Ray Blackwood-Bloom

Reporting into the Chief Creative Officer, this role oversees a team of project managers and producers to execute impactful, buzz worthy creative work across all of Glossier’s touchpoints including but not limited to product launches and reanimation, retail stores, wholesale, packaging, merch development and events and activations that drive against meaningful commercial goals on time and on budget. Some highlights include an editorial content partnership with Homme Girls, large scale experiential activations - Realms of You in London, YLG Tour, our SOHO homecoming store build and opening and our first celebrity partnership with Olivia Rodrigo in 2022.

• Responsible for forecasting, tracking and reporting of multi million dollar creative department budget inclusive of opex, production and freelancer expenditure in collaboration with broader org, ensuring that spend accurately reflects overall business needs and priorities.
• Annual creative roadmap planning and pipeline status review. Ensuring ELT level visibility of business critical initiatives.
• Identifying opportunities for new process implementation, enforcement of existing process and constant improvement in intra team and cross functional ways of working.
• Project resourcing - sourcing and onboarding freelance support, agency partners and vendors to deliver against creative vision.
• Partner with legal and business affairs on MSAs, production contracts and usage queries. Worked with legal team to overhaul and futureproof standard terms ahead of entering wholesale and global expansion.
• Special projects - supporting office of CEO on cross functional process improvements in relation to delivery of consumer facing experiences.

Business lead on multi million pound Nespresso account working across content strategy, content production, multi channel asset development and localization of global assets across 44 markets managing a team of account and project managers.

• Successfully delivered revenue targets on account through budget planning, forecasting and quarterly reporting, rate card reevaluation and new business.
• Led all senior client stakeholder meetings - pitches, briefing meetings, creative reviews and quarterly business reviews with Global CMO and division heads.
• Oversaw teams across global hubs in North America, APAC and EMEA leveraging in-market expertise to facilitate smoother process at global level.
• Led adaptation of global campaigns partnering with client’s market leads ensuring that cultural nuance and sensitivities were accurately reflected whilst ensuring integrity of ‘big idea’ remains uncompromised.
• Implemented bespoke overhaul of client management processes for new client on-boarding including reporting needs, workflow, document review, RACI's and introduction of new workflow tools.
• Delivered business affairs services including negotiating commercial terms for MSAs, contractor terms, talent contracts and usage in partnership with legal team.
• Appointed to advise client’s procurement group on diversity, equity and inclusion to increase consumer engagement within underrepresented groups.