Katie Ponsford

Pr & Social Media Executive

I am available to help, please get in touch.

Bath, Somerset & West Wiltshire

Skills Offered

  • - Marketing
  • - Social Media Marketing
  • - Pr
  • - Customer Insight
  • - Branding

Personal Introduction

Experience in the hospitality, retail, tourism and leisure events industry.  Diploma from Leiths School of Food and Wine - so I love anything food and wine related! BA (Hons) Degree in Events Management - graduated with a 2:1 My approach is driven by three core competencies: CREATIVITY: Delivering game changing ideasCONNECTIVITY: accesses a unique network to build powerful partnerships ENLIGHTENED SELF INTEREST: my team, and clients, do well by doing good, that turn heads and change hearts

Qualifications

  • BA (Hons) Events Management

  • Bournemouth University - 2:1                                        2011 – 15

  • Modules: Marketing & Communications (1st)

  • Finance (1st)

  • Consumer Behaviour (2:1)

  • Research Methods

  • Digital Marketing

  • Events Management

  • Entrepreneur Development (1st)

  • and Strategy & Leadership

  • Included a year on placement in a range of marketing roles at: Kondor Ltd

  • destination Southampton

  • and the Grange cookery school & restaurant

  • Leiths Diploma (First)

  • Leiths School of Food and Wine                                                     2007 - 08

  • National Diploma in Horticulture (Distinction)

  • Lackham College

  • Wiltshire                    2005 – 07

  • 11 GCSE subjects (A-C)

  • Stonar School

  • including English & Maths                                  2003 – 05

Experience

  Experience in the hospitality, retail, tourism and leisure events industry.  Catering events, hospitality including: weddings, dinner parties, charity functions, across both B2C and B2B Marketing events Product Development – Internship at Marks & Spencer head office in fresh food dept PR & Social media assistant – with consumer electronics distributor, Kondor Ltd. Marketing Communications - this is my strongest skill and one in which I thrive, to think outside the box and get creative with the message that is communicated across to the target audience.  I believe every message is only effective if it achieves a result through a change of behavior after being communicated across to the receiver. 

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