream boat quickly and at the right price.

This person will be responsible for the following broad areas and will work with other departments to achieve success:

RESPONSIBILITES

• Clean User Interface
• Simple navigation structure
• Simple boat search screens
• Simple and useful boat detail pages
• Easy access to Boat Images
• Organizing , arranging and disseminating website boat copy
• Working with the web operations team to automate information when appropriate
• Using reporting to monitor and improve all the above areas

The person will be a self-starter with a strong desire to make the website easy to use for our customers who may be buying and selling a boat.

The Web Editor will have excellent written and verbal communication skills and will most likely have a marketing background, preferably within the boating industry (although this not an absolute requirement).

Our ideal candidate is a recent graduate (or about to graduate) in a related marketing/communications discipline but again this is not an absolute requirement.  

REQUIREMENTS

• Ability to use Microsoft products such as Word and Excel
• Familiarity with websites and they way they function
• The candidate does not need any hard-core technical ‘web’ skills, simply an ability to present and implement good ideas for our website.

Build exciting web apps for the world’s leading catamaran website
Catamarans.com has an opening for a full-time Interactive Web Developer experienced with ASP.NET, C#, and perhaps web services. This brand-new position offers an exciting opportunity to use leading edge Internet technologies to develop interactive Customer Experience Management (CEM) solutions.

We are looking for a promising graduate who thinks outside-the-box and has a passion .NET (and open source!) technology. You should feel comfortable programming in asp.net / c# and general web technologies..
This person would grow with a company currently developing an outstanding reputation in the exciting world of yachting catamarans.  You would become part of a web team whose sole goal is world domination using Catamarans.com as the springboard for exciting new web applications.

Specifically you would be involved in helping deploy and extend an open-source .NET web portal/CMS which integrates with both Catamarans.com and the world’s biggest CRM, salesforce.com.    

Projects like this do not come about every day and you will have the opportunity to help define the vision and nature of web programming in the company.
Over time you will deploy additional asp.net/c# apps on top of the portal and website. These could include web 2.0 devices such as google maps, blogs, forums, surveys, voting polls and other custom template designs. 

Minimum Requirements:
* 1-3 Years with ASP.NET, C#, Visual Studio .NET
* DHTML (Javascript/CSS/AJAX)
* Windows Server and IIS Administration
* 2-4 year degree in Computer Science or related discipline

Experience with the following preferred:
* Object Oriented Programming
* SQL Server 2005
* Master Pages, ASP.NET 2.0 Web Parts

The following experience would be useful too although not a requirement:
* Salesforce.com CRM
* Google API (Maps, AdWords, other)
* Web services / SOAP
* Content Management Systems
* eXtreme Programming or SCRUM
* NUnit
* Subversion or CVS
* WatiN

X-factor requirements:
*  A desire to learn and be part of team
* A passion for .NET
* A passion for building cutting-edge web applications
* Demonstrate problem solving and adherence to best practices

Compensation and Benefits
* Health coverage
* Paid Time Off
* Flexitime
* A relaxed, easy going lifestyle
* Overseas trips
* Yearly bonuses

This is fantastic starter position for a programmer who wants to grow and develop with an exciting company and come up with web solutions that blow our competition away.

Contact crm@catamarans.com

Due to high volume of sales of our brokerage listings The Catamaran Co. is seeking fully licensed captains for sea trials and deliveries.

Contact gaida@catamarans.com

Tortola base is looking for a yacht technician to join their team - if you'd like to re-locate to the sunny Caribbean then send your resume to:

craig@catamarans.com.

Although we have recently filled this position, we are still welcoming applications and these will be kept on file and considered when another position arises.