Ben Bleasdale Email & Phone Number

Uk

• Joined as Marketing Manager, rebranded company image, website & materials• Instrumental in bringing together a world class team of associates to enhance our capacity and value proposition.• Promoted to Marketing & Project Manager, working with global companies and SMEs alike to design bespoke organisational development courses.• Designed a huge range of corporate training events, receiving exceptional feedback, and helping grow a loyal client network.• Lead research, illustrated and published the book, 'Leading with Impact'.• Developed psychometric and skills based self-assessment tools in the fields of Leadership, Emotional Intelligence & Personality Styles.• Developed a Content Library comprised of over a thousand models, concepts and insights, spanning a huge range of subjects.• Promoted to Company Director (Learning Solutions), involved in all aspects of the business from the operational side, to delivery of corporate events and professional coaching.• Taken on more opportunities at the front end of the business, from leading webinars to conference speaking to 1-on-1 coaching.• Meanwhile, I have maintained my previous operational, project management and design responsibilities, primarily learning content development, suited to a range of subjects, platforms and audiences.• Completed a degree level Coaching qualification, with the Institute of Leadership & Management (ILM) to be able to formally deliver professional coaching services.

Liverpool, United Kingdom

I co-founded Origami Digital Ltd., bringing in support from well renowned ex-colleagues to bolster our service offering, consisting of Branding, Web Design, Content Writing, SEO, PPC, Email Marketing and Social Media Management. As a business model centred on freelance employees, we are able to provide all the quality and service of a traditional agency without large overheads, providing dynamic outsourced digital marketing teams to SMEs who otherwise wouldn’t have the budget to compete online.We intentionally started up the business as a side project whilst in flexible jobs to allow both the time and security needed to build a client base and online presence. Whilst acting as lead account manager, I am required to have knowledge in all areas of our service offering, with my key areas of expertise being Branding, Web Design and Content Development.

Manchester, United Kingdom

Reporting into the Global Marketing Director, I was responsible for identifying and prioritising market driven opportunities, constructing business cases for the development of new products and guiding them through a medical design control process. During my time in this role some of my duties and activities were:- Regularly presenting to the global team of Healthcare directors- Representing the company at numerous medical exhibitions across Europe- Co-devising the EU business development strategy- New website content development – copy, design, structure- Tracking market trends, opportunities and competitive activity to drive and prioritise market driven developments and innovations- Research and analytics driven business cases: Design Control Phase Specific - Market Sizes (SAM, TAM, TOM), Competitive analysis (activity, performance, pricing), SWOTs, Risk analyses, Development requirements- Overseeing design and development of marketing collateral- Developing advanced knowledge of a broad product portfolio reaching various markets and applications- Writing a promotional research paper on Scar Therapy- Regular cross-functional communication & organisation between Marketing, Sales, R&D and Operations departments- Written a research paper on Scar Therapy- Worked on brand launch team – MEDIFIX – launch content, materials and brand design

Manchester, United Kingdom

I joined as a graduate within the Healthcare Business Development Division. My key responsibilities were to undertake market-mapping of existing and emerging business opportunities and deeper analysis of product portfolios of customers and competitors in key target markets.