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To lead the Donor Relations team to engage with businesses, community groups and other areas of the public throughout the Waikato, Bay of Plenty, Hawkes Bay and Taranaki for the purpose of educating and growing awareness of the need for people to become blood donors. The overall purpose is to grow our donor numbers to ensure we continue to keep up with the demand for life saving products.

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New Zealand Blood Service (NZBS) was created on 1 July 1998 to provide the people of New Zealand with safe, appropriate and timely access to blood and tissue products and related services to meet their health needs. NZBS takes the responsibility for the development of an integrated national blood transfusion process from the collection of blood from volunteer donors to the transfusion of blood products within the hospital environment - a ‘vein to vein’ transfusion service. Every minute, every day, someone in New Zealand needs blood. At NZBS, everything we do revolves around finding the right match. Our role is to pair donors with recipients – not only for blood products and stem cells, but also in many areas of organ and tissue donation and transplantation.My role here at NZ Blood Service is to manage and lead the recruitment team for the Waikato, Coromandel and Bay of Plenty area. The main responsibility for the team is to connect with businesses and to find new and willing blood donors.The ability to recruit new blood donors is critical to our communities to be able to provide the necessary blood and blood products to literally save peoples lives.If you would like to find out more about how you can help, please contact me to discuss further.

I am a New Business Consultant for New Zealand Home Loans Hamilton East; I am very passionate about helping people to get ahead and to better themselves.New Zealand Home Loans assists Clients to become debt free faster, to achieve their own personal financial goals specialising in assisting people with all residential lending:* Refinancing from existing banks* New Builds* Purchasing rental properties* First Home Buying*Helping Clients to Plan, Monitor and review their financial situation on a regular basis to ensure financial successI come from a sales and consulting background which compliments the New Zealand Home Loans process extremely well. I take great pride and love helping my clients get ahead and find it extremely rewarding when I'm able to help my clients achieve their own financial goals whatever they maybe.

Engaged with Skills Team from a start up operation providing initial planning and implementation of a strong sales drive which infiltrated the learning and development market with immediate results. Over the last 8-years I have played an instrumental part in the success and significant growth enjoyed and has developed the sales division to now employ an office team and a field sales team of 9 and currently we achieve in excess of 15% YOY growth, which is presently projected at 25% for 2014/2015.During my involvement with Skills Team I have introduced various innovations and ideas that have promoted services to a wider audience using social media platforms, increased communication with a fast growing customer through a focused CRM system, ACT, which raised productivity with scheduled responses, instant updates and targeted marketing promotions using set demographics.Personally promote the organisation within the welfare to work and local government funded provision which supports the long term unemployed to return to sustainable employment through training needs and course accessibility. Main achievements to date include a consistent course sell-out of up to 4-months in advance using new demographics and CRM implementation, motivated and inspired career developments with staff including the progression of 2 Team Leaders to management roles and succession within the team to supervisory responsibilities and engaged high profile customers including NHS (National Health Service), Metropolitan Police, London Underground and various London Borough Councils (Local Government). Personally won a 2-year contract with London Underground which provided additional revenue against target of 50% and the highest single client booking for the company in its history.

Enjoyed a very progressive and achievement focused career with Computeach International which encouraged a development of a start up sales team of 2 to 21, expansion of learning provision of both online and classroom delivery for Learndirect (one of the leading providers in the UK of skills training), and increased a divisional revenue to £2.2M plus across a 5 year period.Initially appointed as Account Manager where I drove individual customer sales and secured return business through a network of accounts with a realised revenue of over £400K per annum, this role quickly led to the promotion to Senior Account Manager in 2002 where I enabled quite aggressive sales growth for the company and opened up the e-learning platform to a wider audience base, doubled revenue to £800K personally per annum and identified the need for a more traditional classroom setting for some of the leading accounts. My final promotion was in 2005 where I was able to steer the sales division through management and planning of processes, procedures and productivity across both in-house and field locations.

Initially started my career in New Zealand and provided a focused sales role for 2 organisations dealing direct with the consumer and offering an individual and personalised service; always recognised as a leading sales professional who quickly developed relationships and generated new and return business consistently.