Alexandra Genevaise

January-April 2007 Recruitment Consultant, Project Partners, London

Recruitment Consultancy specialised in recruiting and placing mid-senior business technologists in the IT and finance arenas (Investment banking and Asset Management)

Responsibilities:
 To prospect new business (clients and candidates) mainly in France but also in Belgium and Luxembourg
 To detect new projects (being aware of the market and competitors’ activities)
 To thoroughly qualify the technical specifications of projects (goal of the project, technologies used, candidates’ skills sets)
 To proactively go out and find candidates : cold calling, head hunting, referrals, reverse marketing, leads, advertising
 To qualify candidates effectively
 To arrange interviews clients/candidates
 To arrange meetings with clients
 To negotiate and sell our services
 To establish a good rapport with both clients and candidates for follow up and future business

Candidates’ Skill sets and Profile:
 Project Managers
 Business Analysts (specialised in Capital Markets : Murex, Calypso…)
 Architects .net, BO
 Analyst Programmer Pl SQL, Cobol, Cognos, DB2, Powerbuilder, VB
 Developer Java/J2EE, Murex, Vb.net, Ab Initio, Business Objects, C#

Achievements :
- 1 placement : Analyst Programmer PL SQL at BNP Paribas Luxembourg

Clients : Crédit Agricole, Caceis, BNP, Société Générale, Fortis, Dexia, Calyon…

March 2005-December 2006 Sales Executive, Thomas Fattorini Ltd, London

Italian family-owned company since 1827 : manufacturing name badges with company logo and staff names to be engraved or printed ; enamel metal badges in gold/silver/bronze/aluminium ; medals and ceremonial gifts ; trophies and awards

Responsibilities included:

 To manage major accounts (Bhs, Virgin, NHS, Q Hotels, Intercontinental Hotels) : exceed customers expectations by providing extraordinary service for all customer requests ; coordinate and provide continuously work to promote the Company’s products ; regular meetings to talk about clients’ day-to-day projects ; deal and negotiate sales proposition
 To identify suitable clients (retailers, airline companies, luxury hotels) and new markets nationwide and worldwide (France mainly) to expand our export sales potential and future
 To deal with new enquiries, processing proposals and winning orders for the name badge division and for the metal and enamel items range
 To proactively make out cold calls to promote the business
 To organize and conduct events and exhibitions in London and Paris
 Follow-up of orders and delivery control
 To work as a team and also individually


Achivements :
- Opening of the French Market
- 30 new French clients in the database in 3 months : the average invoice would be £500.
- depending on the item, quantity, material, the average billing reached between £200 and £30,000
- 5 new clients per month

Clients : Debenhams, Barclays, Mapping & Webb, Tootsies, Manchester University, Kingston University

At the same time, on behalf on a private owner, I worked as a house manager for 14 months.
Hard worker, very well organised and money driven, I handled the management of 3 flats without any problem.


September 2005-December 2006 House Manager, Elephant & Castle, London

Responsibilities included:
 3 flats of 5 people each (working on behalf on a private owner)
 Responsible for organizing appointments for suitable tenants and interviewing them
 Responsible for sorting out any kinds of problems (flooding, heating, updating the equipment…)
 Meetings with regular tenants to check if everything is fine
 Responsible for collecting rents and deposits

Summer 2003 Export Assistant, RHODIA FOOD (worldly chemical company), Dangé Saint-Romain (86), France

Responsibilities included:

In charge of Germany, the Netherlands, Greece and Canada,
To handle orders, follow-up, production time, delivery control.
To check customs’ controls and to deal with documentation regarding export shipments and regulations.
Coordination of outgoing shipments from head office to local distributors.
Technical and commercial translation into English / Spanish / French.
To organize the transport of the goods; prepare customs documents, file orders, assist English and Spanish customers.