Charity & Social Enterprise prioritising:- tackling poverty; employment & skills; volunteering opportunities; raising aspirations; improving community assets; fundraising strategy; bid writing; community consultation; community development; infrastructure support; accountancy support; established social enterprise; learning disability support; inclusion activities and improving health & wellbeing.Working with chair of trustees, directors and leadership team to develop the strategic direction of the charity, ensuring that the team delivers successful outcomes and to ensure effective governance is in place. Developed new opportunities & revenue streams; created new strategic partnerships; representing the sector at relevant board meetings I.e Solihull Employment and Skills Board. Responsible for change that has enabled the organisation to improve reach, financial stability and overall effectiveness in supporting beneficiaries. Twice finalists for "Transforming Lives" award at Locality National Awards. Presented with "Inclusivity" award at Houses of Parliament by Baroness Burt.

Strategic and operational responsibility for a Social Enterprise and Employment and Skills division of a registered charity. The social enterprise supports unemployed people, including mental health and disability cohorts. Facilitated through the delivery of Light Assembly (ISO9001 accredited), Packing and PAT Testing work at our industrial unit . The employment and skills work includes funded projects such as Skills for Jobs (Skills Funding Agency); and Talent Match (Big Lottery) & European funded projects. Our “The services provided are outstanding. Goods are always of excellent quality and delivered on time as required, the facilities are clean, tidy and organised.” Autins Group.

Yorkswood School & Evergreen (Family Hub). Previously Senior Leadership Team for the Unity Schools Collaborative in North Solihull - developing strategies to support secondary / primary / special schools in North Solihull, a major area of deprivation, with careers and enterprise related activities. Developing opportunities that will help raise the aspirations of young people; supporting local communities; creating sustainable employment opportunities; identifying / applying for funding that will benefit young people and their families; ensuring that there are a wide range of activities and opportunities for young people and their families; supporting the health and wellbeing agenda for families; and supporting businesses with their social responsibility commitments. Joint employment with Colebridge Trust.

Responsibility and involvement in a broad range of projects, including:- Legacy programme of regeneration area, digital inclusion, digital strategy for business, superfast broadband infrastructure, business engagement, enterprise / start-up support, management of enterprise spaces, social enterprise, marketing of business services, employment initiatives, health initiatives, social innovation, community development and stakeholder support. Community consultations, including new schools and other regeneration projects. Budget, line and project management responsibility. Experienced with procurement and working on European Funded programmes. Part of GBSLEP steering groups and contributed to new programme calls. Has created, organised and marketed events. Attended / presented cabinet meetings. Relationships with MP's, Cabinet Members, Ward Members, Local Enterprise Partnership, other local authorities, schools / colleges, strategic partners, private sector businesses, third sector organisations, voluntary groups and residents.

ACM-IT is the IT services arm of Oosha Ltd, supporting Charity, SME and Educational sectors with a broad range of technology services.Customers include Carillion, Age UK, Mencap and many other SME's and charities across the Midlands and surrounding areas. Multi-site specialists working with organisations such as Quality Solicitors & P3 Charity - improving inter-site connectivity.

Listed in Sunday Times best 100 SME's To Work For. Microsoft Gold IT support provider. Providing Managed IT Service and Cloud Computing to organisations in West Midlands & East Midlands. Services also include Hosted Exchange, Secure Online Backup and IT Hardware Supply. Developed relationships with schools, colleges and SME's. Worked with Chamber of Commerce and networked via other forums, including South Warwickshire Business Club.

Kalamazoo-Reynolds is a privately owned, worldwide organisation employing 6,000 people.Business Development of Managed Services (I.T), Online Backup and Hardware Support / Maintenance at IT Director / Finance Director/ IT Manager / Procurement / MD / IT Manager / Service Delivery Manager level.Solution selling, tendering, proposal writing, presenting, closing and account management / transition to account manager.In addition to the development of new business within the UK with the likes of Remploy, Conoco, HooverCandy, FERA and other corporate / public sector organisations. I was also responsible for: - management of internal / external telemarketing function to ensure new business appointments are generated for the field sales team (including incentive setting, objective setting and staff reviews); planning, development and execution of marketing campaigns (including e-shots & direct mail); monitoring of competitor developments; monitoring of market trends. Identifcation and evaluation of potential service delivery partners; attending trade exhibitions, conferences and networking events.

Stanley Security Solutions is a leading provider of Security, Communication and Time and Attendance systems. With over 20,000 customers in the UK, part of the Stanley Works, a New York Stock Exchange top 500 company and worldwide supplier of tools, hardware and security solutions across the globe.New business solution sales of Time and Attendance software system / HR management system, Access Control software and hardware, IP controlled CCTV and other integrated security solutions to organisations of all sizes. Sold into organisations such as the Home Office, Forensic Science Services, Newby Foundries and other private sector organisations.Selling to HR Directors, FD's, FM's, MD's, purchasing and IT. http://www.stanleysecuritysolutions.co.uk/

Employed in the London office of a major global IT / Telco recruitment company with preferred supplier status with organisations such as PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Accenture, Nokia, NHS, PITO and many other highly recognisable organisations within the UK.Was hired as part of a new team to develop new business relationships with organisations that require contract or permanent I.T staff. Remit was to provide high-value project-based resources, as oppose to one off placements. I.e. Tesco's IT recruitment drive to hire 400 people in 2-years to aid with the development of internal systems and provide support.Finding I.T professionals to fulfill the needs of new and existing clients.Providing recruitment solutions and account management services for new and existing clients.Worked / placed with clients in UK, Europe and Middle East. Including QTEL, Thrupoint, Tesco and Tandberg.

Reported to the Sales Director of the Black Country region. Started as a Sales Manager within the flagship store of the Black Country region. Was promoted to General Sales Manager within 3 weeks. The role is target / KPI driven and involves man management (team of up to 15), compliance management, reporting and sales management. Improved the operations of the store and more importantly improved the sales of the store month-on-month by driving KPI’s and resolving staffing issues, and introducing selling to local SME's. Store had never exceeded 86% of target before I took over. Regularly finished over 100% of target. Only 4 out of 14 stores in the region managed to hit targets regularly.

This start-up company is financed by an organisation that lead manages in excess of a £1bn of investments worldwide. The company has been set up to provide credit / finance by way of card services to sub-contractors in the building sector to enable them to purchase and hire new materials and equipment. Reporting directly to the Sales and Marketing Director, working from home, as 1 of 3 new business area managers I developed the builders merchant branch network throughout the middle region of the UK including South Wales, Midlands and East Anglia. The role involves board level presentations, branch manager sponsorship and the full sales cycle from prospecting to account management. The role has also involved participation at trade events and presenting to large associations such as the NMBS and BMF (Federation of Master Builders).

Twice employed on a temporary basis to improve the non-core income of a retail centre.

Professional Synergy Partnership was a start up company operating in the Sales recruitment sector. I was invited to join the venture by a former Sales Director. Managed the Sales Division which was made up of 3 sales people and 1 Sales Support. Was responsible for ensuring the performance of the team. This included forecasting, training, targeting, collating statistics, analysing statistics, recruitment, appraisal and disciplinary. Also had managed the development of the company database, website and the general branding. Other duties included negotiating terms with suppliers and other branch manager duties.My role also involved generating new business and the full sales cycle including lead generation, cold calling, pre-close, close and account management. Placed candidates with Hays, Cendris, Orange, Business Express, ADT, Littlewoods Group, HBOS.

Joined the company as a graduate and completed the recruitment training programme. Training modules included Resourcing, Candidate Qualification, Requirement Qualification, Lead Generation, Sales Training (including SPIN technique), Internet Advertising, Periodic Assessment and Negotiation. Continuously managed to meet the aims and objectives set by the Sales Manager. Achievements at Certes included the ability to resource candidates, the opening of prestigious new accounts, increasing the volume of suitable CVs sent to clients, maintaining high levels of canvassing, conducting successful client meetings in addition to my overall strong contribution to the team. Featured in the career section of The Times.Successes include securing a contract with Orange Thailand despite their existing strong relationships with suppliers. Secured the companies joint highest ever value deals. Placing the company’s 1st candidate in Germany under the new Labour Leasing Licensing laws at Compaq