Chris Templeman Email & Phone Number

Peterborough, GB

London, United Kingdom

• Developed a team under this position to meet the sales targets of the business
• Delivered a consistent year on year growth of new business for the team
• Led by example as the highest revenue generator across the upper-management level of the business
• Crafted and launched a bespoke mobile offering to help push a traditional offline OOH agency into the digital age, to increase revenue opportunities
• Lead a Salesforce/Pardot integration alongside implementation of a new IP phone system
• Built an effective sales team from entry level to senior management to help push the agencies Direct offering and consistently push agency sales expectations

Peterborough, United Kingdom

• Initiated the concept of the Bauer Direct telesales division and led the integration of 6 vertical teams into a new telesales division. A move towards efficiency that focused 94 employees towards a single business goal
• Managed the largest evolution in the Bauer specialist division in a decade, rebuilding a modelling a best practice sales division
• Despite a challenging market place, KPIs were constantly beaten with all call durations doubled due to more meaningful customer interactions
• Developed the business through utilising Dynamics CRM, moving the business away from paper records for the first time and realising the efficiencies of modern account management
• Implementation of an IP telephony system, pushing towards a data led sales business, rather than the analogue systems that were in place prior to this initiative

London, United Kingdom

• Solely responsible for managing and growing the 10 key client accounts within the portfolio
• Managed a team of 42 sales staff at all career levels. Implemented training and development to constantly push for the highest standards of sales
• Introduction of Atex enterprise sales booking system from Sii. From this, taking the department through the new workflows and practices to support seamless on-going integration
• Focusing on the analytical and data side of Salesforce, I became an integral part of the Salesforce team that introduced CRM across the business
• A key member of the advertising client executive and digital forums for both Inspire and advertising, representing my department to the wider agency
• Spearheaded an initiative to develop a new classified digital business. Leading the program from board proposal to partner integration in the later stages

London, United Kingdom

• Launched the Archant Specialist photo division, developing 5 year sales strategies for print and digital mediums which were implemented across all new magazines within the division
• Responsible for a team of 19, developing through formal training and various workshops encompassing a variety of new sales techniques
• Developed and managed a commercial team which pitched and won contracts with Pc World, Currys and Dixons, which is now the Dixons Carphone portfolio, allowing rapid expansion of the new photo division

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