COMMUNICATIONS DIRECTOR• Following a long and (occasionally) distinguished agency career, moved in-house mid-pandemic• Quickly promoted from national to regional role, leading product communications strategy, messaging and delivery across ten markets; covering PR, events (regional launches for c. 1000 attendees, managing brand presence at industry events like MWC and IFA), executive comms (inc. keynotes), social content, influencer (KOL) activity, reporting, measurement and evaluation• Managing agencies across multiple marketing disciplines, internal studio• Only Western Europe marketing team member retained after an internal restructure/merger; combined Europe region covers almost 30 markets. As Head of Strategic Communications, responsibilities include product communications strategy, messaging, executive comms, events, content marketing and evaluation• Global role managing relationships and product PR with 'International Media' i.e. those publications, KOLs & analysts recognised as being strategically important and globally influentialAGENCY EXPERIENCE• An entrepreneurial senior global communications leader with over 20 years’ creative, strategic and consultancy experience in external and internal communications• Creative and strategic communications consultant, with a heavy digital slant: established and developed profitable and transformational digital teams• Proven track record in local and international business development, leading pitches worth over £20m in the past two years alone• Broad consultancy experience: co-founded a consumer technology agency; built a digital agency within an agency; held country, regional and global digital leadership roles within big PR agency network; represented the discipline of PR within integrated campaigns at an international advertising and marcomms holding group• Extensive global account experience across all sectors including FMCG, technology, finance, manufacturing, chemicals, energy, retail, automotive, healthcare and global development• Winner of multiple industry awards, including Cannes Lions, PR Week and SABREs. Experienced public speaker. Inspirational leader and manager of people. Also, modestClient experienceAB InBev, AkzoNobel, Allergan, American Airlines, Apple, Beko, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Boots, BT, EDF, EY, ExxonMobil, General Motors, GSK, HSBC, Huawei, JUUL Labs, Landsec, MasterCard, McDonalds, Microsoft, Mondi Group, NATS, Nespresso, Nestlé, Netflix, Novartis, Pepsico, PMI, P&G, PUMA, Renault, RSA, SAB Miller, Sainsbury’s, Samsung, Sonos, Sony Music, Warner Brothers