John Mc Kibbin Email & Phone Number

Dublin, IE

Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland

Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland

Clearco is the world's leading e-commerce investor and helps remove the barrier between brilliant ideas and brilliant businesses through its funding products. The company provides undiluted, equity-free funding to e-commerce and Saas businesses and allows founders with great ideas to free up cash flow in their business by funding the repeatable upfront.

Ireland

Working on the Customer retention team, I answer back-to-back calls from Prepay Power customers wishing to leave the service with the goal of retaining their business.Key achievements:Accredited top internal retention performer after just 4 weeks on the team competing against colleagues with multiple year’s experience.Consistently reaching and regularly.

County Dublin, Ireland

• Brought in to develop the region with over 350 properties. Bringing on new hotels/B&Bs/Apartments and driving more business from existing accounts. Key focus on revenue management, increasing visibility and conversion..
• Consistent over achievement of KPIs – conversion rates, pricing/marketing programs, call rates
• Researched region, analysed historic data, predicted trends to assist client development
• Developed accounts, ie moving sales rankings from No 23, 22 & 29 to No 1, 2 & 5
• Created 30 effective sales campaigns to drive consumers to book with clients
• Gave feedback to key clients on their portfolio pages, substantially improving conversion rates

Ireland

• Headhunted by Getabed to establish the brand in Ireland – both The Republic & Northern Ireland. Role covered Wholesale & Retailers Sales, Key Account Management, New Business Development and handling major Customer.
• Created & built brand awareness to become one of the top hotel provider of choice
• Rebranded from Getabed to STUBA.com
• Grew sales from €0 to €15m in 5 years
• Negotiated contracts for key travel association – WorldChoice & Travel Centres
• Grew client revenue by getting clients to build consumer facing websites using XMLfeedsReason for leaving: Took opportunity to work to world leading OTA

Dublin

• Started in Online Reservations as a Telesales Agent contacting Irish based travel agents. After becoming top Sales Agent, I was promoted to Sales Executive / Business development for the Irish and UK market, reporting.
• Grew sales from €0.5m to €10m per year despite intense market competition.
• Account managed 600+ Travel shops in UK / Ireland, growing the business to €10m pa
• Negotiated contracts with key Travel Associations - Travel Centres, Travel Savers, Worldchoice
• Managed and developed Irish Affiliates including Aer Arann, RBS, BOI, Hertz & Avis
• Promoted Needahotel/TravelCube/Travelport at key travel conferences / trade fairs in UK/IrelandReason for leaving: Took Redundancy as was needing new challenges

Coleraine

Initially a work experience job placement, I started full time work as an invoicing clerk. After a year was promoted to the Telesales Office working in Sales Order processing. A year later I was promoted to Account Manager, with a focus on business development for the Northern Ireland Market. Role included, opening new accounts, increasing business from.