Curious User - Business Manager

Business Manager

Nationality

British

Current location

United Kingdom

Work category

Sales

Education

Bachelor/Degree

Profile Activity

Online recruitment Director, Freelance writer, Part Time Gamer... ENTP looking for a real challenge

Curious User's Professional Experience

2003 - Present

Business Manager

My role here is very diverse and challenging. I oversee sales activity including: new bus, relationship building, acct mgt, onsite and remote user support, demos and recruiter training. I build packages to suit the ever changing needs of clients within the industry. i sell online, over the phone and face to face, ensuring my clients are investing in a product that will work for them. I boast high levels of candidate attraction and retention, and provide advertising solutions to some of the biggest names in the sector. I am involved in company and client brand dev, conference/exhibition attendance, website dev, image manipulations, QA/QC, staff training and mentoring.

I look after internal IT issues...and on occasion i make a mean cup of tea!

Key Skills
Account Management ACT advertising B2B brand building Business Development cold calling community management conducting interviews consultant CRM Database Administration English EXCEL Field Sales inbound sales internet lead generation linkedin Marketing Microsoft Office Networking online Online advertising Online Marketing outbound sales People management Presentations Prioritising tasks Quality Control relationship building sales sales management Staff Management Team building telemarketing Telesales testing trade shows Training writing letters/papers/proposals writing reports
2003 - 2009

OilandGasJobsearch.com Ltd - Sales Director

www.oilandgasjobsearch.com is the leading job board in the International Oil and Gas industry. Services include an online recruitment advertising platform, an extensive CV/Resume database, targeted email campaigns and brand development.

My role here is very diverse and challenging. I oversee sales activity including: new bus, relationship building, acct mgt, onsite and remote user support, demos and recruiter training. I build packages to suit the ever changing needs of clients within the industry. i sell online, over the phone and face to face, ensuring my clients are investing in a product that will work for them. I boast high levels of candidate attraction and retention, and provide advertising solutions to some of the biggest names in the sector. I am involved in company and client brand dev, conference/exhibition attendance, website dev, image manipulations, QA/QC, staff training and mentoring.

I look after internal IT issues...and on occasion i make a mean cup of tea!

Key Skills
brand Development recruitment
2002 - 2005

learndirect scotland - ICT Trainer

Support and assistance to students in training towards ECDL, CLAIT and MOS certifications. Preparing study guides, manuals and assesments for basic, intermediate and advanced courses in Microsoft Software. Development and maintenance of inhouse access database for students records and achievements.

Key Skills
ECDL
2002 - 2005
Key Skills
Access adult education course content course mapping css delivering presentations ECDL English EXCEL FrontPage group training HTML IT Training JavaScript key skills maths training MS Word MsOffice MySQL one on one mentoring Powerpoint SQL TESOL
2002 - 2003

MITIE - National Account Manager

This role included:

- Managing the data transfer from existing telemagic database to ACT 2000 database
- Managing sales resources and strategy
- Generating market information and leads
- Researching contracts and tenders
- Cold Calling
- Winning new business and appointments
- Sales Administration
- Proposal Drafting
- Putting the necessary hours in

Key Skills
Administration Contracts data strategy
2001 - 2003

Account Manager

responsible for arranging sales diaries for national business development teams. initially employed to arrange to cover one area, i developed my role quickly to two areas before managing the national diaries. heavy dependancy on telemarketing and email marketing, effective use of CRM and a smile.

Key Skills
Account Management appointment setting Business Development Common sense diary management email marketing EXCEL Marketing remote management sales telemarketing Telesales Training
2001 - 2002

Norweb - IT Support

This role included:

-Internal Network Support
-Troubleshooting & Problem solving user issues
-Responsiblity for ensuring WAN connectivity to 3000 remote sites
-Data Analysis of remote poll reports
-QA/QC of billing data for corporate Clients
-Interpreting data & compiling meaningful reports from large log files

Key Skills
Billing data data analysis network support Reports
2000 - 2001

Telemarketer

b2b mobile phone contract sales and appointment setting

Key Skills
appointment setting B2B cold calling lead generation sales telemarketing Telesales
2000 - 2000

The Cobra Group - Self Employed Field Representative

My First exposure to Sales and Marketing. Real thrown in the deep end stuff..

Each day I was given a product, a pitch, a price and a rough geographical location and sent on my way.

- Lead generation
- Cold Sales B2B & B2C
- Product knowledge
- High Volume Sales
- Life Experience

Key Skills
B2B Marketing
2000 - 2000

Sales Representative

b2b cold sales, surplus stock clearance, patch and products changed daily, commission based sales.

Key Skills
analysing problems B2B Business Development cold calling Field Sales sales Time Management
1998 - 1999

Royal Bank of Scotland - Cash Handler

Evenings & Weekends.

-Balancing Cash Machine transactions vs remaining cash
-Filling Cash Manchines
-Processing Cheques
-Processing Vouchers on behalf of High Street Retailers
-Preparing cash for dispatch to branches (£1 million per night)

1998 - 1999

cash counter

counted and sorted cash from branches, atms and major retailers within a secure centre

Key Skills
balancing P&L accounts packing Quality Control Sorting
1996 - 1998

Homes4u - Lettings Negotiator

Part time during term, full time during holidays.

Busy Lettings agency in the heart of a student community, my responsibilities included:

-Appointment Making
-Accompanied Viewings
-Contract & Lease negotiation
-Maintenance & Repair Scheduling
-Preparing property management agreements
-Property listing & advertising

Also during my time i integrated homes4u with the TEAM lettings and sales network and coordinated data entry for transfer from card filing to database property and client management.

Gained NVQs lv 2&3 in Account Technician & Business Management

Key Skills
Client management data Filing Negotiation property management
1996 - 1998
Key Skills
Account Management Accounts technician Administration appointment setting Contracts Customer Service lettings rentals sales

Curious User's Education and Qualifications

2000

Bachelor/Degree - , Computer Science with Pure & Applied Maths

The University of Manchester

1998

Bachelor/Degree - A Levels, Maths, Further Maths, IT, Chemistry

Xaverian 6th Form College

1996

Bachelor/Degree - GCSE (A*-B), Maths, English Language, English Literature, Chemistry, Biology, Physics, IT, French, Latin, RE, Art

RC High School, Manchester