Freelance Tri-lingual Sales Consultant. (Part-time) Sheffield, South Yorkshire, UK
Experienced in management, supervisor, market research, engineering, translating, field sales and able to communicate with people on all levels. Speak fluent Mandarin, Cantonese and English.
| Rating: | Unrated (New) |
| Hourly Rate / Cost: | £20.00 per hour |
| Daily Rate / Cost: | £150.00 per day |
| Available From: | Now |
| Seller ID: | 250635 |
CV (Curriculum Vitae) / Résumé
Company: Carphone Warehouse (Sheffield) (A multi-billion telecommunications Company)
Position: Tri-lingual Sales Consultant. (Part-time)
Dates: 2006 - present
1) Generating sales for company and providing quality customer service.
2) Translating, generating sales and provide customer sales for people from China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia and other Mandarin or Cantonese spoken countries.
Company: DTE Marketing (Sheffield) (A New Marketing Company, Client: MBNA, Talk-Talk)
Position: Salesman, Team Leader, Training Manager. (Full-time)
Dates: 2005 - 2006
1) Generating sales (field sales) for company and providing quality customer service.
2) Making sure team members meet targets and improving customer service.
3) Training new people. Setting individual and team targets. Running impacts to maximise sales standards. Resolving problems.
4) Recruiting new people to join our business.
Company: Oracle Marketing (Manchester) (One of the UK largest Marketing Company)
Position: Project Manager, coordinator and Territory Manager, coordinator (Client: RSPCA, AFBP, RETHINK, Dogs trust, MHF and other charities) (Full-time)
Dates: 2004 - 2005
Reason of leaving: Transfer to its sister company
1) Using Software to coordinate territories. Analyse and coordinate, for each employee, work to maximise sales. Preparation and presentation of territory sales reports. Monitor and report performance to managing director.
2) Problem solving including making quick and effective decisions to maximise sales and avoid/deal with problems.
3) Working closely with managing director to make sure office runs smoothly.
4) Responsible for Sales forecasting, budgets, stock levels and managing 80+ field Salesman in the field.
5) Responsible for providing strategy and advice for managing director.
Company: Tuscan Marketing (Manchester) (A World Leading Marketing Company)
Position: Salesman, Team Leader and Training Manager (Client: nPower) (Full-time)
Dates: 2003 - 2004
Reason of leaving: Promote to its sister company
1) Generating sales (field sales) for company and providing quality customer service.
2) Making sure team members meet targets and improving customer service.
3) Training new people. Setting individual and team targets. Running sales impacts to maximise sales standards. Resolving problems.
Company: Genico S.R.L. (Padova, Italy) (A European Food company)
Position: Production Supervisor & Maintenance engineer & Project manager (Full-time and Part-time)
Dates: 1995 - 2003
Reason of leaving: Decided to settle in UK.
2001-2003 (Project manager)
1) Responsible for breakdowns, stock levels and machine maintenance.
2) Responsible for budgets, new installations that may affect main plant running and breakdowns.
3) Responsible for planned/scheduled maintenance and control scheduled maintenance systems aligned to production requirements, for all mechanical and plant equipment.
4) Responsible for maintaining costs and expenditures within budgetary limits for mechanical engineering requirements.
5) Responsible for 12 staff.
1998-2001 (Maintenance engineer)
1) Responsible for the management and supervising of workers and machines.
2) Responsible for ensuring all user departments are provided with effective engineering services.
3) Responsible for 7 staff
1995-2000 (Production Supervisor, Hygiene Inspector and Market research co-ordinator)
1) Monitoring hygiene of the factory, staff and products.
2) Office skills and Telesales.
3) Market research to provide strategy and advice for the company. Conducting market research in existing and potential trading areas. Gather market intelligence analyses products, applications and competitors.
Company Name: Life of Your Own (Tunbridge-wells, UK)
Position: Supported Employment / Life Skills Specialist
Date: From Feb/March 2000. (Part-time)
Reason of leaving: Contract finished.
1) Helping a person with disabilities in different working and living situations.
2) Planning and organising use of time.
3) Flexibility with amount of support needed to accomplish job success.
4) Team-building with the community as well as with co-workers. Advocating to the public for an individual
Company: Brunel University (London, UK)
Position: Work Experience Trainee (Part-time)
Dates: 1998 - 2002
Reason of leaving: Finished University.
Experienced to operate engineering machinery (including electrical skills)and softwares. (With Certificate issued by University)
Company: P.C.F (Hong Kong)
Position: Import/Export administrator (Part-time)
Date: 1993-1995
Reason of leaving: Moved to UK for further study.
1) Customer service (Telephone), contacting clients, telesales, collating information for business analysis.
2) General administrator work including: answering telephone, filing, faxing, and photocopying…etc
3) Assistant accountant: to assist accountant to deal with documents (LC, invoices and other documents) using computer software and spreadsheets (Excel, Word, Symphony and WordPerfect)
Advanced computer skills in various packages including:
General Office:
MS Office 2000 and XP/Word/Excel/Access/Publisher/PowerPoint /Map Point UK/Internet/Money 2000/ Front Page ’98 and above/ Lotus Notes, OpenOffice, KOffice.
Able to install and configure/troubleshoots:
Windows 3.x, 9x, 2000, ME, XP, DOS, MS-DOS, Any Linux (including Red Hat, Mandrake (Mandriva), Debian...etc) and FreeBSD 5.1-Release and above.
Web Design:
Macromedia Dreamweaver 3.0 and above, Macromedia Fireworks 3.0 and above, Macromedia Freehand 9.0 and above, Macromedia Director 8.0 and above, Macromedia Flash 4.0 and above, Corel Draw 6.0 and above, PhotoDraw and some other Ulead video editing programs.
Programming:
Visual Basic 6.0, Visual Fox 6.0, Borland Delphi 5.0,Learning ASP.net, ASP, CGI, perl, javascript, php and mySQL.
Engineering:
AutoCAD 2000, Fluent, Ansys, and other CFD and FEA computer engineering programs. MATLAB6.0 and Simlink.
Basics:
Solaris , SunOS, Chinese input, SolidWorks, 3D Studio MAX R4.
09/2006 The Guild awarded: Master of craftsman (plastering)
09/2006 The Guild awarded: Master of craftsman (joinery)
09/2006 The Guild awarded: Master of craftsman (brick-laying)
09/2006 The Guild awarded: Master of craftsman (tiling)
09/2006 The Guild awarded: Master of craftsman (plumbing)
Employment History
(Oct 2006 to Sep 2007)
Tri-lingual Sales Consultant. (Part-time)
sheffield1) Generating sales for company and providing quality customer service.
2) Translating, generating sales and provide customer sales for people from China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia and other Mandarin or Cantonese spoken countries.
(Jan 2006 to Oct 2006)
Salesman, Team Leader, Training Manager
sheffield1) Generating sales (field sales) for company and providing quality customer service.
2) Making sure team members meet targets and improving customer service.
3) Training new people. Setting individual and team targets. Running impacts to maximise sales standards. Resolving problems.
4) Recruiting new people to join our business.
(Sep 2004 to Dec 2005)
: Project Manager, coordinator and Territory Manager, coordinator
Oracle Marketing, manchester1) Using Software to coordinate territories. Analyse and coordinate, for each employee, work to maximise sales. Preparation and presentation of territory sales reports. Monitor and report performance to managing director.
2) Problem solving including making quick and effective decisions to maximise sales and avoid/deal with problems.
3) Working closely with managing director to make sure office runs smoothly.
4) Responsible for Sales forecasting, budgets, stock levels and managing 80+ field Salesman in the field.
5) Responsible for providing strategy and advice for managing director.
(Sep 2003 to Sep 2004)
Salesman, Team Leader and Training Manager
Tuscan Marketing, manchester1) Generating sales (field sales) for company and providing quality customer service.
2) Making sure team members meet targets and improving customer service.
3) Training new people. Setting individual and team targets. Running sales impacts to maximise sales standards. Resolving problems.
(Sep 1995 to Aug 2003)
: Production Supervisor & Maintenance engineer & Project manager
Genico S.R.L., Padova, Italy2001-2003 (Project manager)
1) Responsible for breakdowns, stock levels and machine maintenance.
2) Responsible for budgets, new installations that may affect main plant running and breakdowns.
3) Responsible for planned/scheduled maintenance and control scheduled maintenance systems aligned to production requirements, for all mechanical and plant equipment.
4) Responsible for maintaining costs and expenditures within budgetary limits for mechanical engineering requirements.
5) Responsible for 12 staff.
1998-2001 (Maintenance engineer)
1) Responsible for the management and supervising of workers and machines.
2) Responsible for ensuring all user departments are provided with effective engineering services.
3) Responsible for 7 staff
1995-2000 (Production Supervisor, Hygiene Inspector and Market research co-ordinator)
1) Monitoring hygiene of the factory, staff and products.
2) Office skills and Telesales.
3) Market research to provide strategy and advice for the company. Conducting market research in existing and potential trading areas. Gather market intelligence analyses products, applications and competitors.
(Jul 2000 to Sep 2000)
Supported Employment / Life Skills Specialist
Life of Your Own , Tunbridge-wells1) Helping a person with disabilities in different working and living situations.
2) Planning and organising use of time.
3) Flexibility with amount of support needed to accomplish job success.
4) Team-building with the community as well as with co-workers. Advocating to the public for an individual
(Sep 1993 to Sep 1995)
Import/Export administrator
P.C.F , Hong Kong1) Customer service (Telephone), contacting clients, telesales, collating information for business analysis.
2) General administrator work including: answering telephone, filing, faxing, and photocopying…etc
3) Assistant accountant: to assist accountant to deal with documents (LC, invoices and other documents) using computer software and spreadsheets (Excel, Word, Symphony and WordPerfect)
Professional Qualifications
Brunel University, Mechanical with Aeronautical Engineering (BEng Hons)
1998 - 2002 (HESA ID: 0000980414846)
Mount St. Mary’s College GCSE and A level, including Maths, Physics, Chemistry and Chinese Language.
1995 - 1998
09/2006 The Guild awarded: Master of craftsman (plastering)
09/2006 The Guild awarded: Master of craftsman (joinery)
09/2006 The Guild awarded: Master of craftsman (brick-laying)
09/2006 The Guild awarded: Master of craftsman (tiling)
09/2006 The Guild awarded: Master of craftsman (plumbing)
Education
(Sep 1998 to Jul 2002)
Brunel University
Mechanical with Aeronautical Engineering (BEng Hons)
(Sep 1995 to Jul 1998)
Mount St. Mary’s College
GCSE and A level, including Maths, Physics, Chemistry and Chinese Language
Assignment History
(This Seller has recently been shortlisted or contracted for the following people4 assignment)
- Freelance Account Manager: Account management and general client support/relationship exercises.
Categories & Freelance Skills
Administration Support
Categories
- Data Entry
- HR
- Languages
- Office Management
- Personal Assistant
- Presentations
- Reception
- Research
- Sales Support
- Secretarial Support
- Word Processing
Skills
- 1-2-3 (Lotus)
- Access (Microsoft)
- Cantonese (Languages)
- Complaint Handling
- Customer Service
- English (Languages)
- Excel (Microsoft)
- FrontPage (Microsoft)
- Letter Writing
- Lotus
- Mandarin (Languages)
- Microsoft
- Notes (Lotus)
- Outlook (Microsoft)
- PowerPoint (Microsoft)
- Publisher (Microsoft)
- Telephony
- Word (Microsoft)
- WordPerfect
Engineering & Technical
Categories
Skills
- Property Development (Construction - Building & Construction - Experience)
- Residential (Construction - Building & Construction - Experience - Property Development)
IT & Internet
Categories
- Foreign Languages
- Hardware
- Operating Systems
- Programming
- Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
- Software Testing
- Web Design & Usability
- Web Development/Prog
- Web E-commerce
Skills
- Adobe (Web Design & Usability)
- Ajax (Web Development/Prog)
- ASP (Programming)
- Bash Shell (Operating Systems)
- Basic (Programming)
- Cantonese (Foreign Languages)
- Debian (Operating Systems - Linux)
- DOS (Operating Systems - Microsoft)
- DOS (Programming)
- Dreamweaver (Web Design & Usability - Macromedia)
- Fireworks (Web Design & Usability - Macromedia)
- Flash (Web Design & Usability - Macromedia)
- FreeBSD (Operating Systems)
- Freehand (Web Design & Usability - Macromedia)
- FrontPage (Web Design & Usability - Microsoft)
- FrontPage (Web Development/Prog - Microsoft)
- GoLive (Web Design & Usability - Adobe)
- IIS (Web Development/Prog)
- Illustrator (Web Design & Usability - Adobe)
- JSP (Web Development/Prog)
- Linux (Operating Systems)
- Macromedia (Web Design & Usability)
- Mandarin (Foreign Languages)
- Microsoft (Web Design & Usability)
- Microsoft (Operating Systems)
- Microsoft (Web Development/Prog)
- Online Payment Systems (Web E-commerce)
- Pascal (Programming)
- Perl (Programming)
- Photoshop (Web Design & Usability - Adobe)
- PHP (Web Development/Prog)
- Pocket PC (Operating Systems - Microsoft)
- QBasic (Programming)
- QuickBASIC (Programming)
- Red Hat (Operating Systems - Linux)
- Server Installation (Hardware)
- Slackware (Operating Systems - Linux)
- SUSE (Operating Systems - Linux)
- VBA (Programming)
- VBScript (Web Development/Prog - Microsoft)
- Visual Basic (Programming - Visual Studio)
- Visual Basic .NET (Programming - Visual Studio)
- Visual Studio (Programming)
- Web Design (Web Design & Usability)
- Web Development (Web Development/Prog)
- Win32 (Operating Systems - Microsoft)
- Windows 2000 (Operating Systems - Microsoft)
- Windows 2003 (Operating Systems - Microsoft)
- Windows 9x (Operating Systems - Microsoft)
- Windows CE (Operating Systems - Microsoft)
- Windows NT (Operating Systems - Microsoft)
- Windows Vista (Operating Systems - Microsoft)
- Windows XP (Operating Systems - Microsoft)
- X Windows (Operating Systems)
- XHTML (Web Development/Prog)
Management Consultancy
Categories
Skills
- Advertising Strategy (Marketing Consulting)
- Cantonese (Languages)
- Communications Strategy (Marketing Consulting)
- Competitive Analysis
- Cost Reduction
- Course Delivery (HR Consulting - Training)
- Course Design (HR Consulting - Training)
- Direct Selling (Marketing Consulting)
- English (Languages)
- Evaluation (Charity & Not-for-profit - Service development)
- Job Evaluation (HR Consulting)
- Mandarin (Languages)
- Market Research (Marketing Consulting)
- Marketing Strategy (Marketing Consulting)
- Monitoring (Charity & Not-for-profit - Service development)
- Multi-National Organisations
- New Product Launch (Marketing Consulting)
- Recruitment - Staff (HR Consulting)
- Sales Development (Marketing Consulting)
- Sales Training (HR Consulting)
- Service development (Charity & Not-for-profit)
- Team Building (HR Consulting)
- Training (Project Consultancy)
- Training (HR Consulting)
Marketing/Advertising/PR
Categories
- Advertising
- Charity Fundraising
- Design
- Languages
- Market Research
- Marketing
- Print/Production
- Product Management
- Public Relations
Skills
- 123 (Lotus)
- Advertisement (Design)
- Adwords Campaigns
- B2C
- Blogging (Public Relations - Web PR)
- Cantonese (Languages)
- Donor Care (Charity Fundraising)
- English (Languages)
- Excel (Microsoft)
- Individual (Charity Fundraising - Donor Care)
- Lotus
- Mandarin (Languages)
- Market Research (Market Research)
- Marketing Research (Public Relations)
- Microsoft
- New Product Development (Product Management)
- New Product Release (Product Management)
- Notes (Lotus)
- Online Opinion Polls (Public Relations)
- Outlook (Microsoft)
- Point of Sale Material
- PowerPoint (Microsoft)
- Presentation Delivery
- Presentation Preparation
- Product Research (Market Research)
- Promotional Material (Design)
- Promotions
- RSS (Public Relations - Web PR)
- Slides
- Sponsorship
- Strategy Development
- Web PR (Public Relations)
- Word (Microsoft)
- Wordperfect
Sales/Account Management
Categories
Skills
- B2C
- Cantonese (Languages)
- Competitor Analysis (Sales Management/Strategy)
- English (Languages)
- Excel (Microsoft)
- Lotus
- Mandarin (Languages)
- Market Analysis (Sales Management/Strategy)
- Microsoft
- Negotiation
- Outlook (Microsoft)
- PowerPoint (Microsoft)
- Presentation Delivery
- Presentation Preparation
- Product Sales
- Relationship Building (Account/Client Management)
- Solution Sales
- Word (Microsoft)
- Wordperfect

