Business-minded senior manager with proven success growing revenue and profits of leading telecommunications providers such as Ericsson and BT by leading teams to develop and deliver highly efficient, cutting-edge telecommunication products and services. Offer extensive international experience, leading projects at vendor / client sites around the world.

• Drive product development / innovation by analyzing and responding to market demand / industry trends and by interacting closely with end users to define specific requirements.

• Drive product launches by managing cross-functional teams, 3rd party vendors, and up to £90M budgets in delivering desired features in the most timely, cost-effective manner.

Facilities/Estates Manager/Director, over ten year’s management experience. A loyal dedicated and strongly driven individual who consistently delivers high standards, improvement, best practice, value for money, and stakeholder satisfaction. Trouble shooter who maximises cost effectiveness through a progressive and proactive approach to ensure financial efficiency. Having sound business acumen and the necessary key skills to embrace the challenges of a new role. Objective is to guide the direction of a progressive organisation, possessing a clear set of values where initiative and experience enables the leadership and develop others. Masters in Heritage Management, Greenwich University. Will relocate anywhere in the UK.

Profile – Ian Atkinson
I am married to Sheila; we have two children, both now in their twenties. We live in Edgmond in Shropshire.
I consider myself a loyal and dedicated self starter with a very positive work ethic, a strong leader with good innovative, analytical and problem solving skills, good strategic and focused thinker. I’m accomplished in all aspects of sales but particularly in business development and management skills and am hands on and customer facing able to communicate effectively at all levels of an organisation. I have successfully transformed loss making divisions to profit, increased sales and developed strategic plans.
Objective: To achieve high job satisfaction as Managing Director or Sales / Business Development Director.

I am a qualified Chartered Management Accountant with 15 years' post qualification experience, including five years' experience operating at Board level and working directly with entrepreneurial owner-managers.
I am a tenacious, diligent person with extremely high standards of quality and professionalism in all aspects of my work. I have extensive experience of team management, having led a team of 40. I have also led a number of project teams made up of non-financial managers and shop floor staff, delivering successful systems implementation, persuasive strategic and financial plans and significant cost reduction.
Highlights include leading the successful completion of an £18.75m re-financing exercise, systems implementation and delivering cost reduction in excess of £400k pa (20% of budget).
Looking for a senior finance position in the Yorkshire area (M62/M1/M18/A1)to continue to develop my career; seeking to broaden my remit into Operational Management whilst retaining finance as my core competency.