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Shrewsbury, United Kingdom

Responsibilities• Events - Managing & organising trade & promotional events.• Motorsport & Sponsorship - Working in conjunction with key Motorsport & sponsorship partners• PR & Advertising - Preparing releases for Morris Lubricants in Key Publications & advertisements.• Social Media - Developing & maintaining Morris Lubricants Social Media platforms. • Website & Digital Projects - Reviewing & maintaining the Corporate web siteFor over 150 years Morris Lubricants has been manufacturing and supplying oils, greases & lubricants for commercial, industrial, agricultural, horticultural, automotive and off highway sectors all around the world.

Shrewsbury, England, United Kingdom

• Plan & manage marketing activities.• Plan and action marketing budget.• Manage and create department reports.• Brief & manage design work when required.• Manage work flow for marketing department employees.• Plan and organise events.

Stoke-On-Trent, United Kingdom

Responsibilities• Finding potential new customers, introducing myself and finding out their lubrication requirements.• Creating quotes to match these requirements and explain the benefits of buying to gain the sale through a variety of sales techniques.• Working on new ways to market & improve the company’s new website to gain brand awareness.AchievementsIn the last year I have had to enhance my sales skills as I have been working in a market that was very new to me. I have also gained much more experience in the online market. The company launched a new online sales site back in April and the task was to keep its sales up and increase them. I have been working on ways to market this website and have used both E-marketing and Social Media to do this which has shown excellent results

Midlands

Responsibilities• To introduce myself to a business’s owner and from a cold start to get into a Discussion on their business needs.• During this conversation to gain enough information to Analyse their Marketing requirements.• To decide on and then Sell the Yell products are which are right for marketing their business. AchievementsAfter a year with Yell I have learned a lot about Marketing and Sales. I have developed a variety of techniques to analyse businesses and to persuade the owners of SMEs how to use Yell products to improve their marketing and increase their sales. I have learned to relate to different people from different backgrounds to get and give the best results.

Stafford

Responsibilities• Teaching a variety of sports and multi skills in primary schools. • Heading up holiday courses involving the design and organisation of programmes. • Ensuring adherence to all company policies and practices. AchievementsGrown professionally through sports coaching and developed highly tuned communication and leadership skills. Coaching children of all ages has increased ability to listen carefully and respond appropriately. Developed business acumen in the areas of sales, marketing and finance. As one of the senior members of staff, involved in a variety of decision making sessions and made a positive contribution to the business with ideas on sponsorship and new activities for the company which were well-received and implemented.

Stoke-On-Trent, United Kingdom

Responsibilities• Teaching sport to primary school children. • Managing work experience students – assigning students, mentoring, completing assessments and communicating with schools and colleges. • Managing and delivery of holiday courses.AchievementsDemonstrated a commercial edge by introducing a new pricing structure, offering more activity options and also improving marketing activity to ensure increased customer uptake of holiday courses; this resulted in the highest level of earnings ever achieved within the organisation for a holiday course.

Diploma Of Education, Professional Marketing, Merit

Modules completed: - Marketing & Digital Strategy - Innovation in Marketing - The Digital Customer Experience

Bachelor'S Degree, Sports And Business Studies

Activities and Societies: Hockey 1st and 2nd team

Education record