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54, Longbow. Sherwood Way, Southend-on-Sea. Eseex. Date of Birth: 29th September1950. Home: 01702 613563. Mobile: 07967 866 957. E-mail: [email protected]

Graham Knight. Personal Profile. Commercially astute individual, motivated and persistent. Considerable and successful man-management experience. Maintain existing relationships and track new potential contacts. Held a clean driving license, for over 36 years. A golfer and part-time semiprofessional footballer with Telford United and assistant manager at Dagenham and Redbridge FC.

Experience. 2008 March. Southend-on-Sea Education Authority. One to one special needs with emotionally troubled and disturbed children, stimulate interest learning. Co-ordinating the football teams and day trips. 2007 July-January 2008. Ads Doors. UK National Sales Manager. Ask to sell a new concept on automated doors, from the begining hard work cold calls and advertising campaigns. Clients and customers housing associations, architects and local authorities. Sales increased week on week by 10/15% 2006 January -July C.M. Vintners. National Account Manager. Responsible for Sainsbury's supermarkets with an average order of £50,000 per week. Also selling to multi-national, clubs and cash and carry's with 12% increase in profits. I and six others were made redundant.

2005 January-December Magnet Trade. External Sales Representative. Responsible for the maintaining and increasing business, eg sold £480,000 basic kitchens to a housing association. This was a temporaty contract.

1999 December 2006 Toomey Group. Group Parts Sales Manager. I started a training program for Peugeot and Nissan franchises. Turnover was increased monthly between 20-53%, I interviewed and employed additionally staff. Additional sales were made via the internet. I had the honour of salesman of year 2004.

1996 June-October 1999 Ripca (bv). National Sales Manager. Selling specialised electrical components to HM armed forces and vehicle manufacturers. Targets were achieved and turnover substantially increased. Both my parents died within weeks, I took there death's badly unable to cope I was made redundant

1986 March-June 1996 South Eastern Glass Company. Sales Representative. Selling drinking glass and sundries to public house's, clubs and the hotel trade, spearheading the business develop into London, Kent, Norfolk and Suffolk. In 1989 a million pound turnover target was achieved. I was a key holder and two morning a week I would picked up work colleague and occasionally asked to do the banking.

1979-February 1986 Midland Vehicle Electrical. Sales Manager. Selling auto electrical components to transport, bus and coach and multi-national groups, from ome to buying directors, the business open new units I was responsible for six sales representatives covering Plymouth to Aberdeen. The company was taken over and relocated in Nottinghamshire, I was offered a position but declined and moved back to Essex.

1972 July 1979 34 Central Workshops R.E.M.E. Building Officer. This was an army establishment in Shropshire, my vetted position was to delegate responsibilities to my heads of departments and worked as team. Ensuring the smooth day to day running of large and busy transit shed. I controlled a staff 209, male and females.

1967-1972. Eastern Electricity Board. Apprentice. After training became a fully qualified electrician. Education. Hamstel Road Jr School Southend High for Boys 5 GCE's Southend and Hornchurch Technical Colleges HNC gained. Interests. Team games football, cricket and golf, coached a number of football clubs. Worked voluntarily for many charities, including walking over all the bridges over the river Thames. 1968 achieved the gold Duke of Edinburgh award.