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Working with ESI Media's in house creative team (Story Studio) and project managing the Evening Standard's Future London campaign. Working in close collaboration across editorial teams online and in print, Events teams, Creative teams, Commercial departments and a select group of blue-chip sponsoring clients.

Working as a freelance Studio Manager and Project Manager with Reach's in house creative team (Reach Invention) delivering creative pitches, branded content to advertising clients and marketing promotions for Reach's publishing portfolio.

Working in a freelance capacity, as a Creative Services/Project Manager. Managing production, projects, resource, workflow and traffic in busy, fast-paced design studios.* Skilled in managing production workflow across marketing, advertising, digital, POS, e-learning, packaging, publishing, animation, TV and radio.* Highly effective project management of complex briefs from conception to delivery.* Experienced in managing outsourced creative work via external and off-shore agencies.* Excellent traffic management skills, including setting up production workflows, scheduling work, planning and resource management.* Available for freelance bookings from January 2020.

London, United Kingdom

Working with Freeformers Creative and Learning Design teams in order to significantly scale-up the production capability for designing and delivering global digital training programmes, for a major worldwide banking giant. Specialising in designing and creating illustrated and animated video, in multiple languages, for a global audience.* Responsible for managing workflow and traffic through the creative team.* Scheduling work, project management, progress chasing and managing resource.* Taking briefs from Marketing Managers, Account Managers and Project Managers.* Managing outsourced work via external agencies.

London, United Kingdom

Working as Production Manager in a freelance capacity, managing workflow in a busy, fast paced in-house design studio.* Responsible for managing workflow and traffic through the artwork team.* Scheduling work, managing resource.* Taking briefs from Marketing, Product Managers and Project Managers.* Overseeing supply of Artwork for approval and for print.

London, United Kingdom

• Line management of the in-house creative team within Marketing.• Responsible for staff development, performance appraisals and training.• Managing the delivery of branded communications, publications and advertising.• Managing projects across print and online.• Managing the delivery of brand television and radio advertising.• Managing creative copywriting, script writing and storyboards for television.• Acting as the main conduit between commercial, marketing and creative teams.• Responsible for building strong relationships with internal clients and stakeholders• Responsible for ensuring incoming work is received positively and constructively.• Responsible for developing a highly responsive team with a “can do” attitude.• Project management of all projects, progress chasing and reporting on status.• Traffic management of workflow, scheduling work and resource management.• Overseeing briefing process, allocating work and contributing to creative solutions.• Management and reporting of departmental and project budgets.• Responsible for delivering work on time, on budget and to the highest standards.

• Responsible for driving projects through the Creative Studio teams, ensuring work is delivered on time, on budget and to exceptional standards.• Responsible for scheduling all projects and jobs through Design, Retouching and Artwork.• Responsible for overseeing incoming briefs and ensuring these pass into the studio teams in an effective manner.• Responsible for ensuring all work is trafficked smoothly and efficiently, ensuring downtime and bottlenecks are reduced to a minimum.• Responsible for progress chasing and reporting regularly to directors and Account Managers on project status and workloads.• Responsible for allocating staff resources, managing staffing levels and for booking freelance resources.• Responsible for acting as the main interface between Account Management and Studio/Production, ensuring suitable solutions are found for incoming work demands.• Responsible for anticipating problems and finding solutions to potential obstacles.• Responsible for developing a proactive team approach, with a “can do” attitude towards delivering projects.• Responsible for ensuring brand consistency and compliance.

• Built and ran a highly productive in-house agency team delivering branded marketing, creative advertising and commercial publications.• Acted as brand guardian for all creative design and advertising, ensuring consistent look and feel and tone of voice across all areas, including outsourced work.• Man managed creative teams across Art Direction, Design, Photography, Copy and Editorial.• Delivered creative campaigns and production across both print and digital platforms.• Delivered creative campaigns across both consumer, B2B and trade audiences.• Mentored, motivated and managed staff including, performance appraisals, training and development and organisational change.• Managed outsourced work to external agencies and suppliers ensuring service and quality.• Project managed campaigns including; print and digital publishing, advertising, digital development, mobile and multi media production.• Managed departmental and project budgets, reporting on project P&L and financial performance to director level.• Responsible for print buying, negotiation and press passing publications and complex production work.• Managed bespoke campaigns for clients including; Blackberry, EE, Volvo, Nissan, Ford, John Lewis, De’Longhi, Shell, Serco, DWP and DfE.• Managed a range of creative editorial projects including, the Observer Uncovered supplements, Guardian Wallcharts, Guardian Guides to series.• Managed creative marketing and advertising campaigns for major events such as Glastonbury Festival, Observer Food Monthly Awards, Observer Ethical Awards and the Guardian Public Services Awards.

London, United Kingdom

• Overseeing the production of advertising appearing in the newspaper and weekly magazine sections of the Independent and Independent on Sunday.

Hnc, Printing & Production Management

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