Gary Smith Email & Phone Number

Swindon, United Kingdom

Edmundsons Swindon, going from strength to strength.Another year that my team have produced the goods.A tough year for the world and a tough year for my team but did they produce the goods yes they did.

Bristol, United Kingdom

Have had extremely successful and rewarding years here, I took over a business that had failed to make money for a significant number of years. The first year was spent setting the base , the last 4 years have seen huge profits and double figure Ebitas thanks to a lot of hard work by myself and my excellent team.Responsible for Bristol Branch that employs 17 staff , also in my Cluster role I oversee Bath Branch and Yate Branch both of whose Managers report into me.

Southern

Responsible for an external sales team as well as a £50m budget spread across 21 branches. Managing director decided to do away with regional management teams and I decided to take redundancy rather than the positions offered.

Swindon, United Kingdom

Significant increase to both sales and margin enjoyed by the business. Branch bonus achieved every year. Something they had never had before. Completely turned a non- performing team of people into a highly motivated group achieving performance merits in the company. Exceeded all budgeted forecasts and improved business every year. Significantly increased spending accounts.

Swindon, United Kingdom

Reversed downward trend of loss making business. Improved profit year on year and targets and bonuses realised. Increased sales by £1m over 5 years. Significantly grew customer base of spending account. Took away branches heavy reliance on one account. Significantly improved and developed low performing team. Four have now moved into managerial positions themselves.

Basingstoke

Customer Service Manager. Fully responsible for day to day running of internal sales functions. Developed myself as an individual significantly as it gave me an appreciation of the difficulties sometimes faced that external sales roles do not appreciate.

Basingstoke / Newbury / Reading / Southampton

Consistently high achieving salesman, achieving maximum level bonus on every occasion. First real sales role , I had found what I was looking for , I knew from then on my career would be likely to be sales focused.