Ian Datlen Email & Phone Number

Stevenage, England, United Kingdom

Started as a 7.5t delivery driver whilst retraining at night school to become an electrician, in June 2007 was asked to join the team in the office. Starting with a team of 3 very busy account managers creating up to 350 driver shifts per week through new business, recruiting drivers and managing customer accounts, Over 10 years later the company has added multiple branches and expanded into a major Regional driving agency. My role has changed to Internal training and external driver CPC… Show more Started as a 7.5t delivery driver whilst retraining at night school to become an electrician, in June 2007 was asked to join the team in the office. Starting with a team of 3 very busy account managers creating up to 350 driver shifts per week through new business, recruiting drivers and managing customer accounts, Over 10 years later the company has added multiple branches and expanded into a major Regional driving agency. My role has changed to Internal training and external driver CPC trainer and on the road account management among other projects. Show less

Direct sales to peoples homes, the market leader in quality for conservatory sun blinds, full direct sales training, provable track record with an average closing ratio of 1:1.9, Annual personal sales of £300,000+ from qualified and unqualified appointments.

Account management & new business development for one third of the UK in the cable management for offices industry mainly to the office furniture industry. After successfully taking over existing accounts and generating new business financial difficulties resulted in the company closing and being made redundant.

Commercial laundry equipment: account management, new business development across whole of UK in the nursing home and residential care market, exhibition organising and research, direct mail, literature and print production, website design, cold calling, telesales co-ordinator (outsource), database setup and management.

Cambridge, United Kingdom

Document management software: marketing planning, new business, account management including the Cromwell hospital, technical implementation and scheduling, direct mail, list sourcing, exhibitions, specification of links to external systems, web site updating, cold calling, database management, advertising, PR, market research, product development. Came to an end after breaking my arm in a motorcycle accident.

Conference management software: responsible for all UK sales and marketing, system specification documents, customer business analysis, implementation management, installation, direct mail campaigns, exhibitions, customer relationship database management, web site briefing, product research, newsletter production, road shows and workshops, introducing barcode delegate tracking.

Welding equipment & consumables: exhibition management (6 major per year); instigation of direct mail activity (rising to 120,000 units per year); co-ordination of extensive trade PR programme; web-site project management, pre-production DTP and editorial work on all internal newsletters; buying of sales promotion and merchandising items; sales literature & catalogue production; promotional support for over 30 regional sales people

Repackaging of the pre-packed fish range, production of in store customer communication, market analysis using the SBO system, merchandising, buying of special promotional product lines, promotions planning, POS management, barcodes, promotion tracking, production of marketing reports & summaries

Ba (Hons) Business Studies, Marketing

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