Trish Binks

 

 

Professional Background

 

I enjoyed an early career in publishing and direct marketing running campaigns for major brands including Jaguar, M&S, Help the Aged, Boots and Ford. Keen to travel and experience international business markets I became a seminar trainer, running negotiation skills seminars, in the USA, Canada and across the UK before returning to London full time.

On my return I joined a successful London IT recruitment agency when I was offered the opportunity to launch a Recruit2Recruit division. Within 4 years the new division was placing recruitment professionals from resourcer to director in both the UK and Australia and I had opened a second office in Colchester.

 

Moving into Legal and Office Support recruitment I built an enviable client list from niche  to global leaders across diverse market sectors. During that 7 year period I maintained a dual role additionally recruiting scores of Marketing, HR, Legal, Technology and Office Support talent from graduate to senior executive level.

 

Current 

 

Sales, Marketing & Social Media Manager - Positive Signs - A Deaf-led organisation 

Our services include - Access Audits - Consultancy - Mystery Shopper - English/British Sign Language Translations - Deaf Awareness and Learn2Sign Workshops - BSL NVQ' accredited centre - Consultancy - Forensic Speech Reading - Provison of Interpreters / Palantypists / Note Takers / Lip Speakers.

 

Manager - The Deaf Business Grapevine

A LinkedIn group for Deaf and hearing business professionals

 

 

Ongoing and recent freelance assignments 

 

Deaf Film Maker / TV Producer - research on funding streams and publishing opportunities

IDG Connect - telemarketing - USA - virtualization, cloud and green IT projects
Clever Zebra - virtual events marketing and demos in Second Life
Global Representation Group - sales - international travel and hospitality exhibitions

Recruitment Assignments - Marketing Executive - Event Coordinator - Sales & Marketing Executive

 

Key Facts 

 

• Industry exp includes - direct marketing - ICT - events - training - recruitment, Deaf awareness
• Client portfolio includes - legal - IT - financial - recruitment - events - charity - retail - public sector
• Successful at winning and servicing diverse accounts from global leaders through to SME's
• Markets worked include - UK - Australia - Europe - USA

 

 
Key Skills & Traits 

 

• Successful business winner and developer
• Creative solution provider
• Able to negotiate and influence at board level
• Innovative, successful recruiter across multiple skill and market sectors
• Experienced trainer and public speaker
• Credible business professional at all levels
• Target and challenge driven

 

 

Key Experience 

• Sales, Marketing & Social Media - Client portfolio from SME's to global leaders
• Negotiation - private and public sector including preferred supplier status/fees
• Team/Office Management - including development, appraisal and disciplinary
• Recruitment - full cycle - multiple sectors - UK, Europe, USA, Australia
• Trainer - One to One - Field - Classroom - Seminar
• Advertising from concept to press local/national/European
• Direct marketing campaign design and implementation

 

Interested In - challenging and innovative freelance projects  

 

Specialities - marketing - social media management - research - recruitment - training - events

 

Fees  

 

Marketing & Social Media Manager - From £25 Per Hour

 

Researcher - From £20 Per Hour

Meeting / Event / Conference Organiser - From £150 Per Day + Expenses

 

 

Passions - new challenges - business innovation - social media - my family - reading - documentaries, property, business and quiz programmes - my career - socialising with friends - professional networking - travel - peanut butter

 

Dislikes - laziness - small minds - jaffa cakes - queue jumpers - traffic jams -  the compensation culture - hypocrisy - prejudice - opera - spiders

 

Would like to hear from - Potential collaboration partners with innovative projects or proposals  Colleagues and friends I have lost touch with