Darren Woolford

Experience

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  ANZ

  Jan 2001 - Jan 2002

  Personal & Business Banking Consultant - NZ

  Providing excellent customer service and banking advice/solutions consistently to personal, business and corporate clients.

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  National Australia Bank

  Aug 2002 - Oct 2007

  Managing a team and overall portfolio of business banking and corporate customers across South Australia, Western Australia and Northern Territory to deliver on their cashflow solutions and invoice finance requirements. Effectively contact and provide banking solutions to Personal, Business and Corporate clients.Assist NAB clients reach their financial goals, via a financial review of their current situation and providing acheivable financial outcomes by way of Term Deposits, lending, and insurance solutions.Meet all required sales targets consistently and enhance customer experience at all times. Assisting personal, business and corporate clients with their Internet & Online banking needs.

  • Manager SA/NT/WA - Cashflow Solutions

    Sept 2004 - Oct 2007

  • Outbound Sales Consultant

    Jun 2003 - Sept 2004

  • Internet & Online Banking Consultant

    Aug 2002 - Jun 2003
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  ANZ

  Oct 2007 - Oct 2009

  Assistant Manager - Invoice Finance

  Managing a porfolio of business banking/corporate clients across victoria to ensure all Invoice Finance requirements were delivered, build and maintain positive relationships and consistently deliver on ANZ values.

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  Computershare Australia

  Feb 2010 - Jul 2015

  Senior Leader - Shareholder Payment Support/Replacement Payments

  Successfully manage in excess of 20 staff and their overall business performance via 1-on-1’s, end of year appraisals, management of staff reduction/off shoring, as well as managing all resourcing requirements.Successfully manage all shareholder replacement dividend requests, via the issuing of dividend replacements (at times multi million dollar replacements) via Direct Credit or Cheque.Successfully drive continuous improvement iniatives and strategies, and completion of any UAT (user acceptance testing) required.Key involvement in a new internal straight through processing (automation) project, and as the business owner, responsible for the roll out to my team and the broader business, ensuring the updating of process documents, and identifying further processing opportunities/enhancements. Responsible for organising through my Team Co-ordinators any required training/coaching for existing and new staff.Successful management of my team in conjunction with department/company budgets, and internal/external SLAs to ensure an excellent business outcome.Responsible for recruitment of new staff at both an ISR (Investor Services Rep) and Team Co-ordinator level - of which both report to me. Show less

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  News Corp Australia

  Jul 2015 - Feb 2020

  Management of a team of dedicated and amazingly talented Sales Managers, Digital Manager & Account Executives and an overall portfolio (with in excess of $13m) of independent agencies and their clients advertising needs nationally across multiple platform solutions. We consistently have our customers needs at the forefront of our minds in order to provide solutions that drive cut through & results for their advertising campaigns.Our ultimate goal is to become our agencies & clients trusted media and marketing partner and always use out of the box creative ideas and internal talent, along with research/insights to challenge the status quo.I’m a big advocate for helping to drive a thriving & positive mindset culture on the back of supportive network. I focus on continuous learning for my people and having a collaborative team environment that results in a high performing & an engaged team. Show less Managing the NewsCorp Australia Victorian Automotive & Retail Advertising team and ensuring Automotive & Retail clients throughout Victoria have premium solutions to meet their multi platform advertising needs. Our team continues to share our outstanding knowledge of multi platform advertising with our clients to create a point of difference, in particular the use of the below: * High level display targeting* Google Adwords/search * Facebook Social targeted * Multi publication print * Rich media executions* Video (YouTube, Unruly & Storyful)* Content marketing * Augmented Reality * Bespoke engaging creative solutionsWe always ensure our clients needs are at the forefront of our ideas & recommendations, and create tailored campaigns to ensure our clients achieve positive ROI and they further engage their customers. Show less

  • Group Sales Director - Agencies

    Mar 2018 - Feb 2020

  • Sales Manager - Automotive & Retail

    May 2017 - Mar 2018

  • Account Manager - Automotive

    Jul 2015 - May 2017
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  Stage3 - Growth Agency

  Feb 2020 - Feb 2021

  Head Of Sales & Partnerships

  Managing an entire sales & partnerships team across all sales, client & operationalfunctions nationally from both new business, to current business & across to client on-boarding & partnership management (National and International clients).Establishing & rolling out a robust operational tools process & management system forthe entire sales & client partnerships function.Creation & implementation of standard operation procedures across all sales &partnerships functions to ensure a consistent approach is followed for all functions.Establishing and implementing a new CRM system and a new start to finish sales &client on-boarding process.Coaching & Leading a team of high performing, collaborative individuals that make adifference. Show less

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  ACTIV Brand Management

  Mar 2021 - Feb 2025

  > Leading a national & international approach to brand marketing, activation & event management initiatives for clients.> Key focus of ensuring my team maximise brand marketing & accelerate brand results for clients.> Key support for Director of Activ with overall staff management, company strategy, financial analysis, client portfolio management for national & international brand activations, activations and events & future of the business. Our mission statement is:The ACTIV team is comprised of people that are not only creative geniuses, but exude passion for the entire concept to delivery process - and LOVE what we do! Working synonymously with our clients to form a critical extension to their teams, it is fair to say that our clients didn’t realise they needed us, until they did. The key to our success is measured by the success of our clients. Our campaigns are carefully created with the fans front of mind, delivering the best and most memorable experiences at event, and beyond. We also ensure that our clients new advocates are not forgotten post event, providing effective solutions to engage and nurture THEIR new fans, for years to come. We are the driving force to champion your next campaign, event and and take your brand strategy to a whole new level. That’s why we are ACCELERATING brands! Show less

  • General Manager

    Jul 2022 - Feb 2025

  • National Business Development Manager

    Mar 2021 - Jul 2022