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Daniel Browne

Senior Content Specialist
Winchester,Hampshire
Daniel Browne

Summary

Experienced content and operational specialist within the luxury fashion e-comm industry, with 12 years of experience at Farfetch. Playing a salient role throughout its journey from start-up to publically listed company on the NYSE. Expertise span across operations management, project management, process optimisation/engineering, and staff leadership. Delivery-focused with the ability to identify business improvements and implement change through effective stakeholder engagement and team leadership. Trusted professional with a dependable reputation for managing complex projects; delivers strategies that support the adoption of the changes required for projects and initiatives.

Overview

21
years of professional experience

Work history

Farfetch
London

Senior Content Specialist
06.2019 - Current

Job overview

Main Responsibilities


  • Ensure continual improvements to written content quality and operational processes through innovative projects and developments. Establishing quality assurance for all content points on the marketplace and our FPS client sites.


  • Onboarding new FPS clients that will be powered by Farfetch. Establishing the level of service required and planning the rollout of the client's new web experience. This can include creating a new platform and web category experience, defining a tailored tone of voice, and structuring their PLP and PDP.


  • Managing platform category and web category experience for existing FPS clients including Cartier, Chloe, Harrods, Mr.Porter, NAP, and Off-White to name a few. Managing category and content-related requests from our client base.


  • Light touch management of the content specialist team, supporting project planning and delivery and BAU operations.


  • Regular analysis of qualitative results, SLAs, KPIs, and performance to identify areas for improvement.


  • Conduct large-scale bi-annual gap analysis to identify, category and content inconsistencies, product creation limitations, production workflow inefficiencies, and new client needs. Based on gap analysis results, build out a project plan for the following half of the year.


  • Plan and deliver on all projects defined in the Gap analysis and project plan.


Key Achievements:


  • Defined and delivered an improved process of creating product descriptions by moving the copywriter headcount into Portugal’s two production facilities from London. A result of this was a saving of $180,000 in H2 2023, improved SLAs, and a 40% drop in returns for items ‘not as described’.


  • Permanently reduced production SLAs. Reduction in time to 'go live' for all products across all production facilities through streamlining product journey. Amalgamating Data Entry and Product Descriptions.


  • Led the delivery of three successful tone-of-voice rebrands, including the launch of a new Beauty department.


  • Planned and delivered full web category experience rebrand for Harrods, Stadium Goods, Cartier, and Violet Grey.


  • Reduced time of translation with the development and roll-out of automated translation tool.


  • Served as a key stakeholder in the 'Positively Farfetch' project. Defining our conscious criteria in collaboration with an external group, Good On You.


  • Promoted compliance by restructuring existing guidelines inherited into a workable microsite from unworkable slides


  • Reduced Return Rate by revamping Size & Fit fitting advice and developing PDP to house a dedicated Size & Fit tab.


  • Removed the need for product research for our copywriters with the development of a product matching tool. This halved the time spent on each product description, ultimately increasing the amount of product descriptions completed daily.

Farfetch
London

Content Supervisor
04.2015 - 06.2019

Job overview

Main Responsibilities


  • Developed and managed a dynamic team of 25 English copywriters responsible for all editorial and SEO-driven content on landing pages to product pages.


  • Identified training and development needs through job analysis, appraisal schemes, and regular 1-2-1s


  • Identified, recruited, and managed freelance staff per production needs.


  • Defined and set tone of voice documents and monitored the quality of copy created in a sub-editor capacity whilst creating original content across multiple verticals.


  • Planned content with localisation teams to create streamlined workflow processes for all translated copy.


  • Worked collaboratively with the various creative operations teams, including Production, Tech and Commercial to define workflow for new projects.


  • Completed key financial tasks, such as the entire invoicing process and freelancer budget planning.


Key Achievements


  • Oversaw the growth of the English content team from eight Copyrights to 25 across multiple international territories, whilst consistently meeting SLA targets


  • Produced and defined the new company tone of voice with successful implementation, resulting in increased conversion rates.


  • Define tailored tone of voice and content creation best practices for FPS clients such as

Farfetch
London

Product Copywriter
11.2011 - 04.2015

Job overview

Main Responsibilities


  • Created innovative and original content for new and pre-existing partners to appear on the Farfetch PLP and PDPs. Working to strict daily targets


  • Brand and category specialist copywriting.


  • Worked closely with the Commercial and Merchandising teams to ensure the creation of the most relevant and effective customer emails were produced.


  • Served as the first point of contact for the company's multiple partners. Followed up to ensure the resolution of copy requests across multiple verticals.



First Model Management/Nev's Model Management
London

Model
01.2003 - 01.2013

Style Inc
London

Model
01.2007 - 01.2012

Fresh Developments
London/Essex/Suffolk

Business Development
01.2007 - 01.2010

Tiki Car Rentals Ltd
Gold Coast, Queensland

Regional Manager
02.2005 - 01.2007

Dehavilland Political Information Services
London

Copywriter
01.2004 - 01.2005

Skills

  • Project Management
  • Stakeholder Management
  • Continuous Improvement
  • Production and Operational Management
  • Process Re-Engineering and Optimisation
  • Client Management
  • Copy/Content Writing
  • Risk Assessment
  • Gap Analysis

Timeline

Senior Content Specialist

Farfetch
06.2019 - Current

Content Supervisor

Farfetch
04.2015 - 06.2019

Product Copywriter

Farfetch
11.2011 - 04.2015

Model

Style Inc
01.2007 - 01.2012

Business Development

Fresh Developments
01.2007 - 01.2010

Regional Manager

Tiki Car Rentals Ltd
02.2005 - 01.2007

Copywriter

Dehavilland Political Information Services
01.2004 - 01.2005

Model

First Model Management/Nev's Model Management
01.2003 - 01.2013
Daniel BrowneSenior Content Specialist