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Working with clients to develop timely and relevant consumer, retail and economic research pieces for thought leadership and marketing activation. Providing headline-grabbing insight covered by Retail Week, Forbes, the BBC and others.• Project manage research, working with clients such as Barclays, Converse, Dixons Carphone, RBS and Squire Patton Boggs. Manager of analysts.• Examples of thought leadership include forecasting the impact of inflation on discretionary income, analysing retailer pre-tax profitability, and the impact of hybrid working on deliveries.• Authoring press releases and working with journalists.• Developed and manage the weekly Retail Roundup to increase audience engagement across email, LinkedIn, and podcasts. • Developed, modelled and manage the monthly Cost of Living Tracker to understand the level of inequality across UK families. It incorporates proprietary and third party data, looking beyond averages from official sources to split out inflation, earnings and discretionary income by household affluence.• Author the flagship Retail Sales report – the industry’s deep dive into how retail has performed each month and what is shaping consumer behaviour going forward.• Implement leading industry standards in our editorial and production.• Create content for website SEO and manage webinars.• Proposals, sales support and project management.• Proprietary data includes retail sales, market share and forecasts, and sector reports with trend analysis and actionable insight.___

Retail Week Prospect is a fully searchable and live intelligence database, which launched in August 2015. Prospect covers the UK's 180 most innovative retailers. It primarily provides an in-depth understanding of how retailers are operating and its key people, targeting third party suppliers to the retail industry.The content that underpins Prospect has testimonials from global brands and suppliers, such as Manhattan Associates and Oracle. The Prospect team won 'Product of the Year: Information Services' at the Ascential Excellence Awards in 2016.I managed research, analysis and workflows for a team of five analysts on Retail Week Prospect. Responsibilities included building relationships with retailers to carry out C-suite interviews, tracking insights and data analysis covering 180 UK retailers, as well as content creation for Retail Week magazine, online platforms, and content marketing reports.Worked closely with sales and marketing to support new business and retention. Regular visits across the UK and Europe to leads and clients, including pitches, presentations and events.Maintained a jargon-free style of writing, ultimately working for a brand where every word is analysed for relevance and accuracy.Developed proprietary datasets, including financial, store and productivity metrics.Mentor for team members to support development of others.Contributed to the growth of Prospect from its development stages. This includes CMS and platform testing stages, and managing its day-to-day operations for editing and publishing.___

Retail in Action provides shopper and retail insights to help brands and retailers perform better at retail. My role included managing and undertaking projects ranging from store audits, mystery shopping, best practice research, one-to-one interviews with staff, and focus groups with shoppers. National and international client-facing work experience travelling across the UK, France, Italy and Spain.Role as an analyst has given me the ability to:• Develop qualitative and quantitative methods for research purposes.• Extract insight from qualitative and quantitative data.• Turn insight into action points and recommendations.• Managing the Snapshot database, turning images into structured and searchable data.• Recruit and train freelance analysts and auditors.Role in project management includes:• Managing projects typically valued between £20,000-£100,000+ for clients such as Brietling, Chanel and Vision Express.• Create, manage and action timing plans.• Calculate forecast and actual project cost analysis, working to an operating margin of 80%.• Delegate and manage team work loads and deadlines.• Manage client expectations.

Part time while studying.