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Commercial Director

Commercial Director

Work Experience

2001 - present Shopformobiles.com Ltd
Manchester
Commercial Director

*Responsibility for commercial direction of company growing from 10 to 40 staff within 12 months, with annual turnover of £1.2m from start up.
*Successful implementation of business process review with regard to structure of staff, supplier relationships, infrastructure investment and product catalogue, within initial three months.
*Control over recruitment of 20 staff, procurement of new office and all infrastructure. Office move and training completed with no company downtime.
*Commercial responsibility for three Internet companies. Two Vertical NET Portals, a web develpment company and a virtual Internet Service Provider. I am also Managing Directorship of That Yacht Site Ltd T/A ThatBoatSite.com.

May 1999 – May 2001
CellStar UK Ltd Manchester
Product Manager

*Senior member of management team with authority over purchasing, marketing, supplier relationships and inventory. Regular presentations to European Management team.
*Sourcing and negotiating stock purchase of £3million per month including European trading and dealing with international supply chains.
*Responsible for all purchasing of stock, during expansion from £400K per month revenue to £7million per month.
*2000 - Developed and launched UK’s first network independent WAP portal in conjunction with Lammtara Industries
*2001 - Developed UK’s first commercially available GPRS healthcare package in conjunction with BTCellnet, Lumina and Magic Ant
*Negotiated and signed new supplier agreements with companies such as Sony, Samsung, Trium and Siemens.
*Responsible for marketing campaigns, Promotions and nationwide product launches for various mobile communication products.

Education

1992 - 1995 University of Salford
Politics & Contemporary History 2.2

1984 - 1992 Manchester Grammar School
A Levels
A Politics
B History
D Religion
GCSE’s· 10 all grade A & B

Skills

Nokia accredited to sell Mobile Data products.
High level of technical expertise in GSM / GPRS / WAP / HSCSD product integration.

Languages

English.
French GCSE grade A (but rusty).

Other

I am curtrently looking to broaden my work experience both outside the mobile phone industry and outside the UK.

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