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Bristol, England, United Kingdom

Managing the Trade team to grow Vivo Life's trade/retail revenue, profit and brand availability across UK, EU, USA and ROW.

Bristol, England, United Kingdom

Contract role to manage Vivo Life's Trade team to support and grow current trade/retail accounts in the UK, EU, US, Canada and ROW and bring in new customers. Gained the department's largest yearly revenue in 2023, an increase of 15% from 2022 and 25% from 2021.

Bristol, England, United Kingdom

Driving growth of Presca's retail and custom service sales of climate positive sportswear. Leading the custom team to provide customised sportswear and teamwear to meet the needs of clubs, events, and organisations. Sales/Account/CRM/Team Management and Strategy Development.Increased B2B year-on-year revenue in 2022 by 134%.

Line-managing a team of six communications experts to design and deliver external and internal communications strategies to support the achievement of organisational objectives. The role includes managing all media relations, crisis communications and reporting to the senior management team and being part of the organisation's business continuity team. In my first year as Communications Manager, the ETF's media mentions increased by over 150%.

London, United Kingdom

Creating, executing and organising high-quality content and integrated communications campaigns to positively communicate the ETF's objectives, strategy, and programmes to media, consumers and corporate stakeholders. The role involves devloping communications strategies and campaigns writing press releases, copywriting for websites, blogs and social media post. My responsibilities include managing, collating content and writing features for the Society for Education and Training’s quarterly professional journal, inTuition. I lead on the successful change of media partner for the journal in early 2020. Other areas of my remit involve managing media relationships and client and stakeholder management including government departments such as the Department for Education and Ofqual.

Sydney, Australia

The varied role covered marketing, communications, social media and brand management. Key responsibilities of the role included campaign management as well as developing and implementing an integrated marketing strategy. The strategy had a digital focus to communicate cause, vision and impact in a compelling way to identified target audiences via multiple channels.Other key areas of the role included key messaging management, content development, as well as social media, collateral and PR management. Another aspect of the role was analysis and reporting of marketing and communications activity, including recommendations for future activity to support the organisational strategic goals.

Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park

The main purpose of this role was to plan, manage, implement and monitor consumer marketing, PR, and social media campaigns for the London Aquatics Centre and Copper Box Arena. The two major venues, built for the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.The role involved managing the promotion of the venues as public leisure services and as hosts for national and international sporting events, music and arts events as well as corporate events. Priorities included line acquisition and cross-selling across a portfolio of identified work streams, products and business areas.Other key responsibilities of the role included managing budgets and key stakeholder relationships including the London Legacy Development Corporation.During my time in the role I managed venue event communications inckuding for a Red Bull music event with Dizzee Rascal as well as England Netball, Great Britain Basketball and international boxing matches at the Copper Box Arena. At the London Aquatic Centre I launched the Ultimate Aqua Splash product, managing and delivering all communications and marketing including hosting a media day and designing a safety video and briefing room.

London, United Kingdom

During the role, I planned and delivered media campaigns, managed incident and crisis communications, managed media and stakeholder relations. The role involved writing press releases and incident/crisis statements as well as internal communications and athlete promotions. During my time in the role I gaines coverage in national and local print media and broadcast media including: BBC Breakfast, CBBC Newsround, Daily Mail Online, Evening Standard and Leisure Opportunities.Large campaigns I worked on include: Sport Relief 2016 - GLL were the Sport Relief 2016 official health and fitness partner and GLL's summer campaigns including Finding Dory swim sessions.

Design and deliver digital and on-campus marketing and communication campaigns to university students for Times Top 100 Graduate Employers. The role included recruiting, training and managing Brand Managers at universities across the UK and Ireland to deliver the marketing and communication campaigns, including events.

The role consisted of helping with recruitment, management and support of Brand Managers at top universities across the UK and Ireland. Working closely with clients to plan and deliver their undergraduate recruitment and marketing campaigns on campus. The role also included event booking and management.

Bachelor Of Science (Bsc), Sports And Recreation Management

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