Megan Hurd

Allurian Creative is a family ran business operated by my partner and I. With primary revenue from IT Consulting, Allurian Creative operates eCommerce brands focused on Baby related products and Saltwater Aquarium related products.

• Increased company profit by streamlining processes and implementing cost-saving measures
• Collaboration with accountant and bookkeeper to minimise company tax, with a saving of over AUD $100K in a single FY
• Invoicing
• Implemented QuickBooks to manage bookkeeping and payroll.
• Management of Payroll and Bookkeeping

Launched eCommerce brand CuddleDay and involved in all aspects of building the brand, ranging from:

• Developed brand kit, colour palette, logo using Canva and Adobe Creative Suite
• Developed digital marketing and eCommece site performance dashboards informed by granular analytics, integration with Google Analytics, Shopify, Facebook, Instagram
• Product, stock and inventory management
• Product copywriting and ad creation
• Supplier procurement and negotiation
• Product research
• Sales channel research

Ayenem was my life partners business that I agreed to be Executive Secretary for and helped in any way possible. Often, this was ad-hoc tasks ranging from back office type of activities, to design and purchase of merchandising.

• Enhanced executive productivity by efficiently managing schedules and appointments.
• Maintain executive’s agenda and assisted in planning appointments, board meetings, conferences etc.
• Attend meetings and keep minutes
• Receive and screen phone calls and redirect them when appropriate
• Make travel arrangements for executives
• Prepare invoices, financial statements etc and provide assistance in Xero
• Handled accounting, bookkeeping and payroll
• Assisted through Merger and Acquisition into Accelera Group

Traveled

During this employment, I held several roles and in the end just did what needed to be done as I was across almost all aspects of the business. These roles included:

• Completing duties as Acting Director whilst Director was on vacation, or overseas as NMI was an international company
• Project Manager (Retail Express POS integration into Physical Stores & SAP Implementation, Data Migration) overseeing a team of 5
• B2C/B2B
• Wholesale Channel Manager (Iconic, Amazon, many others)
• Management
• Retail
• Marketing
• Customer Service