Experience

BackTrack Youth Works

• Australia
• Non-profit Organizations
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Strategic Development Specialist

  • Aug 2020 - Present

  Keeping kids alive, out of jail and chasing their hopes and dreams....that's the remit of this inspiring not-for-profit youth development organisation and associated social enterprise. Amazing opportunity to be involved at a time when the organisation is looking to expand and explore and to be able to help them firm up on an ambitious and challenging growth strategy. Check out backtrack.org.au for more info.



Christchurch City Holdings Ltd

• New Zealand
• Executive Offices
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Strategic ETI & Sustainability Collaboration Lead

  • Nov 2019 - Aug 2020

  Christchurch City Holdings Limited (CCHL) is the wholly owned investment arm of Christchurch City Council, holding shares in eight trading companies that own and run some of the key infrastructure of Christchurch, including the airport and port, electricity delivery, fibre broadband network, city infrastructure maintenance, public transport, and recycling facilities,The CCHL Group owns assets with a combined value of over $3.4 billion and group equity is over $1.8 billion, enabling the Group to secure a strong AA- Standard and Poor credit rating in December 2019.. In the wake of a global climate emergency and a world where all businesses are struggling to keep abreast of the pace of emerging and often disruptive technologies and innovations - collaboration, fresh thinking and strategic creativity have never been more relevant or valuable. As Strategic ETI & Sustainability Collaboration Lead, Nige Cottingham is helping CCHL to uncover and realise that value.



Citycare Group

• Construction
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Executive General Manager Strategy, Marketing & Business Development

  • Jan 2017 - Oct 2019

  Bringing together the strategic intent and direction for City Care's industry-leading FM, Maintenance and Construction service delivery models and communicating this through robust, targeted and relevant marketing content.



ACCIONA

• Spain
• Utilities
• 700 & Above Employee

• Community Relations Manager CBD & South East Light Rail

  • Apr 2016 - Jan 2017

  Managing key stakeholder engagement and community issues related to Sydney's new $2.1billion light rail construction project. Key challenges include ensuring strong interface with key stakeholders (such as ATC, UNSW, Moore Park / Centennial Park Trust and Prince of Wales Hospital); ongoing mediation with tree conservation groups and considerate stakeholder management related to recent indigenous heritage finds.Inter-relationship with Transport for NSW as 'client' for the contract is also an essential part of the role.



Roads & Maritime Services NSW

• Senior Communications and Stakeholder Management contract

  • Dec 2015 - Apr 2016

  Managing RMS interests with regards to communications and stakeholder engagement requirements across a range of interesting projects, including CBD Alliance (Lend Lease) and Sydney Harbour Bridge projects.



UGL

• Australia
• Engineering Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Corporate Marketing Manager

  • May 2015 - Sep 2015

  3 month contract position whilst looking for my next career opportunity, albeit that could be at UGL as the business is at an interesting state of change.



Multiplex

• Australia
• Construction
• 700 & Above Employee

• National Marketing Manager

  • Sep 2014 - Apr 2015

  Enjoyed a maternity leave cover contract to deliver wide range of national Marketing, Communications and PR work for industry-leading, global construction contractor. Great company to work for and learned a lot about high performing business cultures.



RCR Tomlinson

• Australia
• Industrial Machinery Manufacturing
• 300 - 400 Employee

• Stakeholder Engagement and Communications Manager

  • Jan 2009 - Aug 2014

  Established the Novo Rail brand and communications vehicles;Drive and oversee Novo Rail’s project communications and local community interface;Drive and shape the alliance’s behavioural-led cultureCoordinate relationships with all key stakeholders;Develop and communicate key messaging for Novo Rail Alliance Management Team;Act as an internal agency to help support and promote each internal stakeholder group from recruitment through to procurement and the HSEQ team.Key achievements:•Built Novo Rail brand from scratch, including all company signage, ongoing production of stakeholder magazines and development of a website (near completion);•Helped drive and implement change management process to ensure single culture in spite of 4 parent companies;•Developed and led highly complex stakeholder management plan, to ensure that all those in position of influence/advocacy at any one of the 4 participant companies has a clear understanding of the Novo Rail objectives.



RCR Infrastructure

• Australia
• Appliances, Electrical, and Electronics Manufacturing
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Divisional Marketing Manager

  • Feb 2008 - Dec 2009

  Built and enhanced the position of all brands within the Norfolk E&C Division (now RCR InfrastructureDrive key marketing initiatives across the Division, encouraging cross-business marketing activities to leverage efficiency;Develop all appropriate marketing collateral for the Division and its brands, including websites and other online requirements;Coordinate relationships with all internal and external marketing-related resources e.g. graphic designers, printers, merchandise companies, PR and advertising agencies;Manage all internal communications across the Division and brands, including proactive management of the intranet and appropriate input into all Norfolk Group internal comms/mediaKey achievements:•Helped develop and implement a new CRM system to give greater insight into and control over customer opportunities and the sales pipeline;•Focused the primary business activity into distinct market segments – Rail, Water, Power, Mine-to-market (resources) by way of better demonstrating expertise / capabilities across each of these sectors;•Delivered new on-line Merchandise kiosk and Printing/Collateral ordering facility to better accommodate day-to-day requirements of business units/areas;•Drove effective PR strategy across each of the primary target market sectors, with particular success in Rail business;•Researched, wrote and managed design of new quarterly employee magazine (InterCONNECT)



Flight Centre Travel Group

• Australia
• Travel Arrangements
• 700 & Above Employee

• Marketing Manager

  • Jan 2006 - Jan 2008

  Strategic growth/direction of FCm Travel Solutions brand Development of new sales & marketing collateral to support thisWork with Australian sales-team to build customer pipelinePR / Media Relations (Australia and NZ only)Grow internal communications function (Australia and NZ only)Upkeep of FCm Travel Solutions websiteKey achievements:•Researched, wrote and managed design of new quarterly customer magazine (SUITu) and a monthly online e-newsletter (SUITe).•Developed a new tool-kit (SUITcase), with enough flexibility so that it could be used as ‘internal comms bible’, BDM portfolio and could also be adapted for use by global partner companies.•Created a full suite of customer products ‘packaged’ in a way that enhanced the sales-team’s ability to sell them.•Helped grow the FCm Travel Solutions name / brand locally and globally through strategic marketing and PR development, sponsorship and online development.



Royal Sydney Golf Club

• Membership Marketing Manager (6 month contract)

  • Apr 2005 - Nov 2005

  Full-time contract position built around the need to create a new members pack, which better reflected the exclusivity and prestige of the environment.



Sunterra Group

• Group Marketing Communications Director

  • May 2001 - Nov 2004

  At the time, Sunterra was one of the world’s largest independent holiday ownership companies, with over 5000 employees, 300,000 global members, 240 resorts and operating out of 23 different countries. As Marcomms Director, I steered, managed and executed the re-branding (and re-naming) of the company across the US and 12 European countries. I managed a team of 20 (both in US and UK) towards delivery of an effective, global marketing strategy. This work included the complete rebuild of an award-winning members website; production of an award-winning quarterly glossy magazine and the creation of all-new lead generation activity.



Mad Dogs Media

• Owner/Director

  • Feb 1998 - Nov 2000

  My own creative agency brought together to help service the creative needs for a diverse range of clients, included Reed Elsevier, Austar, CyraChrome, Simms International and Ricoh



Motivation

• Marketing Consultant

  • Feb 1997 - Feb 1998

  Motivation is a not-for profit organisation which designs wheelchairs for use in developing countries, using local resources thereby better ensuring the independent sustainability of the projects they set up. I essentially took a year out of the ‘rat-race’ to help Motivation establish its brand and 5-year marketing strategy.



Interspoke

• Account Director

  • Jan 1994 - Oct 1996

  Interspoke was the start-up Asia-Pacific arm for UK-based Bespoke Agency (see below). Offering a full-service PR and Marketing agency service to clients who were predominantly from the printing and IT industry e.g Fuji Xerox, HP, Heidelberg, Cyrachrome, DuPont, Interspoke worked closely with Bespoke on a global solution for a number of these clients and their product/service launches. My responsibility was to help establish Interspoke and to secure the trust of clients locally in our ability to service all of their creative needs, in much the same professional manner as their UK and European operations were being serviced.



Interval International

• Leisure, Travel & Tourism
• 500 - 600 Employee

• Marketing Manager

  • Sep 1993 - Dec 1994

  Interval International is one of the world’s leading holiday exchange companies. Employing over 1200 people worldwide, Interval was US-owned and operated in a duopoly competing against RCI (owned by Carlson). My primary responsibility was to research, write & produce an award-winning 48pp quarterly industry magazine for the European market. I also wrote much of the content for a new company-wide intranet.



The Bespoke Group

• United Kingdom
• Public Relations and Communications Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Account Director

  • Feb 1987 - Sep 1993

  Bespoke is a boutique full-service PR / Marketing consultancy, which specialised in the printing and IT industries. Clients, who were predominantly large global companies, included DuPont, HP, Rockwell International and Reed Exhibitions. Bespoke was very much a training ground for me. I acquired multiple skills here and quickly became a versatile writer, competent client Account Director and extremely knowledgeable about all design, print and production processes.