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Promoted to Sales Director for Landmark Estate agency Services

As Sales Manager at Landmark Estate Agency Services, I have successfully led the sales team to achieve consistent growth and surpass sales targets despite challenging market conditions. Through collaboration with the wider LEAS teams and Landmark Information Group Business units, we have increased our market share significantly to 20% of all property listings in England, Wales, and Scotland, utilising the bespoke LEAS Scottish platform. By taking a collaborative and customer-centric approach to every conversation.

LEAS (Landmark Estate Agency Services) a division of the Landmark Information Group. Our goal is to help estate agents deliver more transactions, more quickly, with more certainty and less risk. Find out more about how our established products and services including, Electronic AML (DIY, fully outsourced and API integrated), HMLR integrations, Floorplan services, access to a range of searches and boarding tool can help you deliver a better customer experience and ultimately help you get paid sooner.

OnTheMarket.com launched on 26th January, with the aim to bring control of Agents property listings and portal pricing, back to the hands of Estate and Lettings Agents. It gives agents a real opportunity to change things for the better, in the world of property portals. We are a non-profit organisation with no shareholders. Nearly half the Independent agents in The UK, over 5000 branches, have now joined us at launch and our membership numbers continue to grow daily.

As one of the 5 Major Accounts Managers at the Zoopla Property Group, I managed a portfolio including the 2 largest estate agents in the UK. My main responsibilities are to identify and build strong relationships across all the business whilst making sure they are maximizing the usage of our sites.

Clickbrokers helps build a bridge between publishers with unsold inventory and online marketers finding themselves with an increasing need to delivery branding and advertisings campaigns that achieve their cost per acquisition targets.Cold calling UK's leading digital advertising agencies selling the benefits of ClickbrokersManaging client portfolio via face to face and electronic communication whilst maximising business to full potentialManaging campaigns from initial point of contact through to analysis and rebooking on a monthly basisSurpassing set targets and achieving month on month gain

To Go London was a Bar, Restaurant and Takeaway menus publication & website To Go publication consisted of 12 bi – annual guides, separately covering all major boroughs of London.Each guide was between 28 and 64 pages, print runs varied between 20k and 30k, distribution was via door to door, tube and rail stations and advertising establishments.All adverts and menus were on-line and were backed by an on-line ordering service.My role included;• Identified and built commercial relationships and partnerships with the smallest local takeaway to major industry companies, including; Pizza Hut, Domino’s Yo Sushi, Feng Sushi, itsu, Deliverance, Scottish & Newcastle, Young’s Bombay Bicycle Club. This gave To Go stability with long term contracts and credibility within a tough market environment.• Achieving and exceeding magazine and financial targets and increasing turnover from £80k to £500k+• Creating ToGo as the premier Local Restaurant and Takeaway ‘go to publication’

British gas business sales team was set up to re-acquire lapsed and acquire new Gas and electricity customers for Small to large business.Working in a highly successful team which met and exceeded British Gas national business targetsFace to face cold calling where I targeted business to convert them back to take gas and electricity from British GasAttending pre-qualified appointments where I achieved 95% success on conversions

British gas domestic sales team was set up to re-acquire lapsed and acquire new Gas and electricity customers from the domestic market.Cold calling new, lapsed and existing users of British Gas converting to Gold users (all three utilities)Working autonomously I successfully used door-to-door, cold calling strategies to hit and exceed my weekly target

European Gauging Systems is one of England's leading producers of gauging machines the American and English car industry.Milling components for the production of gauges and assisting in the design and modification of componentsWorking as part of a small team in a dynamic and precise tooling environment I developed my levels of communication and ability to work under extreme pressure to strict time deadlines