Kate Percy Email & Phone Number

London Area, United Kingdom

Working in the global corporate communications team to bring to life Amazon's sustainability actions and impact across circular economy, renewable energy and transportation.

Winchester, England, United Kingdom

London, England, United Kingdom

A broad role providing both strategic guidance and tactical delivery of communications activities to support the company’s goals, shape public debate, influence stakeholders and improve the reputation of Vodafone UK. Developed and implemented the external communications and engagement strategy for Vodafone Business (2018-2021) and ESG/Purpose (2021-2023), driving improved awareness, engagement and impact amongst media, stakeholders, partners and employees.Ownership and delivery of multiple flagship campaigns (5G leadership, Keeping the UK Connected, COP26/net zero, Best Place to Work). Delivery of >250+ news stories, thought leadership features, op eds, radio days, events, scripts, films, infographics, influencer activations and partnership comms, including some of Vodafone UK’s best performing content.Ensured timely, robust and effective management of high profile reactive issues where possible turning reputational damage into positive sentiment.Collaborative working with HR team to drive employee engagement and advocacy; Group colleagues to deliver ESG targets and Annual Report, and Vodafone Foundation to launch Tech for Good apps. Boosted CEO and exec profiles through relevant viewpoints, op eds, speaker slots and social channels. Designed and implemented a new media and informed social measurement process and led on the use of data to improve campaign performance.Supportive team lead and careful management of departmental budgets. Awards contributed to: ‘Best Network for Business’, ’Best Partnership with a National Charity´, ´Circular Economy Award´, ´Best Public Awareness Cause Campaign´.

London, England, United Kingdom

Led the comms team and established Vodafone Business as a leading voice for small businesses, entrepreneurs and vertical sectors via Business Unlimited content, influencer activity and events. Exec profiling for Vodafone Business Director Anne Sheehan, on topics including 5g/tech leadership, IoT, small business, women in tech. Speechwriting and content development for internal and external events.Profile of Vodafone Business increased significantly both internally and externally.

With multi sector experience and a career in diverse communications roles, I work with large bluechip companies helping to turn business objectives into robust and effective communications and engagement plans. Roles included everything from proposition development to brand to ATL to internal communications; and change communications and stakeholder engagement for major transformation and IT projects.

London, United Kingdom

Contract project management role developing and delivering communications, stakeholder engagement and training for a new Barclays digital proposition.Delivered detailed comms plan (target audience research and definition, messaging matrix, channels, timeline, target metrics) and comms toolkit (Q&A, online training materials, editorial calendar, content for barclays.co.uk).

Contract project management role working for BP’s International Service Desk team to drive behaviour change amongst colleagues globally ahead of an IT rollout.Key deliverables: change communications plan; a toolkit for country managers (email templates, Q&A, technical specs, digital training pack, online training sessions, intranet materials); regular stakeholder updates; management of online discussion groups. Project delivered to time and budget.

London, United Kingdom

Broad contract role managing the comms team and responsible for developing a clear and compelling communications and stakeholder engagement programme.Delivered robust and proportionate communications plan; national and regional PR/media campaign; ATL to raise awareness of the issue in high-risk areas; proactive and reactive social media programme; design and re-launch of the at800 website; UK-wide direct mail campaign; ongoing public affairs programme; presence at key industry and political events; internal communications; ongoing consumer research programme. Management of £3m/annum comms budget.Note: at800 is the organisation set up by the UK government to manage the issue of Freeview disruption due to the rollout of 4G mobile networks.

Bath Road, Slough, Uk

Contract role working within O2’s PR and social media team to develop and implement an end-to-end communications strategy for the O2 Money and O2 Health teams.Key deliverables: launched O2 Wallet (a mobile money service) to the consumer market; and Help at Hand (an eldercare offering) to the health industry. Leveraged traditional PR activities and creative social media executions via Twitter, Facebook and blogs to reach desired audiences.

Working within BP as the lead communications consultant in a global team comprising BP staff, external consultants and IBM for delivery of Remedy 7.5. Key deliverables: development and delivery of global communications plan; strategic messaging framework; engagement with cross-company programmes to ensure alignment; sharing communications best practices and standards.

O2 Corporate Communications

Development and delivery of O2’s pan-European communications strategy (UK, Ireland, Germany, Holland, Czech Republic) for products and services. Product launches, story generation, thought leadership, employee engagement, media training, online content, influencer days, supporting financial results, managing presence at annual Telefónica Investor Conference.

London, United Kingdom

Account director on several clients including HP, Microsoft and Virgin Travel. In addition to day-to-day PR and communications strategy development and execution, grew HP’s presence in the digital photography market and implemented an EMEA-wide PR crisis management system.

Responsible for the development and rollout of a revised brand strategy for Logica, incorporating vision and values, tone of voice, look and feel, brand guidelines. Communicating and championing the revised strategy internally; and winning buy-in and support from colleagues and senior management. Ensuring marketing activities aligned with the ethos and goals of the Logica brand strategy.

London, United Kingdom

Retained as HP’s strategic communications consultant across Europe (26 countries) for emerging technologies, large format printing and printing supplies. Developed and implemented PR and business analyst programmes across EMEA including story generation, launch events, thought leadership and media training. During this time HP achieved highly positive coverage across its footprint and retained its market leadership in emerging technologies and printing/supplies.