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Freelance Owner / Freelance Maidenhead, Berkshire, UK

Experienced Business Manager with extensive business knowledge, particularly within Financial Services, Investment Banking and Telco organisations.

Rating:Unrated (New)
Hourly Rate:£50.00
Available From:Now
Seller ID: 283505
: Offers a discounted hourly rate to registered charities

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CV

An experienced Sales / Business Development Manager with extensive Commercial sector knowledge, particularly within Financial Services, Investment Banking and Legal Services. Possessing strong analytical and investigative skills combined with excellent oral and written communication, with an excellent ability to motivate and inspire others, to make informed decisions and offer valued solutions to ensure first class service delivery to clients.

Employment History

(Mar 2008 & ongoing)

Owner / Freelance

UK

• Approached by a private consultancy to work with them on a freelance basis, to help establish their Sales team structure / HR & L&D processes and all-round best practice
• To conduct a feasibility study into whether their product & service offering was viable within the Financial Services market
• To assist my client with introducing their products and services (BPO/RPO/MTS) into the Financial Services sector via my network of contacts


(Mar 2007 to Mar 2008)

European Account Director (Solutions Architecture)

UK/Europe

• Head-Hunted from KnowledgePool Group Ltd
• Responsible for a portfolio of ‘High Value’ Customer Accounts in order to increase revenue and improve service through building existing ‘product sales’ business into Managed Training Services
• Europe-wide remit
• Additionally functioning across the group as a Solutions Architect to recover existing accounts which have fallen into service failure.
• Implementing and re-engineering processes to enable faster and smoother transactional services within Business As Usual (BAU) activities to allow stakeholders to focus on their Learning requirements and needs
• Responsibility for managing all members of the Account Teams within my portfolio (20 team members)
• Successfully increased revenue for the companies largest Telco client by over 200% within 3 months
• Successfully recovered a ‘failed’ managed service client (one of the worlds largest Investment Banks) from a forced tender situation
• Successfully designed a global managed service for one of the worlds largest Mobile Phone Manufacturers, resulting in global contract award
• Industry sectors: Financial Services (Investment Banking) & Telco


(Sep 2005 to May 2007)

International Account Director

UK

• ‘Head-hunted’ from the Capita Group to sell BPO - Learning Services to Financial, Legal & Professional Service companies
• Services include: LMS, TNA, Solution Consultancy, Managed Learning Services, Evaluation, ROI, Programmes and Delivery services
• International remit
• Reporting to the Chief Executive Officer
• Responsibility for winning the firms largest Managed Service contract with the world’s largest Investment Bank (worth approx. £15M) – also resonsible for contract extension into northern USA and Asiapac
• Strategic consultancy role with clients to design the best solution to meet their needs – allowing them to see their L&D function as a business in its own right
• Heavily focussed on Relationships
• Responsibility for managing on-site / off-site client delivery teams and overall commercial responsibility with clients
• Close working relationships with Client HR, L&D and Procurement departments
• Extensive Bid & Proposal writing experience
• Working with the Marketing team, organising Client Speaker events, Press Releases and networking functions
• Industry sectors: Financial Services (Investment Banking) / Telco / Pharmaceutical


(Jan 2003 to Sep 2005)

Lead Business Development Manager

Capita Group plc, UK

• Remit to sell Business Process Out-sourcing solutions to Central Government dept’s
• Services include Full Cycle Recruitment, Change Process Consulting and Business Psychology (Assessment) services
• Reporting to the Commercial Director
• Responsibility for overseeing (and winning) a two year extension deal for Transport for London “Congestion Charge” scheme. Estimated £18mil. revenue
• Responsibility for the development and performance of 4 Business Development Managers (including KPI targets and personal development) across 3 sites
• Full P & L responsibility for 2 profit centres
• Business unit revenue in excess of £25M per annum
• Strategic consultancy with major client bases to improve process and change management programs
• Responsibility for National & Regional weekly sales meetings with Business unit Managers and acting as an objective ‘sounding board’ for new ideas on ways to move business forward
• Building strong relationships with internal and external customers alike to achieve desired results
• Taking a ‘hands-on’ approach with service delivery when needed to ensure deadlines are met and SLA’s are adhered to
• Problem solving and complaint handling responsibility
• Ensuring a positive ‘can-do’ attitude is adopted to maximize colleague & customer motivation
• Taking full ownership of any problematic issues arising (internal & external) to ensure customer ‘buy-in’ trust in finding resolutions
• Responsibility for project & business model solution design & implementation within Financial Services and Investment Banking, from ‘cradle to grave’
• Operating through close internal relations with HR & Line Managers to concentrate on defining efficient process design and effective expenditure control, relating to all aspects of Resourcing & HR
• Tender/Proposal writing supervision
• Third Party Supplier performance reviews, analysis and PSL formation and management
• Effective management of on-site personnel and maximising on their development
• Responsibility for development of 2 Business Development executives
• Conducting Appraisals, Promotion boards and disciplinary situations


(Jun 1999 to Dec 2002)

Regional Manager – Recruitment (Commercial)

Sebastian-Crawford Solutions, Edinburgh, UK

• Establishing & managing SLA’s, and implementing procedures to ‘streamline’ client Resourcing issues
• Implementing & controlling E-technologies
• Taking co-ordination responsibility for several key personnel
• Full P&L responsibility & reporting to the Managing Director.
• Taking an intensive, strategic advisory role within the company in order to help reduce client recruitment spend, reduce ‘time to hire’ & increase candidate quality and staff retention
• Responsibility for regular review meetings with the Managing Director
• Designing & facilitating Candidate Assessment Centres, including the evaluation of psychometric resources
• Conducting competency based interviews
• Vertical expansion through increasing Clients’ Brand awareness to potential Direct Applicants
• Vertical Business Development expansion through a number of Client relationships
• Focussing on Candidate & Client to streamline the recruitment process for both parties
• Interviewing candidates for positions in the Medical/Pharmaceutical/Devices sector at middle to senior levels
Taking responsibility for the performance of 8 regionally based consultants & their training and development

Professional Qualifications

• A “Practitioner” in Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP)
• CIPD qualified

Education

(Jun 2007 to May 2000)

University of Edinburgh

Bsc Pharmacology (Hons) (2:1)


(Sep 1994 to Jun 1997)

University of Edinburgh

PhD Biochemistry

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