Philip Martin

My primary role for NLT is to generate new business opportunities for the current roster of talent and the wider business itself.

This is done by identifying gaps in brand partnerships the creators have and making sure I explore as many options as I can for them.

For the wider business I would be exploring and discussing more than one talent form the roster with the vision of multiple brand partnership deals.

NLT also act as a marketing agency. We manage long term campaigns for big brands and provide a full service from concept, initiation to campaign delivery.

Secondary roles at NLT that I undertake are.

1 - Management of campaigns from initial discussions to content delivery, going back and forward between creator and brand to ensure smooth projects.

2 - Managing creators, ensuring all projects are delivered in a timely manner.

3 - Liaising with current / previous brands to win more business and projects for NLT and the Creator roster.

4 - Inbox Management - all creators have their email inboxes linked to company email accounts, we manage, sort, qualify, and negotiate inbox opportunities to conclusion.

Haag Streit UK are one of the oldest and most trusted ophthalmology surgical and diagnostics companies in the world.

Having joined John Weiss and Son (part of the Haag Streit group) - The oldest ophthalmic instrument manufacturer and supplier in the world in March 2013 as a regional sales manager, covering East Anglia, The Midlands, The South West and South Wales.

My primary role was to learn the surgical instrument catalogue inside out, and grow the surgical sales business in NHS hospitals, Private hospitals, Buying groups and specialist Veterinary hospitals.

I was in this role until January 2018 when John Weiss ceased trading but the brand carried on and was absorbed into Haag Streit's wider portfolio where I carried on my role as normal but widened it to other surgical equipment from the portfolio including Surgical microscopes and training simulators.

I took on the role of national product manager for all of the surgical capital equipment (Microscopes, training simulators, DRV reality viewer, iTrack Glaucoma device, Micropulse 810nm laser) where I would travel across the UK, give training to surgeons, medical staff and my colleagues on the systems and how best to utilise for their patients.

As part of my senior role at Haag Streit, I would the the first port of call for my regional sales manager colleagues, the marketing departments, the accounts team, the warehouse team, and the National sales manager and Managing director, I was the conduit for the surgical team across all of these departments.

I was also the senior to the other regional sales managers, this meant daily management of their diaries, project assistance and journey planning.

I was the highest performing surgical sales manager for 6 years consistently, taking the region form £250,000 turn over when I joined the business to £1,200,000 when I left, increasing revenue and profit year on year.

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Senior recruitment consultant for the "Surgical Consultants" desk.

This was a role to recruit surgeons at consultant levels for short, medium and long terms roles with in the NHS.

Covering sickness, maternity and gaps in the rota it was my job to gain doctors availability, ensure their compliance file and CV's were up to date before negotiating with medical staffing departments to cover these shifts.

Specialising in Ophthalmology, Obs & Gynae and ENT consultants, I became the trusted port of call for many surgeons domestically and worldwide to come to the UK for work.

DRC Locums and Locumlinx were the Contract and non contract arms of DRC locums as a business.

It was my role to gain doctors availability in the surgical directorship for junior and middle grade doctors.

To fill day, week, month and longer roles.

My first role out of University taught me about how to manage my diary.

For this I needed to gain availability, chase compliance documents, work on roles given to us by medical staffing and also go and call to find positions with the same team.

All whilst hitting sales targets throughout the role.