chris limm

sales director uk and ireland

About

I'm a results driven, hard working, ethical and successful Sales Director with a proven track record of over achievement delivering a step change in business performance within the telecommunications and technology sector. Comprising, Consultancy,SaaS, Unified Communications, Contact Centre Applications, Managed Services,Cloud,Collaboration and Data Infrastructure based solutions. My style is that of a natural and decisive Sales leader major strengths lie in effective coaching and motivating of others to achieve their sales objectives. I prefer to get my hands dirty and role model a ‘can do, customer first’ culture. I work extremely well under pressure with demonstrable success in start-up operations and large corporates requiring accelerated growth via net new business acquisition. Specialties: Strong people leadership and Direction. Tactical execution and Strategic Planning. Managing and driving transition and culture change. Development and implementation of sales methodologies and processes. New business acquisition Penetrating strategic competitor accounts

Country

united kingdom

City

london

Industry

information technology and services

Skill

managed services, telecommunications, solution selling, account management, call centers, pre sales, telephony, cloud computing, avaya, direct sales, saas, voip, call center, contact centers, enterprise software, sales, avaya technologies, sales management, management, ip, ivr, mpls, start ups, sip, professional services, channel, wireless, video conferencing, product management, business strategy, sip trunking, cti, unified messaging, mobile devices, hosted services, acd, cisco technologies, call logging

Experience

sales director

cct

2004-1 - 2007-2 · 3 yrs 2 mos

Reporting to the CEO with full responsibility for sales, delivering the companies’ annual revenue target via direct customer acquisition. Team comprising 24 heads; Net New Customer Acquisition, Strategic Account Development, Key Account Managers, TAMs, Pre Sales Support and Marketing.

national sales director

kcom

1996-6 - 2001-1 · 4 yrs 8 mos

sales director

capita it services

2011-7 - 2013-12 · 2 yrs 6 mos

Part of the Capita ITS division with an annual turnover in excess of £600 million.One of the UK's leading Avaya, Microsoft, VMware, HP. and Cisco business partners supporting voice, contact centre, data infrastructure and connectivity. Including Cloud based SaaS applications UC and contact centre residing on a hosted platform. Sales Director- Capita ITS Unified Communications & Contact Centre Practice Responsible for the development and execution of the sales strategy to deliver and exceed a £34m annual revenue target . Addressing the enterprise and public sectors with a portfolio of fully manged services via a team of account managers and net 'new logo' acquisition specialists.

sales marketing director

solar communications

2009-10 - 2011-5 · 1 yr 8 mos

Solar are a SI to the enterprise and SME business sectors. ShoreTel and Avaya business partner. ShoreTel number one partner in UK and EMEA most recently acknowledged as the fourth fastest growing telecommunications company in the Uk.

uk country manager and sales director emea

datapoint

2007-3 - 2008-8 · 1 yr 6 mos

Following the acquisition of Touchbase, Avaya’s European business, appointed as Sales Director (and then promoted to UK Country Manager) responsible for the planning and execution of the business strategy. Datapoint a systems integrator covering IPT infrastructure and applications into the contact centre and enterprise sectors. Services portfolio including education, consultancy,design,service delivery and support. Fully accredited partner for Avaya, Cisco, Nexidia, Extreme and Verint. UK Country Manager/Sales Director P&L responsibility for the planning of the business strategy to deliver £30m annualised revenue primarily via the retention and development of existing account base alongside a strong net new business acquisition team.Sales structure comprising: pre sales, solution design architects, marketing, telesales, vertical sector account managers and new business.

sales director uk and ireland

cyara

2015-5 - Present · 11 yrs 5 mos

Cyara provides comprehensive customer experience software. Automating testing and monitoring throughout the platform lifecycle.Including:IVR,Contact Centre,Outbound Voice,Web Interaction and Voice Biometrics testing. Cyara has a strong global presence with offices in Australia, USA, UK, and India. CYARA NAMED A GARTNER COOL VENDOR