rez mellar

My job consisted of maintaining a thorough understanding of products, industry and competitors. This was done via being in regular contact with clients and formulating innovative, creative and profitable solutions for their business. I worked with the marketing, production and operations teams in order to ensure the delivery of successful customer focused events. I was required to conduct monthly revenue forecasts, sales reports and manage a sales pipeline.

In my role, I was in charge of all the advertising on www.ClassicandSportsCar.com from Classifieds listings, to directory listings to display advertising. This consisted of managing accounts for all our clients online and keeping them updated of how their adverts are performing. Using Google Analytics I also compiled reports based on website data on a monthly basis to review current performance.

I worked for WhatCar? as a road tester for a week in July 2015, I have a huge passion for motoring and so I wanted to understand what it was the road testers looked for when they drove the cars. I gained great knowledge of the day to day life of a road tester and the tests involved in reviewing cars. Across the week I was involved in re-writing press releases to appear on Autocar.com, photo shoots for WhatCar? magazine and then road tests and reviews.

In this role I was in charge of managing client accounts and developing new business relationships within the 'Workshop' section of Classic & Sports Car magazine, the worlds best selling classic car title. I consistently keep in touch with my clients to ensure all their marketing campaigns are running smoothly and also to ensure I hit my monthly targets.

I was responsible for selling the PistonHeads brand as a platform to advertise car dealers stock to the UK’s motoring enthusiasts on the biggest prestige classified site. As well as having personal targets there were also team targets that we all worked together to achieve.

I was in the Russian accounts team in a maternity cover position dealing with the Purchase ledger for a variety of magazines; Vogue, GQ, Glamour, Tatler, Traveler and Allure, uploading all incoming invoices ensuring suppliers were paid on time using Wires, BACS payments and Worldpay.

As a classified sales executive at Haymarket, I worked under the Autocar brand selling advertising space into weekly magazines for the classified section in the magazine which is where all the dealership advertising and private advertising is done, helping car dealers market their current stock/dealership. I was also in charge of advertising private cars for sale and private number plates for sale.

Sales assistant at Chelsea FC, helping customers find what they were looking for, printing shirts for customers and players and generally helping out where and when needed.