Gareth Jones, Property Broker - Sales Manager

Gareth Jones

Property Broker - Sales Manager

Aspen Woolf Real Estate MENA

Location
United Arab Emirates - Dubai
Education
Bachelor's degree, Economics 2:1
Experience
26 years, 7 Months

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Total years of experience :26 years, 7 Months

Property Broker - Sales Manager at Aspen Woolf Real Estate MENA
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • My current job since May 2014

• Investigate new business openings
• Develop new strategies, tactics, and plans for future growth of company’s database
• Meet and exceed personal and company sales target set within the given deadline and accounts. Build up a better customer relationship
• Represent the company’s business policies in various conferences, trade fairs, and networking events to attract more and more clients
• Monitoring international market performance
• Provide investment advice and market recommendations for clients
• Establish performance goal for each client, and monitor if the investment is able to meet up to expectations or not.
• Actively manage private clients to ensure best practice and results
Key Achievements:
• Broke company record hitting £1.2 million in transaction value under 3 months
• Highest revenue month of the year, £789, 000
• Top sales person
• 10.6% personal closing average, company average is 6%

Sales Director - Contract at Internet eSolutions
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • December 2013 to April 2014

* Study the previous stats of the company, and understand the policies adopted by company to improve these stats.

* Develop new strategies, tactics, and plans for future growth of company’s database. Generate reports based on facts to be presented before the senior managers, and shareholders.

* Meet the sales target set within the given deadline with restricted territory, and accounts. Build up a better customer relationship, understand their needs, and try to make them satisfied without compromising with the company profits.

* Maintain long lasting customer relationships.

* Represent the company’s business policies in various conferences, trade fairs, and networking events to attract more and more clients.

* Effectively communicate the value proposals with different presentations.

* Analyze the sales team, and check if the work there is going on smoothly or not.

* Make amendments in the team members if necessary.

* Travel across various countries if required to attend various seminars, and events. Coordinate the sales operations with all the other departments of the company.

* Establish performance goal for each employee, and monitor if the employee is able to meet up the expectations or not.

* Continuously motivate the sales team, and inspire them to stay focused on company’s goals. Seek out new customers, and sales opportunities to help build up the empire.

Key Achievements:

* Projected revenue of 17, 000, 000 AED in year 1

* Responsible for hiring and creation of sales team

* Positioned company as the only provider of E-Commerce for SMEs in the UAE

Account Sales Director at Breed Communications
  • United Kingdom
  • April 2012 to November 2013

Breed Communications, London (April 2012 - June 2013)
Account Sales Director

• Managing all budget related processes, including all sales forecasting and planning for the company,
ensuring efficient and effective spending and savings
• Devising all quality assurance procedures, involving the development, implementation and training of staff in all areas, ensuring high standards are consistently being met by all employees
• Implementing new enabling technologies for the Sales teams, including the CRM systems
• Managing a sales team of 7 staff, including all training and professional development requirements for all individuals
• Setting and reviewing performance targets for sales teams, implementing sales and performance
tracking strategies as well as writing sales scripts
• Working in public relations and marketing fields for B2B Sales and Management


• Achieving 140% of quota for the company, and being recognised for key business development
opportunities - Pipeline of £475, 000 achieved, target was £250, 000
• Successfully increasing Sales Team performance by 100% within 3 months of employment
• Awarded the Top Global Salesperson for the company due to excellent individual sales performance

Client Manager & Business Development - Energy and Commodities at Select Global Ltd
  • United Kingdom - London
  • February 2010 to April 2012

Select Global Ltd., London, UK (February 2010 - April 2012)
Client Manager & Business Development - Energy and Commodities

• Responsible for creating market forecasts, interpretations and monitoring of business performance,
ensuring all company targets are current and appropriate
• Providing excellent customer service when communicating investment information, market
recommendations, trading and negotiation of price information to clients


• Promoted to Client manager in February 2012 due to excellent performance
• Managing the corporate account for Sony Ericcson (Spain) averaging £17, 000, 000
• Winning the Award for Best Up and Coming Broker 2011

Business Development Team Leader/Trainer - Direct Sales at Tom James
  • United Kingdom - London
  • May 2005 to February 2010

Tom James, London UK/Tampa and Chicago USA (May 2005 - February 2010)
Business Development Team Leader/Trainer - Direct Sales

• Building and maintaining a client-base of 297 clients, creating and growing strong business
relationships with each customer and ensuring repeat business opportunities for the company
• Developing and maintaining a database of over 2, 500 contacts, allowing for unique sales opportunities
using available information
• Creating and running an accredited international training program for sales teams, ensuring the best
techniques are being applied to all sales by staff, and creating high profitability rates


• Achieving 125% of quota, with monthly sales hitting £35, 000 in revenue
• Being recognised as one of the Top 5 Salespeople outside of America - approximately 450 people
• Winning Awards for: Sales Training Excellence, Highest Annual Sales Increase and Sales Growth

Financial Sales Account Executive at Britex International
  • Singapore
  • September 2001 to March 2005

Britex International, Singapore (Sept 2001 - March 2005)
Financial Sales Account Executive

Customer Retentions Clerk at Orange PCS
  • United Kingdom
  • September 1997 to September 2001

Orange PCS, Darlington, UK (September 1997 - September 2001)
Customer Retentions Clerk

Education

Bachelor's degree, Economics 2:1
  • at SOAS London University
  • January 1997
High school or equivalent, English Literature, Business Studies and History
  • at Queen Elizabeth Sixth Form College
  • September 1994

3 A Levels English Literature, Business Studies and History 5 GCSEs English, English Literature, Art and Design, Mathematics and History Further Information ; full clean licence Basic Spanish and basic German language skills Fellow of "The Institute of Sales and Marketing Management".

Specialties & Skills

Sales Management
Business Development
High Net Worth Individuals
Negotiation
Closing Deals
Sales negotiation
ALL SALES
AND SALES
ANNUAL SALES
BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT
DATABASE
FOR SALES
TRAINING
CLIENTS

Languages

German
Beginner

Memberships

The Institute of Sales and Marketing Management
  • Fellow
  • April 2012