Are you a UK business leader struggling to achieve consistent digital growth, despite investing in marketing? I’m passionate about changing your business landscape. I provide effective, state-of-the-art outsourced consultancy and hands on implementation of marketing solutions that help businesses adapt to rapidly changing digital environments. I’m a CRM and Customer Experience expert, with over 20 years in strategic client leadership and solution delivery, plus first-hand, in-business Marketing Director expertise. I assist clients to transform their businesses digitally, with AI, marketing automation, campaign management, e-commerce and online experience delivery, leveraging data, analytics and insight to produce communications and customer engagement programmes that achieve measurable returns on investment. I have advised and delivered solutions for leading global and UK brands including Jaguar Land Rover, M&S, Tesco Bank, Hiscox Insurance, Just Eat, Neilson Holidays, The Gym Group and Wyevale Garden Centres. I have UK and international brand and agency experience across multiple sectors including property, retail, consumer services, automotive, and financial services. I now work at a local level, using this experience to help small and medium sized businesses find their way through the bewilderingly complex world of today's digital marketing. I am a marketing evangelist, obsessive about customer experience that drives business growth; focused on digital transformation and marketing optimisation; comfortable working brand or agency side to deliver client objectives. Feel free to contact me anytime at _Email not available. Sign in: https://www.twine.net/signup_ or on +44_Phone details not available. Sign in: https://www.twine.net/signup_

Simon Taylor

Are you a UK business leader struggling to achieve consistent digital growth, despite investing in marketing? I’m passionate about changing your business landscape. I provide effective, state-of-the-art outsourced consultancy and hands on implementation of marketing solutions that help businesses adapt to rapidly changing digital environments. I’m a CRM and Customer Experience expert, with over 20 years in strategic client leadership and solution delivery, plus first-hand, in-business Marketing Director expertise. I assist clients to transform their businesses digitally, with AI, marketing automation, campaign management, e-commerce and online experience delivery, leveraging data, analytics and insight to produce communications and customer engagement programmes that achieve measurable returns on investment. I have advised and delivered solutions for leading global and UK brands including Jaguar Land Rover, M&S, Tesco Bank, Hiscox Insurance, Just Eat, Neilson Holidays, The Gym Group and Wyevale Garden Centres. I have UK and international brand and agency experience across multiple sectors including property, retail, consumer services, automotive, and financial services. I now work at a local level, using this experience to help small and medium sized businesses find their way through the bewilderingly complex world of today's digital marketing. I am a marketing evangelist, obsessive about customer experience that drives business growth; focused on digital transformation and marketing optimisation; comfortable working brand or agency side to deliver client objectives. Feel free to contact me anytime at _Email not available. Sign in: https://www.twine.net/signup_ or on +44_Phone details not available. Sign in: https://www.twine.net/signup_

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Are you a UK business leader struggling to achieve consistent digital growth, despite investing in marketing?

I’m passionate about changing your business landscape. I provide effective, state-of-the-art outsourced consultancy and hands on implementation of marketing solutions that help businesses adapt to rapidly changing digital environments. I’m a CRM and Customer Experience expert, with over 20 years in strategic client leadership and solution delivery, plus first-hand, in-business Marketing Director expertise.

I assist clients to transform their businesses digitally, with AI, marketing automation, campaign management, e-commerce and online experience delivery, leveraging data, analytics and insight to produce communications and customer engagement programmes that achieve measurable returns on investment.

I have advised and delivered solutions for leading global and UK brands including Jaguar Land Rover, M&S, Tesco Bank, Hiscox Insurance, Just Eat, Neilson Holidays, The Gym Group and Wyevale Garden Centres. I have UK and international brand and agency experience across multiple sectors including property, retail, consumer services, automotive, and financial services.

I now work at a local level, using this experience to help small and medium sized businesses find their way through the bewilderingly complex world of today’s digital marketing.

I am a marketing evangelist, obsessive about customer experience that drives business growth; focused on digital transformation and marketing optimisation; comfortable working brand or agency side to deliver client objectives.

Feel free to contact me anytime at Email not available. Sign in: https://www.twine.net/signup or on +44_Phone details not available. Sign in: https://www.twine.net/signup_

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French
Beginner
Welsh
Beginner

Work Experience

Client Services Leadership at Wunderman
December 4, 2000 - September 26, 2008
Leadership of largest, most diverse client group in UK agency, $9million revenue responsibility, 35 Client Service staff, and 20 operational staff • Client list:  Land Rover, Jaguar, Mazda, Volvo, Kia, Iveco  Proctor & Gamble, Kraft, Xerox, M&S  Citibank, Egg, Learn Direct • Global account leadership responsibility for Land Rover and Jaguar accounts, $4million P&L • International liaison and management of account teams in US, Europe, Middle East and APAC
Managing Director at Bright Blue Interactive
April 6, 2009 - February 25, 2011
Agency owner/partner, in small, highly entrepreneurial, digital agency • Digital consultancy approach, sourcing and delivering expert client solutions • Projects delivered for NHS, BMW, Stella Artois, McCain, HTC, Leics CC, Interactive Medica and Jaguar Cars • Brand architecture, proposition development, brand design and messaging • Brand and e-commerce web design and build • Online product launch • SEO, PPC and display • Marketing technology product development
Client Services Director at WDMP
March 7, 2011 - October 26, 2018
Board director, strategic leadership, fast-growing, award-winning challenger agency • Client services leader, new business development and marketing strategy • Strategic marketing partner to client business, marketing planning, acquisition, retention and reactivation campaign programmes. • Data strategy, analytics, digital development and direct marketing to all clients
Marketing Director at Yomdel
January 7, 2019 - June 25, 2021
As Marketing Director, I engineered a brand refresh, complete redesign and overhaul of yomdel.com, shaping a new sales and marketing strategy to achieve a new growth trajectory. We pursued a strong partnership strategy within key industry sectors, creating a media and communications strategy to support this. Also leveraging customer advocacy through partner channels, media and PR. Also deployed a lead generation programme, plus telemarketing and new routes to market, supported by SEO, traffic driving and web conversion optimisation, all built around a HubSpot CRM system.
Fractional Marketing Director at Ikano Insight
September 20, 2021 - Present
Marketing Consultant at ICG Approved
August 16, 2021 - Present

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Financial Services, Real Estate & Construction, Retail, Software & Internet, Professional Services, Travel & Hospitality
    uniE608 Event Management and Hosting
    Bringing together 20 property businesses and up to 100 estateagents and lettings agents in a live event. Here is just one example held in 2025 at Reading FC, where agents heard from expert guest speakers, and proptech businesses got to meet every agent in the room in a speed-dating format. "The best ROI from any live sales event" is always the feedback from the companies in the room. Just one example of how I help businesses I work for.