Andrew Richards Email & Phone Number

Portsmouth, United Kingdom

Bringing 10+ years of senior management of high performing sales, marketing and training teams to the recruitment industry. I set up Activ8 Recruitment to provide a value driven recruitment service to the IT and technology sectors principally in sales, operations and training.We offer permanent and contract placement, as well as outsourced recruitment.

Portsmouth, United Kingdom

Creation and management of a warehousing & logistics business with user-friendly online interface- We operate a trusted partner network enabling us to also offer Point of Sale (POS), merchandise and uniform creation.IN year 3 we pivoted to a predominantly SaaS based solution that can plug into our customers' existing physical warehouse, whilst still.

Reading, United Kingdom

Working with Microsoft (on behalf of McCurrrach) to increase brand and product advocacy and reduce customer consideration time across computing, gaming and cloud business solutions.My teams were focussed on:Retail - Adding incremental sales through physical retail presence, digital interruption, social awareness and brand ambassador programmes. (Team size.

London, United Kingdom

Working on behalf of Mccurrach, I Designed and managed the successful pitch for the HMD (Nokia) account.Designed the field team shape and recruited all level of personnelIntroduced E-learning and Events Vendors to NokiaDiversified the field team by adding BDM positions within the first year of operation.Won best product launch at the FMBE for launch of the.

Bracknell / Kingston Upon Thames

Working on behalf of REL - Strategic lead on the Nikon account from pitch win through to delivering over £8.5M retail revenue in year 2 of the contract.The activity was centred on consumer facing sales with a team ranging from 30 - 80 sales people across John Lewis, Dixons and Jessops.Accurate forecasting saw us hit 101% of retail revenue target driving.

Bracknell / Basingstoke

Strategic lead working closely with Motorola (contract via REL) to realise their retail objectives. This transcended the period of Motorola to Google to Lenovo ownership resulting in a change of team dynamic and deliverable as we moved from a product focus to a brand awareness/education strategy.At various times the account included:A retail training /.

Swindon / London

Managing a team of sales/marketing executives (on behalf of infinite) who implement TomTom's field marketing needs. This covers, training, sales, events, incremental space increase and consumer shows.In addition I was responsible for reporting, data analysis/insight and call file management.Tactical costing, briefing and implementation of short term.

Swindon / London

Managing retail implementation of new release DVD (on behalf of infinite). Included client relationship management and team management of 80 retail merchandisers.

Cape Tribulation - North Queensland - Australia

I operationally managed an ecologically focussed zipline tour in the Daintree Rainforest (North Queensland), in addition to being part of the tour team for the zipline and conducting guided rainforest walks.Managed every operational aspect of the ride from being part of the build team through to the 10,000th customer and beyond.Team management of 6 guides.