Tom Needham-Bennett Email & Phone Number

Petersfield, Gb

London, England, United Kingdom

Initially joining as Head of Commercial Development, my focus was to develop expand our client list, define and expand the services we offer in order to build a robust pipeline. After a year, I moved to an operations role which encompassed finance, commercial, community and recruitment responsibilities as well as supporting the design and delivery of our solutions. Key Responsibilities: • Responsible for the design, pricing and delivery of organisation design projects and development programmes for businesses ranging across the public and private sector. • Responsible for the internal operations aspects of running the business– contracts, invoicing, forecasts, tracking utilisation & commercial insights.• Supported the founder on our go-to-market and business expansion strategy.• Lead on sales, both upselling existing clients and new business generation. Key achievements:• Helped to grow the company from a single client to working with over 30 in my time there and grew by ~60-70% for the first two years in the business. • Developed and managed a community of five staff and ~15 associates. • Nominated/shortlisted for multiple awards for a flagship programme a multinational construction firm which focused on inclusion, leadership development and culture change.

London, England, United Kingdom

Hatching Ideas offers organisation design & development services with the aim of improving people's working lives. We do this by helping organisations to provide the cultures, policies and processes to empower their staff and we provide skills development programmes to enable staff to realise their potential.Whether it is a workshop to help with your people strategy and direction setting, help in developing a more inclusive culture or help in upskilling your managers we are happy to have a conversation to see how we can support your organisation.

London, England, United Kingdom

At Sitruna, we help brands get to get the most out of the Amazon marketplace. Key Responsibilities: • Building a sales function that was fit for purpose, enabling a multichannel approach to sales and commercial insight into Sitruna’s clients & performance to support growth.• Identify the steps necessary to enable Sitruna to develop and empower staff. Key achievements:• Built a forecasting model from scratch, enabling the business to predict revenue and plan more effectively. • Conducted client analysis to help define sales strategy and identify key client profiles.• Developed new processes for attending events, writing proposals and evaluating marketing spend. • Helped to define the business’ market positioning – moving from a lack of communicable USPs to a clear position of differentiation.• Supported the development and implementation of a competency framework across the business and started an annual review process linked to this framework.

London

Hunter Clinical works with the healthcare sector from an individual to a system-wide level to develop and deliver sustainable clinical talent management solutions. Key Achievements & Responsibilities • Re modelled the company's go-to-market strategy to better align with personnel and the wider Hunter teams after the Founder left. • Ran a team of 2-3 reports for three years, in which I was the top biller each year. • Responsible for all forecasting and company performance tracking.

Leeds, United Kingdom

Elevation Recruitment Group is an employee-focused, multi-disciplined, recruitment business thatspecialises in permanent, interim and temporary recruitment. I worked in the Leeds office covering West and North Yorkshire.

London, United Kingdom

Working primarily in Financial Services and in Transactions Consultancy, I recruited broadly across: Finance Advisory; M&A Consultancy work in any aspect of the deal lifecycle; Programme Management and Change Management.Key Achievements & Responsibilities: • Built company performance analysis, candidate tracker and forecasting tools from scratch in Excel• Lead a team of two and was consistently top of both team and individual billings• Developed a one of the Big4 Consultancies as a client from being a new client to being our largest account and organised multiple team events and socials with the partners & key contacts there.

London, United Kingdom

An Investor Relations firm working with small cap mining firms from Canada, my role was to help with analysis and report writing of our clients as well as facilitating office move and a restructuring of the company's database.

I worked for 6 weeks in the office and for the rest of the time from home as a research assistant to in the Psychology Department, aiding Dr. Vince Connelly in his research into the written language development of children.

Upper Second Class Honours, Psychology

A Levels, Maths, French, Chemistry

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As Level, Maths, French, Chemistry, Christian Theology

Activities and Societies: I represented the School at rugby and cricket and continue to play for the Old Amplefordian Cricket Club.

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