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- Wates Group Junior Board member (March 2017 - January 2018)- Developing strategies, campaigns and messages that differentiate Wates Living Space in its core markets.- Implementing targeted, cost effective and impactful campaigns to promote key messages to target audiences. This includes public relations, community affairs, corporate literature, events and other media.- Advising and supporting business unit project based initiatives in conjunction with regional agencies.- Developing communication business strategies to support the business development initiatives of Wates Living Space, creating access to key stakeholders, raising profile and supporting wider initiatives.- Developing an internal communications strategy for the business unit in line with the Wates Group strategy and messaging.- Acting as a first point of contact for the business unit's crisis communications - Working with Business Unit Managers, Project Directors, Framework Managers and Business Development teams to produce business based communications programmes that will help to deliver the business strategy.- Writing and producing press releases, brochures, exhibition materials, promotional items, award entries, events, seminars and newsletters as business relevant.- Developing and maintaining relationships with key stakeholders and business influencers.

Award winning B2B communications agency with three decades of experience working for industrial and technical market-leading brands.- Managing some of the agency's largest and longest standing accounts including regularly investigating creative ways to use public relations tools and channels to underpin their business strategies- Developing client proposals for new project work and creative campaigns- Building and maintaining excellent working relationships with client teams as the key point of contact across each account- Developing and maintaining strong relationships with trade journalists to secure opportunities for clients including briefings on new product launches and editorial interviews - Researching, writing and pitching press releases, case studies and feature articles to relevant horizontal and vertical media - Developing marketing materials, including brochures and adverts, for business development use including at key trade events - Crafting copy for digital platforms including client websites and social media e.g. blogs and twitter calendars to support events- Building media lists and distributing of press releases using Gorkana - Supporting and mentoring the team's Junior Account Executive

- Editor of internal magazines - Teamtalk and Generation Times- Internal event management e.g company-wide internal Roadshows and leadership events- Project managing the production and distribution of the Group's Annual Report and Accounts - Liaising with external printers and design agencies to create marketing collateral for the Group including brochures, adverts and business updates- Writing, editing and publishing Group and Business Unit communications for Intranet and Desktop Wallpapers

I was contracted to support the set up and management of a new campaign office in central London following the formation of the EU Referendum Campaign. This included sole responsibility for the set up of a new office and procurement of all new equipment/services for use by campaign staff. My day to day responsibilities also included office and diary management for the Campaign Director and Press Officer, management of pledge sign ups via JotForm database, the set up, management and monitoring of new social networking accounts including Twitter, Facebook and YouTube and management of two interns.

Working within a busy campaign office during the 2010 General Election. This included providing day to day support to the Campaign Director and wider press team such as managing the online news diary, proactively monitoring the daily news cycle, writing, proofing and editing sections of the party's Election Manifesto and Election Addresses, fielding daily enquiries and interview requests from national and regional media and organising press packs for the launch of the party's Manifesto.