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England, United Kingdom

London Area, United Kingdom

I enable clients to create engaging, results-driven, content partnerships by aligning brand positioning with a commercial narrative at scale. Devising and implementing a sales strategy, optimising sales performance, and creating bespoke campaigns with tangible results to attract new and repeat business.

London, England, United Kingdom

I identify and proactively approach commercial brand partners and sponsors that The Big Issue can elevate through its media channels. Nurturing new and existing relationships with clients directly and at media agencies to drive revenue. Raising the profile of The Big Issue publishing services to relevant agencies and brands through face to face and virtual meetings as well as sponsorship of key events and initiatives, such as The Big Issue's 30th Anniversary in 2021, RORA (Ride Out Recession Alliance) and new website launch.About The Big IssueThe Big Issue was launched in 1991 it has helped thousands of vulnerable people take control of their lives. It actively works with around 1500 individuals across the UK at any one time, offering them the opportunity to earn a legitimate income. Over the past two decades, the magazine has become synonymous with challenging, independent journalism and renowned for securing exclusive interviews with the most elusive of superstars

London, England, United Kingdom

I developed and sold creative commercial partnerships to media agencies and clients directly. Across 40 brands, this involved working closely with Editorial and Publishers in the UK and US, Marketing, PR, Events, Print Display, Digital Sales, Audience Development, Campaign Management and Production individuals and teams to hit revenue targets and take new ideas and innovations to market. My skills include;Developing new and growing investment from clients directly and Partnership teams within media agenciesAnalysing and prioritising key partnership clients for each Dennis brand from The Week UK/The Week US to Auto Express and CarThrottle - maximising revenues and finding proactive commercial opportunities.Communicating client needs to content creators and adapting commercial strategies (editorial content, tone) accordingly.Coaching Account Managers and Account Directors and equipping them with commercial partnership and creative solutions expertise.

In this role, my job was to sell cross-platform partnerships and creative solutions campaigns for all Dennis Brands as part of the Partnerships team. This included creating and growing business with clients directly and agencies by nurturing relationships within media agencies and hitting targets

As a member of the launch team for COACH magazine, my role as Partnership Director was to establish strategic relationships with key agency contacts and clients. This included selling commercial content partnerships in 2016 to British Airways, Clarins, Ford, Stella Artois, Discovery Channel, Fitbit, Renault, SKY and Brita. My role also included creating innovative publishing solutions to create standout in the freemium publishing market.To win business I was also responsible for;External brand collaboration - COACH working with the Discovery Channel to produce shared contentExternal Media owner collaboration - COACH worked with the Guardian to respond to briefsDennis internal brand collaboration - reaching over 20 million highly engaged users every monthMulti-platform external Media owner collaboration - working with Global Radio to provide multi-channel responses to briefs

London

In 2010, Dennis Publishing launched a standalone digital production agency called Adnostic that worked with advertisers, media agencies and third-party publishers to produce bespoke adverts for digital magazines and national newspapers on tablet and mobile. Adnostic won multiple awards including our two-man sales team winning Sales Team of the Year at the British Media Awards. I sold the first ad build that launched the Adnostic business idea and became the Advertising Director responsible for all commercial revenue. I had a responsibility to create trading deal contracts with Agency Groups and an additional remit to encourage clients to utilise their assets and extend their campaigns into digital-out-of-home and new digital desktop formats all created in-house at Dennis Publishing.

London, United Kingdom

Each year, for five years I created the most business and revenue for the Brand Solutions department of Time Out London. This included creating strong relationships with media and PR agencies, blue-chip brands, government organisations and charities. These strong relations have meant repeat and long-term cross-platform campaigns with clients including British Gas, EasyJet, Nokia, 20th Century Fox and Coty. My work has been shortlisted for the PPA Media Awards and included Time Out media firsts and the creation of additional revenue streams e.g. contract publishing.

London, United Kingdom

My key responsibility at Starcom was negotiation. I was responsible for the planning and buying of national trade and consumer press campaigns – this included monitoring and reviewing campaign success and the development of two Press Executives. I was also responsible for strategic development and innovative buying solutions to create value and reported directly to the Press Director and Group Head.

London, United Kingdom

My main role at BLM was the strategic development of innovative and profitable media strategies for Press, Radio and Outdoor campaigns. I had day-to-day contact with clients at all levels including contact with Marketing Directors and Managers of Intelligent Finance, VSO and Fopp Records. I was also involved in new business pitches and wins of the Pathe, lastminute.com and Nikon accounts.