Francesca Arnold Email & Phone Number

Leicester, Gb

Loughborough, England, United Kingdom

Responsible for all aspects of UK Marketing, including social media and email communications, trade shows, advertising, design and print management.Also a part of the Customer Service and Admin Team, looking after progressing customer orders, helping with queries and general customer account management.

Costock

As Senior Relationship Manager, I work across a number of sectors with the agency, including Marketing, Advertising, Digital, Creative, PR and Social. I am responsible for overseeing client accounts on a day-to-day basis, to ensure we are providing our clients with the high level of service they expect from Champions (UK) plc.Regular contact with our clients is a key element of the role, providing them with support and added-value, ensuring we are always delivering results. Reporting directly to the company CEO and Managing Director, whilst also managing the other members of the Account Management team. It is a very fast-paced role that is challenging yet rewarding. I am required to be proactive and encourage regular communication within the team.Focusing on accounts and ensuring we complete projects to a set schedule and within the budget set is a large part of the role, whilst using my knowledge and skills gained throughout my career, to push clients, the team and the agency in the most productive direction. As Senior Account Manager, I am responsible for ensuring all clients’ accounts and projects have a clear direction and maintain a coherent strategy to achieve the very best outcome for the client.

Costock

This role involves the leadership and management of the Marketing and Advertising department within the company. Responsible for key account management, maintaining the relationship between clients and ourselves. Ensuring we deliver successful marketing communications support to move their businesses forward. I am responsible for many elements of Marketing and Advertising, specialising in everything print, from direct mail, door drops and strategy planning, to TV, radio, press and outdoor advertising.Also responsible for the production of our 3 luxury magazine publications, Aspirational, Inspirational Birmingham and Inspirational London. These are bi-annual publications, produced to the highest of standards. I manage our in-house Copy and Creative teams in order to produce articles and adverts for each magazine. I also liaise with external advertisers to ensure their artworks are received and placed into the magazines. Overseeing the whole process from start to finish to ensure each publication is completed on-time.

Costock

Currently working as Marketing Executive at Champions (UK) plc. The role involves the management of key marketing accounts within the business, taking clients requirements and delivering innovative solutions and ideas to help better market their company. This is done through working closely with other areas of the business including design, PR and copywriting, as well as liaising with external suppliers. The role also involves providing quotations to clients on a variety of jobs, ranging from print collateral to promotional items, design work to exhibition stands and everything in-between. Day-to-day admin tasks include raising purchase orders and invoicing. Another important part of the role is to successfully market Champions (UK) plc as one of East Midlands leading brand agencies, through innovative advertising campaigns and building new relationships with potential clients.

Inspirational Birmingham magazine is a luxury lifestyle publication produced in the Midlands for those that appreciate the finer things in life. The magazine is distributed to some of the West Midlands’ most iconic establishments including spas, private members-only clubs, Bentley/Rolls Royce showrooms and Gucci stores. Inspirational Birmingham has firmly established itself as one of the country’s finest glossy magazines reaching a readership of over 100,000. The magazine itself is produced bi-annually.As part of this role I am responsible creating the production schedule and ensuring the publication meets its deadline. I work with the editorial, design, advertising and production teams to ensure coordination between departments. Constantly reviewing, implementing and adjusting the production schedule when necessary, following up with various departments to ensure they meet production targets, tracking stages of the project, troubleshooting problems, communicating with printers to ensure print quality. I am responsible for monitoring overall progress and managing any alterations to the scope of the project.

Named by Gucci’s marketing department as “the best independent magazine in the UK” Aspirational Magazine is produced in and circulated across the East Midlands. 20,000 copies of the magazine are distributed to some of the region’s most iconic establishments including leading hotels, restaurants boutiques and bars.Produced bi-annually to keep readers up to date on the world of fashion, lifestyle and business, as part of this role I am responsible creating the production schedule and ensuring the publication meets its deadline. I work with the editorial, design, advertising and production teams to ensure coordination between departments. Constantly reviewing, implementing and adjusting the production schedule when necessary, following up with various departments to ensure they meet production targets, tracking stages of the project, troubleshooting problems, communicating with printers to ensure print quality. I am responsible for monitoring overall progress and managing any alterations to the scope of the project.

Inspirational London Magazine is producedespecially for those that appreciate the finer things in life. The magazine is distributed to some of London’s most iconic establishments including luxury hotels, Eurostar, airport lounges, private clubs, jet centres and luxury apartments.The magazine itself is produced bi-annually, and as part of this role I am responsible creating the production schedule and ensuring the publication meets its deadline. I work with the editorial, design, advertising and production teams to ensure coordination between departments. Constantly reviewing, implementing and adjusting the production schedule when necessary, following up with various departments to ensure they meet production targets, tracking stages of the project, troubleshooting problems, communicating with printers to ensure print quality. I am responsible for monitoring overall progress and managing any alterations to the scope of the project.

Beeston, Nottingham

I am responsible for all aspects of marketing and design within the company. I am working to develop the business by creating a comprehensive portfolio of literature for the practices, as well as creating brand awareness through various marketing campaigns.

Nottingham

I am responsible for all in-house artwork design; this includes creating new pieces of artwork as well as making minor amends to current POS. Artwork creation ranges from leaflets and posters to adverts for newspapers and magazines. A recent project has been a full rebrand of all POS for one of the company’s brands. This role also involves project work, liaising with printers and our warehouse providers; I am responsible for arranging all large print runs and deliveries to stores nationwide. This is a regular occurrence due to the amount of campaigns run by the business. I also project manage the roll-out of the cosmetic changes to all stores, which involves working closely with our suppliers to tight schedules, proofing all artwork before it is printed, and ensuring it is completed to the desired standard.

Nottingham, United Kingdom

This role included more project work. I took on responsibility for arranging small print runs to replenish stock and arranged minor distributions to stores. Booking advertising was a large part of this role, and included both national and regional press as well as local leaflet distributions. Through my experience gained in the department I provided support to other members of the team. I also took responsibility for the Marketing elements of a consolidation project the business underwent, I arranged for all relevant customers to be informed of any changes, produced applicable marketing material for stores pre and post relocation, and worked alongside external suppliers to request stores are removed from any online sites. I also gained experience in writing several press releases to be published on our company website and social media channels.

Nottingham, United Kingdom

Responsible for arranging start-up marketing packs for all new stores, refit and relocations. This included booking local area advertising for stores and printing mailers in-house to be sent to customers. Regular tasks included applying for licenses for stores to leaflet and display advertising boards, this involved regular contact with a number of councils. Basic use of Adobe Illustrator was gained by amending the wording on local area marketing posters. Also, answering daily store queries and dealing with maintenance requests.

Nottingham, United Kingdom

Processing marketing material orders for all UK stores, logging maintenance requests sent through by the stores and answering the stores general marketing queries via phone and email. Daily office tasks such as raising purchase orders, filing and copy writing.

Loughborough

Updating a Health Care Database; this was done by phoning surgeries and hospitals in the UK and Ireland to verify the updates were accurate.

Loughborough

General office duties and manned the reception desk. Carried out a range of tasks from typing up of letters, proof reading, booking hotels and train tickets, and greeting visitors to organising meetings for staff members with their clients. During my time in this position I also created an Excel workbook to manage staffs time spent on certain projects.

Bachelor Of Arts With Honors - Ba (Hons), Business And Marketing

2:1 classification. Modules studied included: *Business Planning & Enterprise Management *Global Marketing *Managing Business Processes &.

A Levels

Italian, Business and Economics, English Literature and Language, General Studies

Gcse'S

14 various GCSE's grades A*-C