James Thompson Email & Phone Number

England, United Kingdom

Currently managing our business with Tesco UK, Tesco Ireland, The Range, Robert Dyas, Ryman and Iceland.

Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom

Account Manager for Iceland, TJ Hughes, Ocado, Nisa, Toymaster, JTF, Watt Brothers, Boyes, AIS, Bira, Amazon Resellers, John Pye and all UK and Ireland Independent customers. In my first year of this role in 2017, I increased sales from £750k to £1.12 million, a 64% increase on 2016. In my second year, I increased sales to £2.35 million, 109% growth on 2017.

Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom

Selling fast moving products to the Wood and Construction sector. Essential duties include developing accounts, increasing turnover and also gaining new business regularly. Servicing around 100 businesses in an area that covers Durham, Newcastle and Northumberland.

Hong Kong

As headteacher of the language centre, my role entailed training new teachers, preparing lesson materials for the centre, liaising with parents about child development and also teaching around twenty five classes per week.

Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand

Leader of the Intensive English Program at a government school in rural Thailand. Teaching classes of ages 13-18, basic English language conversation skills. Class sizes varied from 20 - 38 people, great fun!

County Durham & North Yorkshire

Selling consumable goods, maintaining and developing a large number of accounts in the Automotive division across the north east.

• Generating sales leads via email/telephone. Presenting our web and multimedia services to potential customers.• Account management, updating CRM with client details, leading sales meetings with mutimedia and web team, project management and meeting sales targets. • Using market research, completing a sales brochure and sales email that includes competitive prices for our depth of portfolio.

Leeds

• Designing new social media strategies to maximise possible fan base and strength of online activity. • Organising and leading rehearsals, careful selection of songs, organising radio appearances, photo shoots, studio time and exploring possible finance/endorsement opportunities.

• Session planning and the production of learning materials. Technical set up for workshops, health and safety, delivering sessions, managing behavior, evaluating sessions as well as devising ways to make them more stimulating and engaging. • Encouraging young people to work effectively in groups helping them to explore their own creativity, building their confidence and sign posting opportunities for further involvement in music and arts.

• Managing a busy function band that performs around forty times a year.• Choosing suitable ways of advertising the bands services, negotiating fees with clients, website updates and other general admin work. • Also in charge of the accounts, paying bands wages, cashing client cheques, dealing with turnover in excess of 40k per year.

• Running monthly niche club nights around Yorkshire. Overseeing advertising campaigns, finance, holding meetings with venue managers, working with various bands and DJ’s from all over UK. • Making key decisions on design, artist choices and delegating jobs to team members.

• Ensuring every customer was dealt with politely, quickly and without comprising quality, consistently delivering a great product. • Making sure all tills were correctly stocked, accurate money handling, carrying out weekly stock takes, organising weekly night which included liaising with artists and management.

• Treating every guest to a five star standard, delivering services at the time specified, hitting monthly up-selling targets, being personable, friendly and making guests feel special by building rapport. • Cashing tills, ordering stock, resolving guest complaints and always having effective team communication.

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