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CURRICULUM VITAE

Personal Details

NAME:
PREETYI MAHI GILLL
HOME ADDRESS:
16 Goodmayes Avenue
Ilford
London
IG3 8TW
NATIONALITY:
British


SEX:
Female


EMAIL:
[email protected]
TELEPHONE
89754689990
07507227110

Personal Qualities

• Entrepreneurial mind-set
• Company id [email protected]
• Proactive attitude to achieving and exceeding targets
• Dynamic and ambitious
• Positive attitude
• Strong negotiating and selling skills
• Am able to communicate effectively at all levels
• Have the ability to build rapport, and strengthen relationships
• A self-starter
• Business minded, focused and extremely driven by a challenge
• Creative and innovative ideas to increase sales and revenue
• Customer focused

Key Achievements

• Co-founded an educational provider
• Established 20 centres across London focusing on after school and weekend learning within two years
• Took company turnover from 40K in year 1 to 700K in year two
• Managed two of the highest revenue generating centres with quarterly revenues of over £75,000
• Built and trained a team of 30 head office staff over a period of two years
• MSc in Entrepreneurship

Professional Experience

Gabbitas Educational Consultants Ltd
(Part of the Prospects Group) Piccadilly, London
June 2012 - present




































Consultancy
London
Aug 2011-June 2012





Ace Academy
North Acton
Jan 2009 - June 2011












































AMR International
Mayfair, London
August 2007-
November 2008















Commercial Manager (Marketing and Sales)

• Reporting directly to the Managing Director and mentored by the Director of Sales and Marketing of Prospects.
• Sit on the senior management team with responsibility for the central marketing budget, departmental marketing and communications plans and Board Reports.
• Manage a team of 4 including the Web Content Editor, CRM co-ordinator, Marketing and Communications assistant (Social media) and a Web Intern.
• Work closely with the Prospects Marketing Team including the Digital Marketing Manager, PR Manager, and Lead Designer.
• Support five Directors and Heads of Departments with marketing, PR, events, e-communications, social media, web, sales and business development activities on a day-to-day basis.
• Work closely with our PR partner to generate media coverage and brand awareness. This includes newspaper, magazine (B2B and B2C), TV and radio.
• Manage the production of marketing literature including brochures, event marketing, corporate stationary and publications
• Various event management and execution including ISS, HMC, IAPS, COBIS and ISBA
• Liaise with the CRM Manager as the companies CRM Champion to encourage more user activity and cross-selling.
• Lead on corporate brand development and visual identity. Manage the company’s brand guidelines with Lead Designer.
• Independently managed the marketing and press launch of a new office in Dubai.
• Created and developed relationships with leading magazines and educational supplements.
• Manage corporate partner relationships to develop new revenue streams.
• Closely monitor market trends and competitor activity

Freelance Consultant

• Undertook consultancy projects which involved competitor research, commercial due diligence and marketing strategies

Co-founder and Business Development Director

• Successfully researched then developed a business plan for an industry which was not initially familiar to me
• One of 4 co-founders who built and designed the infrastructure for after-school and weekend educational services
• Recruited, trained and managed over 30 head office staff including sales, marketing, recruitment, and course design
• Recruited, and managed 50 teaching staff and 10 field staff
• Executed over 60 sales events across London resulting in over £120,000 in revenue
• Reached a turnover of 40k in year 1 with a profit of £10,000
• In year 2 growth revenue was £700k. This was achieved by closing parents at sales events, and at centres, B2C field sales, telesales and proactive lead generation
• Generated leads though driving referrals from existing customers and building partnerships with local businesses
• Undertook extensive field sales all over London
• Reached and exceeded monthly and quarterly targets in terms of recruiting new students
• Delivered face to face presentations to customers to grow student registrations
• Developed a national expansion strategy
• Set up education centres to in high demand tuition areas
• Cold called headmasters, bursars and business development managers to secure prestigious teaching venues
• Secured prestigious schools in London as teaching venues and negotiated favourable hire rates
• Worked very closely with the management team for centre improvement strategy
• From scratch, created learning textbooks for maths, English, science and public speaking for KS1 to KS4 based on the UK national curriculum
• Recruited and managed the a course design team of 8
• Introduced an online learning platform with workbooks to the company and customers

Strategic Researcher

• Created proposals on behalf of directors to win new business with a minimum value of £15k
• Managed an acquisition project for a client who was interested in the Turkish engineering market. Based on my commercial due diligence (CDD) the client did not to acquire the company. As a result of the initial delivery we received repeat business at the value of £20k per project
• Cold called, arranged and undertook telephone interviews with all levels of management to fact find, compile relevant data to analyse and formulate recommendations
• Undertook desk research for secondary data collection
• Contributed to presentations and reports with my findings and conclusions to submit to key decision makers
• Researched competitors for AMR to launch their services to the Indian market

Qualifications
2005 –2007 University of Bristol, MSc Entrepreneurship
2001 –2004 Brunel University, BSc Business and Management with Marketing, 2:1

Languages spoken fluently: English, Hindi and Punjabi