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Project Director on Toyota's first collaboration with a fashion brand; Japanese streetwear icon UNDERCOVER. Delivering a 360 immersive campaign across print, video, digital, VR and a physical event to launch this collaboration and limited edition car at the afterparty for UNDERCOVER's show in Paris.https://www.toyota.co.uk/new-cars/aygo-x/undercover

• Leading development of creative & strategic brand projects
• Serving as the bridge between the Senior & ELT and the brand/marketing teams for developing project briefs, staffing issues, process development & delivery
• Liaising with trading, creative and marketing teams working on strategic briefs and ultimately ensuring briefs are delivering on business needs
• Responsible for the project managers, producers and the creative studio – owning delivery of the BAU and non-BAU brand projects
• Championing, creating and refining process for projects running through the studio to ensure smooth working with all departments
• Working into the Director of Brand Creative and very closely with the Global Marketing Director, as well as cross functionally with channel owners to ensure delivery of cohesive campaigns and coherent expression of the.

• Responsible for the delivery of all projects from the creative agency from TV commercials and campaign imagery to organic and paid social content
• Managing the team of project managers, video editors, motion graphics editors, stills retouchers, digital & graphic designers, as well as any freelance resources
• Ensuring consistency & communication between all teams within the agency – which includes the stills & video post teams, digital & print design teams and the creative development team
• Working closely with the SLT & Marketing teams on future project plans, as well ensuring efficient working relationship with all regional marketing teams (North America, EMEA & APAC) plus non- marketing global.
• Collaborating with Production and managing third party vendors

• Acting Project Director leading project processes & cross-disciplinary team members for on-time, on-budget project deliveries, managing junior project managers
• Sole PM on the agencies largest account, with up to ten projects live simultaneously
• Comfortable in client-facing situations and on–site engagements
• SOW and Project Plan ownership, identifying deliverables, dependencies, risks for multiple projects
• Cost-control management and ability to identify opportunities for Change Requests
• Financial tracking and reactive planning across accounts

London, United Kingdom

• Primary client facing role on all projects, with end-to-end project management including managing the design and build teams
• Primary focus until April was to manage the website creation for the landmark ‘Our Planet’ Netflix series (ourplanet.com). A challenging project requiring coordination of a large international team and stakeholders
• Other projects included designing a Shopify website from scratch for an LVMH fashion house – Patou (patou.com), pitching and winning an Instagram campaign for Nike, working with an external team of 3D artists for the.
• Planning and producing several apps including, design and build of an app for Rihanna/Fenty, a complicated live streaming app for a renowned techno DJ

• SOW and Project Plan ownership, identifying deliverables, dependencies and risks
• Managing pitches running concordantly with other existing projects.
• Weekly/Monthly burn reporting and mitigation planning for run rate improvement to ensure projects are delivered within time and budget constraints
• Cost-control management and ability to identify opportunities for Change Requests, drafting Change Requests for internal/external approvals
• Projects including the British Fashion Council’s annual award ceremony (The Fashion Awards) – delivering a large volume of print and film assets
• Scoping and management, through creative development and production, for the launch of a new independent beauty brand, UOMA

Sri Lanka

• Following the Trust winning a Whitley Fund for Nature Award (April), they were provided a grant for an 18 month project to study the leopard population in the Central Highlands region, then demarcate a ‘land corridor’.
• This required conservation project planning, financial planning and resource planning
• As well as live field work including GPS mapping, camera installation & maintenance, sample collections
• Event planning for presentation with major tea estate landowners, in collaboration with Dilmah Tea, inc. asset creation & global delivery

London, United Kingdom

London, United Kingdom

• Work across a range of print and digital projects
• Scoping/planning projects from end-to-end
• Manage online & TVC film shoots from concepting to delivery
• Manage in store events
• Solely responsible for liaising with external transcreation/artwork company, to create localised POS artworks for up to 18 markets
• Financial tracking and approvals

Sultanate Of Oman

• Ecological surveys & data compilation for environmental impact assessments
• Individual work, including spreadsheet analysis and project summary
• Dual work with a senior scientist out in the field sample gathering and site analysis
• Responsibility given for recommendations to be sent to respective client, for ecological survey results in order to establish costs and implications of developing on a site