Royal Talens, is a Dutch manufacturer and distributor of fine artist materials that exports from distribution centres in Apeldoorn (NL), Northampton (USA), Barcelona (ES) and Dulliken (Switzerland) with affiliate companies in The Netherlands, Belgium, France, Germany, Spain, Poland, Switzerland, United Kingdom, North America, China and Japan.
- Designed copy and assets for advertisements for magazines The Artist, and Artists & Illustrators.
- Increased brand awareness by developing and implementing innovative marketing campaigns.
- Developing key promotions and products for Cass Arts, Jacksons and WHSmith online and in-store as well as small businesses.
- Marketed Royal Talens brands at trade exhibitions such as Creative World/Paper World (Germany), The London Stationery Show.
- Planned and executed events and marketing programs to increase qualified leads.
- Communicated and directed a team of territorial managers for the UK & Ireland regarding key data information and marketing of new products, advertisements, workshops and televised program.
- Managed territory managers with one on ones and Friday catch-up's to discuss industry news and current affairs.
- Delivered and designed quarterly POS collateral for B2B and B2C.
- Organized quotations with third party printers suppliers.
- Strategized yearly marketing campaigns for Royal Talens brands - Rembrandt, Van Gogh, Cobra, Ecoline, Talens Art Creation, and Sakura (Royal Talens parent company) and Pantone.
- Established budgets for programme activities and controlled expenditure to meet targets.
- Developed product copy for Hochanda/The Craft Store television program.
- Oversaw development and execution of multi-channel marketing campaigns to drive growth.
- Created a monthly content calender for social media platforms i.e Facebook, Instagram, TIKTOK.
- Established content briefs for existing products and NPD for brand ambassadors, content creators.
- Generated ideas and concepts for paid ad content, monitoring spend against performance for continued profit improvements.
- Negotiated contracts with influencers, and ambassadors, resulting in mutually favorable partnerships and increased growth.
- Organized organic content to be used as digital assets for the monthly content calender.
- Initiated quarterly email campaigns using Mailchimp.
- Proposed Black Friday strategy to increase sales.
- Developed Royal Talens key product assets with WHSmith Online Brand Shop.
- Increased sales as of Oct/2021 by 11% against the same month 2020 and 13% against September 2021.