Matthew Richard Mee Email & Phone Number

Italy

I am currently responsible for overseeing operations in a franchised group of PLS schools, operating in Italy and Spain

Monza E Brianza, Lombardy, Italy

I was the Didactic Area Manager for six franchised schools - Monza, Bergamo, Brescia, Cagliari, Lecco and Piacenza, overseeing all aspects of didactic quality, managing a team of Directors, and making sure that standards and quality of service to our students are being met throughout the group.

Monza And Brianza Area, Italy

I held the role of Director of Studies for MYES Monza, one of the largest PLS in Italy. I was directly responsible for the management, hiring, training and motivation of a team of teachers, for monitoring and developing quality throughout all areas of the school, and for making sure that all of our students had the correct activities planned from them every week. I was indirectly responsible for many other operational aspects of the school, for example the day to day profitability of the school was a result of my planning and strategy; balancing resources with number of students signed up. This not only required me to monitor and adjust this on a weekly basis, but also engage in short, medium and long term planning based around budgets and strategy.

Milano

I drew on my wide-ranging commercial experience in many different sectors to offer efficient and effective consultancy. I created, managed and coordinated 360 degree solutions covering:• web presence, design and strategy• direct marketing and communication strategies• SEO - search engine optimisation• localisation• language solutions• identification of local partners• local representation• e-commerce solutionsIn those companies in which I am a shareholder, I directly partecipate in the design and implemention of marketing and sales strategies, and futures for engaging and involving community members.

Biella

General job description: As Sales Manager Italy, I was responsible for setting up a network of agents and re-sellers thanks to my extensive number of contacts in the industry and in depth market knowledge. Specific job responsibilities: • manage the relationship with our agencies, • select new agencies, • train agencies on our products,• ensure that sales targets and promises to clients are met,• make corporate presentations to the agency network, • allocate individual objectives, • manage a budget, • liason with schools abroad• help develop new products, • make direct sales,• negotiate new commercial contracts,• updating and developing the website• set prices and discounts• produce the catalogue

Together with the Commercial Director, I was responsible for all aspects of sales and marketing for all scholastic products and for all sectors, including books, magazines, games and educational software. I followed, managed and supported 52 independant sales agencies in the South of Italy in the promotion and sales of our products.A selection of my responsibilities: • manage the relationship with our agencies, • replace old and select new agencies where necessary, • train agencies on our products,• ensure that sales targets and promises to clients are met,• make corporate presentations to the agency network, • allocate individual objectives, • manage a budget, • help to manage the warehouses and supply through predicting sales and orders, • help develop new products, • make direct sales into certain areas of our market, • negotiate new commercial contracts,• help to develop marketing and sales strategies for the whole group• organising market research and taking part in interdepartmental focus groups.

I was responsible for the English language titles of Pearson Longman in the areas of Lazio, Abruzzo, Sardegna and the Marche. My principal role was that of didactic consultant to teachers and Longman representatives to support the sale. This included rep training on our titles, direct sales into private language schools and universities, indirect sales through rep support and client service, managing a budget, making stock predictions and orders, helping to develop new products within working groups made up of members from different departments, writing and giving seminars, sometimes to over a hundred people, and making corporate presentations on new product. I coordinated their biggest Italian corporate client Telecom.

Ba(Hons) Economics And European Studies, Economics

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