Neil O'Brien Email & Phone Number

Tunbridge Wells, Kent, GB

• In my current role, I am steering a team of 50 members to ensure achievement of day-to-day activities. Overseeing all aspects of business development and client services functions to attain high levels of revenue.
• Increased overall revenue from £40M to £50M within three years.
• Enabled company to accomplish continuous success by staying up-to-date on industry trends and identifying as well as capitalising on new and emerging approaches.
• Generated business growth and ROI through formation and implementation of effective strategies.
• Achieved £50M annual revenue by steering end-to-end procedures of copyright licensing division.
• Attained consistent growth in revenue by devising and applying new incentive scheme.

Tunbridge Wells, Kent, GB

Saffron Walden, Essex, GB

• Serving as Commercial Director, I was successful at steering all aspects of profit and loss functions of market-leading news and current affairs magazine. Moreover, I improved magazine's position in market by.
• Transitioned 5K quarterly subscribers to annual subscription plans through innovative marketing programme.
• Improved Key Performance Indicator (KPI) metrics for continuous business development and growth.
• Succeeded in driving increase in subscriptions by over 10%.

Dundee, GB

• In this role, I enabled successful management of 22 distinct magazines and ensured optimum performance by utilising industry expertise. Moreover, I provided robust leadership to team of 120 members, leading to seamless.
• Secured new contracts by optimising business approach and leveraging robust negotiation skills.
• Recovered failing magazine titles through successful launch of 10 new websites and eight new spin-off print magazines.
• Created new innovations department from scratch, whilst guiding and mentoring staff members in successful achievement of three significant licences and four additional magazines and website launches.
• Maximised profitability by 20%+ over course of tenure through an innovative reader feedback programme.

Cheltenham, GB

• In my role as Managing Director, I posited company as market leader through leadership of complex acquisition and revitalise business functions. I improved process efficiency of operations, marketing, PR, and editorial.
• Maximised financial performance and established new culture aimed at fostering innovation and higher appeal to entire audience base.
• Realized 100% growth in product sales within nine months by leading implementation of regular product catalogue.

Reigate, England, GB

• During this tenure, I achieved continuous year-over-year growth through robust leadership of new product and business development efforts. I devised and executed new business structure for ongoing development and.
• Ensured successful launch of corporate entity on mobile applications through introduction and deployment of emerging technologies.
• Attained two-fold company's subscriptions over course of four years by overseeing end-to-end procedures.

• Oversaw 5 publishers, a paid-for and controlled subscriptions department, a directories publishing operation, newsstrade circulation, print and production.Key achievements were;
• Increased paid for subscriptions by 5% for two consecutive years in a bear market
• Oversaw launch of 3 magazine related websites
• Launched and relaunched a number of Award Ceremonies and shows, exceeding visitor targets by 10%
• Developed and launched 5 new titles, which are still published.
• Sat on the PPA B2B board

• Transformed the business from a minor player to one of the leading customer publishing agencies playing a significant role in the development of the sector with an innovative marketing segmentation approach to customer.
• Grew the business from £750k to £5m turnover in five years
• Pitched, won and published magazines for Barclaycard (6 titles), Britannia Airways (published in 6 languages), Npower (8 magazines) NatWest students, ASDA’s home grocery shopping catalogue, Save & Prosper, Boots the.
• Board member of association of Publishing Agencies, voted chair in 1998 and 1999, launched and hosted the inaugural Customer Magazine Conference.
• Jointly devised and introduced a hugely innovative working environment with every desk on wheels allowing for regular reshaping of the environment as teams worked on different titles.

Bsc, Business

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