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Hi, I’m

Mellisa Maweni

Oxford,Oxfordshire
Mellisa Maweni

Summary

  • Brand exploder!
  • Enterprise Sales Development professional with experience consistently delivering to growing targets instrumental to improving company performance, productivity of the team and profitability.
  • Skills set spans across Business and Sales Development, Social and Consultative Selling, LinkedIn Branding and utilising various tools to support Data-Driven Decision Making
  • 5+ years educational and professional sales background in Financial services

Overview

5
years of professional experience

Education

A Stotz Academy
Remote

Women in Valuation Scholarship from Equity Research & Valuation
05.2022

University Overview

Shenyang Aerospace University
Shenyang

Bachelor of Science from Economics & International Trade
07.2019

University Overview

Work History

GLG
London

Business Development Senior Associate
01.2023 - 09.2023

Job overview

  • Enhancing sales forecasting through data-driven top-of-funnel strategies and CRM record maintenance.
  • Collaborating cross-functionally to implement market-specific campaigns and develop strategies to capitalize on emerging trends.
  • Delivering successful sales presentations, earning positive feedback.
  • Leveraging market insights and customer feedback to enhance value prop, fortify client relationships, and seize new opportunities.

Outseer
Remote (USA)

Senior Sales Development Representative
03.2022 - 10.2022

Job overview

  • $1.5 million ARR in pipeline generated on new opportunities, overachieving pipeline target to create 169% of Q2 targets.
  • Collaborated with senior Sales, Marketing and Product leadership to align business goals and drive revenue generation with effective campaigns and expanding product lines into new markets.
  • Strategic multi-channel networking and prospecting, enhancing valuable client bases with Issuers, Merchants, Fraud and Risk leaders at tier 1 banks and Fin-Techs in North America.
  • Participated in full sales cycle from strategically prospecting clients, handling RFIs, continuous discovery to winning and closing deals.
  • Nurtured inbound MQLs to educate and establish connections to keep Outseer top of mind, and convert to closed won deals.

Clarify
Reading

Key Account Sales Manager
03.2022 - 10.2022

Job overview

  • Clients extended contract from initial 6 months to another 12 months.
  • On-boarded client, conducting needs assessment with Client Director to develop account objectives, strategies, tactics and action plans
  • Maximised business potential by providing excellent customer service with weekly trackers and meetings, ensuring client retention.
  • Writing extensive well researched opportunity reports on current market trends, clients' needs assessment to assist in deal closing.
  • Pipeline forecasting and accurately updating Salesforce CRM
  • Organising and running daily team huddle to keep team members motivated, connected and accountable

Baracoin
Remote

Business Development Manager
12.2018 - 01.2021

Job overview


  • Identified and closed new business opportunities through strategic networking, enhancing valuable client bases.
  • Oversaw complete sales cycle of all mid-market business. From smart qualification and discovery, conducting product demos by meeting respective prospects to closure.
  • Collaborated with product and pre-sales team to improve product promotion and deal positioning.

Sale Development Representative

  • First SDR hire, averaging 130% quota for 6 quarters
  • Strategised with sales team to prospect and qualify potential customers within assigned geographic territories.
  • Developed and implemented creating value-adding strategies such as social selling to increase product and service profitability.

Afroeights
Remote

On-boarding & Customer Engagement
02.2020 - 09.2020

Job overview

  • A pandemic passion project. We successfully created a gaming app and managed to get over 1000 downloads in less than 24 hours.

Skills

  • Consultative and relationship selling
  • Cold calling
  • Key account management
  • Business and Personal Branding
  • Social media
  • Pipeline generation
  • Proposal writing
  • CRM systems
  • LinkedIn sales Navigator
  • Diary Management

Quote

Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
Theodore Roosevelt

Timeline

Business Development Senior Associate
GLG
01.2023 - 09.2023
Senior Sales Development Representative
Outseer
03.2022 - 10.2022
Key Account Sales Manager
Clarify
03.2022 - 10.2022
On-boarding & Customer Engagement
Afroeights
02.2020 - 09.2020
Business Development Manager
Baracoin
12.2018 - 01.2021
A Stotz Academy
Women in Valuation Scholarship from Equity Research & Valuation
Shenyang Aerospace University
Bachelor of Science from Economics & International Trade

Certifications

Certifications

MAP4Life Institute

Certified MAP4Life coach


CFA Investment Foundations Program (2019)

CFA Institute


Introduction to Derivatives

Corporate Finance Insitute (2020)


Ethical Decision making for investment professionals

CFA Institute (2020)


Customer Success Management Fundamentals

LinkedIn (2021)


Inbound Marketing

HubSpot Academy (2022)

Volunteer Experience

Volunteer Experience

Project Manager February 2021 – December 2021
Bantu Vision (Reading, United Kingdom)

- Planning and organising schedule of work, costing and budget as well as overseeing ordering of materials to ensure project completion within the designated timeline
- Hiring and managing staff for the project to ensure smooth execution of plans while maintaining set budget and tracking expenditures

TELL YOUR STORY CAMPAIGN

JF Turner Foundation (Remote)

Memberships

Memberships

CFA Society UK

The UK's leading professional body for investment management.


RevGenius

a community of revenue generating sales, marketing, customer success, and revops professionals brought together to learn, share, support, and grow with each other.


HYPCCCYCL

an invite-only, professional community where top B2B revenue leaders cross-train their GTM skills with VCs.

Contact Info

Contact Info

Phone: +44 7393599389

Email: mellisa.maweni@gmail.com

LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/mellisamaweni

Volunteer Experience

Volunteer Experience

Project Manager February 2021 – December 2021
Bantu Vision (Reading, United Kingdom)

- Planning and organising schedule of work, costing and budget as well as overseeing ordering of materials to ensure project completion within the designated timeline
- Hiring and managing staff for the project to ensure smooth execution of plans while maintaining set budget and tracking expenditures

TELL YOUR STORY CAMPAIGN

JF Turner Foundation (Remote)

Certifications

Certifications

MAP4Life Institute

Certified MAP4Life coach


CFA Investment Foundations Program (2019)

CFA Institute


Introduction to Derivatives

Corporate Finance Institute (2020)


Ethical Decision making for investment professionals

CFA Institute (2020)


Customer Success Management Fundamentals

LinkedIn (2021)


Inbound Marketing

HubSpot Academy (2022)

Memberships

Memberships

CFA Society UK

The UK's leading professional body for investment management.


RevGenius

a community of revenue generating sales, marketing, customer success, and revops professionals brought together to learn, share, support, and grow with each other.


HYPCCCYCL

an invite-only, professional community where top B2B revenue leaders cross-train their GTM skills with VCs.

Mellisa Maweni