Simon Partridge

07830 296021
simon.partridge@emcltd.co.uk

Simon is an entrepreneurial, highly motivated and results-driven sales director who has recently returned to EMC after three years in the South West running an exclusive home interior products company where his responsibilities extended to product design (creating new fabrics), purchasing, credit control, warehousing, distribution and photography.

He has a wealth of experience of European and Middle Eastern markets and a proven track record for making a major impact on international business by utilising his hands-on sales skills and strategic marketing experience. Add to this his multi-disciplined, proactive and highly flexible approach to strategic sales issues and field sales management and you have the perfect winning formula.

Simon thrives on sales success and winning business.

Specialist disciplines:

• Sales Director
• Managing Director
• Sales and Marketing Director
• Export Director
• International Marketing Director
• Operations Director
• Project management
• Supply chain and Logistics Director

Sector experience:

• Retail
• Furnishing fabrics
• Toys and games
• Manufacturing
• Food Industry
• Packaging Industry
• Emergency medical and motoring service
• Insurance
• Tourism

Simon, who is bi-lingual in English and Spanish and has extensive experience of selling in Europe, the Middle East, North America and the Far East, has worked alongside a number of companies in the South East, utilising his unique sales techniques and skills to grow their business.
He developed a sales strategy for a company in the food packaging sector, reviewing and improving field sales, adding tenacity and sales skills to increase focus and gain new business. This resulted in a £700,000 sales increase.
Simon also had sole responsibility for the international business at the Crowson Group which represented a turnover of £10m, 40% of the global business. He recruited and managed nine sales representatives and 27 sales agents across Europe in addition to appointing and managing 30 international distributors.

He is most proud of the projects to research, select and appoint distributors in 12 new markets on four different continents resulting in increased turnover of £600,000 and net contribution to the bottom line of £183,000.
Time at home is spent with his family, including enjoying gastro pubs throughout Sussex and trying the growing number of excellent restaurants in the city of Brighton and Hove.
He is also an avid exercise fan and a member of the gym at the Hotel Metropole in Brighton. He likes cricket (member of Sussex CCC), rugby, football, reading and music.