Responsible for the day to day operations of the Golf Club with oversight of all departments and a direct report into the Board of Directors.Some of the highlights from the role to date include:- Increasing revenue in my first full year by just under 20%. - Increasing membership revenue, but also importantly membership numbers at a time where the cost of living crisis was peaking. - Doubling visitor revenue in year one to help diversify the revenue coming into the club. - Improving communications to members. - Providing a well-conditioned golf course, thanks to the work of our greens team, which has received praise from members and visitors in 2023.- Hosting a Scottish Golf PING Open Series event and Renfrewshire Golf Union County Championship in 2023. - Securing a national event at the club in 2024 - the Scottish Senior Women's Open Championship.

Member of the Greenock Morton Board, with a primary focus on marketing and communications.This is a role which comes with significant responsibilities in the running of the football club, which currently plays in the second tier of Scottish football.

This role is split into two parts; club support and marketing and communications. The club support element of my role focusses on supporting Scottish Golf’s 575 affiliated clubs with various aspects of their business such as marketing, governance, operations, business planning and financial management. The marketing and communication element of my role is a varied one which covers the front facing elements of the organisation such as communications, PR, social media and commercial. Some key achievements include:• Development of an online learning platform supporting clubs on membership recruitment and retention.• Creation of a membership marketing funding programme and delivery of £22,000 of funding in 2021 and a further £35,000 of funding in 2022 to just under 150 clubs in total.• Successful implementation of three new funds in 2022 - Club Education Fund, Players 1st Survey Platform and Visitor Golfer Support. • Successfully completed the CMAE Club Management Development Programme Level 1.

As part of the Marketing and Communications team at Scottish Golf, my role involves maintaining relationships with commercial partners, PR, campaign management and supporting our affiliated clubs across Scotland. As part of the Marketing and Communications team, we have sought to transform and modernise Scottish Golf output to coincide with the organisation’s overall strategy.• Launch of a new Scottish Golf brand and modernised website.• Partnerships – delivering campaigns and output on behalf of Scottish Golf partners such as ASI and PING.• Supporting the development department with the delivery of a variety of projects.• Events – significant coverage of the 2019 event season.• Supporting the delivery of the new World Handicap System.• Virtual golf sixes to engage young golfers and clubs across the country at the beginning of lockdown.• Delivery of the R&A COVID-19 Support Fund, providing £685,000 to clubs across Scotland.

Led the marketing and communications team of Morton Club Together, an organisation which is currently working towards taking over ownership of Greenock Morton in 2021.I was heading up marketing and communications for the organisation from April 2019, and was appointed to the Board as a Director in July 2020.From a standing start in April 2019, the organisation now has around 850 members, and has agreed a deal in principle with the current owners to take over the club in 2021. This means Greenock Morton Football Club will be community owned.Leading a team of four, our focus includes managing press relations and communications with our members, managing our various social media channels and website, and originating and actioning campaigns that will help to increase membership and awareness of Morton Club Together.Most recently, our successful campaign around the announcement of the community ownership agreement led to an increase of more than 200 members in just ten days. This increase can be quantified by an annual uplift of £30,000 in member contributions.

I was responsible for the marketing of Eureka Solutions' cloud-based integration tool, Cloud Data Exchange. My key objectives were to generate new sales opportunities for Cloud Data Exchange, build our referral partner network and increase sales directly via our website. Some of responsibilities included the creation and maintenance of email campaigns, newsletters, product brochures, case studies, data sheets, website pages, blogs, news articles and sales presentations. In addition, my role included organising and participating in internal and external events, as well as assisting the Cloud Data Exchange Sales Manager with opportunities and client visits. Another important part of the role was market research including competitor analysis and market analysis,

Providing marketing support for the leisure and cultural services across Renfrewshire, ranging from gyms, swimming pools and sports facilities to libraries, museums and town halls. Some of the main projects I have been involved in are;•Paisley 10K and Fun Run – marketing this event in order to make the 2017 version the most successful to date. By the end of May we had attracted double the number of runners that had entered at the same point last year.•Find Your Best Fit Campaign – this involved three main offers which ran from January to March. I was responsible for creating all of the materials, both print and digital in order to make the campaign a success. More than 2000 people joined Renfrewshire Leisure in these 3 months.•Young Scot Membership – in November 2016, we launched a Young Scot membership, available to 16-25 year olds who hold a Young Scot Card. Again, I was responsible for creating the print and digital artwork for this campaign. There have been over 1000 Young Scot members signed up since its launch.•May the Toys Be With You Exhibition at Paisley Museum – I was involved in the promotion of the Star Wars exhibit which ran between March and May 2017. Over 12,000 visitors attended the exhibition and we reached over 100,000 people on social media through various different content ideas such as a stormtrooper visiting the museum. •Membership Analysis Reporting – on a quarterly basis, I produce a report which analysis both membership cancellations and sign ups. This report allows us to gain an insight into where our customer service is going right, and where it may need improved.

In the lead up to the 2018 Winter Olympic Games in PyeongChang, I was commissioned to work as an Extended Start Lists Researcher for Gracenote Sports. This role involved researching athletes and writing 400 character biographies on them for the world media to use during the Games.

This role involved writing short bios for the athletes competing in Rio 2016. These bios are available to the world media to use during the Olympic Games.

After completing university, I was promoted to food and beverage assistant manager at Gleddoch.My main responsibilities were managing stock and staff levels in the hotel's four bars, running service in the restaurant with a team of waiters.Since the hotel had recently come under new ownership, I had the opportunity to start with a clean slate in terms of the bars and implement my own ideas as well as being given the opportunity to open a newly refurbished lounge bar using my ideas.

As well as working in the hotel, I also cover a number of shifts in the golf shop over the summer.Roles include managing the golf bookings, dealing with sales, phone calls and e-mails.

My roles include restaurant service and bar work and I am in charge of opening the restaurant at the weekend.This role involves a significant amount of interaction with the public and requires a high level of customer service.

I was in charge of a small team of writers with the aim of producing a sports section of a bi-weekly student newspaper.This allowed me to conduct interviews, write news stories, match reports, comment pieces and much more. I was also in charge of obtaining accreditation for the team and have been successful in getting myself, as well as other writers, into national cup finals and numerous other sporting events.

During the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, I worked for Infostrada Sports in the Commonwealth Games News Service.This role involved obtaining quotes through interviews in mixed zones after events have finished. The quotes will then be published by the Games News Service for the use of the world media.During this experience I gained valuable interviewing skills and was able to be a part of a massive sporting event.