Sam Marples

Experience

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  Anglian Windows

  Oct 2008 - Sept 2011

  Marketing Agent, Team Leader, Assistant Manager

  • Working for Anglian as part of their marketing team as the first point of contact between Anglian and their potential customers. • Managing a team of Door-Canvassers,• Generating leads and booking appointments to create fresh sales opportunities, around Leicestershire and Lincolnshire. • Ringing existing customers and generating new business.• Customer caring newly fitted products.. Recruiting new potential employees

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  TalkTalk

  Sept 2011 - Feb 2012

  Outbound Sales Advisor

  • Making outbound calls to both new and existing customers in order to sell a range of phone and broadband packages on behalf of TalkTalk. • Hitting daily, weekly and monthly targets.

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  Stage Systems Limited.

  Feb 2012 - Jul 2012

  Sales Advisor

  • Liaising with new and existing customers, ranging from the educational to the commercial sector on products such as demountable staging, light and sound equipment and retractable seating• Preparing quotations and arranging site surveys or demonstrations. • Making calls to potential clients, predominantly Head Teachers and Bursas of schools and Directors of large construction companies. • Following up quotes and closing sales, in order to hit a monthly sales target. • Updating sales forecast and logging all activity in to the CRM. Show less

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  Needhams Home Improvements

  Aug 2012 - Feb 2014

  Marketing Agent, Team Leader

  • Leading a team of field marketing agents, ensuring daily performance targets are hit.• Promoting Needhams’ range of home improvement products to new potential customers on the doorstep, booking leads and appointments.• Feeding the sales team with new leads and appointments in order for them to demonstrate and sell Needhams’ products. • Ensuring weekly demonstration targets are hit both personally and within my team. • Working towards a monthly sales target.• Customer caring new products fitted.• Reappointing leads over the phone for my team members, ensuring minimal loss of potential business.• Targeting areas strategically, following the Fittings Team around, canvassing around newly fitted jobs.• Canvassing areas that were recently visited by an ‘Instore Team’, of whom were responsible for the generation interest in shopping centres, stores etc.• Reporting to the CEO, Sales Director with daily and weekly results, obtaining feedback from Sales Representatives and passing this onto my team. • Working on a performance based salary / pay deal, to ensure cost effectiveness for the business. Show less

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  JB Management

  Feb 2014 - Nov 2016

  Business Development Manager

  • Managing of high profile, key accounts e.g. Card Factory, CEVA Logistics, W H Malcolm Group, McVities Biscuits, J Tomlinson Construction, Harrods and DHL.• Liaising with Managing Directors, HR Directors, Learning and Development Managers and Line Managers, in order to promote JB Management’s services and secure new business.• Leading a team of Recruitment and Employer Engagement Officer’s and apprentices in order to obtain new business and hit funding profile targets.• Managing the apprentice recruitment process, arranging and holding recruitment days and events for large clients.• Travelling to existing and new potential client sites all over the UK, delivering presentations and promoting JB Management’s services.• Collating information for existing clients and reporting to them on a monthly basis through meetings and progression reports. • Carrying out inductions for new candidates undergoing JB Management’s apprenticeship and work based qualification programmes.• Updating the CRM system and monitoring activity within my team, presenting the information in weekly/monthly meetings.• Attending networking events, conferences and marketing exhibitions to promote JB Management’s services.• Being the main point of contact for the majority of JB Management’s clients.• Advertising apprenticeship vacancies on behalf of our clients, screening and interviewing applicants and presenting them to the employer.• Managing the outsourced telemarketing company which JB Management used to book additional marketing appointments. • Quality controlling and attending suitable appointments supplied by outsources telemarketing company, to secure business. • Securing business and maintaining healthy working relationships with clients of all sizes from a wide range of different business sectors including Logistics, Construction, Leisure and Tourism and Manufacturers. • Attending networking events, conferences and marketing exhibitions to promote JB Management’s services. Show less

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  Intertek

  Nov 2016 - Mar 2018

  UK and Eire Sales Executive - Hardlines

  Promoting and selling Intertek’s Safety Testing, Auditing, Inspecting and Certification services to large range of customers. Managing and developing large, small and ‘drop off’ business accounts, pushing new business. Visiting existing and potential clients, delivering presentations, giving technical advice and pushing for sale of service. Liaising with Quality Assurance Mangers, Production Mangers and Product Safety Managers. Cold and calling in order to generate leads and book new business appointments. Calling previous clients and ‘drop-off’ accounts in order to regenerating business. Consulting clients, advising on safety aspects of their products and pushing to use Intertek’s Testing and Quality Assurance services. Liaising with Intertek’s team of technical experts, visiting the laboratories and continuously learning technical information I relation to the services provided. Strategically targeted specific industries, manufacturers, suppliers and retailers who fall into the Toys and ‘Hardline’ product category. Meeting monthly sales revenue targets. Meeting weekly and monthly KPI targets and collating reports to present to Head of Sales and Senior Management Reporting to Head of Sales and Head of Business Development Working within a team of both UK and Global Sales Executive and Business Development colleagues, to effectively cover all markets worldwide. Attending trade shows, fairs and other events in order to promote Intertek’s services and network with suppliers, manufacturers and retailers. Attending training seminars in order to broaden industry knowledge Show less

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  Verdi Home Improvements Limited

  May 2017 - Feb 2019

  Commission-only based role. Achieved a fantastic track record during my year on the road with this excellent home improvements company, consistently hitting financial targets and earning over the OTE's.* Changed back to a role offering more 'sociable' working hours due to family commitments.

  • Field Sales Executive

    Mar 2017 - Feb 2019

  • Commission Sales Associate

    May 2017 - Feb 2018
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  The Drain People Ltd

  Feb 2018 - now

  The Drain People Ltd. are a family run drainage contractor based in the Midlands. We have over 40 years' experience, operating 24/7 - 365 covering the Midlands and also, Nationally. We are SafeContractor and CHAS accredited, as well as being members of the NADC and WJA trained / certificated. Here is a list of the services we offer to both domestic and commercial customers, on both an emergency and pre-planned basis;-Drain Clearance and Unblocking • Gully’s• Manholes / Inspection Chambers• Channel / ACO Drains• Toilets / SVP’s• Sinks• Baths • UrinalsHigh-Pressure Water Jetting• Drain Jetting • Surface Cleaning• Graffiti Removal CCTV Surveys and Investigations• Look-See Investigations• Pre-Purchase Surveys• Build-Over Surveys• Site SurveysDrain Tracing Drain Laying and InstallationDrain Repairs • Excavation • Structural Patch Lining• Structural Re-Lining Drain Maintenance • De-Scaling• Cleansing• Root Cutting and Removal Flood Clearance and SanitationTanker Services Maintenance Contracts Show less

  • Business Developemner Manager | H&S Cooridinator

    Feb 2018 - now

  • Business Development | Health and Safety Coordinator

    Feb 2018 - Dec 2021