Looking after Key Accounts at Head Office level throughout the UK, making sure that these accounts were visited and contacted regularly in order to review, manage and develop their accounts to enable successful growth Nurturing relationships with customers, suppliers and buying groups through relationship building and networking events Creating New Business to drive growth through new business opportunities, I did this with campaigns on new target markets ( Building and Plumbing merchants) and by canvassing new business opportunities in defined areas, by cold calling and telephone Working alongside other departments: Marketing - helping with literature content, promotional items and marketing campaigns through doing on the field research, networking events and trade shows Procurement- carrying out and feeding back the findings on research campaigns looking at market trends and competitive landscape Technical- asking the right questions to obtain if technical support was needed or would present an opportunity and arranging to do dual visits with the technical team IT- helping the IT department create reports that would help view and manage the data regularly to drive sales. Accounts- helped support accounts (mainly with overdrawn accounts) due having the relationships with the customers Manage 5 BDM’s (recruiting, training and monitoring)

New Business Sales Account Management Marketing Accounts (including invoicing and debt recovery). Previous Employment