Scotland’s largest PR and digital marketing agency, BIG Partnership, has boosted its team with the appointment of three experienced marketing specialists.
Natalie Hilton joins BIG as a senior account manager in the Aberdeen office where she is responsible for delivering integrated strategies, with clients including Stewart Milne Group, KPMG, Oil and Gas Innovation Centre and Stronachs LLP. With 15 years’ experience, she has led marketing and PR campaigns for the Walt Disney Company in London, delivered global brand strategies, and worked in Norway providing marketing consultancy to energy and consumer brands.
BIG’s Glasgow office has welcomed SEO and analytics manager Stacy Nelson who brings extensive experience particularly in helping national hotel and banking brands to increase their online rankings.
Completing the hat trick of appointments is marketing manager Darryl Ryznar, who joins BIG’s design studio in Dunfermline where she will be responsible for website maintenance, design and marketing projects with clients including Glasgow Taxis, Mackies and Swagelining. She has four years’ experience of managing design projects in the public and private sectors and has also supported the event management of large scale global conferences and events.
Bryan Garvie, director at BIG Partnership, said: “Our new colleagues bring first-class skills and creative experience, and we’re already seeing the benefits of that in some very exciting results for clients. We’ve had an exceptionally busy period with wins across the business and we’ve got big plans for the year ahead.”
The appointments follow BIG recording one of its best-ever starts to a financial year after securing £600,000 of new business since June.
BIG Partnership, which first launched in 2000, has five offices in Glasgow, Edinburgh, Aberdeen, Dundee, Fife and Manchester. The multi-disciplinary agency employs more than 100 people covering PR, marketing, digital, design and events.
Scotland’s largest PR and digital marketing agency, BIG Partnership, has boosted its senior team with the appointment of a new client services director.
Colin McNab, who has more than 25 years’ experience working with some of the UK’s largest digital marketing and design organisations, has been appointed to lead BIG’s client services strategy.
In addition to his new role at the agency, Colin will remain a committee member on HM Revenue and Customs’ digital services group and guest lecturer in business at the University of the West of Scotland and Glasgow Caledonian University.
Colin has been behind some of the UK’s most prominent marketing campaigns, including being part of the team which led Digital UK’s ‘Digital AL’ project, dubbed the single biggest marketing campaign in UK history during the switchover from analogue to digital TV.
He will work across the company’s six offices in Glasgow, Edinburgh, Dunfermline, Aberdeen, Dundee and Manchester, and will play an integral role in BIG’s business development strategy.
Bryan Garvie, director at BIG Partnership, said: “We have an ambitious UK growth plan and Colin will be a strong influence as we make progress against that. As well as a contact book lots of agencies would kill for, his experience in working with big brands on digital and design strategies will help us continue to grow this side of our business.
“Colin will also support us in identifying how we can enhance the services we currently offer to clients, further integrating our PR, digital marketing and design work. He’s a great guy to have on board and we look forward to working with him in the months and years ahead.”
Colin McNab said: “Joining BIG is a fantastic new challenge for me after three years in consultancy. BIG’s a hugely ambitious business with a great story to tell and the opportunity to have the strength of a renowned agency behind me is a really exciting prospect.”
Public guest speaker event on 17 October at 6.30pm, at the University of Edinburgh Business School
The Business School’s Entrepreneurship Club invites you to find out about how entrepreneurs can most effectively promote themselves on a limited budget.
This event is free and open to all. Michelle Brown of Michelle Brown PR makes a welcome return to the Eclub to draw upon her 20+ years of experience in the PR industry to give insights into how entrepreneurs can make the most of PR.
In her presentation, Michelle will cover the following points including, how to create a PR story and stand out from the crowd, how the media works and how to maximise exposure across all media platforms, on a limited budget. She will also illustrate her talk with case studies and will answer questions from the floor.
Michelle will be joined by Ali Wyllie, Founder of Run the Sights who will provide examples of a good PR story.
To register for this, and any other free event at the Business school please visit https://www.business-school.ed.ac.uk/about/events
