Colin Smith

Whether you’re looking for a bespoke vending solution, catering supplies or high quality roasted coffee, we tailor our service to meet your needs and requirements. We are happy to offer you Fairtrade and Rainforest Alliance accredited products for your vending machines, ensuring your organisation is staying environmentally friendly.

As a Recruitment agent, I am the link between candidate and employer and our internal Account Management team. I manage external customers such as Cogent Staffing, Lotus home care, Total recruit, Nestle. I screen participants for internally advertised vacancies, ensuring right to work documentation is correct, and that the candidate’s skills match requirements of the employer. I collaborate with the employer to receive candidate feedback after interviews and applications. To maximise job starts I hold intensive individual work search sessions, use text kernel and other job search websites to help them apply for the roles. I set up and run interview sessions for employers and ensure candidates attend and are prepared for interview. I also actively search for vacancies and companies prepared to work with Maximus. I have created a training module to up-skill Employment Advisors, which I have delivered to the Halifax team, this has also been used at other offices across the scheme. I have achieved employee of the week multiple times and employee of the month twice and have been responsible for an average of twenty jobs per month during the last year.

Involved in the restart programme helping long term unemployed with the correct skill and enable a meaningful sustained employment. Worked one-to-one with candidates made used my own skills and experience to motivate and up-skill candidates to achieve their ultimate objective of employment.

Giving advice regarding the Pfizer and Astra Zenica vaccines, booking Covid vaccinations.

Customer service advisor home shopping- dealing with complaints and enquiries.

Selling operated vending contracts Cold Drinks, Snacks and Coffee Machines to the Education sector, I installed twenty six vending machines in the first nine months with total additional contract value of £186,000 projected profit, I was made redundant March 2020.

Responsible for finding new fuel card customers by sourcing data cold calling. The first account manager at the Halifax office to achieve over one hundred thousand litres of sales per month and one hundred and seventeen thousand litres of new business in one month was the office record.

I set up an online business to lease a range of coffee machines, drop ship consumables and disposables to offices and independent catering outlets. I recruited and managed a team to create a strong online presence, which achieved key google rankings. To maximise sales enquiries, I networked with other businesses and key suppliers, held regular on- site demonstrations of bean to cup coffee machines and traditional espresso machines. I sold the website along with wholesale customer base in July 2018.

In conjunction with all other roles during this period, I purchased an oversees property in Rhodes(Greece) for holiday rental purposes near the village of Lindos. I designed and managed the website and achieved full occupancy for rentals from 2009 to 2014. I was responsible for responding to customer enquiries quickly to achieve a booking by answering customer queries by phone and email. The villa sold in 2014 due to national financial banking and legal changes in Greece.

Responsible for new business development and existing customer account base. On target performance for leasing and renting vending equipment and coffee machines. Target market manufacturers in the Northeast of England. In August 2011, the company made me redundant due to Directorship changes.

Responsible for new business sales for Yorkshire, cold calling and developing new customers. Leasing and service and operating contracts. Won a five thousand drink per week site at the Normanton Asda Distribution centre.