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Work History
Education
Skills
Accomplishments
Certification
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Molly Mckenzie

Summary

Vibrant copy creative and AI copy solutions specialist. A marketing prompt engineer with years of success in finding the right word for the right time... A versatile creative thinker, who can strategise how to write copy, at scale in your business. Autonomous yet highly communicative individual, who enjoys 'getting the job done', passionate about self-improvement and is a person of integrity, humour and warmth.

Overview

18
18
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

GenAI Solutions Copywriter

Endeavour Group
02.2022 - Current
  • Working on brands such Dan Murphy’s, Jimmy Brings and BWS. Creating copy at scale for 1000's of product descriptions, subject lines, for email and SEO website content.
  • Leading a project on Googlesuite AI vertex training the AI model to write about wine, beer and spirits in perfect brand tone of voice.
  • Identifying ABAC issues, analysed information and provided solutions to problems.
  • Developing and maintaining creative and effective working relationships with key stakeholders.
  • Demonstrated leadership skills in managing projects from initial concept to build completion.
  • Passionate about learning and committed to continual improvement.
  • A/B testing, roadmapping and worked in Agile and scrum methodology.
  • Self-motivated, with a strong sense of personal responsibility.

Copywriter

Employsure
07.2021 - 03.2022
  • Writing EDMs targeting different audience personas. Looking at data and buyer persona and CTR and using personalisation testing.
  • Writing on-brand copy for online website content, such as UX, landing pages, and social media and SEO.
  • Writing e-books, blogs, thought leadership articles and newsletters.
  • A/B testing on social media paid adverts and EDMs adhering to employers' overarching brand identity and personality.
  • Creating high-impact messaging for marketing media, such as long form blogs and 'how to' articles, contributing to increases in Sales Teams revenues.
  • Proactively collaborating with SME's and and stakeholders in development of long form and short form content, maintaining consistency with brand marketing and message strategies.
  • Incorporated regulatory compliance requirements into copywriting, confirming content met with strict guidelines.

Communications Associate

Southtrade International
02.2020 - 07.2021

Working in this fast paced liquor distribution FMCG company, with brands such as Fireball , Southern Comfort and Fever-Tree supporting Marketing teams and Sales teams, liaising with external and internal stakeholders. Gaining in-depth knowledge about premium liquor such as Vodka, Whiskey and Gin as well as Tonic combinations and Cocktail ingredients on regular workshops.

  • Working collaboratively with in-house creatives.
  • Developing copy while maintaining brand voice and adhering to legal requirements.
  • Providing writing support in fast-paced environment for variety of public-facing materials.
  • Producing advertising material for use by publication, broadcast or internet media to promote sale of goods and services.
  • Utilized exceptional writing, editing and proofreading skills to produce engaging and error-free content.
  • Writing SKU liquor descriptions, editing and sourcing SKU images, uploading onto SKUVANTAGE.com.
  • Research, writing and editing quality content for newsletters, e-guides, ad copy, presentations, sales support, social media, and marketing.

Music Consultant

Laines Pub Company
07.2015 - 01.2023

In this internal consultant role, with over 60 pubs, I helped venues by writing Music Policies and guides on how to maximise revenue through music.

  • Writing specific music polices for individual pubs to adhere to, to create the right audience and clientele for location.
  • Digital Marketing, Wordpress, Instagram and Facebook.
  • Working with external agencies/artist management to fuse marketing and music together towards target audiences to attract demographics.
  • Established consistent music genre language and written methodology for venue discussions, development and music atmosphere success.
  • Developed and maintained strong working relationships with playlisters, musicians, executives, and hiring managers to foster partnerships that produced consistent results.

Sales and Marketing Representative

Space & Thyme,
04.2013 - 05.2016
  • Coordinated event communications in Print and Social Media
  • Client liaison for Music festivals to sports events, arts music events, ad -hoc writing print/digital content to budgeting.
  • Developed, maintained and utilized diverse client base.
  • Collaborated with managers to provide customer feedback and recommend operational changes to meet emerging trends.
  • Maintained relevance and fluency on company offerings and industry trends.
  • Gained customer trust and confidence by demonstrating compelling, persuasive and bespoke offerings.
  • Met with customers to discuss and ascertain needs, tailor solutions, and close deals.
  • Developed new business relationships and maintained existing through regular communications and effective account management.

Freelance Writer

THE LATEST
06.2006 - 08.2013

Wrote a weekly column for 7 years about my life, and built a large fan base of loyal readers.

MUSIC VIDEO SALES REP

Stirling Films
02.2011 - 02.2013
  • Represented for established and new Film Directors for this Music Video company
  • Securing work for Directors by writing and pitching to music video commissioners at companies like BMG and Island records.

TV EDITORS REPRESENTIVE

Crimson Recruitment
02.2010 - 02.2011

Busy role, represented diverse range of TV and Film editors and Film FX Artists.

  • Wrote and edited content for operations, marketing and public relations needs.
  • Crafted company communications plans to reinforce branding and imaging strategies.
  • Managed email marketing encompassing content development, SEO and distribution using Mail Chimp.

BROADCAST PRODUCTION ASSISTANT

BBC
02.2009 - 02.2010
  • I assisted with checking licensed music to researching and data entry to quality control and liaising with broader departments to increase consistent broadcast.
  • Writing content for e-guides and communications.
  • I worked helping produce quality radio audio content. Interviewed football teams Liverpool FC and famous DJs like Pete Tong, and FatBoy Slim and edited the content, adding jingles, piecing together stories and write fun content.

Various TV and Film Runner Roles

Freelance
01.2007 - 02.2009
  • Runner in Post-production
  • Logged 1000's of hours of reality TV camera footage for Editors
  • Supported Film crews on set for 100's of shoots.

RADIO PRESENTER

1BTN.FM - Part-Time
04.2015 - 11.2019
  • Social Media Marketing and Website Content writing
  • Selected songs for weekly radio show and presented show for 4 years.
  • Trained new DJs on technology and sound booth use.
  • Hosted Weekly show every Wednesday and reaching wide audience winning outstanding ratings and loyal base.
  • Answered booth call line and took song suggestions, chat from listeners.
  • Established relationships with potential sponsors, securing sponsorship.
  • Announced different parts of radio broadcasts including ads, song switches and breaking news segments.

DJ

Various Radio Stations
01.2020 - 07.2023
  • Www.2ser.com.au
  • Www.bondibeachradio.com.au
  • Www.eastsidefm.com.au
  • Www.toweronlineradio.com
  • Www.1btn.fm.

Education

Higher National Diploma - MERIT - Digital Communications And Media

University of South Wales
Newport UK

National Diploma - MERIT - Art And Media

Richmond College
Twickenham London

Skills

  • Writing engaging content at scale
  • Fine-tuning a LLM for brand ToV
  • Building rapport
  • Mac/Jira/Slack/Atlassian/GenAI Vertex
  • Self-motivated and team motivator
  • Versatile and action-led
  • Creative collaboration
  • Prompt design, GenAI LLM prompt engineering

Accomplishments

  • Fine-tuned a large language model for a well-known Australian brand tone of voice for use in email personalisation. Leading a team of data scientists to build a ABAC compliant LLM that banned words and nails brand ToV.
  • From concept to build, created a Subject-Line Generator for personalisation email. Creating brand perfect subject lines en masse in minutes.
  • Engineered prompt design to write product description for alcohol retailer at scale, unlocking perso ability and smart scaling up.

Certification

  • RSA License - Responsible service of Alcohol License - NSW

Hobbies

  • 7" Vinyl Record collecting...
  • Snorkeling in fear of surprise sharks....
  • Trying to stand upright on a paddle board.....
  • Googling facts I really don't need to know... “HOW did they build the Pyramids?"
  • Dancing too enthusiastically...
  • Shaking up the perfect Espresso Martini

Referees

ELIZABETH FITZSIMON
Senior Creative Development Lead
0456641169
elizabeth.fitzsimon@edg.com.au

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CHRIS NEIL ST JOHN
Director
Events Company
chris@spaceandthyme.co.uk

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DAN HILLS
Managing Director
Laines Pub Company
dan@laines.pub

Timeline

GenAI Solutions Copywriter

Endeavour Group
02.2022 - Current

Copywriter

Employsure
07.2021 - 03.2022

Communications Associate

Southtrade International
02.2020 - 07.2021

DJ

Various Radio Stations
01.2020 - 07.2023

Music Consultant

Laines Pub Company
07.2015 - 01.2023

RADIO PRESENTER

1BTN.FM - Part-Time
04.2015 - 11.2019

Sales and Marketing Representative

Space & Thyme,
04.2013 - 05.2016

MUSIC VIDEO SALES REP

Stirling Films
02.2011 - 02.2013

TV EDITORS REPRESENTIVE

Crimson Recruitment
02.2010 - 02.2011

BROADCAST PRODUCTION ASSISTANT

BBC
02.2009 - 02.2010

Various TV and Film Runner Roles

Freelance
01.2007 - 02.2009

Freelance Writer

THE LATEST
06.2006 - 08.2013

Higher National Diploma - MERIT - Digital Communications And Media

University of South Wales

National Diploma - MERIT - Art And Media

Richmond College
Molly Mckenzie