Freelance Marketing & Sales Manager Reading, Berkshire, UK
Hardworking experienced professional Sales & Marketing Manager looking for a challenging role to create, develop and closes business opportunities inline with budget & on forecast.

| Rating: | Unrated (New) |
| Hourly Rate / Cost: | £22.22 per hour (ex. VAT) |
| Daily Rate / Cost: | £177.78 per day (ex. VAT) |
| Available From: | Now |
| Seller ID: | 329519 |

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CV (Curriculum Vitae) / Résumé
Experienced and innovate Sales & Marketing Manager that is results driven with excellent professional interpersonal skills. Managing Sales teams has been part of my life for over 15 year, in that time I have recruited teams of sales personnel of all levels from internal telemarketing staff to external field based Sales Executives & Account Managers. My open and approachable management style allows my teams to develop creative and rewarding careers while delivering sales to forecast and to budget while opening and develop long term relationships with new and existing customers and prospects alike. I strongly believe that leadership & discipline are paramount to a successful sales team. By mentoring and developing sales and interpersonal skills, by building confidence and a “Can do go get attitude” ensures stability and both personal & company success.
As a Sales & Marketing Manager the monitoring of daily key activities such as call and appointment rates, funnel creation activities, pipeline reporting, and detailed forecasting provide a sound bases to monitor the teams progress. Weekly or monthly sales meeting provide the team with a platform to share success, support and mentor each other and to feel part of a successful team.
As a Marketing Manager I have been involved in a large number campaigns from regular eshots, product launches, website design, copy & photography creation, customer and prospect events & shows, customer entertainment, documentation to name a few.
Key Elements of Experience
• Experienced Sales & Marketing Manager
• Managing Account Base of £6M Revenue across 630 Accounts
• Managing Sales team targets of £15K per month GP per person
• Managed Sales & Telesales teams up to 23
• Management of CRM / Sales systems for activity and forecast statistics
• Recruitment, Training & Mentoring of Sales & Telemarketing teams
• Strong performance related man management skills
• Budgetary control, Profit & Loss and Incentives control
• Forecasting, Pipeline Creation, Marketing & Campaign Management
• Across industry experience IT Sales, Support Contract Sales, Hospitality Sales, Computer Hardware, Software & Solution Sales, Membership Sales, Corporate Entertainment Sales
Employment History
(Apr 2009 to Sep 2009)
Sales & Marketing Consultant
West MidlandsSales & Marketing Management Consultancy and lead generation
(Nov 2008 to Apr 2009)
HP Server & Storage Channel / Account Manager
BracknellLooking after 21 Gold Resellers as a Channel Manager for HP Servers & Storage
(May 2008 to Nov 2008)
Audio Visual / IT Sales & Project Manager
UK WideSelf employed contract work, installation and managing AV & IT projects thought out the UK
(Jan 2007 to Apr 2008)
Sales & Product Marketing Manager
Milton KeynesIT Services & Technical Courier Services Provider
Re-banding of the business
Creation of www.echoltd.com
CRM & pipe line creation and monitoring
Sales Management Reports
Key Achievements -
Sales Management Achievements
• Recruiting and Training a new sale team of 12 Sales, 8 Telesales & 3 Support personnel
• Managing an account base of £6M (630 accounts) of IT services & support contracts
• Achieving a net sales growth of 10% while reducing contract attrition
• Winning sales person of the year two years on both personal achievement & team achievement
• Increasing sales of a hospitality business from £400K to £500K in one year
• Increasing membership sales by 25% for live music venue
• Creating & Managing technical sales shows at the NEC, Metropole (Brighton), Cowes etc
• Creating a new website and company branding for echo ltd (www.echoltd.com)
• Managing suspect, prospect and customer data within the Sales CRM systems
• Selling personally £4M solution sale into the financial market & out sourcing contracts
• Creating and managing sales support / tender response team
Hospitality Marketing Achievements
• Arranging major events at Belfry, Cowes, Ascot, Henley and a number of major product launches
• Increasing sales of a hospitality business by £100K in one year
• Selling personally £4M IT solution IT into the financial market & an £4M out sourcing contract
• Selling 25 Weddings, 100+ Party Nights, Fireworks Events, Christmas Functions, Beer Festivals
and weekly Live Music Events
• Winning sales person of the year two years on both personal achievement & team achievement
• Recruiting and Training a new sale team of 12 Sale, 8 Telesales & 3 Support personnel
• Having strong Project Management Skills and the attention to detail that has run a large number of
corporate and personal events
• Re-opening The Old Tramway Inn in Stratford Upon Avon & The Hare & Hounds Coventry
• Achieving net membership sales growth of 10% while reducing contract & membership attrition
• Increasing membership sales by 25% for live music venue and customer database for 400 clients
• Creating & Managing technical sales shows at the NEC, Metropole (Brighton) etc
• Creating a new website and company branding for echo ltd (www.echoltd.com)
• Managing suspect, prospect and customer data within the Sales CRM systems
• Creating and managing sales support / tender response team
• Creating a sales team where in 1 year a member of my staff won top sales person of the year
IT Marketing Achievements
• Creation of new brand for echo ltd
• Design and creation of new optimised website & corporate presentation (www.echoltd.com)
• Delivering product and update training to sales and sales support teams
• Delivering high quality customer entertainment event such as Jonathan Palmer Race Days
• Manning Stands and presenting at industry events
• Winning sales person of the year two years on both personal achievement & team achievement
• Increasing sales of a hospitality business from £400K to £500K in one year
• Increasing membership sales by 25% for live music venue and customer database for 400 clients
• Creating & Managing technical sales shows at the NEC, Metropole (Brighton), Cowes etc
• Managing suspect, prospect and customer data within the Sales CRM systems
• Selling personally £4M solution sales into the financial market & out sourcing contracts
• Creating and managing sales support / tender response team
Categories & Freelance Skills
Administration Support
Categories
Skills
- Complaint Handling
- Customer Service
- Excel (Microsoft)
- Letter Writing
- Microsoft
- Outlook (Microsoft)
- PowerPoint (Microsoft)
- Telephony
- Word (Microsoft)
Catering & Hospitality
Categories
Skills
- Conference & Banqueting
- General Management (Management)
- Leisure Management (Management)
- Management (Management)
- Night Club Management (Management)
- Pub/Bar Management (Management)
- Sales & Marketing (Management)
HR/Training & Development
Categories
Skills
- Absence Management (Performance Management)
- Appraisal Training (Performance Management)
- Appraising Performance (Performance Management)
- Career Development (Training & Development)
- Career Management (Training & Development)
- Career Progression (Talent Management)
- Coaching & Mentoring (Training & Development)
- Course Material Development (Training & Development)
- Delivery (Training & Development - Training)
- Disciplinary Issues (Performance Management)
- Education (Training & Development)
- Evaluation (Training & Development - Training)
- Executive Development (Training & Development)
- Exit Interviews (Talent Management)
- Induction Training (Training & Development)
- Leadership Development (Training & Development)
- Long Term Incentives (Talent Management)
- Managerial Development (Training & Development)
- Managing Difficult People (Performance Management)
- Needs Analysis (Training & Development - Training)
- People Development (Training & Development)
- Policies (Training & Development - Training)
- Programme Design (Training & Development - Training)
- Progression Planning (Talent Management)
- Secondment (Training & Development)
- Staff Morale (Performance Management)
- Staff Morale (Talent Management)
- Staff Retention (Talent Management)
- Talent Recognition (Talent Management)
- Team Building (Performance Management)
- Team Building (Training & Development)
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- Training (Training & Development)
IT & Internet
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- Customer Relationship Mgmt
- Hardware
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- IT Support
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- Project Management
- Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
- Web Design & User Experience
- Web E-commerce
Skills
- AlphaServer (Hardware - Compaq)
- Business Continuity
- Business Intelligence (Project Management)
- Business Process (IT Management)
- Campaign Management (Project Management)
- Change (Project Management - Process)
- Change Control (IT Management)
- Change Management (Project Management)
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- Compaq (Hardware)
- Configuration Management (IT Management)
- Consultancy (IT Management)
- Content Management
- Data Migration Management (IT Management)
- Dec Servers (Hardware)
- Design (Project Management - Process)
- Design (Project Management)
- Desktop Rollout (Project Management)
- Desktop Upgrades (Project Management)
- Digital Servers (Hardware)
- Disaster Planning (IT Support)
- Disaster Recovery (IT Support)
- Hardware Asset Management (IT Support)
- Hardware Installation (IT Management)
- Hardware Maintenance (IT Support)
- Hardware Upgrades (IT Support)
- Himalaya (Hardware - Compaq)
- HP (Hardware)
- HPC Servers (Hardware - Sun)
- Implementation Management (IT Management)
- Insourcing (IT Management)
- LAN (IT Support)
- Laptop and Notebook (IT Support)
- Leadership
- Man Management (Project Management)
- Managing Suppliers (Project Management)
- Mapping (Project Management - Process)
- Mentoring (Project Management)
- Microsoft (Operating Systems)
- Mobiles and PDAs (IT Support)
- mpe/ix Servers (Hardware - HP)
- On-site Support (IT Support)
- Operations Management (IT Management)
- Outsourcing (IT Management)
- PC Hardware
- PC Roll Outs (IT Support)
- PC Servers (Hardware - HP)
- People Management (IT Management)
- Proactive Maintenance (IT Support)
- Process (Project Management)
- Programme Management
- Project Initiation Document (Project Management)
- Project Management (Project Management)
- Project Office Management (Project Management)
- Project Support (Project Management)
- Proliant (Hardware - Compaq)
- RAID Array Configuration (Hardware)
- Re-engineering (IT Management - Business Process)
- Senior Management (IT Management)
- Server Configuration (Hardware)
- Server Deployment (Project Management)
- Server Installation (Hardware)
- Server Monitoring (IT Support)
- Server Specification (Hardware)
- Small Business (IT Support)
- SME (IT Support)
- Software Rollout (Project Management)
- Software Upgrades (IT Support)
- Solaris (Operating Systems - Sun)
- Solaris Sparc (Operating Systems - Sun)
- StorageWorks VA 7410 (Hardware - HP)
- Strategy Management (IT Management)
- Sun (Hardware)
- Sun (Operating Systems)
- Support by E-mail (IT Support)
- Support by Telephone (IT Support)
- Team Leadership (IT Management)
- Technical Servers (Hardware - HP)
- Third Line Support (IT Support)
- Ultrix (Operating Systems)
- Unix Servers (Hardware - HP)
- User Experience (Web Design & User Experience)
- WAN (IT Support)
- Web Design (Web Design & User Experience)
- Website Strategy
- WebTrends
- Windows 9x (Operating Systems - Microsoft)
- Windows XP (Operating Systems - Microsoft)
- Wireless Network (IT Support)
- Work Group (Hardware - Sun)
Management Consultancy
Categories
Skills
- Advertising Strategy (Marketing Consulting)
- Bid Advice (Tender Process)
- Bid Preparation (Tender Process)
- Bid Pricing (Tender Process)
- Bid Review (Tender Process)
- Business Plan Creation (Marketing Consulting)
- Communications Strategy (Marketing Consulting)
- Company Turn-round (Business Consulting)
- Competitive Analysis
- Cost Reduction
- Database Marketing (Marketing Consulting)
- Direct Selling (Marketing Consulting)
- Disaster Recovery
- e-Business Development
- Excel (Microsoft)
- General Management (Business Consulting)
- Interim Managing Director (Business Consulting)
- Interim Marketing Director (Marketing Consulting)
- Interim Operations Director (Business Consulting)
- Large Company - UK
- Marketing Management (Marketing Consulting)
- Marketing Strategy (Marketing Consulting)
- Microsoft
- New Product Launch (Marketing Consulting)
- PowerPoint (Microsoft)
- Re-structuring
- Risk Management
- Sales Development (Marketing Consulting)
- Sales Force Management (Business Consulting)
- SME Sector
- Systems Analysis
- Tender Process
- Word (Microsoft)
Marketing/Advertising/PR
Categories
Skills
- B2B
- Branding & Brand Management (Marketing)
- Campaign Implementation (Campaign Management)
- Conferences (Events)
- Database Management (Marketing)
- Database Segmentation
- Editing
- e-Marketing (Marketing)
- Excel (Microsoft)
- Exhibitions (Events)
- Exhibitions & Conferences (Marketing)
- External Communications
- Internal Communications
- Microsoft
- Outlook (Microsoft)
- Point of Sale Material
- PowerPoint (Microsoft)
- Presentation Delivery
- Presentation Preparation
- Promotions
- Retention Marketing (Marketing)
- Seminars (Events)
- Strategy Development
- Word (Microsoft)
Media & Creative
Categories
Skills
- Business to Business (Writing)
- Business to Consumer (Writing)
- IT & Internet (Writing)
- Marketing Copy (Writing)
- Promotional Material
- Proposals/RFPs (Writing)
- Technical
- Web Content (Writing)
Sales/Account Management
Categories
Skills
- Area Manager (Sales Management/Strategy - Job Level)
- Branch Manager (Sales Management/Strategy - Job Level)
- Competitor Analysis (Sales Management/Strategy)
- Country Manager (Sales Management/Strategy - Job Level)
- CRM Development (Sales Management/Strategy)
- CRM User Experience
- Excel (Microsoft)
- Job Level (Sales Management/Strategy)
- Microsoft
- Negotiation
- Outlook (Microsoft)
- PowerPoint (Microsoft)
- Presentation Delivery
- Presentation Preparation
- Product Sales
- Regional Manager (Sales Management/Strategy - Job Level)
- Relationship Building (Account/Client Management)
- Sales Director (Sales Management/Strategy - Job Level)
- Sales Manager (Sales Management/Strategy - Job Level)
- Word (Microsoft)

