Carey Phillips

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At Cadeau + Bliss, I bring together creativity and organisation - curating unique gifting experiences, managing social media and digital content, and keeping day-to-day operations running smoothly. My role spans across customer experience, brand storytelling, and behind-the-scenes support to help the business grow and shine.

My goal is to create a business service that utilises my skills, work & life experiences and to do something that I'm good at and passionate about. Whatever the project around your home, no matter what the size or how personal. Everything from organising & decluttering, to event management & celebrating those special occasions, to preparing your house for sale / rent & property management services with all the logistics and important detail in between taken care of. Need Sales & Account Management support? With an extensive background in the FMCG Industry I can consult at various levels from the idea stage to hitting the shelves. Not afraid of hard work or getting my hands dirty! Maybe you need a Personal Assistant? Having supported Managing Directors & Senior Leaders within Global Companies, I found this to be one of my most rewarding & varied roles. Let me put all my organisational skills to full use while knowing my core values of integrity & professionalism are unquestionable. If anything is worth doing then it's worth doing well. Don't let your lack of time, energy or budget prevent you from following your goals & dreams. Just leave it to Care... Care Affect is proud to be associated with Double Impact, Railius Group, Paperblanks, Paper-oh (Hartley & Marks Publishers), Property Providers, TVSN, Ray White Balgowlah, Botanica Life, Only Fitness & other local businesses.

Sales, project management, account management, product management, installation and a customer service-related role. Mills supports Retail Execution from design to post install maintenance and everything in between. Values We Live By... Doing The Right Thing Finding enjoyment At work Helping & Respecting Each Other Doing What We Say We Are Going To Do Getting On With The Job Making Customers Happy Being Good For The Community & The Environment

WE WORK WITH YOU TO CREATE AWARD WINNING RETAIL EXPERIENCES THAT DRIVE RESULTS. Initially recruited as a BDM, I started broadening my role quite quickly supporting various roles within the business including quoting, production & project management & ultimately resulting in taking on the role of Head of Projects & Estimates. Just leave it to Care...

RAILIUS - PROVIDERS OF EXCEPTIONAL INCLINED ACCESS PRODUCTS My title was BDM but in reality, I wore many hats, including marketing, CRM management, events, office management. Just leave it to Care...

Senior Property Manager looking after a large portfolio of executive short-term luxury properties and a growing portfolio of 30+ long-term executive rentals covering the North Shore and Northern Beaches of Sydney.

My main role was as a full time mother but I have also used my time to research properties for investment opportunities. Selling for growth to maximise profit, reinvesting for long-term growth and property management opportunities. Hold current Certificate of Registration in NSW.

The National Field Manager is a major driver of profitable growth for the vending channel through managing sales team performance and team/associate development. There are two key areas of responsibility. First, managing sales team performance by developing new and profitable Mars Owned machine placements, protecting / developing and maximising existing machine accounts and customers. Managing fleet performance and royalty/TE spend and providing effective customer service. Second, team and associate development by communicating vision, mission and values / sales planning, organising & directing. Managing and measuring work / sales coaching / motivating the team and individuals / effective team building / provision of targeted training and development / associate recruitment and selection & provision of effective sales tools and materials. The position is a national role with 8 direct reports - 4 Business Development Managers and 3 Customer Service Co-ordinators. The National Account Manager is a major driver of profitable growth for the vending channel; both from increased placement of Mars owned machines and via direct sales of Mars manufactured products to a range of third party independent operators. It also takes responsibility for managing/developing the licensing opportunity. The position is also responsible for the development of a positive MVA service profile, exceeding that of our competitors and placing MVA as the leader in Australian snack vending, both as a stand alone vending operator and as a major snackfood supplier. Position is a national role with responsibilities in all Australian mainland states.

Having always had an ambition to live & work in Australia, I pursued this goal with my usual determination and was able to secure myself a job transferring within the Mars business to Australia under a company sponsorship; this was something that had not been achieved previously at my level. My expertise within vending was a major factor in achieving this. The role of BDM is to implement the vending strategy within NSW and look after major accounts nationally. I am also sharing best practice & learnings from my previous role both within the team and internally within the business.

This was an assignment for Mars UK's largest account, Tesco. This was a secondment role based at Tesco head office working alongside the Seasonal Confectionery & Biscuit Buyer as Category Expert and to help implement our Occasions plan. This role required complete integrity, a good level of business acumen, excellent IPS, negotiation & influencing skills; Along with strong critical thinking skills to maximise all the opportunities this role provided within the business. This took approximately 70% of my time & the remaining I spent working in the field with senior Tesco Managers to maximise our influence at that level & drive our availability and distribution wherever possible.

I was responsible for creating and developing new and existing business within the Education, Leisure, Healthcare & Workplace sectors (New Business - Snackfood & FoodService). I managed a team of five Area Managers who implemented and maintained agreements that I had negotiated at a Regional or Operational level with Contract Caterers / Local Authorities / Regional Caterers. My aim was to increase sales & distribution through relationship building, category management, working closely with wholesalers, merchandising / range & display principles, promotions, setting terms agreements and vending solutions. Vending was a major focus within the confectionery & snack industry and so made it a key element of the company strategy. I had key result areas to achieve which I was measured, but it was my responsibility to form a strategy to achieve these results. An example of this is when I successfully negotiated a route to market for free snack vending machines through my relationship with a local wholesaler enabling me to exceed my vending placement targets in one deal. Additionally I was a mentor to new associates, had a training champion role within the team, project work & regularly stood in for my manager as required. National Account Executive - Compass In addition to the above role I was seconded to the National Account Team to help implement the Compass Workplace & Vending Agreement. I was directly responsible for field liaison - training & briefing and working directly with the customer at head office to ensure the agreement was implemented exactly. Workplace consisted of the agreed POS, equipment & range; Vending for Schools consisted of 960 Glass Front Snack Machines. Working closely with the Vending Operations Team was imperative to ensure the logistical side of the implementation went smoothly.

As Personal Assistant to the Managing Director and Sales Director, as well as responsibility for all visiting senior management and the Mars Family members. I found this role to be one of my most challenging accounts to manage so far in my career. I had to utilise my influencing skills to gain their complete trust to enable me to make decisions for them. Be completely organised at all times, two steps ahead, but be ready for everything to change at the last minute with everyone looking to me for a solution and to be calm and collected at all times. Confidentiality & professionalism were essential as well as being resourceful and extremely adaptable. This was a great role to learn about all aspects of the Mars business as I had links to all departments including the factory – my ability to liaise at all levels and with different cultures came extremely useful. My role also included conference & event management for the sales & marketing divisions, this was extra work that I requested, demonstrating my ability to multi-task, prioritise & meet deadlines, handle a large workload and seek more responsibility. Due to the high profile nature of my role I regularly took press calls and attended important trade events representing the company.

I was recruited to look after 2 major national accounts (Mars Confectionery Commercial & Cellnet). My responsibilities included the supply of all office-based staff, the servicing of these accounts including customer contact and report management. Both of the accounts I was responsible for required on-site management to increase the relationship between the company line managers, my temporary staff and myself. I was responsible for all routes of communication from administration, advertisement and maintaining service level agreements. After nine months working with Kelly Services I was promoted to Contract Supervisor giving me complete ownership for recruitment to the whole of the Mars account, including the factory and management responsibilities for two recruiters and the office administrator.