Amber Ridgway

Responsibilities •Manage inbox and calendar for Marketing Director and CFO. Manage priority lists on a daily basis, helping directors get through both work and professional jobs done. •Coordinate internal and external meetings including but not limited to team meetings, off-sites, one-on-ones, speaking engagements and personal engagements. •Organise corporate functions, events, conferences and incentive trips – both domestically and internationally •Onboard new starters •Process expenses / approvals •Conduct personal administration e.g., medical appointments and personal travel •Manage travel itineraries and visa applications •Keep updated with travel requirements, particularly domestic and international COVID requirements •Write weekly leadership meeting minutes Achievements •Successfully organized BAT International Conference in Bali with 450 guests in 2019 •Successfully organized customer incentive trips each year – including Rugby World Cup, Singapore GP, Melbourne F1, Hong Kong 7’s •Simplified the expense process during the implementation of the new portal by cutting out redundant steps. New process was rolled out across Australia •Saved thousands of single use plastic bottles, and became more environmentally friendly, by working with HR to issue each employee across Australia with a personalised reusable water bottle •Received ‘Reward & Recognition’ Award for excellent work ethics

Executive Assistant to David Watson (Director of PAM NSW) Team Assistant to Exec PAM NSW Responsibilities & Achievements • Managing and coordinating an extremely busy and ever changing calendar including frequent interstate and international travel arrangements, accommodation, transfers and internal and external meetings • Effective email management - prioritising and filtering all incoming mail and communication and responding and managing the communication at all levels • Contribution to the scoping and presentation of project submissions, written reports and project materials including external communications. Coordinate, prepare and edit all submissions (RFP) • Management and compliance of Managing Agency Contracts • Assist and coordinate a team of (70 staff) in a timely manner by providing information and administrative support and processes (eg. training, expenses, travel, reporting) • Reconciliation of personal and professional financial statements and preparing company financial reports • Researching, creating presentations and doing all preparation for events and meetings

• Administration - Function as first contact for the office and be the go to person for most enquiries. Coordinate external contractors such as IT support, technical sub consultants, printers and mail distribution. Provide administration administrative support to the Director, including but no limited to emails, meeting agendas and minutes and travel management. • Event Management - Led all events in accordance to client and director needs and guidelines, performed pre-event and post event coordination services, coordinated sourcing and quotation of all event materials needed, managed and assigned staff to their duties.

Responsibilities & Achievements: • Assisted with in house public relation activities and campaigns • Edited and proofed all text based content for email campaigns and social media platforms, (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram & LinkedIn) • Contributed to content management within the website and monthly newsletters • Monitored social media web analytics on a weekly basis (e.g. page views, twitter followers) and provided reports of growth and other activity. • Assisted Brand Manager in building and presenting the social media strategy • Provided general administrative support to the Brand Manager and HR Manager

Course Outcomes: Use Illustrator, Photoshop and InDesign with confidence, Clean up, modify and enhance images in Photoshop, Bring text, logos and images into InDesign to create business cards, flyers and multi-page documents, Create print-ready PDF documents for digital and offset printers and Build presentation slideshows