Nadia
Nadia joined CPM in May 2001 having previously managed her family retail fish outlet and worked as a supervisor in a major supermarket. Her first role was working twenty hours a week as a Sales Advisor on the Gillette team. The account then moved to a full time operation that brought the opportunity to apply for a manager’s position in 2003 Nadia became Business Development Manager. During 2005 she was seconded to the position of Channel Development Manager which has now lead to her taking on the role of Client Service Manager looking over a large field team on behalf of Procter and Gamble

Deanne
Being an actor/dancer, promotional work is an ideal career for Deanne as work can be fitted in around her temporary acting jobs and auditions. Deanne first joined the CPM field team as a brand ambassador during summer 2002 after a successful interview with our recruitment team. Working from inside a converted ice cream van, Deanne along with her team manager toured around Asda stores in the South of the UK preparing pasta with Dolmio to sample to shoppers! The team were armed with money off coupons and spent their days encouraging shoppers to buy Dolmio during their weekly shop and increasing sales within the store. Following a successful first campaign Deanne was soon offered more promotions work and her career has since spanned some 5 years with the company. Having started off as a brand ambassador and more recently taking on the role of Event Manager for the first time in spring 2006.

We asked Deanne what her highlights have been since working for the company and a few jobs came to mind. Sampling Quinn’s a new alcoholic fruit drink to consumers at the James Blunt concert at Blenheim Palace was amazing fun, we also sampled at the Westlife concert at Chatsworth House. It’s really great fun being part of a dedicated brand team travelling round the country spreading news about the new product. Lots of people had seen the funky new advert on television so instantly recognised us – It was like being famous!

Job History Rustlers @ Max Power Live Show - Birmingham NEC Baileys drink sampling - Bluewater Smirnoff Appleback drink sampling – Various bars/clubs around London Fans of the Match for Guinness – Twickenham Stadium Lucozade Sport drink sampling and fitness testing – London Marathon Pimms Summer Tour ‘Bestival’ – Isle of Whight Blackberry demonstrations – Various London cinemas Tanquerray Taste Challenge – London Boat Show Nike ‘Joga Bonita’ Play Beautiful Tour setting up 3v3 street football – London Lucozade Energy – Sampling Lucozade – Motorway service stations

Joanne
Joanne joined CPM on a part time basis in 1997 coming from a background in retail and catering. For the first two years of her CPM career Joanne worked twelve hours a week on our contract with Post Office Counters. She increased her part time hours to twenty four in 1999 and then in 2001 took on a new role with what was then CPM Retail Services working across a variety of clients and brands. Within three months Joanne took on full time hours, Retail Services became what CPM now call Syndicated Services and Joanne worked as a Sales Advisor until September 2003 when she was promoted to Team Leader. Joanne is now on her 10th year at CPM and has been a Manager with the Syndicated Services Team since February 2004.

Kath
Kath started work for CPM as a part time merchandiser on the Gallaher account in 1991 and then went on to perform well on a variety of Tactical assignments from 1999 to 2002 including Christmas demonstrations of Braun products, direct selling of Pot Noodle, Merchandising for Cellnet, demonstrating products in Garden stores for Scotts, merchandising for a new brand of shampoo for Procter and Gamble, auditing of palletts for Chep, merchandising DVDs and videos including Harry Potter and The Jungle Book, in store selling for British Gas and merchandising Guinness products to mention just a few. In September 2002 Kath decided to take a permanent field role with CPM and has since working as a full time Business Development Executive on our Diageo account

Jonny
I am mad about football, I swear allegiance to Sunderland AFC and I have been playing for nearly 14 years. I started out kicking a ball around the park with my Dad and by age 16 I was playing for my local county. I‘m currently studying at University so when the Staffing Team at TRO phoned me to ask if I wanted to get involved with Nike and the ‘Joga Bonito’ Tour I jumped at the chance. Joga Bonito is Brazilian for ‘Play Beautiful’ and I think Nike thought long and hard about how to engage with kids at grass roots level and challenge them to play ‘beautiful football’. Our main aim was to tour round local areas and interact with as many footballers as possible. We drove a branded jeep with a huge wire cage on the back filled with Nike futsal balls (slightly heavier ball designed to practise skills with). We visited local parks, schools and sports grounds and initiated 3v3 games of football. Everyone that joined in received a free futsal ball. This first stage of the Joga Bonito tour was designed to inform kids about local events leading up to a national 3v3 final at Highbury. The media mix was amazing and we were promoted on TV, Press and Radio. A superb job and I got paid for it!