David Edwards Email & Phone Number

Manchester, United Kingdom

Start People is an owner led recruitment consultancy combining 40 years of board level experience in one of the UKs largest recruitment businesses with a group of passionate recruiters, enabled and empowered by a simple, honest methodology that focuses on the best matches we can make between our business customers and our candidate customers.Start People.

Managing Director of an £80m T/O General Staffing business. Annual EBITDA of £4m delivered in last full year. Total headcount of c200 working from a network of 35 offices through England and Wales. Five years in role of MD after twelve years rising through the business from initial role as Sales Consultant. In the final two years as MD delivered a major.

Driving the growth and profitability of an 11 office Industrial Temp business in the NW of England and the West Midlands. At its height, pre recession, the business delivered over £33m in sales and an operating profit of £1.4m. This was the number one performing business within the group at this time and was recognised as such at the 2007 AGM.

Initially responsible for the growth of the Industrial Temp business in the NW with established offices in Manchester and Chester. Through this period I successfully launched new offices in Bolton, Preston and Liverpool. I also took responsibility for the integration and development of acquisition businesses in Warrington, Northwich, Runcorn, Ashton under.

Manchester

I began my career with Prime Time Recruitment in Watford as a Sales Consultant but relocated back to the North West a year later. The Manchester office had no staff and 12 temps out working when I arrived. The next full year I delivered a profit of £125k from the £25 loss of the year I arrived. This was the single largest 12 month turnaround in a Prime.

London

Perfect transitional job after university! Learnt a fantastic amount about the more sophisticated end of the booze market. Fun, hard work, educating, exams, event planning & delivering, competitions, wins, trips abroad. First taste of sales. Loved it!

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