Matt Wright Email & Phone Number

London, United Kingdom

New Flame Solutions is a specialist recruitment which helps businesses find new front of house and back of house staff, particularly in the hospitality sectorI am a Director and co-owner of the organisation, but within the New Flame team I focus particularly on marketing New Flame Solutions and New Flame Marketing to businesses, as well as helping clients with sales and marketing - providing advice on digital marketing, strategy and planning, branding and positioning, integrated marketing, website design, content development and social media marketing.

London, England, United Kingdom

Board member and Vice Chair of Friends of the Earth Limited, the operational arm of Friends of the Earth in the UK

London, United Kingdom

Interim Head of Strategic Marketing at this fantastic cancer charity - taking on the deadliest, fastest killing cancer. Responsible for the Digital Team, Media Team, Marketing, Brand & Communications. 18mth FTC.

London, United Kingdom

Independent marketing consultancy working for variety of corporate clients and independent businesses, across telecoms, legal services, transport and health sectors.

London, United Kingdom

Led on all matters relating to the strategic development and operational management of the Trust’s Digital, Brand and Corporate Marketing activities. This included managing the team responsible for creative and operational delivery of the Trust’s corporate publications, external websites and other digital channels. Also had responsibility for leading the development and execution of a digital strategy for the Trust, helping plan the optimum development of digital technology in support of the Trust’s business objectives. This included the Trust’s social media strategy, policies and plans. As importantly, the role led the patient information team, delivering accessible patient information and advice across multiple channels.

Deputy Director of a department of c. 63 people. Specifically responsible for brand management, marketing, the digital/web team, plus the creative/production and internal communications teams. Also responsible for leading a number of x-departmental and x-divisional projects, looking at issues such as brand positioning, digital infrastructure/strategy, channel shift and multi-channel service delivery.

Responsible for all marketing and PR related to the Carbon Trust's footprinting offer and Carbon labelling and communications via the Carbon Reduction Label. Key achievements;- Helped the Carbon Trust achieve the landmark of placing the Label on products worth over £2.5 Billion turnover....almost three times that of Fairtrade- Delivered website strategy for B2B and B2C audiences. - Development and implementation of the Carbon Reduction Label website, on time and on budget.- Recruitment and development of a strong CTFC Marketing/communications team.

Headhunted from MBA to join EHS Brann as Planning Director on key agency accounts Barclays, Churchill, Diageo, npower. Key achievements;- Development of Global Online Strategy for Diageo Malt Whisky, and the pureplay online launch of their single cask business.- Development of overall Direct Marketing Strategy on the Churchill brand: generated a stepchange in performance, with an average doubling of the response rate- Best planning amongst all Direct & Digital agencies delivering to RBSi’s insurance brands (Churchill, Direct Line, Privilege), as judged by the senior RBSi clients.- Development of the ‘Support Your Local Businesses’ campaign for Barclays Local Business.

Left M&C Saatchi to take up Head of Planning role at this integrated agency. Responsible for planning on all agency clients: The National Trust, The AA, Mercedes, Ibis, EDF Energy, Mercure, Yahoo, Everest. Promoted to the management board December ’07. Key highlights: winning AA pitch, developing Everest’s first TV commercial in 20 years (including justification of the investment to the Venture Capital owners, and was only non-client on Everest’s media agency selection committee).

Responsible for delivering projects ranging from marketing strategy to brand naming and brand development, plus day-day account planning

Account planning & Marketing consultancy. Main clients; Freeserve/Wanadoo, MORE THAN, Lloyds TSB, Cahoot, Age Concern, Oxfam, Garnier. Key Achievements;- Successful New Business record, winning 3 pitches out of 5- Voted employee of the year, 2003- Online and Below The Line Communications strategy on all key Garnier brands. Fully integrated approach encompassed online data capture, customer acquisition and retention - delivered above target ROI and won an IDM business performance silver award.- Rebranding of Freeserve to Wanadoo

Focus on telecoms, F. Services, CRM and fmcg. Main clients: Unilever, Royal & Sun Alliance, Legal & General, Barclays. Ran large scale customer insight programme for all Lever’s UK based R&D staff. Development of best practice guidelines for CRM in Financial Services

Focus on Marketing effectiveness & efficiency, and use of the balanced scorecard in sales & marketing.

Group Brand Mgr, promoted Marketing Manager. Responsible for Imperial Leather, then the Household Products category. Launched Limelite and Carex.

Promoted through to Snr. Brand Manager. Worked on Ariel, Fairy Liquid, Flash and Mastro Lindo (Italy).

Completed The Windsor Leadership Programme

Mba, Business