Sandy Rees Email & Phone Number

Winnington, Cheshire

Top Notch PA Solutions is a virtual personal assistant service. We are on hand to help small businesses and busy individuals with their everyday time consuming tasks - business or personal.> Administration> Secretarial/Business support> Personal supportFind out more here: www.topnotch-pasolutions.co.uk

Frodsham

PA to the Directors as well as office management and assistant to senior designers.> Assisting in project management on top client refurbishment projects.> > Taking minutes, ordering samples, placing orders, tracking orders, arranging client update meetings researching bespoke furniture options, creating concept scheme boards, site visits to place soft furnishings in client home, creating estimates and invoices to clients. • Assist Directors with diary management, their travel, meeting arrangements and ad-hoc requirements• Ensure the smooth running of the business.o Maintaining IT systems, answering/screening incoming calls, manage building maintenance, organizing team communications, ensuring a presentable & welcoming showroom at all times and all stock displayed and priced clearly• Responsible for ‘drop in’ clients to understand their brief and manage their requirements to completion or delegate if necessary.• Managed redesign & launch of company website achieving over 53% click rate and 62% open rate.• Managed the production of a company portfolio brochure including content and design resulting in bringing in major new projects for the business.• Produced a full colour photo-book of a ‘before, during and after’ project of their home for a well-known client.• Created a series of marketing communications to promote the company and brand through various channels such as press advertising, direct mail, email marketing and social media.• Organised several showroom events including marketing, catering, staffing, sales and promotions at the event, and post event analysis.

Sweaty Betty is a retailer of activewear for women, encompassing beachwear, skiwear and gym wear.I am a self employed consultant selling Sweaty Betty products at private homes, yoga/pilates studios, tennis/sports clubs, gyms & trade fairs.* Within first 2 months achieved level I sale target of more than £3k sales* Achieved 2nd top performing consultant by 3rd month* Ascertained 18 private bookings in just one month* Reached level II consultant within 6 months for sales more than £8k and mentor 6 x agents.

to manage and execute all B2B marketing campaigns & communications throughout EMEACompiled briefs and executed marketing campaigns across EMEA in 9 languages targeting POI customers primarily via online media & electronic direct mail. Target response rates of 7%, have achieved a maximum of 21%Leveraged Salesforce CRM system to manage all B2B marketing leads for our sales reps and tracked campaign success using Eloqua. Liaised internally with sales teams, U.S counterparts and relevant product managers to drive these campaigns forwardManaged & tracked quarterly marketing budget of $600k per qtr often negotiating costs with vendors & agencies to reduce their rates.Managed relationship with creative B2B agency which involved a 5-way full pitch process to establish an agency that would best deliver strong, channel-driving integrated campaigns across EMEACreated regular news-alert communications to installed base with achieved a 9% response rate against a target of 5%Maintained & measured a constant 'web presence' media plan of $250k per year across primary target countries to sustain brand awareness with eye-catching media formats to increase share of voice often achieving 0.20% CTR which is 0.5% above industry-average A major contributor within editorial team of monthly e-newsletter to approx 25k Seagate members which achieved a maximum 19% response rate Conducted regular and in-depth face-to-face agency ROI analysis meetings to track and improve our communications plan, then present ROI results internally to sales teams and VPs. Researched & developed 3 x case studies per quarter that were used actively at events, microsites and the corporate website

Managed the communications & full programme of events both internally & externally from planning through to execution and ROI Organised annual Partner Conference for 200 partners from across EMEA which achieved a feedback rating of 4.5 and came in $20k under budget.Full event responsibility for approx 70 events across EMEA per year including tradeshows, conferences & partner events with Microsoft & IntelManaged marketing budget of $400k per qtr Extended the messaging and brand across our events programme by leveraging cost-effective brand awareness opportunities to increase traffic to our stand which more than doubled our sales lead target to over 1400 leads for one such event.Produced tradeshow kits/POS materials/banners ads/print ads to increase our brand message across various mediums i.e. events/distributor channel/sales teams & internal promotion. Due to success of these items other theatres would leverage. Managed promotional agency and sourcing of promotional items ($20k per qtr) to be used at events & by partners.

Promoted to support sales & business development teams to drive growth of e-learning program across the public sector in Europe & Emerging marketsA key organiser of annual conference for approx 800-1000 customers as well as smaller events such as internal meetings, seminars, award ceremonies, and customer events all across EMEAA regular presenter at events across EMEA achieving on average a feedback score of 4.3 out of 5Editor of an e-newsletter distributed to over 11,000 customers with responsibility for a multi-functional team of up to 10 people Initiated, maintained & tracked an internal online marketing resource library website which contributed to the program being established in over 100 countries Pro-actively searched and wrote-up unique success stories and breaking news items for PR and marketing purposes Managed, plan & tracked marketing budgets of approx $150k per qtr Briefed and negotiated with 3rd party agencies on development of effective marketing material.Won an internal Cisco award for a brochure design piece for 'being an outstanding customer communication piece' with effective customer messaging and all within corp. id guidelines.Working together with global marcom team I developed a print AD Campaign for our partner channel which resulted in over 4000 hits to our website of which globally over 90 prospective employers registered and 2,370 students.

Recruited to develop effective internal & external marketing tools to promote & grow a global E-learning philanthropic education program across Europe, Middle East & Africa to the Public Sector Designed, developed & maintained an EMEA website which attracted over 12,000 customers per month.Co-ordinated development of an online EMEA Lead Tracking System which received over 150 new customers per qtr.Organised a series of successful road-shows across EMEA which resulted in new customers in those previous non-active countries Won a cash award for 'excellence' for personal contribution to the program. Localised & leveraged US internal & external marcom materials saving considerable costs on production & design.

Reporting into European Marketing Director was promoted to manage B2B above & below the line marketing tools to promote product line through various mediums from concepts to production

Developed marketing collateral for UK market for mobile division.

A credit controller chasing suppliers for outstanding invoices and reconciling payments.

Temporary cabin crew serving passengers refreshments across Europe and ensuring their safety whilst on board.