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Lincoln, England, United Kingdom

Lincoln, England, United Kingdom

Lincoln, England, United Kingdom

• Seven Districts Coffee Roasters are a producer of single origin specialty coffee. I joined as their sole roaster when they launched in 2020 and was tasked with managing the day to day roastery operations. Achievements:
• Our roastery featured in the Independent Coffee Guide for the North, Midlands & North Wales Edition 2021.
• Lincolnshire Life Magazine’s Taste of Excellence Food and Drink award: Drinks Product of the Year (Gold Citation 2021 & 2022)
• Created the profile for Beggar’s Bridge single origin specialty coffee from Kenya.
• Helped to develop coffee pods.Responsibilities:
• Ordering green beans and tracking all inventory through accurate record keeping.

Lincoln, England, United Kingdom

As a self-employed copywriter, I sought out potential new clients who were in need of my services. I worked with over 100 clients in a wide range of industries and delivered a variety of written content including product copy, blog posts, email content and catalogue copy.

Gloucester, United Kingdom

• Direct Online Services is an eCommerce-led omnichannel business serving the UK and German markets. Brands included Solid Wood Kitchen Cabinets, WEX Trade, Kitchen Surplus, The Chippy Shop and Worktop Express, the UK's.
• Writing blogs, guides, product descriptions and gallery image captions for all DOS brands.
• Ensuring that each piece was tailored to the individual brands’ tone of voice and clearly delivered accurate information, consistently across the websites, whilst being optimised for search engines and readable and.
• Conduct competitor, product, subject and SEO research
• Maintain the high standards and overall accuracy.
• Manage the onsite search.

Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom

Worcestershire

• I joined the team at Hayloft Plants on a temporary contract to grow their online presence and bring the website performance in line with the other channels. As Digital Marketing Executive, my role encompassed all.
• Implementation of a new email platform.
• Management of the homepage redesign.
• Reactivation of PPC campaign.Responsibilities
• Writing blog posts, catalogue copy, web and social content.
• Managing Hayloft’s social pages and creating Facebook ads.

• Westland Horticulture Ltd. is a multi-brand, multi-channel horticultural retailer. Whilst there my role was focused on Marshalls Seeds and Unwins Seeds, horticultural websites that retailed vegetable and ornamental.
• Supporting the Marketing Content Manager in the creation of content for the relevant sales channels
• Writing copy for products, blog posts, guides, promotions, emails and newsletters, PR campaigns and press releases for all brands.
• Collating all new product information and setting up new products on the CMS for all sales channels,
• Ensuring all relevant information was accurate and up to date.

• Ideal Shopping Direct consists of several e-commerce and TV shopping subsidiaries such as Ideal World, Create and Craft, Lead the Good Life, Love Pets and numerous other e-commerce websites.Achievements
• Blog received on average over 20,000 visits per month.
• Created and managed a successful outbound marketing campaign that increased sales by 85% for the gardening club annually.
• As part of my quality control of plants, our FEEFO rating rose significantly to well over 90%.Responsibilities
• Management of Lead The Good Life gardening club and members web pages.
• Writing a monthly online magazine for club members.

Honours Degree, Medicinal Horticulture, 2:1

Year 3 Dissertation titled: “The Germination Induction Potential of Gibberellic Acid (GA3) on Three Ranunculaceae Species; Aconitum.

Advanced National Certificate, Horticulture: Amenity And Decorative, Distinction

Horticultural Plant and Soil Science Business Development and Management Site Survey and Analysis Plant Knowledge and Soft Landscaping.

National Certificate, Applied Horticulture/Horticulture Operations, General, Distinction

Activities and Societies: Course Representative Horticultural Science Principles of Machinery Identification of Weeds Pests and Diseases.