United Kingdom
Experienced Managing Director/ Sales Manager with an extensive track record of placing high calibre sales professionals/Managers with some of the UK's leading publishing/business information and services companies and now with several years successful sales management experience within the vending sector .
Responsible for servicing and developing both private and public sector fully managed and self managed vending accounts in the South East of England. Working closely with business owners and facilities managers I ensure that each service offering is suitable for the needs of the business and and delivered at the most competitive price. Used to working on both small accounts and large complex business tenders I am able to provide a suitable vending solution for all types and size of business.
With a wealth of experience and a proven track record of sales and sales management gained within the sales recruitment sector I am now working with 2 of my former management placements in their sales recruitment business to find the very best talent for their clients, market leading UK companies offering flexible working and highly competitive salaries and real career development opportunities.
Westways Vending are a family owned, well established regional vending company. As Sales Manager I am responsible for looking after and developing a large portfolio of existing accounts and bringing on board new clients based across Sussex. Westways work with all types and size of company ranging from small independents to large blue chips and our solutions include fully operated hot drinks, snack and cold drinks machines as well as self fill table top hot drinks machines. We can offer cost neutral and eco friendly solutions and our operated machines include contactless units as standard which can also be used to offer a controlled free vend hot drinks facility
Pisces Recruitment Limited is a successful independant sales recruitment business and an outsourced sales organisation who have worked with some of the UK's leading publishing, business information and service based sales companies including Rightmove, Yell Group, Thomson Directories Ltd, Reed Business Information, Daily Mail Group, Towergate Partnership, Datamonitor PLC and Initial Medical to name a few. Their consultants are experienced sales professionals/managers from leading blue chip companies. With one of the most comprehensive sales cv databases in the UK and a unique well established screening system they are well placed to fulfill your sales recruitment needs at whatever level. Darren built the business up from scratch and has overall responsibility for driving it forward through the effective management of a team of sales staff and recruitment consultants.
Selling display advertising into the market leading Business Directory Kellys and the 2 specialist directories, Dial Engineering and Dial Electronics. Mainly new business development. Continuous over target achievement led to numerous awards and promotion to senior sales. Worked in both the North and South of the UK.