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Toby Parkes

London,LDN

Summary

Highly strategic business development professional with over 10 years' experience with a focus on relationship building and consultative selling within SaaS environments. History of selling deals up to £7m TCV fo new business and upselling £3m contracts to existing business. Expert in MEDDPICC methodology to manage multiple stakeholders across businesses in order to prove value in highly complex deals with long sales cycles. A people person with a solution-lead approach.

Overview

9
9
years of professional experience

Work history

Global Growth Lead

Paper Run
London
05.2025 - 07.2025
  • Responsible for UK & US Growth
  • Personally sourced and closed 7 new brands in first 8 weeks achieving 3x overperformance accellerators in first 2 months
  • Business required role to pivot to 100% USA; declined full time hours change or relocation and left role July 2025

Sales Manager; Venues EMEA

Boldyn
London, London
01.2023 - 04.2025

Sales lead in new business venture within Boldyn selling connectivity technology in Sports & Entertainment space.

  • Scaling business alongside Commercial Director from zero to £15m within 24 months as part of a team of 2 to 5.
  • Responsible for growth of new business, upselling to existing enterprise accounts, and key partnership development.
  • Implemented full MEDDPICC sales process from scratch including hiring and training 5 new team members.
  • Lead multiple high profile RFP processes with highly complex technical responses; involving partners to compliment tech stack; holding internal & external stakeholders to account to ensure success
  • Contract values between £300k and £7m including Arsenal FC, Vodafone, O2, ASM Global, Silverstone, Ascot
  • Developed successful partnership with key technology partners to grow business such as Amazon, HPE, and Cisco

Enterprise Business Development Manager

Fresh Relevance
London, LDN
08.2021 - 12.2022
  • Part of Global Business Development team responsible for generating and closing new business across Enterprise, Mid-Market, and SMBs.
  • Work across multiple key stakeholders and departments to identify gaps in business' digital strategy to implement Fresh Relevance personalisation platform.
  • Closed an Enterprise contract with Panasonic in first 6 months
  • Managed and created working contracts with agreed KPIs across digital channels and stakeholders
  • Highly complex data-driven digital ecosystems to navigate, understand, and communicate value into.
  • Closed most revenue in final FY out of 5 new hires in team

BDM & Enterprise BDM

Realife Tech
London
09.2018 - 08.2021
  • SaaS mobile commercialisation and personalisation platform for live venue environments in the Sport & Entertainment sector.
  • Personally secured a company-changing strategic enterprise partnership with $20bn valued company Compass Group Levy; expand our platform across UK portfolio
  • Secured £526k 3 months into the FY in 2022/23 and left the business on 131% of my annual target across 4 new business contracts

Foudner

Next Golf Stop
City of London, LDN
04.2016 - 03.2018
  • Co-founded and built a golf travel website business targeted at under 35's.
  • First company to offer a truly end-to-end online booking system including tee times, flights, hotel, buggy, and extras.
  • Developed relationships with hotels and golf courses across The Algarve in order to negotiate contracts and partnership agreements.
  • My role included website design and management, contract negotiations, itinerary planning, and the marketing & sales strategy.

Sales Development Representative

Bomgar
Marlow, Buckinghamshire
08.2016 - 03.2018
  • Responsible for converting warm leads into full B2B sales opportunities in the UK & Ireland.
  • Achieved 100% or more in 6 out of 7 full sales months, and in my 2nd
    month achieved 190% of target.
  • Global top performer in my first quarter across 10 different sales teams based in the US, UK, Europe, and Asia receiving full American Association ISP Training.

Education

Bachelor of Arts - Geography

University of Manchester
Manchester
06.2014

Skills

  • MEDDPICC & BANT
  • Salesforce & Hubspot
  • RFP response & proposal writing
  • Powerpoint presentation proposals
  • Presentation skills
  • Relationship building
  • Sales leadership
  • Open and clear communicator
  • Consultative and relationship selling
  • Revenue development
  • Team motivator
  • Warm and cold calling


Timeline

Global Growth Lead

Paper Run
05.2025 - 07.2025

Sales Manager; Venues EMEA

Boldyn
01.2023 - 04.2025

Enterprise Business Development Manager

Fresh Relevance
08.2021 - 12.2022

BDM & Enterprise BDM

Realife Tech
09.2018 - 08.2021

Sales Development Representative

Bomgar
08.2016 - 03.2018

Foudner

Next Golf Stop
04.2016 - 03.2018

Bachelor of Arts - Geography

University of Manchester
Toby Parkes