Responsibility for media relations, internal communications, events and social media management.

Delivering a range of communications projects for the Consumer Finance division of LBG, including events, video, intranet and internal magazine articles, speech writing and presentations. Specifically Comms Business Partner to the Black Horse Motor Finance and Credit Cards business with responsibility for managing trade media PR and lead production for internal television programme 'Customer First TV' for the division.

During my eight-year career in PR and marketing with The BIG Partnership - Scotland’s largest independent consultancy - I worked for clients in a broad range of sectors, including tourism, B2B, government and public sector, medical, technology, media, sport, education, e-commerce, property, construction, food and drink, automobile, logistics, voluntary and recruitment. My clients included Scottish Enterprise, Highlands and Island Enterprise, VisitScotland, Transport Scotland, The Institute of… Show more During my eight-year career in PR and marketing with The BIG Partnership - Scotland’s largest independent consultancy - I worked for clients in a broad range of sectors, including tourism, B2B, government and public sector, medical, technology, media, sport, education, e-commerce, property, construction, food and drink, automobile, logistics, voluntary and recruitment. My clients included Scottish Enterprise, Highlands and Island Enterprise, VisitScotland, Transport Scotland, The Institute of Directors Scotland, Ingenico, Jewel and Esk College, Blackcircles, St Andrews Golf Development Group, The Community Recycling Network Scotland, Shred-it and The Senior Open Championship.For three years between 2002 and 2005 I worked on secondment as the in-house press officer for both Scottish Enterprise (SE) Fife and Tayside, handling daily press enquiries and providing speech writing and crisis management support, as well as securing daily local, national, trade and broadcast coverage. Between January to April 2007, I worked on secondment in the Scottish Government Press Office, working on the desk for the then Minister of Tourism, Culture and Sport. In 2007-08 I worked on a major communications and lobbying campaign for Transport Scotland which led to the creation of the Queensferry Crossing bridge over the River Forth.I was also part of the team handling PR for the Alfred Dunhill Links Golf Championship 2002 to 2008, liaising with UK and international media, as well as interviewing high profile sportspeople and other international celebrities such as Samuel L Jackson, Dennis Hopper, Bill Murray, Hugh Grant and Kevin Costner. Show less

Covered the full gamut of journalism duties, including general reporting, court and crime stories, arts, lifestyle, sport and business and, via a news agency, achieved national by-lined articles in The Scotsman, The Daily Star, The Express and The Daily Record.