Brij work well in pressured environments and am highly driven by building relationships, customer satisfaction and achieving targets/ objectives - he is creative, confident and articulate with an inquisitive. Brij's professional experience includes overseeing all sales and marketing responsibilities for World Trade Cabin and associate companies.

July 2013 – Sept 2013 –NewsQuest Media – The Strad, Cannon Street, London. – Advertising team – Temp Contract

• Generating new business and managing exiting clients for leading international established classical music strings publication - The Strad.

• Selling options for both online and print advertising, working with editorial team, and assisting in administration of the team.  Creating creative solutions to drive business forward.

November 2008 – March 2013 - Informa Plc. Farringdon. London. Awards Sponsorship Manager 

• Head of sponsorship for ongoing international agricultural London Award ceremony – The International AGROW Awards 

• Driving all revenue to finance Awards for 4 years. Dealing with the leading and emerging international agrochemical and agricultural companies. Doubling sponsors and revenue from 1st year to 2nd and 3rd year. Face to face client visits, attending international conferences and networking to establish ongoing relationships with clients.  Working closely alongside the marketing department. www.agrowawards.com

September 2010 – July 2011 (11 months) Auckland, New Zealand (1 year working holiday visa) Kiwi Income Property Trust – Sylvia Park Shopping Centre. Promotional Leasing Retail Manager 

• Working with New Zealand's leading brand and marketing agencies on promotional casual leasing at New Zealand's largest shopping centre - Sylvia Park.

• Assisting on marketing strategies for leading global and national consumer brands, film distributors (Warner Bros, 20th Century Fox, Disney, SONY/ HOYTS), record companies (SONY Music) for promotional artist launches, film premiers, live music events and leading retail organisations

• Working on design and marketing for pop up retail units with the clients of leading brand agencies.  Promoting and sourcing music for Christchurch charity fund raising event. Over-achieving set targets and implementing a new strategy for casual leasing. www.sylviapark.org

Dec 2006 - November 2008  - Audience Magazine/ LIVE UK - Baker Street, London (UK)  Advertising Manager

• Head of advertising and managing advertising team for leading international trade Live Music publications - Audience Magazine (International) and LIVE UK (National), and Live Music Conference (The Summit) whilst also selling. 

• Working on advertising and marketing campaigns for leading international live music promoters including AEG, Live Nation, international agents, venues, festivals and suppliers to the live music industry.

• Negotiating and building relationships. Attending leading live music international conferences and events to develop and establish client relations and seek new business.

• Driving all advertising revenue for the business and overseeing production of all titles, liaising with design and marketing departments. Managing the advertising team, sales training, conducting interviews, regular team meetings and giving appraisals to the team to motivate and drive sales. www.audience.uk.com

May 2004 – Nov 2006 Informa, Old Street. London - Subscription & Advertising Manager for SCRIP World Pharmaceutical News

• Responsible for subscriptions team of 4 whilst also selling, on-going training for staff, conducting interviews, holding regular meetings to build, motivate and drive the sales team forward. Liaising with key accounts and new business to maintain and increase subscriptions business

• Responsible for advertising team of 4 whilst also selling. Training, recruiting, and holding regular team and individual meetings. Media sales for SCRIP Newsletter and SCRIP Magazine. Increasing new business revenue and branding for International directories. Promoted from Sales Executive to Management role.

Jul 2001 – May 2004 Freelance,  D4 Services, Soho, London - Marketing and Public Relations Executive for Live Music and Entertainment

• Creating, establishing and maintaining a corporate brand identity. Photography and creating portfolio of past and present work. Market research to identify new target markets. Liaising with high profile entertainment and media clients. Co-ordinating website. Writing press release and newsletters

Oct 2001 –April 2004 Publications UK Ltd, Edgware. London - Marketing Executive & Media Sales Team Leader

• Planning and organising press launches liaising with media and high profile sponsors. Writing press releases, mail-shots and newsletters. Creating corporate branding for council and entertainment publications. Designing and structuring company website and designing sales literature. Creating company brochures and marketing literature.

• Planning marketing strategies to co-ordinate with the accounts budget. New business, selling sponsorship and advertising space to national and local blue chip and consumer clients. Powerpoint presentations. Market and field research to establish new target audiences and increase distribution outlets. Team leading, training, motivating new staff and main sales support. Extensive lead sourcing. Reaching set targets, and follow up with after sales support. Checking & proof reading adverts.

1997 – 2001  Icon Research & Marketing, Marlow (Part-time whilst studying) Market Research Supervisor

• Tele-marketing and research. Supervising and motivating a marketing research team of 25. Training and briefing staff on new campaigns. Controlling and analysing quotas and statistics. Administration and staff rotas. Liaising with high profile blue chip clients both international and national.

Additional Work Experience

2000 – 2001  Bar Ha Ha! & JD Weatherspoons, Windsor, Bar & Waiter

1998 – 200  Clairmont Coffee Shop, Windsor. Part-time Manager

1995 – 1998 Haagen Dazs Café, Windsor. Supervisor

Computer Skills & Training Courses

Salesforce, MS Word, MS Excel, SalesForce.com , Maximiser, Powerpoint, Photoshop 

Music Production Software - Logic 9, Ableton Live, Native Instruments

Ongoing Phoenix Training courses in Consultative Selling. Informa internal sales training including DIPIDA and AIDA 

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Education

2012 – 2013 Point Blank Music College - Music Production & Music Business Diploma

This course has given Brij an excellent understanding of the music industry and developed the skills required to work within music production and in the studio environment.  During the course he has studied the following modules - Music Production, Music Composition, Music Business, Sound Design, Sound Engineering, Art of Mixing and Music Industry Project

1998 – 2001 Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College

BA Honours Degree in Business Studies with Marketing 

1995 – 1997  East Berkshire College at Windsor 

A-Levels in Business Studies, Art & Design, Sociology

1991 – 1995  Altwood Church of England School

7 GSCE’s including Maths, English, English Literature, Art, Business Studies, Design & I.T

Interests & Hobbies

Brij's  interests include travelling, and has traveled to parts of Asia, Australasia, South America, USA, Africa and Europe and he enjoys socialising.

Brij very passionate about music and have enjoyed playing, writing and producing music in a band and as a solo artist for the past 10 years.  He also enjoy playing live gigs and have also created an independent label.