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ALAN SIMPSON HODGSON

ALAN SIMPSON HODGSON

Crofton

Summary

I am a positive person who enjoys socialising with friends and family. I like dining out at fine restaurants and trying new foods. I like to keep fit by participating in all sports including golf, football, and snowboarding. I like visiting new countries on holiday and watching all live sports especially F1. I throw myself in to new challenges in both work and life. I am always looking to improve and try exciting new things.

Overview

34
34
years of professional experience

Work history

Business Development Manager

SEP
Skelmersdale, Lancashire
10.2024 - Current
  • Devised comprehensive business plans, enabling sustainable growth.
  • Assessed competitor activities for strategic positioning.
  • Secured new business opportunities by cultivating strong relationships with potential clients.
  • Delivered excellent customer service by addressing queries promptly and effectively.

Business Development Manager

ESD Surveying Ltd
Wakefield
01.2023 - 09.2024
  • Generating new business and building long term relationship with existing clients.
  • My duties included finding companies online and introducing the services that ESD Surveying Ltd can offer them, visiting old clients and seeing how we can improve the service we offered, talking to clients that we had supplied in the past and offering our services to different projects and postcodes throughout the whole of the UK.

Operations Supervisor

Amazon
Leeds
08.2014 - 12.2022
  • Supervising between 10 to 50 staff on pm (13:30-midnight) shift.
  • My duties included setting up devices and area for the days shift, rotating and upskilling staff on different tasks, liaising with drivers when leaving site and returning to site, vehicle checks, drawing up reports on a night and sending to my superiors, analysing the data and coming up with improvements to make the shift more streamline and cost effective.

Director

Intransit Recruitment Ltd
Sheffield
10.2007 - 05.2014
  • Learnt all duties of recruitment including invoicing and payroll.
  • My duties included liaising with Bibby Financial Services and setting up our own payroll and invoicing facilities.

Recruitment Consultant

Aaron Personnel
Leeds
02.2002 - 09.2007
  • Learnt all aspects of business development supplying warehouse staff.
  • My duties included, telephone sales, researching and finding new clients, attending meetings with new and old clients, launched new office in Sheffield, launched new sectors in office and driving recruitment.

Machine Operative / Packer

Various companies via Aaron Personnel including Linpac, Speedibake and TK Max.
Featherstone
01.1996 - 01.2002
  • Worked on various shifts including days afternoons nights and continentals.
  • My duties included learning how to operate up to 12 different machines, training up new staff on how to operate machines, helping launch new packing facilities that streamlined the business.

Shop Assistant / Trainee Golf Professional

Lupset Golf Course
Wakefield
06.1991 - 12.1995
  • Started work straight out of school on a YTS scheme.
  • My duties included learning all aspects of shop assistant work, learnt club repairs to assist golf professional Roger Holland, cashing up and the end of a night, arranging junior golf competitions, assisting golf professional with large coaching classes in the summer holidays for children.

Skills

  • Telephone sales
  • Sales and Business Development
  • Payroll and accounts experience
  • Recruitment of staff
  • Management and Development of staff
  • Streamlining of work processes
  • Diligence
  • Deep diving into data to improve services
  • Machine operating experience
  • Working different shifts including weekends
  • Embracing new challenges and never giving up
  • Learning and development
  • Time management
  • Working with both small and large groups of people
  • LinkedIn sales navigator

Timeline

Business Development Manager

SEP
10.2024 - Current

Business Development Manager

ESD Surveying Ltd
01.2023 - 09.2024

Operations Supervisor

Amazon
08.2014 - 12.2022

Director

Intransit Recruitment Ltd
10.2007 - 05.2014

Recruitment Consultant

Aaron Personnel
02.2002 - 09.2007

Machine Operative / Packer

Various companies via Aaron Personnel including Linpac, Speedibake and TK Max.
01.1996 - 01.2002

Shop Assistant / Trainee Golf Professional

Lupset Golf Course
06.1991 - 12.1995

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