Mark Cooper

Sales manager

Chippenham, England, United Kingdom

About

Sales manager in charge of JLR, Toyota, McLaren and First Tier manufacturers. I lead a successful team that have a proven track record of hitting our targets. I have 10 years of automotive experience in various roles and commodities with a 1st class honours engineering degree.

Experience

  • AKWEL (8 yrs 2 mos)
    • Sales Manager
      Jan 2023 - Present · 3 yrs 7 mos

      Sales Manager for Jaguar Landrover, TOYOTA, McLaren and First Tiers. I lead a team that has successfully exceeded expectations with a clear strategy on how to achieve customer satisfaction whilst respecting the company’s directives and mission. We have strategically grown the account at a sustainable rate and have set out a robust 10 year plan to maintain this growth.

    • Key Account Manager
      Jun 2018 - Dec 2022 · 4 yrs 7 mos

      Jaguar Land-Rover Key Account Manager for AKWEL Automotive. Managed and grew strategic business within the JLR team, was instrumental in ensuring the team hit its key deliverables whilst maintaining a great relationship with the customer. Sustained and improved profitability of my account whilst developing new business opportunities.

  • Wipac Ltd (2 yrs 3 mos)
    • Project Manager
      Mar 2016 - May 2018 · 2 yrs 3 mos

      Key responsibilities include the daily management of both the design and project teams, budget tracking and commercial, time management, customer point of contact, purchasing, NPI and ensuring quality expectations are met.

    • Project Engineer
      Mar 2016 - Mar 2017 · 1 yr 1 mo

      Helped support the project team on customer demands and ensured programs ran smoothly for both Wipac and the customer

  • Engineering Project Manager at Nitron Racing Systems Ltd
    Nov 2015 - Mar 2016 · 5 mos

    My principle role is managing key engineering projects for Nitron as well as assisting in the decisions that affect the engineering operations of the company as a whole. However I still undertake design tasks when required and am actively involved in all stages of the production process.

  • Design Engineer at Supacat
    Jun 2013 - Aug 2014 · 1 yr 3 mos

    Broad experience base involving the learning and execution of the following areas. Design, including: Initial design concept, Time scale planning, CAD modelling, and Engineering drawings. Trails, including: Trial planning and risk assessment, Undertaking trials, Formatting collected data, and Report writing. Multi-body Dynamics, including: CAD data extraction, Creating dynamic models, Extracting data from models. Finite Element Analysis, including: Mesh control, Pre loading bolts, Both linear and non-linear analysis, with the ability to extract useful data.