Mike Murphy Email & Phone Number

Manchester, England, GB

Consultancy and production for sports organisations specialising in community impact and participation.

Manchester, England, United Kingdom

• Board Trustee at UNESCO City of Literature developing the stories and voices of Manchester to grow a global city of reading and writing.
• Development of policies for a new organisation pertaining to governance, human resources and training, financial accountability.
• Development of the strategy and vision for the organisation in line with UNESCO values and objectives.
• Oversight on accounts and financial planning for medium and long-term.
• Work with community projects to develop literacy, talent, and culture sector, and collaborating with the global UNESCO Cities of Literature network.
• Ambassadorial and relationship development for Manchester City of Literature with corporate and culture sector partners.

Manchester, United Kingdom

• Commissioned series on women's grassroots football and script input to support Women's Euros 2022 network coverage, series shortlisted and commended at Broadcast Sport Awards short films category.
• Devised and executed BBC multi-platform event support to UEFA Women's European Championships roadshow across England reaching 15m+, including Football Focus on the Road for BBC1 and BBC Regional Radio network roadshows.
• Series Producer for sports documentary content, FA People's Cup.
• Built Couch to 5k strategic partnership and app with Public Health England, reaching 7m+ lifetime users across universal demographics, primarily women. Including product development and audio production with.
• Developed and co-ordinated Couch to 5k app film features for BBC Breakfast, The One Show, and London Marathon.
• Led and developed partnerships for BBC Sport with the FA, ECB, Team GB/British Olympic Association, London Marathon, and community sport organisations.

United Kingdom

• Product design and management, and content creation for education & trade publishers in UK, working on digital and print.
• Led the design and build of new products for commercial markets, managing authors in trade and managing other freelance workers on various projects. Championing and leading transition from print to digital for authors.
• Content developer on digital products for international ELT markets for market-leading publishers.
• Content editor for print titles with independent trade publishers.

Manchester, United Kingdom

• Working across a range of industries on service design projects ranging from new digital offerings to business transformation and developing a future vision.
• Improved conversion rates for e-commerce fast fashion app services aimed at ages 16-29.
• Delivered roadmap for projects for clients in various disciplines based on extensive user-research.
• Delivered multimedia keynote presentations for blue chip clients in financial services.
• Pitches for new business across sectors from tech, construction, fashion, media, sport.
• Project managed development of early prototype products in multiple industries.

Manchester, United Kingdom

• Agile project manager for apps, games and websites.
• Delivery of short and medium term projects for native and web apps in education, peer-to-peer ticketing, security services and gaming.

London, United Kingdom

• Digital Product Lead spanning product and content, managing the roadmap, design and delivery of new award-winning products and platforms for HarperCollins education division, Collins Learning.
• Driving the roadmap for the Collins Connect web app, centrepiece for Collins Learning digital proposition to UK schools. Including data-informed product and content development. Best Content Provider at Education.
• Agile project delivery working multi-discipline, including full stack development, design, and supplementary tech integrations, with offshore and UK partners.
• Leading business change across the division, for editorial, sales, and marketing, working to a collaborative approach and with open communication.
• Workshop facilitation and product innovation with major media brands, Wall Street Journal, The Times, and PreHype venture capital incubator.
• Managing via online tools JIRA (Atlassian), Basecamp and Teamwork.

London, United Kingdom

• Developed insight programme into over-60s, to feed product and content development. Brokered partnerships with key brands Royal Photographic Society, Women’s Institute and Mumsnet:
• Developed a user-tester base from scratch by working with partners and organisations to help our audience become confident digital citizens.
• Generated relationships with organisations to amplify our output.
• Recruited and collaborated with key cultural brands to meet audience demand.

Edinburgh

• Designed and developed public information sites Choose Life, SMHFA (SAMH), Food Health Alliance, Physical Activity Health Alliance, Healthy Working Lives aimed at closing health gaps in hard-to-reach communities:
• Improving health and habits in hard-to-reach parts of the population and facilitating change in a large public sector organisation.
• Presented at Scottish Government sessions on the need for better consumer awareness for communities less well-served by Government provision.

Development of ELT Editor role listed 2007-9 belowDevelopment, Copy and Process Editor on global release titles in print, digital and web content.Development and Process Editor on integrated supplementary titles relating to core list titles.Multimedia Content Editor (VLE and CMS, Website material, CDROM and DVD integrated learning material) and Interactive.

Copy and content Editor on Secondary (11-19) English as a Foreign Language course for European students in state education. Responsible for the delivery of nine separate titles through the production phase, and for quality assurance for multimedia products.

Opened relations with Eastern European and South American partners and organising sales trips to Eastern Europe and South America. From this OPG imprints have built significant market presence in Argentina, Colombia, Brazil, and Mexico, and Poland and Hungary.Contract making & fulfilment, spreadsheet maintenance

Limpopo, South Africa

Pre-programme fundraiser and community worker on sexual health programme in Limpopo Province, South Africa.

Ma (Hons), English

Activities and Societies: Co-founder of 'Books & Booze' social lectures for students and local residents.Undergraduate MA (Hons) in.

Ma, Publishing

Activities and Societies: Member of the Society of Young Publishers. Attendee of London Book Fair 2006 - onwardsPostgraduate MA in.

Education record