Alastair Cotton Email & Phone Number

London, GB

London, England, United Kingdom

In late 2023, Gilead launched a new Global Congresses and Events team, bringing together key congress and meetings activity within one global team for the first time. As a key member of this new team, I am the lead for Event Operations and Technology. My key responsibilities include:- Defining and managing new ways of working within the new global.

London, England, United Kingdom

Led global events activity outside the USA for the Commercial organisation. Key responsibilities included:- driving performance and leading delivery of key event management services for Gilead's Tier 1 and Tier 2 congress activity outside the USA- management of Gilead's outsourced event management resources, including 20+ team members at Gilead's preferred.

London, England, United Kingdom

London, England, United Kingdom

As the Senior Meetings Manager, I am the meetings and events subject matter expert for GSK's global travel and meetings operations team. In this role, I work extensively with colleagues across the globe at all levels of the business, acting as a business partner to deliver guidance, best practice and create solutions. I also play a key role in the team.

London, United Kingdom

London, United Kingdom

London, United Kingdom

Having first started my career at Gemini I returned as a Director with a broad remit of responsibilities across the business. Central to the role was delivering international events for our clients in the healthcare and professional services sectors, developing effective relationships and managing events from inception to delivery. This included providing.

London, United Kingdom

As the New Business Manager at CMS, I operated firmwide to identify, develop and manage a pipeline of new business opportunities and campaigns. These ranged from individual ad-hoc reactive opportunities to longer-term structured marketing campaigns. Core activities included working with partners to develop compelling client propositions and communicating.

As a bid manager at DWF LLP I delivered the full range of bids and tenders across the firm, managing the process from start-to-finish for all types of opportunity. Responsibilities included assessing bid opportunities; guiding the team on bid/no-bid decisions; chairing kick-off and subsequent planning meetings; managing the bid process; managing the.

I led the Sales Support Team with responsibility for a number of key activities within the company, encompassing: event management, procurement for events, supplier management, business tenders and event proposals. As a member of the senior management team, I was also involved with overall company management planning and strategy.

I established the new Sales Support Team at Gemini and redesigned the procurement process for events. I trained new team members in supplier sourcing, negotiation, proposal writing and budget management. Using my redesigned system I achieved a significant increase in productivity and quality levels, tripling the number of successful event proposals.

In addition to my day-to-day event management role, I co-ordinated an extensive winning tender for event management services for a major corporate client over the course of 12 months during 2005. My role was central to the success of this bid, communicating between the management and finance teams to source information, analyse it and then to present it.

At HFS I gained excellent communication and negotiation skills through selling a range of financial products. In doing so I developed an in-depth knowledge of sales techniques and achieved the top sales targets consistently.

Mba Essentials Certificate, Business Administration And Management, General, 92.3%

Meng, Mechanical Engineering

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