Experience

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  The Regent Centre Christchurch

  • United Kingdom
  • Entertainment Providers
  • 1 - 100 Employee

  • House Manager

    • Feb 2022 - Present

  • Box Office Supervisor

    • Jun 2021 - Feb 2022

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  Weymouth BID

  • Weymouth, England, United Kingdom

  • Operations

    • Jan 2021 - May 2021
    • Weymouth, England, United Kingdom

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  Weymouth Pavilion

  • United Kingdom
  • Entertainment Providers
  • 1 - 100 Employee

  • Marketing Manager

    • Jun 2015 - Sep 2020

    Responsible for overseeing the busy Marketing and Box Office departments, selling over 100,000 tickets per year for a variety of performances from live music and touring musicals, to stand-up comedy and dance. My role included programming events for the theatre, negotiating financial deals and budgets, creating marketing plans and overseeing all marketing activity for individual productions. I also ran the day to day operations of the Box Office to ensure excellent customer service and covering as Duty Manger for evening performances as needed.Key responsibilities and achievements:• Working with a wide range of individuals including performers, directors, technicians, agencies, promoters and volunteers to deliver successful programmes of events at Weymouth Pavilion.• Working with a wide variety of promotional tools to create engaging marketing campaigns for individual performances and Weymouth Pavilion’s business/community goals, including email campaigns, social media, online content, print advertising, direct mail and business partnerships.• Managing the theatre’s website and CMS, curating and creating content including web pages, event pages and blog posts, optimising outreach and SEO to increase traffic. • Increasing attendance across all public performances more than 60% over a three year period.• Managing multiple marketing campaign budgets for individual productions and larger business-wide campaigns, including creating marketing plans in conjunction with promoters, monitoring performance, post campaign analysis and ROI insights.• Designing all the theatre’s in-house marketing material to promote their shows and services, including creating printed season brochures, flyers, websites, and images and video for social media, online content, digital banners and digital out of home.• Building strong collaborative relationships with press, advertisers and local business partners for mutual promotion.

  • Box Office & Marketing Assistant

    • Jul 2013 - Jun 2015

    Selling tickets through the Box Office for Weymouth Pavilion's wide range of shows and events, up-selling and maximising revenue while maintaining excellent customer service. While in this role at the newly reopened theatre, I spearheaded the use of our database and new marketing channels leading to a promotion to the role of Marketing Manager on completion of my university degree.

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  Freelance

  • Dorset

  • Photographer

    • 2009 - 2015
    • Dorset

    My own freelance work specialising in wedding and event photography for many local clients. As well as photography I also worked in graphic design, corporate video and radio production.

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  Fonix LED

  • Vision Mixer & Camera Operator

    • Jun 2014 - Sep 2014

    Vision Mixer and Camera Operator for Fonix LED, one of the UK's largest suppliers of LED screen hire, also specialising in live coverage and Event Television production. Recently worked as Vision Mixer on Fonix's Event TV coverage of the Bournemouth Air Festival, Notting Hill Carnival and the Bristol International Balloon Fiesta, and Camera Operator on Party at the Proact (featuring Tinie Tempah, Labrinth, Lawson and Katy B) and Tom Jones Live in Chesterfield.

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  GRACE Productions

  • Yeovil

  • Intern

    • May 2009 - Jun 2009
    • Yeovil

    Research for BBC Panorama episode 'I Helped My Daughter Die', keeping meeting minutes and tape logging.