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Spiceland, Indiana, United States

A/V Consultant liaison and design support for Western US, Western Canada and the UK.Responsible for finding, building, and maintaining relationships with AV consultant in the Western US, Western Canada and UK. Working alongside the AV consultants on high profile projects by specifying specific products for projects. Also Manage the project management team for Draper's Audio-Visual Mounting Structures for direct view LED video walls.

Corby, England, United Kingdom

Leading the European and UK Team within the Audio Visual and Window shades Industry providing leadership and direction. Maximising ROI & Implementing strategic road maps with opportunity costs activities. Responsible for leadership of the organisation, and managing the sales efforts in the UK and Europe. Full commercial responsibility including profit and loss, sales and marketing responsibility for Draper UK. Strategic Planning, product development, and team development.Reporting directly to the Director of sale of Draper Inc, a member of the Senior Management Team.

Corby, England, United Kingdom

Corby, England, United Kingdom

Draper Group Ltd, Regional Sales Manager for Southern UK, My Role is to find, Manage and Grow Sales through the Distribution and Corporate channels, Home Cinema, Education and key Audio Visual resellers for the Southern half of the UK.Main Duties Include:• Manage Audio Visual and IT distributor and key account relationships• Recruitment of new distributor partners and Key Dealer accounts• Business development and product training of AV specifies and Consultants • Development of marketing ideas and strategies. • Product training for distributor, key account and internal staff• Give expert technical advice and supportIn my first year I achieved 127% of my sales target, in 2010 I achieved 104% of the sales target, and last year I achieved 107% of the previous year’s sale figures opening new accounts like Mirco-P, Avcom, Foresight AV, Avensys, and Project Audio Visual. I have also been given the task of managing and growing Drapers key distributor accounts Audio Visual Materials, RGB Communications and True Colours.

LapSafe Products is one of the UK’s largest suppliers of laptop trolleys, cabinets, laptop security solutions and interactive kiosks. My responsibilities are Day to day account management, product management and project management of furniture products. In addition I helped promote a range of IT desking solutions including product design, which were sold through dealers and directly to the education market. I also helped managed exhibition stands both nationally and international, coached junior sales staff and secured new dealers, distributors and suppliers.

Furniture & office Solutions manager responsible for all office furniture sales opportunities for Misco nationally. Developed Web marketing solutions and assisted in the design concept for office furniture solutions catalogues and brochures. Gained leads and project managed all sales opportunities from design to office layout. Selling directly to major accounts commercially as well as to the education and public sectors. Influenced the selection of all furniture supplies for Misco. Produced and presented sales and product training programmes to Misco’s 220 sales executives nationally. Maintained and managed customer base yielding over 25% margin.

Site Supervisor responsible for 90 people but have managed 150 before at other sites. Manage and monitor the team in order to achieve all given targets and KPIs, Coach and train in all areas of the clients needs and standards. I and my team where responsible for the distribution of £114 Million of Home ware goods. I was also offered a position as Site Leader at Driving Edges new Flagship hub site, which was their largest UK site.

Sales Consultant to Major Key accounts, offering office solutions to new and existing customers. Creating a new customer base yielding over 36% Margin. Create, develop, design and negotiate new office environments helping them to become more productive and comfortable.

Melbourne, Australia

Volunteer Service promoting and teaching self-improvement for the LDS Church. Main skills gained:• Area management• Time management• Leadership skills• Customer care.

Nvq Level 2, Sales

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