Amanda Baker Email and Phone Number

As the Corporate Partnerships Manager at Butterwick Hospice, I am passionate about creating and nurturing meaningful relationships between businesses and our hospice to make a lasting impact in the community we serve. I specialise in building strategic alliances that align corporate CSR goals with our charitable mission, ensuring a mutually beneficial ever growing sustainable relationship.My focus is on identifying shared values and creating tailored opportunities that allow businesses to engage with our cause in ways that are both impactful and rewarding. Whether that be through becoming a supporter or partner of the hospice, sponsoring or attending our events, adopting us a their chosen charity or providing employee engagement through our corporate volunteering programme. There are so many ways our corporate partners can engage with our crucial cause supporting the lives of those we care for and their families.If you’re interested in learning how your organisation can get involved or partner with us, please do not hesitate to get in touch. I’d love to explore how we can make a positive impact together.

Win and maximise new investor opportunities whilst driving growth and development into current sponsor, investor and stakeholder relationshipsGrow, develop and empower the Arena team Model creativity and divergent thinking in all areas of revenue generation, inspiring the team to maximise potential and productivitySuccessfully support, guide and direct the Arena team across a wide and diverse range of events. Accelerate implementation of new ways to enhance operations via new technology, standardizing operating procedures and team training. Optimize marketing and promotional strategies to grow event and venue attendance across all revenue streamsDrive strong financial management across all business areas, regulating costs while maximising profitabilityFoster and grow long term impactful sustainability across all revenue streams

Drove the growth of four critical revenue streams controlling budgets and growing profitability in a fast paced environment.Spearheaded the generation of new creative concepts for events. Identified new business opportunities through strategic networking, securing partner and sponsor financial engagement and enhancing a valuable client base.Communicated, supported, motivated and inspired the team to deliver ‘the’ premium customer experience delivered on budget and on time.Implemented new business practice ensuring roles and responsibility were clearly defined and executed increasing efficiency, driving down costs and growing profit

Delivered successfully time critical projects from 24 hour emergency call out to project conclusion. Effectively managed multiple stakeholder relationships to deliver a well balanced and positive result for all parties.Successfully negotiated and won national insurance company contracts.Drove continual professional development of the team through relevant industry training. Successfully implemented continual review process of company SOP’s critical to the delivery of uninterrupted first class service and process efficiency.

Managed, supported, developed and empowered a team of designers and product developers to produce cutting edge market leading sports products to compete effectively on a world stage. In both replica apparel and commercial sportswear market.Successfully implemented a brand wide critical path utilising Project X, achieving timely delivery of global product following efficient planning, costing, development and production. Volume of replica product moved from sea freight to air freight hitting zero by 2012. Orchestrated an efficient costing process and procedure, margin analysis and control.Project managed a buying re structure reducing suppliers and introducing collaborative global purchasing, enhancing buying power and giving consistent global quality control and profit margin. Owned and fostered the commercial relationship between brand and professional clubs within Premiership rugby union and the Super League successfully Drove the organisation and implementation of the annual international conference. Presented over a two day period to international licensees galvanising the global brand towards synchronised buying backed by Kooga UK.Communicated and championed all new brand procedure and protocol ensuring a uniform global approach.