David Elphick Email & Phone Number

South East

Remit:Business development, account management, CRM, and marketing. Focus on cultivating business leads, managing customer journey and retention, enhancing business practices, and driving value adding initiatives. Includes facilitating partnerships, improving CRM systems, and creating compelling marketing materials.Key Responsibilities:■ Prospect new business via diverse platforms, identify decision-makers, and introduce Bagnalls effectively.■ Compile and manage a comprehensive database of leads, accounts, and notes from interactions.■ Develop relationships with influential decision-makers to facilitate future business opportunities.■ Serve as a key liaison between clients, potential accounts, and our surveying/management teams.■ Manage a pipeline of regional and national accounts, oversee tenders, enhance bid submissions, and ensure effective feedback mechanisms.■ Undertake custom analysis of customer data to target similar customer types at optimal times.■ Complete pre-qualification questionnaires and submit high-quality bids within tight deadlines.■ Coordinate CPD learning sessions at surveying practices, in collaboration with suppliers, to enhance Bagnalls' brand value.■ Create various marketing materials to bolster the company's reputation and brand.■ Drive business-enhancing practices, including the presentation of polished quotations, case studies and published articles in industry literature.Other Responsibilities:■ Facilitate apprentice partnership meetings between Greenwich University and Bagnalls.■ Analyse Bagnalls' CRM for enhancements and contribute to the 2023 CRM software transition.■ Research regional sustainability activities, interview supply chain providers and stakeholders, and present potential action points to management.

Leicester, United Kingdom

Brighton, England, United Kingdom

Remit:In this 360° role, leadership was demonstrated by building and overseeing a team of eight volunteers, and coordinating fortnightly citywide music events. The role required disciplined planning, organisation and administration skills to deliver artist and venue bookings, team management, and event leadership.Responsibilities:■ Led and motivated a team of eight volunteers.■ Selected and trained volunteers to undertake different roles.■ Organised and managed citywide fortnightly music events.■ Promoted the Sofar brand at City level.■ Managed the city's online event ticket booking system.■ Negotiated discounted rates for various space bookings.■ Marketed the brand and events on social media.■ Fostered partnerships with local charities and businesses.■ Utilised NPS (net promoter scoring) to review and improve audience satisfaction.■ Oversaw the city’s budget.

Blaby

■ introduced Government initiatives such as Train-To-Gain■ identified eligibility and passed detailed lead refereral to an account manager ■ Regularly won weekly prizes for conversation length, highlighting my ability to engage people in conversation and get messages across concisely.

Working as assistant to the Festivals Officer, Dawson Smith, and within the Festival and Events Unit as a whole I undertook many administrative, communicative and organisational roles.■ shadowed the Festivals Officer, Dawson Smith as well as other unit personnel ■ took minutes at planning and post-event meetings, involving diverse stakeholders, for festivals including Diwali celebrations and Riverside Music Festival.■ the year placement culminated in planning, marketing and co-ordinating my own day-long music event with a small grant I applied for via the Festival and Events Unit. This was graded as part of my BA Hon's degree.

B.A. Hons, Business Studies, 2:1

Activities and Societies: ■ Music Editor for 'The Demon' Student Newspaper ■ Radio DJ on University/Community Radio Demon FM ■ Ran.

Various Gcses And 3 A Levels

Activities and Societies: Young Enterprise Award