steven mcinerney

Weekly contributor to the Manchester football social show on XS Manchester Radio, discussing Manchester City and Manchester United every Monday night, as well as contributing to their Tuesday and Friday shows.

Built and maintained social media channels for Blacks Outdoors, liaising with buyers and using paid social to push reach/sales. Creating and planning content around seasonal campaigns alongside brands such as Adidas, The North Face, Berghaus and more. Worked closely alongside the SEO team as well as the customer service teams to ensure influencer outreach growth and customer satisfaction. Attended and represented Blacks at specific outdoors events, covered socially and arranged interviews/content with relevant people. Produced, shot and filmed regular video content.

Newly founded YouTube football channel. 5,000+ subscribers on YouTube and 10,000 followers on Twitter. Already passed 300,000 views, averaging 8k per video, despite its nascent stage of development. Specialise in producing very popular matchday vlogs that draw attention from fans from all corners of the world, with a well above average watch time and retention rate. All self-shot and edited in a unique way, implementing popular techniques made famous by Youtubers such as Casey Neistat, taking them into an environment that hasn't had that treatment before - football.

Created unique content on specific topics, based around Manchester City Football Club and its academy which lead to a nomination as the ‘Best New Blog’ in the Football blogging awards. This blog lead to countless discussions with staff at Manchester City who were impressed by the detail, insight and quality of the reports and articles written.

* I spent a few months operating in various temporary positions before moving permanently to the GMC. * I covered receptions where I was required to be the first point of contact for all external and internal visitors. * At the GMC I was part of the facilities team, involved in booking meetings, handling confidential documents as well as being the first point of contact for examiners and patients visiting the GMC. * Exemplary customer service and people skills were a necessity.

Guitarist in a band. All activities involved with band life, including creating music, editing and making videos, managing our online presence and publicising our music with success to outlets such as The Guardian, Clash Music, Q Magazine, NME, 6 Music, The Sunday Times and more. Toured in Europe, managed merchandise, covered in local and national press and played in front of crowds of around 4,000 people.

A second stint at Levi's. Built on past fashion retail experience to become a supervisor in one of Levi’s flagship stores in Manchester Arndale. I was involved in all aspects of the day to day running of the store. Motivated, managed and organised staff, focusing on key daily targets, time-management and ensuring all staff were fully trained and aware of their roles. Involved in the hiring of new staff and the overall recruitment process. Assisted store manager with layouts, visual merchandising and strategic selling methods within the store, as well as handling stock management and organising sale prep. Daily deadlines and admin duties were a part of the role, as was opening and closing the store, with various security measures and cash flow procedures to follow.

* Built on past fashion retail experience as a member of the Levi’s House of Fraser concession stand to become a supervisor in one of Levi’s flagship stores in Manchester Arndale. * I was involved in all aspects of the day to day running of the store including the following: * Key focus on hitting daily targets and ensuring all housekeeping duties are carried out to the highest possible standards. I was also involved in the hiring of new staff and their subsequent training. * Assisting store manager with store layout and visual merchandising duties to maximise sales potential and understand the importance of top sellers and strategic selling methods within store. * Handling stock management and organising sale prep. * Organisation was a key part of my role ensuring tasks were completed within daily deadlines in order to meet store expectations and satisfy customer needs. Opening up the store, closing the till and cash handling.

I worked for Kensington finance in the outbound calls department. The role was communications based, set around an automated dialing system. Data entry and office skills, such as photocopying, using the house data system, filing and scanning were required as new tasks and targets were set on a daily basis.

* I ran a highly successful monthly club night at Joshua Brooks in Manchester that gained national and local media coverage. * I was involved in all organisation of the event including promotion, DJ’ing, organising monetary issues and overseeing the running of the night. * The events were all successes and sold out. I decided to move on to other interests in July 2009.

I worked with a number of record labels to promote artist’s music to various media outlets including local and national radio to try and secure radio and television exposure. - I was required to build up excellent relationships with many high-profile contacts and clients including people at Radio 1, XFM and artists such as Biffy Clyro, Ash, Moby and many more alternative artists. - Comprehensive planning and organisation was required to support management teams and give an oversight into the strategic planning of the campaigns. - Excellent organisational skills were required as the role was very targets based, as was the ability to seek out new and ever evolving avenues of exposure. Filing, scanning, time management and general admin were important. - I was required to meet strict deadlines and work under great pressure at high profile events where timing was essential – music festivals for example.

Tasked with growing all social media channels and finding and developing a unique tone for FOOTY.COM's followers. Overseen a substantial growth across all platforms and a huge increase in engagement and interactions.

Covered social media across all platforms for the YouTube channels 'Blue Moon Rising TV' and sometimes 'The Football Republic'. Gained a strong knowledge of trending topics/memes/etc, reaching 20%+ engagement on all major social media platforms. Audience developer on YouTube - maintaining and building relationships with influencers to grow the YouTube channel as well as optimising content. Created, shot and edited video (Live and VOD) and interviewed high profile footballers including Trevor Sinclair, Steven McManaman, Samir Nasri. Worked alongside BT Sport, Manchester City Women, New Balance, Premier League TV and The FA. On camera daily, including presenting live and VOD content for YouTube, as well as leading discussions and debates using Facebook Live. Also wrote, helped create or edit Facebook specific content that gained millions of views. Reacted quickly, intelligently and informatively as any news broke as well as creating content consistently throughout the day. Scheduling, writing, organising talent bookings and more.