BGRS is a niche sales and pre sales recruitment consultancy working with sales leaders and TA teams who view recruiting and retaining sales talent as business critical for delivering on challenging revenue targets.Having successfully placed hundreds of candidates since our inception in 2013, we work in partnership offering unmatched client commitment, professionalism and delivery capability in our core markets.Our clients typically fall in to one of three categories:- Pre IPO or privately held tech vendors with limited or no internal recruitment function.- Pre or Post IPO tech vendors in hypergrowth with TA function but in need of additional help to scale at speed.- Established tech vendors needing additional specialist expertise for challenging hiresWhy BGRS?- Add revenue to your bottom line by helping you to hire the very best talent in the industry that you might currently be missing out on.- Our “Talent pooling” methodology for pipelining delivers cost and time savings through a vastly improved cv to hire ratio and subsequent time to hire.- Unmatched quality of service; working in true partnership as an extension of your sales and TA teams providing vital market intel to add real business value to your organisation.- Deliver a vastly improved candidate experience, so often overlooked, which helps to eliminate much of the risk of losing great people through mismanagement through the interview process.

Following the company's re-location from central London to Dartford in Kent, at end of 2020 I changed my role and started writing quotes for fire protection jobs from existing clients. These were typically based on fire protection surveys that either we or a third-party contractor had carried out at a client's premises. It was my job to identify any deficiencies noted by the engineers carrying out the survey and suggest a fully costed remedy within the client's budget.Clients comprised a wide range of property management companies including CBRE, Jaguar, and Savills.

Onyx Fire & Security is one of the leading providers of high-quality fire and security solutions and have helped clients design, build and maintain their fire safety and security assets to protect their buildings and staff.I joined the company at the start of 2020 and was given the responsibility for identifying private and public tenders for a wide-range of fire protection projects and then submitting our bid, which entailed liaising with both our financial and operations team. Within my time in this role we successfully quoted for a selection of passive fire protection jobs for a host of large-scale construction and property management companies including Nido, Vinci and Berkeley Homes.

Managing and developing a host of substantial client high-profile accounts including Nestle, Sodexo, Mars alongside a variety of marketing agency and e-commerce clients. I was the first face of the company and needed to cement relationships built on trust to maintain the accounts in the long-term, as well as to seek additional revenue. Duties & Achievements: • Acting as first point of contact for all company clients• Acting as host for client meetings, making presentations and proposals• Drafting factual and persuasive reports and proposals for additional business• Compiling and presenting reports and updates on campaigns against critical KPI’s• Project managing internal teams towards client campaigns and deadlines

Exploring new business opportunities and manage client accounts. I was promoted to the Client Services Manager in October 2012 – see above. I was also responsible for developing the company’s brand across all its marketing activity.Duties & Achievements: • Winning a series of new client accounts, including Sodexo, and growing the account portfolio from £10k to £150k • Re-writing entire company’s marketing literature (including brochures & websites) • Making commercial presentations to potential new clients• Writing articles for trade magazines and PR

Deputy editor for two of the company’s flagship woodworking magazines (Woodcarving & The Router) my job was to prepare all editorial copy for publication in each magazine.Duties & Achievements: • Subbing all editorial copy of both magazines• Commissioning articles for publication • Writing feature articles and all the ‘home’ pages in each issue • Conducting interviews• Supplying all editorial copy and liaising with designers and art editors over page lay-out matters • Creating all headlines and standfirsts throughout the magazines• Dealing with post-production matters including responsibility for correcting any errors on wet proofs and ensuring all materials are returned to the contributors of both magazines

I was inspired in a communications career by being finalist in the United Nations Debate of the Year. It changed my outlook on the world.