Summary

A graduate possessing a wealth of sales experience and a proven ability of successful sales and business development, consistently achieving significant year-on-year sales targets and growth. Expertise in training and motivating other colleagues to provide a high level of customer service. Excellent commercial approach to solving problems and optimizing team potentials whilst pro-actively developing new business strategies and ideas.

Experience

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Manager Sales and Marketing
Edbiz Consulting Ltd/ Cambridge IFA
Sep 2018 - Present | Islamabad, Pakistan

• Assist in devising the business development strategy in consultation with the Head of department and CEO. • Develop new business and long-term account opportunities through prospecting and cold calling. • Develop, coordinate and implement marketing plans designed to maintain and increase existing business and capture new opportunities. • Manage web/telephone and email enquiries related to the assigned projects. • Undertake research to support management in identifying new lead opportunities. • Ensure information related to products/projects are updated on the website on a regular basis, i.e. at least once a week. • Identifying potential clients, markets and business relations. • Manage social media campaign of the assigned product/project. • Maintain and increase personal knowledge of priority sectors; market trends and routes to market for improved effectiveness within a sales support function. • Maintain an excellent client relationship with existing and potential clients. • Maintain and update clients and contacts database.

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Senior Sales Consultant/ IT Trainer
Travelhouse UK
Jul 2010 - Aug 2018 | Islamabad, Pakistan

• Booking and selling tickets as well as upgrading customers to a different class using Amadeus, Worldspan
and Galileo reservation systems.
• Remains informed of all airline rules and regulations and current affairs. Communicates information to
clients accurately and appropriately.
• Achieves individual and contractual service level goals related to telephone, quality, and productivity.
• Maintains client profiles, ensuring specials requests and reward program information such as frequent flyer
/ driver / hotel stays are included.
• Monitors, sorts and works global distribution systems (GDS) queues daily to maintain quality control. –
• Ensures optimum customer service through effective use of phone systems and positive telephone service
techniques.
• Handles ticket issuance, rebook and refund for group and business affiliates.
• Assist and serves customers with a sense of responsibility for their utmost satisfaction.
• Prepare customer invoices and accept payment.
• Answer inquiries regarding such information as schedules, accommodations, procedures, and policies.
• Inform clients of essential travel information such as travel times, transportation connections, Medical
and visa requirements.
• Responds to requests for price quotations utilizing automated system(s) for domestic and international
itineraries.
• Conforms to client travel standards and policies.
• Promotes the acceptance of fares, rates, and suppliers that match the client\'s travel program policies and
negotiated contracts. Applies discount programs appropriately.
• Promote destinations, tour packages, and other travel services.

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Telemarketing Executive
Equanet PCWorld Business
Jun 2009 - Apr 2010 | Cheshire, United Kingdom

• Responsible for targeting and identifying sales opportunities for businesses within assigned account list
and other businesses as instructed by management.
• Prospecting and generating new business opportunities for the company through calling on and
maintaining an accurate and up to date database on all the accounts assigned by management.
• Pre-sales responsibilities including primary contact for prospective customer until close of sale.
• Maintaining a follow-up cycle and live contact at least one time per month until close of sale.
• Answering telephone calls from potential customers who have been solicited through their own
efforts and as instructed by management.
• Scheduling appointments for account executive to meet with prospective customers or for
prospective customers to attend sales presentations or scheduled demos or solution leads.
• Providing excellent customer service.
• Relationship building with all prospective customers.
• Delivering prepared sales talks, reading from scripts that describe products or services, to persuade
potential customers to set up an appointment with Account Executive and Technical team.
• Maintaining contact with potential customers feeding them information about the company and
its products via live contact and through email to generate interest.
• Performing other duties as assigned.

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Event Manager
Rosetta Stone
Jul 2009 - Jan 2010 | Cheshire, United Kingdom

• Arranging Seminars and meetings with Potential clients.
• Managing team members to organise the event displays, equipments.
• Accountable for every logistical element of event, food and beverages, room set-ups, audio visuals,
entertainment.
• Selling languages packages on site.
• Merchandising products according to company\'s standard.
• Offer on site help, including registrations, set ups and tear down.
• Inventive and unique ideas for the event planning.
• Doing weekly Stock reconciliation and daily paperwork during the event.
• Recognize opportunities and areas for the cost savings.
• Organised the Pioneer opening event for Rosetta Stone in UK.

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Retail Customer Service Technician
Flextronics Retail Technical Services
Nov 2008 - Jun 2009 | Cheshire, United Kingdom

• Providing technical advice and guidance to customers on electrical products.
• Support sales by generating 5% of department revenue through sales of accessories.
• Consistently doing targets and getting Bonus / Vouchers.
• Merchandising products according to company\'s standard.
• Offering customers add-on products and services.
• Providing customer-facing technical support in retail locations.
• Delivering a high-quality customer experience at the point of sale helping end-customers
• Solve technical issues by troubleshooting and fixing electronics products.
• Program, troubleshoot, test, and repair IT and other electrical equipment.
• Be responsible for opening and closing duties within the service department.
• Serve as a point-of-contact for questions from Customer\'s associates.
• Reduced 70 % of returns cost by testing product in warranty and reselling to save revenue.

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IT Customer Advisor
PC World
Jun 2008 - Oct 2008 | Cheshire, United Kingdom

• Greeting customers, making them feel welcome in our store.
• Processing customer sales and credit agreements.
• Providing technical advice and guidance to customers.
• Providing support in other areas of the store.
• Responding quickly and efficiently to all customer requests.
• Ensuring that all tickets and point of sales are accurate and up to date.
• Promoted to Vision Champion to advise on Digital Services, TV etc and increased TV Sales revenue by
60 % year on year.
• Delivering expert advise on Mobile Broadband sale and services.
• Offering customers add-on products and services.
• Ensuring that training and product knowledge is kept up to date with new procedures and
technologies

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Call Centre Agent
LBM Marketing Ltd
Oct 2007 - May 2008 | Cheshire, United Kingdom

• Outbound Calling B2B customers and doing sales.
• Sorting out sales invoice sheets.
• Sorting out contract, giving advise to customers.
• Attending telephone calls and providing information to customers.
• Forward all quotes processed to the relevant account manager.
• Attending product and call centre training as requested.
• Assisting with sales and marketing campaigns as requested by contacting database customers regarding
special offers.
• Attending and participating in meetings as required.

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Sales Team Leader
Currys Ltd
Oct 2004 - Oct 2007 | Greater London, United Kingdom

• Attending customer enquiries regarding electronic products and doing sales.
• Providing an improved user-friendliness, customer service, productivity and financial reporting.
• Increased sales to 30 % YoY and reduced the returns to 40 %.
• Increased and maintained the attachment rate to 10% of sales.
• Taking payments, doing exchange and refunds on EPOS.
• Maintaining record and availability of products.
• Monitoring merchandising of different sections.
• Running shop floor, Checkout services, opening and closing store.
• Attending telephone calls and providing information and solutions to customers.
• Arranging business meetings with staff and senior management.
• Training new staff members.

Education

Middlesex University London
Masters, , MS (Networks & Telecom)‎
Networking
Grade B
2006
University of Lahore
Bachelors, BCS/BS, Bachelor of Computer Science Hons‎
Computer Science
CGPA 3.0/4
2000

Skills

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Expert Account Management
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Expert Aesthetic Procedures Knowledge
Expert Amazon Cloud Front
Intermediate Branch Administration Skills
Expert Branch Support.
Intermediate Branding
Intermediate British Accents
Expert Build Strong Teams
Expert Business Analysis
Expert Business Development Process
Expert Business Development Programs
Expert Business Development Strategies
Intermediate Business Dnvelopment
Expert Business Strategy
Expert C Level Negotiations
Expert Call Control
Intermediate Channel Sales Development
Expert Client Acquisition Skills
Expert Client Aquisition
Expert Client Followup
Expert Communications and Media
Expert Conservation Awareness
Expert Consultative Approach
Intermediate Coordinatiion
Expert Coordination of Projects
Expert Coordination Skillss
Intermediate Corporate IT
Expert Corporate HR Department
Expert Corporate Sales
Beginner CRM Analysis
Expert CRM Command
Expert Customer Service =
Expert Deal Qualification
Intermediate Deeper understanding of startup ecosystem
Intermediate Design Sales
Expert Designing Marketing Collateral
Intermediate Designs Sales
Expert Development Development
Expert Development of Strategic
Intermediate Digital Business Development
Expert Direct ales
Beginner Distribution Analysis
Intermediate Embedded Systems Design
Expert End To End Sales
Beginner Evaluating Risk
Intermediate Event Marketing Strategies
Expert Events Coordination
Expert Excellence Standard

Languages

Expert English
Expert Urdu