Contingent Tec Network

Business Development-as-a-service

CONTINGENT TEC NETWORK

Business Development-as-a-service

About Contingent Tec Network

Delivering sales and new business in this fast-changing world

Born out of the Covid 19 Global Pandemic – Contingent Tec Network is a response to the challenges that companies face in generating sales, finding growth and closing deals. Whether it’s building networks, finding tender opportunities, writing bids, providing senior resources on an ad-hoc basis, acting as a broker, deal-maker or helping with talent attraction and retention, CTN could be the key to survival and indeed thriving in these uncertain times!

Richie Smith – Principal

Our Services

Business Development-as-a-service

If you have cut back on sales staff but still need access to senior, connected people, then BD-a-a-s is the answer. The resources you need, when you need them. We have a range of partners and together we can deliver either a targeted or a broad sales/BD strategy.

Sales Consultancy

Review how your business sells; your routes-to-market, messaging, pricing, and ideal customer profile. How do you recruit, train, reward, and retain your staff? How do you attract talent and deal with recruitment agencies? If any of these questions keep you awake at night, talk to us!

Bid-writing

Writing bids and understanding the tendering process is considered by many to be something of a dark art and frightens off many companies from even trying to win potentially valuable business. Let us help you create impactful bids and uncover opportunities that you never even knew existed for your products or service.

Sales Agency

If you have untapped products or services but lack the time, resources or the skill to sell them, then our sales agency arrangement may be ideal for you. Explain to us what you do and what your offering is and we will create inbound enquiries and close deals on a commission-only basis. Win-win!

Business Introducers

Has your business been so focused on growth (or survival?) that you haven’t kept abreast of your industry or developed a peer-network. We can advise on where and how your organisation and staff should be networking and make key introductions to help get your business underway. Also valuable for start-up and scale-up businesses looking for distributors, resellers, partners, investors etc.

Deal Makers

Does your business need partner organisations? Is there an acquisition you would like to make or are you interested in selling your business? We can help by building your profile and making key introductions.

Testimonials

Amongst the myriad qualities that Richie undoubtedly possesses, the one that stands out for me is his resourcefulness. He is never stuck for an idea, a different angle on an issue or a way of looking at things that you never thought of. This, and his unrivalled network of friends and associates will be invaluable to anyone thinking of engaging his services

Richard Eardley - MD Hays Asia

Richie helped us to completely revisit the way we write our bids in response to public tenders, resulting in us winning the biggest client we have ever had. He has a way of saying a lot in a few well chosen words. He created a professional and informative document high on visual impact whilst being clear, concise and easy to digest

James Marmion - MD Events Parking

“The currency of real networking is not greed but generosity.” — Keith Ferrazzi

“Sure, I’ll talk to anyone.” — Richie Smith

Associates

Liam O’Donohoe

Franchise/Commercial

With over 30 years’ experience in leadership roles in a variety of sectors, Liam has a proven track record in launching new businesses and reinvigorating existing brands with a fresh perspective. Liam is ready to help your company with projects or contracts relating to; Sales & Marketing, Franchising, Continuous Improvement, Team building and Finance. He has direct industry experience in the following areas;

FMCG
Retail
Advertising/Media
Motor
Leisure
Print

Stephen Flanagan

Recruitment/Talent Attraction

An employer brand consultant who helps companies attract and retain talent through recruitment marketing and employer branding strategies. Stephen has a background of over 20 years in marketing and branding and a decade working within the recruitment industry. He can work on small one-off projects through to large scale programmes for micros, SMEs and large organisations including:

Devising a recruitment marketing strategy to target and attract top talent
Transforming your job ads through compelling and persuasive copywriting
Producing creative social media recruitment posts
Designing and building a modern careers website (can be done in partnership with your current web designer)
Designing and delivering an employee & company video
Designing and implementing your employer brand programme

Tom Mitchell

HR Consulting

Tom solves people problems, and uses his experience and profiling techniques to help identify key executive talent. Many business leaders know what needs to be done, the challenge is getting their people to do what they want!

Tom started his career 50 years ago, working in Computers and Telecommunications, IBM and GEC but found people more interesting and challenging than the engineering. Migrating to people issues, recruiting, training and coaching, he now focuses his skills on the ultimate people problem “How do I get the people I’ve got to do what needs to be done?”

If you have a problem, and would appreciate some novel ideas on solutions, give us a call and talk through the issue.

Our Partners

Where we turn to when your project is too broad, even for us!!

Generateleads.ie

Tiffany Quinn – IdeaZilla

Like us, a dynamic new enterprise, focused on helping organisations to generate leads and inbound enquiries. Access to a range of exciting ‘creatives’ means Tiffany can help put together a team to create engaging content, copy, visuals and video. Then design a strategy to get it to your target audience using Search, Socials and Web.

She specialises in writing bids and awards submissions, with a particular expertise in the construction and fit-out industries.

www.generateleads.ie

Firm Thinking

Jacinta Kelly MBA

With almost 20 years’ experience in senior roles Jacinta advises public and private sector clients in Ireland and beyond with initiatives focused on strategic planning, strategic marketing, sales channel optimisation and business model innovation.

Jacinta herself has extensive experience of the IT, Telecommunications, Pharma and Logistics industries having worked with organisations including P&O Group, Ericsson AB, Intel and VWR/Avantor.

www.firmthinking.com

CAIM

Chartered Accountants Interim Managers

If you project requires specialist accountancy of management skills, we’ll probably turn to our friends in CAIM. It is a co-operative network of skilled Chartered Accountants helping enterprises and business fill interim or project-based roles from FD to CEO. They manage fundraising projects or offer advice on matters of corporate governance.

When we partner with a CAIM member, you get the benefits of:

– a fresh perspective
– seamless integration into your management teams
– proven track record in delivering results
– immediate access to a pool of highly skilled, independent professionals with deep sectoral knowledge
– flexibility on budget & time commitment
– a cost effective solution

www.cainterimmanagers.ie