marcus simmons

Helping Companies and other Organisations to recruit Emerging Talent. I created the Apprenticeship offering at UCAS which includes Higher and Degree apprenticeship listings. I created any information hub for school leavers and engaged with employers, HE Institutions and Training providers. I set up a number of events and webinars and I enjoy working in front of an audience.

Responsible for the MBA-Courses & Science-Engineering.net as well as the related portfolio of products. Working mainly on New Business I am skilled at negotiating the labyrinthine pathways of Higher Education. I targeted both UK and international Universities and with my extensive experience was able to create mult channel solutions to aid their recruitment.

Responsible for all Education/Recruitment publications & online at The Independent. Including Education & Careers, all UCAS publications, All Association of MBAs publications and Independent.co.uk on-line educational advertising. Managing a sales team of 7 and working closely with all other departments especially editorial and production Managed Partnerships and Events with over 20 different organisations Coached and trained Graduate recruits to Senior account managers Consistently hit target across all teams

Responsible for all MBA and Business Education advertising at The Independent. Responsible for an increase in both market share and revenue for each consecutive year. Liasing closely with the Education Team as well as the Association of MBAs Looked after a yearly budget of £750,000 a year Sponsored The Association of MBAs events and Student of the Year Created new products to increase revenue

Field sales representative for the Education Sales Team at The Independent. Mainly responsible for the North of the UK

Launched the property supplement at The Independent as part of a three person team. Increasing market share from 3% to 30%

Responsible for selling advertising by Telephone for the Lifestyle category at The Independent.

Providing digital publishing solutions to our clients throughout through the YUDU platform. Specialising in Higher Education ,Charities and Catalogues. I continued to develop accounts as varied as A Class of Your Own and the Royal Yachting Association to Shop Direct. I was able to quickly identify opportunities to increase revenue, whilst making sure I was aware of any potential issues. I account managed over 30 key accounts.

Managed the Education team and products. Oversaw the UCAS contract for it's first year. I successfully migrated the UCAS partnership from The Independent to The Telegraph, producing a 24% year on year increase in revenue in a declining market. I managed 3 direct reports and was part of the Specialist Sales Management Team

Provided Digital Publishing solutions to a wide variety of clients including the United Nations, UCL Press, Cooksongold, Time Out. I worked generating new business in the Education and Retail sectors creating e-commerce solutions and Educational text books and journals The YUDU model is a SaaS model with lots of additional custom features, so I became adept at understanding a clients needs, and then working with our developer teams to find the very best solutions for them and working in an AGILE way.

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Studied African Studies with a focus on Religion and Philosophy