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Experience

Experienced social-first Senior Copywriter, who’s able to wear both creative and strategic hats, crafting emotional, imaginative content that cuts through cluttered feeds.

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Work
Experience
Senior Creative, JOE Media
May 2021 - Present
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Honed a raft of creative skills, such as directing shoots and overseeing edits
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Pitched for and won new business from the likes of eBay, Adidas, Carling, NatWest and Channel 4
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Tailored my strategic and creative approach to ensure all content worked for JOE’s channels and brand, just as much for the brand partners
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Formed relationships and worked with exciting young talent and influencers, who then nailed the tone of voice when fronting our campaigns
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Mentored junior creatives in the team and learnt how to bring the best out of those whose confidence is still developing
Copywriter & Social Creative, Iris
March 2019 - April 2021
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Worked with a small team to create ‘Just Tap. Filtered’, a series of 7x social ads for BRITA starring Joanna Lumley & Gethin Jones, achieving a reach of 6.8m on Facebook and 2.9m on YouTube
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Ensured the scripts, cutdowns and creative strategy were optimised for social, for BRITA’s ‘The Feel Good Filter’ TVC campaign, produced by a partner agency
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Worked with Suzuki to ensure all campaigns were social-first when it came to creative, scripts, cutdowns, platform specifications and best-practice for year-long partnerships with Take That, ITV, Gogglebox and At The Drive In cinema
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Across Suzuki’s social channels, we achieved over 3m views over a 12-month period, seeing average engagement rates improve by over 100%
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Offered creative support across a number of other clients, ensuring content, tone of voice and strategy were optimised for social channels
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Clients included BRITA, Suzuki, Starbucks, Pizza Hut, UberEats, and Nectar
Freelance Social Copywriter & Creative Strategist, Think Jam
December 2018 - March 2019
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Social copywriting and creative strategy for entertainment brands and properties
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Clients included Harry Potter, Fox, Warner Brothers, Universal Pictures, HBO
Freelance Social Creative, Penna
November 2017 - December 2018
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Embarking on a new challenge in a new industry, worked in the creative department of a recruitment company to implement fresh approaches used in consumer marketing, for example leveraging social media as part of the Metropolitan Police’s recruitment drive
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Crafted social content and recruitment strategies for GCHQ, universities and Princess Cruises
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Worked with cautious government clients involving complex sign-off procedures, such as the Met Police, requiring trust building and continual reassurance, backed up by sound strategy
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Devised a social campaign that saw a 37% increase in engineering applications for the Defence Science & Technology Laboratory
Freelance Social Creative, Drum
May 2017 - November 2017
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For McDonalds’s, brought together brand and product truths with online culture and topical moments, to completely overhaul organic social content
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Regularly achieved organic reach in the millions and 20% engagement rates for McDonald’s, both of these an increase of 150%, primarily through lo-fi content, on small budgets and quick turnarounds
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Earned substantial PR value due to content being picked up and shared by media
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Demonstrated the value of a personalised creative approach and strategy for The Co-operative Bank pitch, due to the diverse motivations of potential customers
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Refreshed content and tone of voice for other clients, such as P&O Cruises, to better resonate with social audiences
Social Media Creative & Strategist, FCB Inferno
March 2016 - May 2017
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Managed 40 local markets for Grant’s Whisky, ensuring creative, copy, translation and transcreation were airtight, given alcohol advertising restrictions, whilst growing the social community by 30%
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Lead the social input for Grant’s new creative brand positioning
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Created dynamic, ‘snackable’ social content to launch Oreo Thins
Freelance Social Creative, Arnold KLP
May 2015 - March 2016
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As part of a small team, crafted, wrote and successfully won a pitch for Reese’s with ‘#SORRYNOTSORRY’ – their first foray into digital/social advertising in Europe
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Worked on Cineworld’s ‘Feel More’ campaign, ensuring the film’s captivating tone wouldn’t be lost across social channels
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Cineworld’s campaign saw a 30% increase in social engagement rates and a 25% increase in Unlimited Card sign-ups
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Ideated and commissioned visually-engaging cinemagraphs for Jack Daniel's social channels that outperformed average engagement by 300% and were subsequently pushed out globally
Senior Community Manager, HeyHuman
August 2014 - May 2015
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Refreshed Monkey’s tone of voice for PG tips, proactively moderating on Twitter and creating topical content, to achieve a 250% increase in engagement
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Lead the social strategy and creative input for PG tips’ Comic Relief partnership, where an animatronic Monkey was sent up The Shard
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Breathed life into exciting consumer brands with a defined tone of voice, such as PG tips, Pot Noodle and Peperami
Creative Community Manager, Pretty Green
March 2014 - August 2014
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Ensured Nando’s creative and copy for social were consistent with the experiential marketing campaigns and amplified across channels
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To celebrate the launch of Wing Roulette, devised a campaign around 'fingers' that encouraged Nando's fans to get involved online
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Implemented a robust social listening strategy that guided giffgaff’s creative executions
Head of Social, A Little Bird
March 2013 - March 2014
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Overhauled Birra Moretti’s creative output and tone of voice to become relevant to UK audiences
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Ran a number of social accounts and ensured integration with experiential activations for ZICO and Joe Delucci's
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Offered creative, copywriting and strategic support across the business
Community Manager, RPM
July 2011 - March 2013
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Ran the social for a global J&B campaign that saw Facebook fans across 10 global markets more than double to 500k, with engagement increasing almost 600%
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For J&B this included the City Remix campaign, a worldwide execution with fans in 10 countries uploading clips featuring the sounds of their cities to an app, before world-class DJ's in each market used these sounds to create their own City Remix for social channels
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Helped create and manage social campaigns for Captain Morgan, whilst ensuring experiential and social output were aligned, such as The Captain's Island
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Provided creative support across a number of other brands, such as McVitie's and Grand Marnier
Freelance Copywriter & Social Media Manager, N2O
May 2011 - July 2011
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Supported social accounts across the agency with copywriting, creative and strategy
Online PR Executive & Social Communities Manager, All-Leo
March 2010 - May 2011
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Managed the social profiles and PR for a range of popular music artists and small businesses
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Performed various duties – the role was heavily dependent on strong copywriting skills
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Worked with Cheryl Cole, Girls Aloud, The Saturdays, Will Young, Take That, Westlife and Lily Allen, amongst many others
Multimedia Manager, Heat Magazine
September 2007 - March 2009
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Created, edited and managed audio, visual and picture content, mainly for the website

Education
Nottingham Trent University
2003 - 2007
Bachelor of Arts (BA), Politics
Guildford College
2000 - 2002
A-Levels - Economics, Psychology
Royal Grammar School, Guildford
1997 - 2000
GCSE's - 9x A*-C (5x A*-A)