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London, England, United Kingdom

- Driving the vision, strategy, design and execution of Barclays products and services.- Working closely with business partners, stakeholders and the larger team to communicate the vision and drive the overall strategy.- Responsible for the product roadmap and ensuring factors such as market sizing, value propositions, strategic differentiation, acquisition, competition, regulatory compliance, risks and KPIs are part of it.

London, England, United Kingdom

- Developing, managing and delivering compelling communications to ensure they deliver against commercial and brand objectives, whilst ensuring all regulatory and governance requirements are met. - Involves planning of requirements through briefs, controlling the creative development process to ensure it stays on brief and brand, and setting timeframes to ensure delivery remains on schedule. - Monitoring and reporting performance to ensure constant testing and refining.

Canary Wharf, London

- Creating and managing customer communications across a range of media to transform complex, financial messages into clear, easy to understand material. - Delivering the customer communications strategy for Barclays Premier customers, and creating a market leading end to end customer experience across all channels. - Working with a range of stakeholders across the business to ensure the customer receives consistent high quality communications.

- Responsible for external communications activity for the Aerospace sector. Working closely with senior stakeholders as a strategic business partner advising on communications strategy and delivery.- Responsible for writing, developing and managing communications strategies and campaigns in support of key business activity, which are delivered to set time-lines and budgets. - Also manage content creation, Thales presence at events and exhibitions, media relations, stakeholder relations and brand management.

Crawley

- Responsible for external communications activities for the Maritime sector. Main activities include developing and delivering communications campaigns identified by business requirements, to deliver clear and simple messaging consistently. - Manage Thales presence at events and exhibitions, media relations, stakeholder relations and brand management.

Manor Royal, Crawley

- Main responsibilities included developing and managing communications plans and strategies, identified by business requirements, to deliver clear and simple messaging consistently across campaigns. - Managed Thales' presence at events and exhibitions, wrote content for press releases and articles, managed internal communications activity and edited/updated the website and intranet pages.

Basingstoke

- Placement on the Business Graduate scheme at Thales, working in Product Marketing. During this placement I created a marketing strategy for the business to re-design their website and update existing marketing collateral. - Created a key messages list and website design specification to ensure that all content was edited to give a consistent message that aligned with key business objectives.

Loughborough

Gained a 2:1 degree studying Publishing with English. Modules studied included; website design, marketing, publishing and organisational culture.

Manor Royal, Crawley

- The focus during my internship was on internal communications. I worked on promoting employee engagement through monthly team briefs, employee road shows and breakfasts with the senior leadership team. - During this time I also built and designed an intranet site for one of the Thales locations, ensuring all content was written to a consistent, one brand approach.

Bachelor'S Degree, Publishing With English Literature, 2:1

Activities and Societies: Lacrosse

A-Levels

English Literature (A) Sport Studies (A) Psychology (B)

Gcse'S

Grades A-C English Literature (A) English Language (B) Science double award (A, A) Food Technology (A) Sports Studies (A*) Religious.