Claire Winter Email and Phone Number

I manage the marketing communications for all companies within the Kingsbridge Healthcare Group including Kingsbridge Private Hospital, Kingsbridge Private Hospital Sligo, 3fivetwo Healthcare and Kingsbridge Opticians & Hearing Care. My daily responsibilities include:- managing the marketing team- budgetary control- managing 3rd party relationships with PR, advertising and digital agencies to ensure the successful execution of marketing plans- implementing communications plans- digital marketing and website management- brand management- event planning and management- copywriting, ad proofing and overseeing the design of all marketing literature and materialwww.kingsbridgeprivatehospital.com

I managed the marketing for almost all of the Charles Hurst franchises during five years working on the account. This included all prestige brands ie Aston, Ferrari, Bentley and Maserati and also key volume franchises such as Toyota, Nissan and Peugeot. I also managed the B2B marketing communications for Fleet Financial and Charles Hurst B2B. Key responsibilities included; • Managing the day to day marketing for the franchises including media planning and buying across all advertising platforms.• Executing multiple marketing campaigns and ensuring that campaigns were fulfilled in line with their budget, requirements and expectations.• Briefing and guiding our studio so that we created effective and eye catching campaigns which created results.• Designing, developing and managing direct mail and email campaigns including copy writing, designing layouts, acquiring data, managing printing and fulfilment and post campaign analysis. • Event management.• Brand management.• Product/showroom launches.• Sponsorship and liaising with the PR Agency.• Website management, digital marketing and social media.• Copywriting, ad proofing, designing and overseeing the production of all marketing material.• Running and analysing marketing reports to analyse campaign effectiveness.• Ensuring excellent relationships were maintained between the Agency and Client.• Ensuring effective working relationships were maintained with other interested parties including suppliers and manufacturer marketing departments and their agencies.www.ardmore.co.uk

This role was the same as above, however during this time while managing the marketing account for Charles Hurst, I was employed by DP Publicity Ltd. DPP are one of Europe’s largest motoring specialist advertising agencies.www.dppublicity.co.uk

Reporting directly to the Managing Director my responsibilities included• Implementing the marketing and communications plan.• Managing a marketing budget in excess of £750,000 and the marketing team.• All media planning and media buying.• Designing, developing and managing direct mail campaigns to a target audience of 150K customers.• Designing, developing and managing the strategic development of the Laser brand and all press, radio, outdoor and TV promotional campaigns in line with marketing objectives.• Building rapport and maintaining excellent relationships with the media, suppliers, electrical manufactures and other key contacts.• Effectively communicating the marketing plan to ten retail outlets and other interested parties.• Conducting competitor analysis and monitoring for presentation to the directors.• Copywriting, ad proofing, designing and overseeing the production of all point of sale, merchandising and marketing material.• Designing layouts, developing and sourcing editorial content for the Laser Living magazine, sourcing competition prizes and selling advertising space to suppliers/manufacturers. • Working with ad agencies, script writers, printers and other media professionals to ensure the successful execution of marketing plans. • Sponsorship. • Developing and updating the company website.• Running and analysing sales/web reports.• Ensuring that all advertising/promotional activity complies with relevant legislation.• Other duties included managing our customer database, public relations, writing press releases, photo shoots and managing charity relations.

As a Marketing Executive within the UK & Export Sales department my duties included • Providing sales and marketing support to the sales team and product specialists.• Conducting competitor and customer analysis.• Organising and attending meetings with clients.• Attending sales and marketing conferences.• Building business rapport and account management with clients. • Aid sales closure and promote the company’s product portfolio.www.randox.com

As an Advertising Sales Executive I sold advertising space within Specify Magazine on behalf of Greer Publications. Typical duties involved • Working to and exceeding team and personal targets.• Sourcing and developing new business.• Liaising with existing and new clients about their advertising requirements.• Ad proofing.• Account management.• Negotiating prices and sizes for advertising space.• Taking design briefs from clients and working alongside our designers.• Writing new business proposals.