York, England, United Kingdom
I completed my degree in BA Management at the University of York, graduating in July 2016 with First Class Honours (with Distinction). In 2015 I finished my industrial placement working for Arla Foods in their brand management team as the Anchor brands marking assistant. I had a passion for working within this brand team and the experience gave me great satisfaction and invaluable learnings from industry leaders. I briefly worked at Kantar Worldpanel as a Category Analyst in the client services Dairy team before starting my role at Dr. Oetker. I’ve spent 5 years in the baking category division and now work within the Frozen category team. Prior to studying at University, I worked in the life assurance industry as an Administrator within Avivas' HBOS department. I credit this experience as being a major catalyst for pursuing a career in a commercial environment and giving me the motivation to push myself throughout my studies. I am perseverant with strong levels of commercial awareness, analytical skills and high levels of interest for consumer behaviour. I love to work as part of a team and have a genuine curiosity to learn from others and apply new ideas to seek out solutions, aiming to exceed expectations and taking great satisfaction from the work I do and the goals I achieve.
Home Baking
In September 2016 I started at Kantar Worldpanel working within the client services team (Dairy portfolio accounts). I applied for the role because of my genuine interest in consumer behaviour, FMCG and analysing data to provide insight and trigger action that can be of value to a business. Having worked closely with Kantar whilst on placement, I wanted to strengthen my knowledge further. I realised however that whilst the role provided opportunity, I missed working for a food manufacturer, being closer to the product and consumer and in November 2016, resigned from this role.
First Class Honours (With Distinction)
Work with Course Representatives to consult students in the management department; actively seeking out students’ views on decisions that affect them and listening to any issues that they are facing. Speaking on their behalf on issues and when decisions are being made at meetings within the University and through YUSU’s democratic structures Inform representative of outcomes at university level meetings within a reasonable timeframe, so they can inform students Leading and supporting Course Reps to consult and represent students at Student Staff Forum and access training Attending meetings to represent the Management department at a University level Meeting regularly with the academic societies in my department, to gather student opinion, and to promote their activities to students. Working respectfully, confidently, tactfully and without bias with a broad range of stakeholders. Bidding for a campaigns fund with the Course Reps in my team to fund projects and events making the University better for students.
As part of my degree I had the invaluable opportunity to work at Arla Foods in their brand team as the Anchor Marketing Assistant. I had a passion for working with this brand and wider team within the commercial function, consistently showing high levels of curiosity to learn new skills and apply them to my work. My responsibilities varied from the day to day management of the brands purchase order tracker to more challenging projects that pushed me beyond my comfort zone, including tasks on business cases, consumer insight, situational analyses and working across business functions. I can confidently say my time at Arla was both enjoyable and enriching and aim to build on all my learnings for a successful future career