Product Manager, whatcar.com at Haymarket Consumer Media
London, United Kingdom
Product Manager, whatcar.com at Haymarket Consumer Media
London, United Kingdom
- Launched several market leading websites in recruitment and consumer markets.
- Online publisher with strong experience in website analytics, product development and online brand management.
- Vast experience in account management and relationship building
- Experience managing 6 figure online marketing budgets across various channels.
- Extensive experience with custom and open source CMS systems inducing Joomla and Drupal.
- Detailed knowledge of trend analysis, business forecasting and managing multi million pound website budgets ensuring delivery of overall financial contribution.
- Cert IDM qualified in digital marketing techniques (Cert DigM ).
- Organic search engine marketing
- Search engine PPC marketing
- Social media marketing
- Account management and commercial negotiations
- Product & brand development
- Strong understanding and experienced use of website analytic programs including NedStat (SiteStat)and Omniture (Hitbox)
- Usability
- Accessibility
(Privately Held; Publishing industry)
October 2009 — Present (4 months)
- Entirely responsible for the development of a rolling 2 year digital product roadmap. This covers all aspects including conception, research, marketing and overall product success.
- Responsible for all digital marketing strategies from the planning to execution stage. These strategies include tactical areas such as PPC, SEM, Email & offline.
- Investigating and recommending innovative digital product ideas to various levels of the company.
- Responsible for managing the What Car? brand online and across all social networking sites.
- Tracking and analysing the competitor's digital products and marketing activity to improve whatcar.com's performance in key areas.
- Helping identify up-coming trends and strategies in the digital space to improve commercial performance across display and classified products.
- Responsible for bridging the gap between core business units and the technology team.
- Management all digital suppliers and partner relationships.
(Publishing industry)
March 2008 — October 2009 (1 year 8 months)
Online Publishing Manager across whatcar.com , autocar.co.uk and evecars.com
(Publishing industry)
August 2007 — March 2008 (8 months)
Assistant Online Publishing Manager across whatcar.com , autocar.co.uk and evecars.com
(Publishing industry)
September 2006 — August 2007 (1 year )
Online Publishing Executive across whatcar.com , autocar.co.uk and evecars.com
(Publishing industry)
September 2005 — September 2006 (1 year 1 month)
Sales Executive across What Car? and What Car? New Car Guide magazine.
Psychology (BSc) , 2002 — 2005
Psychology, Biology, IT, English Lit 2000 — 2003
digital photography, online marketing, online communities, viral marketing, cooking, PPC, digital publishing, technology, apple, data strategy, reading, networking, SEO, psychology
British Psychological Society
IDM Certificate in digital marketing (Cert DigM)