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Curriculum Vitae

Sarah Easton


22 Denholme Road, London, W9 3HX
DOB: 13
th
March 1984
Mobile Phone: 07772 141322
Email : sarah84easton@googlemail.com
PERSONAL PROFILE

A Senior Account Manager with 6 years experience within Marketing, PR & Events. I am a highly motivated and extremely driven creative
account and events manager with exceptional multi-tasking, communication and organisational skills with a meticulous attention to detail. I
have developed excellent and effective engagement with key stakeholders to build and maintain strong long-term relationships. I have
valuable skills and experience in delivering excellent management and customer care to all accounts. I am a key team player and enjoy
being part of a productive team but equally work well autonomously and rise to any challenge.
I have an outgoing personality with the determination to succeed and now looking for a new challenge, which will make best use of my
existing skills and experience and also further my personal and professional development.

EMPLOYMENT

February 08 present SENIOR ACCOUNT MANAGER
SPONGE WORLDWIDE LTD
Working for a full service marketing, Public Relations and Events agency. An extremely diverse role within a dynamic, fast growing boutique
agency with blue chip clients giving me the opportunity to integrate and work within all areas of the agency business.

Duties:
Client Relationships
Working closely with Account Director on the below client list to prospect, pitch and close new business.
A central point of contact for client ensuring regular professional contact is maintained.
Work with brand owners and agency teams at senior level.
Project Management
Effective brief taking, proposal writing and pitching.
Creating timelines, project plans in line with all campaign elements.
Delivering a variety of consumer, press and internal client events. This involves venue sourcing, liaising and negotiation with all
suppliers, budget creation, budget management, supplier management before, during and post event, transport and accommodation
logistics (both UK and International) talent booking and artist liaison (see appendix 1 Sony PlayStation).
Creative digital media campaign activity including planning and implementation (see appendix 2 Thomas & Friends and appendix 3
inov8).
Analytical reporting and reacting fast with solutions.
Sourcing 3
rd
parties for online promotions and press competitions, briefing and working with creative teams, sourcing and production of
consumer merchandise and point of sale literature for client campaigns.
Performance monitoring for client satisfaction and post project KPI evaluation and debriefs.
Finance Management
Lead P&L management on all live projects.
Finance manager for all company accounts which included managing all client billing, paying suppliers, expense reconciliation, VAT
returns and year end returns.
Team Management
Deliverance and logistical management for experiential and sampling on the ground teams (see appendix 4 Cartoon Network).
Diary management, arranging international travel working across various times zones including arranging flights and accommodation.
Arranging tickets for special events for client entertaining alongside HR administration duties - sickness, holiday records.
Competent data evaluation for the measurement and evaluation of all campaigns.

CLIENT LIST
Blinkbox, Capcom, Chain Reaction Cycles, Claranet, FreeStyleGames, HiT Entertainment, ITU World Triathlon London, Nevis Tourism
Authority, Raileasy, Ripstone, RisingStarGames, SEGA, Sony Computer Entertainment, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Square Enix, TriPink
UK, Turner Broadcasting System (Cartoon Network)

January 07 January 08 OFFICE MANAGER & PA TO JOHN HUGHES & ZIGGY GILZENAN
BESTIVAL LTD/ GET INVOLVED COMMUNICATIONS
Working within an artist management, event and communications agency that specialises in the music and festivals world, co owners of
Bestival and Camp Bestival.


PA Duties:
Extensive diary management for busy Company Directors.
Taking minutes at monthly Board Meetings.
Arranging travel and itineraries for both international and regional travel, plus making appointments.
Compiling expenses for both directors direct reports, assisting in budget process, vetting purchase orders & invoicing for Directors
signatures.
Screening telephone calls, enquiries, requests and handling them when appropriate.
Producing documents, briefing papers and reports.
Arranging product launches alongside PR.
Liaising with clients, suppliers and other staff.
Various personal projects, including banking and overseeing of new house purchase and booking family holidays.
Office Manager Duties
General co-ordination of the company and the day to day office business which included sourcing of new office premises & logistics of
move, setting up new computers, server and phone systems, maintaining supplies of stationery and equipment.
Arrangement of event travel and accommodation for full working festival team.
Managing and reporting office expenditure, maintaining company accounts, liaising with freelance contractors.
HR administration duties - sickness, holiday records, salary, bonus and offer letters.

July 05 December 06 CASHIER/ CUSTOMER SERVICE
FIRST TRUST BANK (Coleraine, N.I)/ ALLIED IRISH BANK (London)
Front of house customer care.
Proactive Customer Service.
Teller/ FX Daily Cash Handling cash/coin remittance in/ out, ATM maintenance & balancing.
Enquires and sales leads.

September 03 June 05 SUPERVISOR
RAMORE RESTAURANT (Portrush, N.I
During University I took a position as Supervisor of a busy restaurant. My duties included:
Daily cash handling duties, reconciling cash/credit/ debit card transactions, cashing up & recording, safe supervision and target checks.
Key holder, staff supervision and rota plan for a 25+ team.


KEY SKILLS AND COMPETENCIES

Excellent account management skills.
Successful project management.
Highly effective interpersonal skills.
Ability to maintain a high level of commitment and focus to complete projects to a high standard.
Contacting and communicating with high end decision makers.
Ability to liaise with clients in a timely and professional manner with a strong understanding of the Clients business.
Creative idea generation with strong presentation and negotiation skills.
Solid financial management.

EDUCATION

Sept 02 - May 05 University of Ulster
Bsc Hons Business Finance & Investment 2:2
Sept 00 - May 02 Causeway Institute of Further & Higher Education
Advanced Information & Communication Technology
Advanced Double Business
City & Guilds Certificate in Communication, Level 2/ City & Guilds Certificate in Application of Number, Level 2
Sept 99 - June 00 Coleraine High School
GCSEs: 9 A-C grades
IT SKILLS Mac proficient: Word, PowerPoint and Excel

INTERESTS & ACTIVITIES

Gym, Swimming, Film, Music, Travel & Fashion

REFERENCES

References available on request

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