Chief Commercial Officer / Sales Director
Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire
Delivered 5 years of continuous business revenue and profitable growth, culminating in the highly successful £93m buyout in late 2015 by private equity group, Inflexion, from previous owners, Sovereign Capital. Multiple acquisitions, with over 500 employees, created the market leading player in the sector for technology-enabled compliance risk management, certification and accreditation services (GRC/TIC) supporting both UK and International clients.- Responsible for creating & delivering strategic sales & marketing plan to support group strategy.- Revenue growth: £14m to £50m- Profit growth: 25% to 31% - Integration of 3 acquisitions into one Division.- Challenged many aspects of current operations to effectively integrate of 6 diverse and dispersed sales teams into one integrated sales and marketing operation.- Leadership to create successful team of 50 FTEs while driving major change management programme.- Increased client retention by 20%- Improved all key performance indicators: order values, close rates, sales lead times, client retention.- Introduced market engagement plans and CRM to drive pipeline and opportunity management.- Introduced performance reporting KPIs, pricing rigour, clear commission plans, and routine reporting and forecasting.