Lorraine Palmer

Experience

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  BiP Solutions Ltd

  Dec 2012 - Jun 2013

  Event & sales support coordinator

  Glasgow

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  Catalina UK

  Jun 2013 - Jun 2016

  • Responsibility for a target of around £3M per year through various successful profitable campaigns. • Lead on implementation launch of Sainsburys “Brand Match” price comparison scheme bringing in high ROI.

  • Account Manager

    Sept 2015 - Jun 2016

  • Client Service Executive

    Jun 2013 - Nov 2015
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  CBI (Confederation of British Industry)

  Jun 2016 - Jun 2018

  • Managing a portfolio of £1.5m event portfolio per year across North West & West Midlands • Responsibility of £300k sponsorship partnership revenue across large conferences • Working with members and senior leaders within large corporate organisations to identify their needs and match our products and services, such as conferences, seminars and training events• To manage and deliver two regional programmes of commercial and non-commercial events including large annual dinners, conferences and small roundtable discussions.Updating website and marketing materials

  • Events Manager

    Nov 2017 - Jun 2018

  • Events Executive

    Jun 2016 - Nov 2017
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  RICS

  Sept 2018 - now

  • Own the ongoing development and part of the development of all RICS Global commercial product propositions and provide briefings to stakeholders• Engages with a wide variety of primary functional leads (including Product Lead, Content Lead & Program Managers) to oversee the successful build, commercialisation & Go To Market.• Support the development and review of the marketing and sales strategy to achieve agreed short term and strategic ideas for new income and retention targets for the proposition Show less o Working on many large value in-house proposals supporting the Account Managers at RICS to ensure we build the right products and solutions to support their needs.• Developing a Product Development Playbook, this is to support technical teams across the organisation on how we should build our products and services to meet member/customer needs from inception (market insight) through to going to market.• Leading insight dissemination among internal and external stakeholders to support business activities across many portfolios Show less • Managing overall responsibility for our £1m+ CPD portfolio of products. This entailed management of >500 seminars per year on the latest hot topics and updates across all RICS technical sectors based on customer needs.• Lead on RICS CPD Foundation portfolio integration from F2F to completely digital within short timeframeo Expenditure reduction of around £100k whilst maintaining strong product performance and commercial income• Line-management • Supplier/ speaker management– sourcing and negotiating Show less

  • Global Partnerships Manager

    Dec 2021 - now

  • Global Value Proposition Specialist

    Dec 2020 - Dec 2021

  • Business Change Manager- Microsoft365 internal programme

    Jun 2019 - Dec 2021

  • Interim Product Development Manager

    Apr 2020 - Nov 2020

  • Operations Manager

    Sept 2018 - Apr 2020