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Auckland, Nz

Auckland, New Zealand

Auckland, New Zealand

Auckland, New Zealand

The Directors of Halo Consulting invited me to buy into the business becoming a minority shareholder of Halo Consulting. We sold Halo Consulting to Consult Recruitment at the beginning of 2020 taking effect from April 2020. S&P completed March 2023.

Auckland, New Zealand

With the innovation of social media the world has changed and so must the way we go about finding talent. Halo Consulting has been established to provide tailored talent search and recruitment solutions to enable organisations to find the right people to achieve business and strategic goals. If you want to benefit from the same tools and expertise the large corporate's utilise or does your internal recruitment team require a helping hand on a large project? Halo has the skills and experience to help in both situations. We are taking our knowledge of enabling hiring managers internally into agency world where we can make a difference across multiple organisations. We are New Zealand based with a global reach to provide both permanent and contract appointments from technical to senior management. We can provide one off appointments through to onsite project work throughout New Zealand.

Auckland, New Zealand

With the innovation of social media the world has changed and so must the way we go about finding talent. Halo Consulting has been established to provide tailored talent search and recruitment solutions to enable organisations to find the right people to achieve business and strategic goals. If you want to benefit from the same tools and expertise the large corporate's utilise or does your internal recruitment team require a helping hand on a large project? Halo has the skills and experience to help in both situations. We are taking our knowledge of enabling hiring managers internally into agency world where we can make a difference across multiple organisations. We are New Zealand based with a global reach to provide both permanent and contract appointments from technical to senior management. We can provide one off appointments through to onsite project work throughout New Zealand.

Auckland, New Zealand

Managed several teams within the operations side of the business with 11 direct reports from different parts of the operations team. Coached the existing teams to improve productivity and customer experience. Looked at existing processes and structures in place to streamline/create new processes to achieve higher productivity across the business. Created an Account Management Team channel to service the existing customer base of over 2000+ Businesses and work as project managers to co-ordinate the different support teams in the business to meet tight deadlines for installs of CPE and provisioning of services from another provider to Intagr8. Account Management team was stood up from scratch including all processes and workflow documents being designed and implemented.

Auckland, New Zealand

Ran the Business Hub as if I was the Principle of it. The HUB was setup as a stand alone Small Business with 13 direct reports both Business Account Managers and Support Staff. Setting targets and managed performance, providing written and verbal performance reports to the General Manager and CEO. I personally managed P&L and EBITDA annual target of $900,000. With a SME customer base of 7000+ Auckland businesses and responsibility for $70 million of annual billing revenue. Developing key strategic direction via yearly and quarterly planning sessions with the General Manager of Retail and working closely with Telecom Business Marketing to develop key pricing strategies. Developing customer focused relationships with key customer base and high level relationship building, both internal and external. Professional development of Business Account Managers & Sales Support staff within the HUB environment. Handled end to end recruitment of sales and support staff and HR responsibilities. Held control of substantial marketing budget and took lead in the direction of the local area marketing. Personally facilitated community contribution via sponsorships e.g. Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron Youth Team. An ambassador for Telecom at multiple events becoming an articulate and confident public speaker.

Auckland, New Zealand

Looking after the Northland, Auckland and Central North Island Region I was working collaboratively with Telecom Marketing, Dealer Support & our Dealer Partners to achieve our Consumer and SME Business sales targets within Telecom Retail by supporting and building capability with our Dealer Partners focusing on providing tactical support with all stakeholders.Assistance in development and presentation of offers, including - special pricing, proposal and Telecom Business agreements. Regular meetings with key dealer partners and their sales teams to support development of consumer & SME business sales capability. Working closely with stakeholders to identify sales opportunities, sales process and service improvements for our customers, supporting these changes to create continuous improvement of the channel. Problem solving and negotiations with Partner Channel Principles & assist with SME business customer negotiations. On-going communication and continued support of all SME sales campaigns and initiatives. Also providing an escalation point for the dealer partner channel for highly sensitive customer escalation situations and/or mediation between dealer partners. Seconded into a National Partner Manager role owning the relationship with Connect NZ one of the 4 biggest Telecom NZ dealer partners.

Auckland, New Zealand

Client Manager for the Medium Enterprise market place. The portfolio contains clients with billing revenue with Telecom of between $25,000 up to $500,000. The key role is to retain and grow the customer base of businesses year on year. While growing the portfolio also offering Clients value added services and a whole of business proposition including mobile, data, PSTN & ICT/SaaS. Originally a Telephone based role with 300 clients, After a year I was transitioned into a face to face role with 125 key clients and a portfolio worth $7,500,000+ in revenue.

Auckland, New Zealand

Auckland, New Zealand

Auckland, New Zealand

Certificate In Business Computing, Information Technology, Distinction

Activities and Societies: Student Representative 2001-2002

School Certificate, 6Th Form Certificate, Higher School Certificate, University Entrance