Jay Powell

Current

Business Development at Business Intelligence Direct

Past

IT Marketing Executive at Business Intelligence Direct
Sales Consultant at Orange
IT Telemarketing Executive at GCL Direct

Executive Account Manager at Certegy

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Education

Sailsbury College

Recommended

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Connections

500+ connections

Industry

Marketing and Advertising

Websites

My Company

Jay Powell’s Summary

I am a senior New Business Development & Lead Generation Expert, currently working for a specialist demand creation agency in Birmingham, focusing on identifying strategic opportunities and establishing key business relationships for our clients. I work within a small team of Business Development Managers, generating highly qualified new business appointments. I have well over 9 years worth of experience in telemarketing and new business creation.

My key skills revolve around Telemarketing, I specialise in generating highly qualified new business appointments in the IT B2B market. I have experience in taking forward some of the most complex telemarketing propositions, identifying real sales opportunity, qualifying the prospect, gathering a keen understanding their specific requirements then closing the opportunity for a new business meeting.

From IT software / Services, including ERP, BI Tools, Network Technology to Telecoms, B2B Mobile Communications, Managed Services, Consultancy and Financial propositions. I have the experience to be able to turn my key skills and then adapt them to every lead generation situation I have encountered.

At present I work within a small team of Business Development Managers, our focus is to generate new business appointments for our sales team. We are currently speaking with Marketing and Sales decision makers to better understand their lead generation environment and specific new business requirements. I then help successfully design and deliver telemarketing campaigns, the process by which the campaign objectives and messages are developed and implemented, This is then supported by a highly skilled and motivated telemarketing team coupled with significant market experience.

Please contact me direct if you feel that you could benefit from my expertise.

You can also check out our company profile -

http://www.linkedin.com/companies/213075?trk=ape_s000001e_1000

Jay Powell’s Specialties:

Generating New Business, Cold Calling, Telesales, Telemarketing, Appointment setting, Gathering information, Sales Management, Sales & Marketing Strategy, Account Management/Development, Enterprise Solution Sales.

Jay Powell’s Experience

Business Development

Business Intelligence Direct

(Privately Held; Marketing and Advertising industry)

December 2008 — Present (1 year )

Generating new sales opportuities within the BID sales team.

During my course as a telemarketing executive at Business Intelligence Direct, My skills were pointed out by both my Director's and I was internally promoted to the position of Business Development Executive.

My key responsibilities include

Generating new business
Setting sales appointments
Tracking and pipeline management
Generating sales figures
Managing logistical operations of BID's sales force
IT Marketing Executive

Business Intelligence Direct

(Privately Held; Marketing and Advertising industry)

May 2008 — November 2008 (7 months)

From May 2008 to November 2008, Business Intelligence Direct Ltd (BID),

24/26 Calthorpe Road,Edgbaston, Birmingham, B15 1RP

www.bidmarketing.co.uk

I originally started working for BID as an IT Telemarketing executive, generating new business appointments for various IT clients. My main duties included, making outbound business to business calls on behalf of selected clients to either promote, gather and/or capture specific market intelligence for future sales purposes. Creating and generating marketing and sales opportunities based around a lead and appointment generation projects for IT clients.
Sales Consultant

Orange

(Public Company; FTE; Information Technology and Services industry)

November 2007 — May 2008 (7 months)

From November 2007 – May 2008 Voice Dat Ltd T/a Voice Mobile,

The Hub, Fort Dunlop, Birmingham,

www.voicemobile.co.uk

Working for thriving mobile telecommunication solutions provider located within the newly refurbished Fort Dunlop, apparently one of the largest free standing buildings in the UK. My main duties as a Business consultant include – Making outbound business to business calls with a view to becoming the target client’s next mobile provider, offering a range of services from mobile phones, data cards, vehicle tracking and landlines from both network providers Orange and Vodafone.
IT Telemarketing Executive

GCL Direct

(Privately Held; Marketing and Advertising industry)

November 2006 — October 2007 (1 year )

From November 2006 – October 2007, G.C.L Direct Ltd,

Newland House, Hagley Road, Birmingham

www.gcldirect.com

Working within the business heart of Birmingham for an outsourced marketing solution provider my main duties as a Marketing executive include – making outbound business to business calls on behalf of selected clients to either promote, gather and/or capture specific market intelligence for future sales purposes. Creating and generating marketing and sales opportunities based around a lead and appointment generation projects for FTSE 100 – 250 clients based mainly within the IT sectors.
Executive Account Manager

Certegy

(Public Company; CEY; Financial Services industry)

March 2005 — November 2006 (1 year 9 months)

March 2005 – November 2006 – Certegy Card Services Ltd

Tricorn House, 51-53, Hagley Rd, Edgbaston, Birmingham, West Midlands B16 8TP

www.certegy.net

Working for a large FTSE 250 organization based in the business centre of Birmingham located upon the Hagley Road my duties within this position included; Liaising directly with existing customers with the intention to either up sell on our existing products or cross sell with another product within the division of Fidelity Information Services Europe. My main role was working within the Cheque guarantee side of FIS Certegy’s product Transax. Gaining interest in Certegy’s unique product which is compared closely with credit insurance but tailored to cheque usage mainly implemented into such retail systems and many FTSE companies within the UK and across the Europe.

Jay Powell’s Education

Sailsbury College

A Level , Sound Engineering , 2000 — 2001

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