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Greater Bristol Area, United Kingdom

Sopra Steria Next is the consulting arm of Sopra Steria, a European leader in technology and transformation.With 4,000 consultants across 30 countries, Sopra Steria Next enable large, complex organisations to innovate with next generation technology and data-driven insight.We believe that success comes when you put people first. We help organisations to meet their goals by focussing obsessively on the needs of their customers: to perform better by empowering employees; and to win trust by being responsible corporate citizens.We are grounded in experience. We are driven by what's next.

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At Investis Digital, I help organisations to craft solutions to harness the power of technology and create a future-proof digital estate.

Bristol, United Kingdom

NB: Acted as Marketing Manager as part of Microserve. Microserve was acquired by Investis Digital in October 2020. - Part of the senior management team, steering the direction and strategy of the business. - Marketing strategy, implementation, and evaluation in line with business ambitions.- Tactical marketing plan to deliver against sales strategy, across the entire buyer journey.- Creating business efficiencies with internal processes including opportunity qualification and lead nurture programmes.- Monitoring and analysing competitor landscape and market trends.- Acting as brand guardian, ensuring the brand story is consistent.- Content creation including press releases, blogs, service information, print and other related materials.

Bristol, United Kingdom

- Line managed a team of three, overseeing 10, all working to achieve commercial targets. - Commercial forecasting - ensuring the entire pipeline was considered in marketing and sales efforts, from lead generation, opportunity management and account growth.- Implemented CRM strategy and improved commercial understanding across business.- Developed sales and qualification processes to enhance sales performance and efficiencies. - Diversified service offering and productised services in line with market and customer need. - Aiding sales enablement through upskilling, training and collateral , e.g. cribb sheets, sales content hub.- Productised suite of services to streamline sales journey and shorten lead nurture time.

Bristol, United Kingdom

- Managing, training and motivating Marketing team of two.- CRM maintenance and analysis - feeding insight into marketing strategy, and ensuring that the whole sales pipeline was full, iterating tactical plan to respond to need.- Internal resourcing across design, development and content for website, news, press, blogs, whitepapers, print. - Managing relationships with external suppliers including PR, marketing support and print. - Event manager for several events including monthly seminars, an annual conference (Together We’re Better) and a one-off partner event with Google. Included all event logistics, marketing and selling the event and follow-up to ensure lead generation. Together We’re Better Conferences saw 150 attendees with sponsors and speakers from Google, NHS Digital, Buzzfeed and the Guardian.- Highly experienced using email marketing tools such as Mailchimp and Hubspot to create successful and engaging campaigns and sequences. - Managed marketing budget of £80k, including a spend of just £4k on annual conference by selling tickets and sponsorship packages to cover the majority of cost.

London, United Kingdom

Coordination of two conferences for the Together We're Better community, bringing together not-for-profits, start-ups, the public sector and commercial bodies to collaborate, learn and fuel ideas around disruption, the change agenda and what this means across sectors.Both conferences saw 150+ attendees and speakers from Google, The Guardian, charity: water, NHS Digital and MOO.

- Responsible for executing marketing strategy working with the Head of Marketing and Commercial Director.- Founded and managed several large scale UX conferences, including World IA Day (2013, 2014), Collaborate Bristol (2012, 2013, 2014), Interact London (2014). This included marketing the conferences effectively to sell tickets, recruiting and liaising with speakers and selling sponsorship packages. - Social Media Management - Using Hootsuite to manage channels including Twitter, Facebook, Instagram. - Product owner for suite of websites - Management and updating of sites, project management of updates and redesigns / rebuilds.

- Managing small accounts including Austin Reed and CCRC.- Supporting sales team in lead nurture and administration involved in bid management.

Bristol, United Kingdom

I volunteered for registered charity, Brisfest to develop and action a social media strategy. I managed a team to execute the strategy and liaise with the festival director to reflect the brand identity and 2013 objectives for the event. In it's sixth year, the festival aims to increase exposure for local artists, help people into work and boost the local economy. With an aim to drive ticket sales and awareness of the festival through social media channels, I managed the profiles for Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and Instagram.

2.1, Film And Media Studies

Activities and Societies: Film Society, Charity Society.

Cim Professional Certificate, Marketing