Pete Clayton Email & Phone Number

United Kingdom

I am currently running a festival catering company specialising in freshly prepared, ethically sourced vegetarian and vegan cuisine for large scale (3-5000 people) events. Responsibility: To manage the company outside of events, researching and securing events, promoting our brand, maintaining our equipment and communication with staff, setting in place stock orders, ensuring our systems are up-to-date and implementation of training protocols and quality control systems. To manage the company at events, from co-ordinated arrival of ourselves, our staff and our stock, to set up and service over 5-day events and quality control of our work environment and products in often difficult conditions. Maintaining communication with our stakeholders, from the customer, to event organisers and welfare, to environmental health agencies. Achievements: Launching the company from scratch to a position where we were considered a brand leader in our field and integral to the success of our key events. Spotting and highlighting a gap in the market where it came to a need for healthy food, vegetarian and vegan alternatives and allergy aware caterers. Filling that niche by rolling out new product options to our market while maintaining excellent standards and supplying the highest quality meals possible. Being given the opportunity to employ, train, manage and work alongside a wide and diverse selection of staff with varied needs and disabilities, aiding their return to the work place.

Founder of Media Weavers: An advertising, content, design, promotions & publishing company, jointly based in the UK & the Isle of Man. Founded to support charitable & noteworthy causes & small business. Media Weavers was both successful & profitable, a legacy I am proud of. Responsibilities: To manage & establish a start-up company from the base up. Successfully generate an income to support efforts & increase efficiency. Maintaining constant control, from a local to international level, working within all areas of society, offering hands-on support for underprivileged young people, adults with learning difficulties, social problems & more. Stakeholder management. Identifying and targeting client organisations, and developing/tailoring appropriate offerings/services to meet their needs. Achievements: Helping to found, brand & promote a successful, charitable youth-based community music label & industry standard, fully funded recording studio with Lancashire County Council. Working with Preston City Council to organise, promote & run a series of cultural music festivals over the summer of 2010 (Mela & Riversway).

Prior to taking on responsibilities as a full-time live-in career (over the period of 2012-2016) I took up a temporary seasonal sales role for Debenhams to facilitate my charity work. I quickly found myself promoted to fulltime, permanent women’s wear assistant manager with the invitation to stay long term with the company were it my wish. Responsibilities: Cascading knowledge & supporting team members; A point of reference for staff in their areas of expertise, department & product knowledge, account cards, point of sale operation, price change management & ordering systems. Promoting the company in a public relations role by designing, publishing & distributing advertising. Store trainer as well as taking responsibility for on-the-job training of new starters. Key first aider (for staff & public). Achievements: First runner up 2009/2010 ‘Debenhams Employee of the Year’ after only five month’s employment. Achieving the highest in-store yearly assessment score (95.7%). Time spent with loss prevention.

Worked for the major UK ISP Supanet Limited daily on their portal site, with complete creative control of four major channels plus front-page responsibilities. Responsibility: To create and edit unique content daily through to publication. To work daily with CMS, Adobe Photoshop, Office and Google software plus HTML script and various analytics. To write to strict deadlines, addressing current news and affairs. Uploading content daily to hit at the most effective times, through an internal custom content management system. Using internal and Google Analytics to access these timings. Regular communication with MD to ensure content driven revenue targets were met. Regular communication with the head of Ofcom around changes within the industry and associated regulations. Managed and edited content created by others that was submitted to the channels I controlled. Achievements: Addressed issues of copyright and media law on a daily basis. Maintained a key group of contacts within the mass media. Proven track record of increasing Page and Channel impressions and ‘impressions per visit’, ranking highest amongst the Content Team. Receiving over 3.8 million unique monthly impressions on my work at its peak. Having the highest online readership for a computer games channel in the world at that time, achieved through effective use of analytics and through tailoring original, unique and positive content.

Working in every aspect of the bar trade to a management level.