gareth hannaford

digital communications administrator

About

I'm a freelance retail consultant with a scientific background & mindset applied to the food industry Specialties: Expert knowledge of the wholesale and retail food industry: * Products (Special diet: DairyFree /Gluten Free/Wheat Free, Fairtrade and Organic/ Demeter) * New product research/sourcing * Key UK wholesalers, manufacturers & suppliers * Markets - wholesale (sources and trends) Complex data handling expertise in MS Office (Excel/ Access) - 16 years experience, ECDL certified Daily remote working / admin control on client computers using a combination of PCAnywhere / Teamviewer Microsoft Remote Desktop Connection & DameWare Social media business marketing (Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, G+, LinkedIn & Instagram) - 5 years experience, Hootsuite Certified and up-to-date & daily use of Sprout Social 2018 Clients: * Real Foods Ltd. (Scotland) * JFN Productions Ltd. (England) Activities: I attended NPE18 in London as an exhibitor. I was invited to speak at an EpicHootup in Norwich in 2014, which 300 local business people attended.

Country

united kingdom

City

norwich

Industry

retail

Skill

social media, social media marketing, seo, management, online marketing, marketing communications, customer service, web 2.0, microsoft office, public relations, data analysis, html, customer relations, microsoft excel, training, procurement, web design, programming, program design, remote access, excel, word, powerpoint, photography, mentoring, microsoft word, general data protection regulation

Experience

research assistant

university of aberdeen

2005-3 - 2005-8 · 6 mos

PCR/ Microarray/ Gene Ontology lookup software tool coding

research student

university of bedfordshire

1999-9 - 2003-12 · 4 yrs 4 mos

Including teaching (seminars and lectures) & mentoring dissertation project students.

digital communications administrator

jfn_productions

2013-6 - Present · 13 yrs 4 mos

Best practice implementation, templating and optimising posts on all mainstream social media channels, towards audience growth, monetisation, traffic driving & engagement.

independent retail consultant

various small businesses

2009-10 - Present · 17 yrs

* Marketing (Use of Social Media to link clients with their customers and for main website traffic generation & SEO) * Expert daily working knowledge of business marketing applications, Hootsuite Certified & up-to-date. * Including channels (and metrics): * Instagram * Facebook * Twitter * Google+ * Pinterest * Youtube * Flickr * towards social media growth, traffic driving and SEO improvement. * Mini portfolio: * http://www.facebook.com/realfoodsedinburgh * http://twitter.com/realfoods_uk * http://www.flickr.com/photos/realfoods * http://pinterest.com/realfoods * Supplementary: * Data acquisition (pricing, dietery,quality control), monitoring & exception handling * Margin control (Commodities etc) * Promotions control * Buyer recommendations

stock manager

real foods

2006-11 - 2009-10 · 3 yrs

Branded, commodity stock data (wholesaler communications) management & margin control. Marketing via Facebook, Twitter Period as Logistics Manager of a busy hub store Extra duties included training up future Logistics Managers, covering General Manager.