Manager Sales

Adrian Tomkins

**** * ******** ***, **** Hollywood, 90046, CA

Cell: +1-310-***-**** Home: +1-323-***-****

E-mail: *************@*****.*** Web: www.adriantomkins.com

Professional Experience

PR and Communications Manager

The Cobra Group (Appco Group) - June 2009 to September 2010.

Duties included developing communications campaigns to improve the

image of door to door sales and market the company's products and services;

production and distribution of internal collateral; developing and

implementing strategies for handling media contacts; advising internal

stakeholders on best practice for addressing media; review the group's

global branding; managing external and internal website producers and

designers; social media marketing; Google Adwords management; liaising with

external promotional agencies; creating content for online reputation

management; managing the production of corporate videos; maintaining

Salesforce CRM system; operating as an independent local manager of a

communications team based in the United Kingdom.

PR and Communications Manager

HomeSource - September 2006 to June 2009

Duties included coordination of the organization's marketing and

public relations opportunities; exploring strategic and tactical campaigns

for the company's brands; developing and maintaining media relationships

for positive coverage; managing relationships with representatives from a

variety of publications to provide promotional coverage; maintaining CRM

system; creating copy for the website and the member newsletter; performing

Search Engine Optimization; Google Adwords management; sourcing and

enhancing sales opportunities; exploring technical website enhancements;

sourcing funding opportunities; investor relations; performing business

development; reporting to the managing directors.

Communications/Marketing Coordinator

Woollahra Municipal Council - January 2005 to January 2006

Duties included assisting with the development and implementation of

Council communications campaigns; helping with the setup and management of

Council events; creating speech copy for the Mayor; liaised with local and

metropolitan media and created and distributed numerous published media

releases; copywriting for advertisements, event programs, speeches, the

Council's Website and other Council documentation, managing the internal

newsletter.

Salesperson (part-time)

Hutchinson 3G Australia - June 2003 to April 2008

Duties included suggestive selling of the organization's phone

products and services; dealing with customer complaints and building

relationships; developed of sales techniques based on corporate training.

Outstanding results included a 100 percent score in Mystery Shop KPI and in

excess of $1,000,000 in contract sales.

Additional experiences include work as a computer salesperson, elderly home

diversional therapist, waiter and bartender.

Skills Summary

High level of computer literacy in Windows Office Suite, plus Adobe

Photoshop, Publisher, InDesign, Illustrator, and website

creation/development (HTML/CSS and basic PHP/mySQL).

Education

Master of Professional Communication, University of Western Sydney, 2006

Achieved Distinction and was added to the Dean's Honor Role

Bachelor of Arts (Communications), University of Western Sydney, 2005

References

Available on request.

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