Sophie Lyons Email & Phone Number

London, United Kingdom

London, United Kingdom

• Commercial and Product Manager of Newsquest's online Business Directory, Click2find. Responsible for achieving Budgets in excess of £800k across 31 sales houses in the UK. Significantly increasing audience, by 78%.
• 8% year on year growth in online directory sales in a tough Classified Services market.
• Active & regular communication of product development to the wider business.
• Creation of accompanying marketing material and sales presentations.
• Hands on approach to motivating and influencing colleagues across the group.
• Delivery of effective ongoing digital training & coaching to local sales managers & print reps.

London, United Kingdom

• Training colleagues across the business –transferring knowledge and strengthening capability.
• Product Manager for a new national competitions website.
• The “voice” of Newsquest, having recorded over 1,000 audio announcements for use by the group’s newspapers, websites and dating service.
• Implementing the seamless integration of SMS services to our centralised publishing system and across 180 newspaper web sites.
• Creating PowerPoint presentations and taking them to clients and agencies.
• Speaker at both the annual Newsquest Advertising and Editorial conferences, presenting new mobile services to the group.

Horsham, West Sussex

• Meeting strict first patient deadlines whilst accommodating any late requests for laptops.
• Dealing with overseas shipping times, insurance and customs requirements.
• Liaising with site investigators.
• Answering user queries.
• Chasing up missing study information and confirmation of laptop shipments.

First, Criminology

Activities and Societies: Criminology Course Representative & member of the Lancaster University Canoe Club.

A Levels: Psychology, Law, History As Levels: English Literature, Sociology

12 Gcses: 2A*S, 9As, 1B