Senior Planner.• Page planning all titles and their accompanying supplements.• Fulfilling advertising positional and contractual guarantees whilst maximising issue revenues.• Maintaining good relationships with staff of all levels throughout the company including Editorial, Commercial and Marketing departments.• Origination of editorial pages and rebuilding.• Template creation and maintenance.• Checking/updating pagination report and supplement lists.• Managing publication paginations and deciding on changes due to revenue or editorial requests.• Booking filler ads as required and ensuring copy is processed.• Assisting Editorial and Production with any page issues.• Specifically chosen to help with a three month secondment to ensure the smooth transition of the i Newspaper to Johnston Press.Production Assistant/Typesetter.• Classified planning and page makeup.• Copy chasing and liaising with clients to ensure deadlines are met and any issues resolved.• Typesetting adverts, and image retouching, adhering to specific style guides or following client briefs.• Managing the flatplans for additional magazine supplements and sending pages to print.• Typesetting company business cards/stationery.

• Managing various magazine publications including flatplanning, editorial layout and typesetting.• Gave each publication its own identity, ensuring the style was conformed to for each issue.• Liaising with clients, Sales and Editorial to ensure copy was received and deadlines met.• Typesetting/layout of newspaper adverts as well as company business cards and stationery.• An extremely busy role, often working on projects alone, meant my ability to prioritise workload accordingly was very important here.

• Typesetting full colour and mono advertisements.• Setting up and maintenance of advertising templates.• Liaising with colleagues and clients of varying levels.• Ran the Bureau Department, including processing private jobs and invoicing.• Setup an automated property advertising database whereby Estate Agents could create their own advertisements.• Scanning, manipulation and colour correcting images.• Key holder.