Marketing Consultant

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Freelance Marketing Consultant Norwich, Norfolk, UK

Marketing Consultant- 12 years experience with Advanced CIM in Marketing. My core skills are people/project management. I enjoy getting the best out of people to make any creative project work 110%.

Rating:	Unrated (New)
Hourly Rate / Cost:	£44.44 per hour
Daily Rate / Cost:	£355.56 per day
Available From:	Now
Seller ID:	331970

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CV (Curriculum Vitae) / Résumé

I have worked for Merrill Lynch, Coutts, Natwest Stockbrokers in Direct Marketing, Re-branding, and International marketing and more recently for myself in Events. I have a background in Hospitality and have worked with licensed premises. I am people person and understand the way marketing should work for businesses.

OBJECTIVE: To perform to the best of my knowledge and experience. To be challenged creatively and to build an excellent reputation for the work I produce.

Computer Literature with knowledge of Excel, Publisher 98, Adobe Photoshop and . Typing 50 WPM.

Employment History

(ongoing)

Part-time Retail Manager

Herts

• Saturday Manager of our own clothes shop.
• Front of House Sales
• Customer focused selling
• Trade shows
• Fashion shows
• Buying

(Apr 2007 to 2009)

Business Partnership/Communications and Event Marketing Manager

Business Partnership/Communications and Event Marketing Manager
• PR/Marketing Manager
• Brand Manager
• Event organizer/fundraiser
• Creative Director

(Mar 2003 to Mar 2005)

Business Planner

Whilst there, we built business relationships with the owners of a company we wished to invest in. We Produced Business Plans for the new venture, applied for a business visa and dealt with immigration on a monthly basis.

(Jan 2002 to Oct 2002)

Project Manager

Marketing Communications, Coutts & Co, London/NatWest Bank

• Management of the NatWest Stockbrokers brand for Coutts and Co.
• Liaising with Head Office for budgets.
• Developing new stock control procedures’
• Handling internal communication plans for the NatWest Brand
• Re-branding
• Project managing the new Coutts Discretionary brochure from start to finish, which included writing, editing, liaising with publishers and creative designers to create the new look.

(Jan 1998 to Dec 2001)

Marketing Manager Communications

Merrill Lynch Investment Managers, London

• Marketing communications manager for Mercury Asset Management from 1998-2000. Working on the MFM Retail Fund Range. Responsible for all communication to existing and prospect clients, using innovative direct mail techniques.
• Development of a client magazine, sent quarterly to investing clients. Working with designers and publishing agencies to enhance the ‘Investors Guide’ the first of its kind in the financial industry. A magazine full of fund manager’s views, top tips for investing and funds in focus.
• Creating data segmentation strategies and working with data analyzers to develop and enhance ‘one to one’ marketing techniques.
• 2000-2002 Project Manager for the communication workflow team. Re-branding Mercury Asset Management to Merrill Lynch Investment Managers. Communicating the new look and feel to 200K prospective clients and 56K direct clients.
• Leading the team through a 6 month re-brand project
• Marketing Manager of the new International marketing team-2000
• .Developing new ways to established continental markets.
• Liaising with European marketers and their Independent Financial Advisors.
• Event Management in Europe.

• Main projects:

• Managing ‘Creative’ for all the European Funds
• Sector Fund Launch in Paris, Art director for the working party and exhibition.
• Re-launch of European funds in Germany, mailing to all clients.
• New product launch in Italy- The Master Series range.

• Creative director of all new European promotions and product launches in liaison with select design agencies.

(Jan 1997 to Dec 1998)

Marketing Executive

Pedoka Limited- Hitchin, Herts

• Co-coordinating and delivering all aspects of PR/marketing activity.
• Dealing with Corporate plans and budgets
• Organising Exhibitions in Europe and UK
• Communication with all levels of Management in UK and Far East
• Predicting new market trends for new product launches
• Sourcing new products from the Far East
• Managing the expectations of Ericsson and Panasonic

(Apr 1995 to Dec 1996)

Account Manager

Dupont UK Ltd

• Customer Service Support to major accounts i.e. Marks and Spencer
• Processing orders in a fast efficient manner
• Working to a providing a better service to our clients
• Credit Control

(Oct 1994 to Apr 1995)

Function Support Supervisor

NSW, Sydney Opera House

• Casual work running events at various locations in Sydney.
• Gallery of New South Wales

(Apr 1993 to Oct 1994)

Zone/Divisional Marketing Manager

Encyclopedia Britannica

• Heading a team of 3 marketeers
• Organising major promotional events
• Motivating 50 salesmen
• Devising new and exciting ways of marketing a difficult product
• Presenting and training new marketers
• Tele-sales and training
• Planning sales forecasts and marketing strategies

(Apr 1992 to Apr 1993)

Senior Assistant Manager

Richoux, Mayfair, London

• Overseeing the daily running of a 50 seater restaurant/Chocolatier
• Management of stock control, ordering, quality control and ongoing staff training
• Cash handling and banking
• Promotion and marketing of the restaurant to surrounding hotels including places such as The Grosvenor House and Claridges.

Professional Qualifications

3 Year HND in Hotel Catering and Institutional Management

1985-1986 One year management training course with Trust House Forte at the Swan in Lavenham, Suffolk

Education

( 1983 to 2002)

1983 – ‘O’ Levels in 7 subjects
1986-1989 HND in Hotel Catering and Institutional Management- Norwich Hotel School
2000-2002 Chartered Institute of Marketing- Advanced Certificate CIM