matt atherton

* Consultatively sold advertising solutions across the full portfolio of products including; print and digital display advertising, print supplements, awards sponsorships, and digital e-bulletins. * Responsible for the brands key accounts, including client direct and advertising agencies. * Generated incremental new business for the brand, through research calls and lead chasing & ensured renewal business was upheld from existing clients and increased spend.

* Managed a sales territory of over 250 secondary schools in Greater London. * Consultatively sold OUP’s list of secondary education resources, including print, digital and online resources to heads of department and senior decision makers within schools and FE colleges. * Consistently exceeded monthly bonus targets and exceeded the maximum full year sales target for my territory. * Managed the full sales cycle including contacting prospective customers, appointment making, face to face meetings, producing quotes and closing business. * Built up excellent relationships with education clients within my territory, helping to secure renewal business and up sell opportunities to other departments within the same school. * Regularly attended education exhibitions and industry events as the primary contact for OUP, demonstrating and presenting print, online and digital products to prospective customers

* Member of the Online Products team within the Academic Sales department at Oxford University Press. * Provided digital support for universities, colleges and individual subscribers of OUP’s digital academic products portfolio. * Acted as the main contact for international universities, and consortiums within Southern Europe and Middle East & Africa sales territory for digital access and online subscription queries. * Created and dispatched license agreements, invoices, notification emails and promotional materials to consortia heads, institutional resource coordinators and individual customers.

* Responsible for generating revenue across multiple channels including live events, bespoke client events, content partnerships, and print & online advertising solutions over 30 brand extensions. * Generate exhibitor/supplier revenue & sponsorship solutions across 5 live events and 2 industry awards each year, in addition to print and digital marketing campaigns, across magazines and websites. * Plan regular sales visits and face to face meetings across the UK, visiting new and existing clients to discuss sales and marketing objectives. * Produce detailed marketing proposals in line with client objectives, including all deliverables on event partnerships and advertising solutions.

Haymarket Media Group creates award-winning specialist content for international audiences.The company has over 70 market-leading brands, connecting people and communities across print, digital, mobile and live media, across the UK, US, Asia, India and Germany.Although our portfolio is diverse, our philosophy is the same across borders and markets: deliver brand experiences that truly meet the needs of audiences and clients. It is this uncompromising focus that has earned the trust of millions worldwide.Haymarket's brands include Stuff, FourFourTwo, What Car?, Pistonheads, Campaign, PRWeek, MyCME and Finance Asia.