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Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Melbourne, Australia

Melbourne

Managing and maintaining business intelligence and risk solutions to major utilities and professional services firms, providing indispensable market insight to help clients understand the market and increase exposure. Delivering bespoke licensed domestic and global datasets, creating commercial data and risk platforms, cleansing and enhancing customer data for integration to CRMs and advising on financial trends by markets form my day to day operations. In particular, this role has seen me:- Manage and maintain prospect data licensing agreements (single and multi-year agreements) for new business acquisition campaigns at various tier 1 and 2 utilities; - Build a combined commercial risk and business intelligence data platform to aid revised delinquency scoring models and predict propensity of prospect onboarding; - Creating micro-economic market insight reports and associated prospect tools to help a leading automotive company better understand its customers, regional market size and similarities between the two; - Introducing domestic businesses to global markets by licensing and managing databases and analytics in Europe, North America and Asia

Melbourne, Australia

Developed new business relationships with financial services, property management, government and business services businesses to introduce them to Drake’s suite of human resources products and services. This involved researching and meeting new businesses, running introductory events, responding to tenders and creating business acquisition proposals to eventually find leads and close new business for temp and perm consultants, training managers and regional branches. My time was highlighted by:- Responding to and closing a multi-year, multi-million dollar tender for temporary and permanent recruitment services with a global property management firm; - Playing a pivotal role in negotiating, securing and managing corporate sponsorship of two prominent sporting organisations;

Sourced and maintained new business opportunities for government funded traineeships, acting as a training broker. Predominately serviced the transport & logistics and retail industries.

Undertook an invitation-only 5month cadetship with T-Mobile's SME solutions marketing division. Of particular note, I was involved in T-Mobile's rollout of the BlackBerry product to their private customers initially across Germany. This involved numerous conferences and presentations in conjuction with RIM, and rolling out the first business solutions packages for the smartphones.

Bachelor, Public Relatons

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