NICOLE WILLIAMS

STRATEGIC PRODUCT LEADER
Lower Hutt, NZ.

About

An experienced strategic product and marketing leader. Track record of driving audience and engagement outcomes. Experienced in performance and brand marketing, B2B loyalty programmes, competitive positioning and product strategy through to delivery. Successfully created premium positioning leading to higher margins and outsized impacts against large competitors. Experienced in marketing and product executive leadership, delivering greater profitability and #1 market positions. Drives ROI and value focus to consistently turn product and marketing investment into business results. Recognised as a leader in the NZ product community, helping to build Trade Me employee brand through regular speaking engagements.

Work

Mitsubishi Electric
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Marketing Manager

Highlights

Premium rebrand: Leveraged customer research to rebrand Mitsubishi Electric brand in NZ. Established a premium positioning and differentiated CVP which allowed us to price 15-20% more than competitors with similar product offerings.

Lead B2B sales incentive programmes: 3 programmes across travel and points rewards. Drove increased loyalty and growth in professional heat pump market.

Strong driver of sales growth leading to #1 heat pump position

#1 fridge brand in NZ - overtaking Fisher & Paykel with larger whiteware brand but creating a strong CVP on multi drawer fridges and creating a new market category which was subsequently copied by F&P, Samsung and Panasonic.

Consumer marketing: Drove high brand awareness and CVP recognition. Multi million dollar investment across TV, outdoor and performance marketing channels.

Mitsubishi Electric
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Brand Manager

Mitsubishi Electric
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Assistant Product Manager

Mitsubishi Electric
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Marketing Assistant

Trade Me
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Head of Product - Marketplace

Highlights

Established the MP product team and ways of working during the transition from PDL roles towards strong product management mindsets

Have demonstrated a track record of successful bets across shipping, search and most recently casual buying (MP vibrancy) that have driven increased revenue during challenging market conditions

Sponsored listing depth product forecast to create $3M incremental revenue

Held various HOP roles (Central Tech - 2018, CXO - 2019, Consumer and MP - 2020-2022). PM of Search April 2018 - Nov 2018.

SilverStripe
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Head of Product - SilverStripe

Highlights

#1 Content Management Software in NZ

Reporting to the CEO, lead product management, product delivery and marketing

Established the product management function and creation of customer aligned value streams

Created product and marketing strategy to ensure clear competitive differentiation to enables growth in international markets.

Launched Platform as a Service product internationally (focus UK and Australia), created new revenue line to provide sustainable revenue from open source (free) software. From grew 0% margin to ~20% for PaaS clients. Leveraged AWS cloud platform, built new product and service offering.

Lead customer segmentation to focus on government, tourism and finance.

Summer of Biz Internship programme
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Co-founder

Highlights

Co-founded a internship programme that ran alongside Summer of Tech for two years. Placed HR and marketing graduates into intern roles nationwide. Founder role included branding, launch, fundraising and leading the volunteer team of 10.

SilverStripe
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Chief Marketing Officer

Highlights

B2B marketing focus with responsibilities across market validation and entry, growth and sales lead generation.

Worked closely with the Head of Sales to establish strong practices between sales and marketing to generate and close leads.

Lead performance marketing, content generation and events to provide high quality B2B leads

Education

Victoria University

BCA

Marketing and Commercial Law

Skills

Product and marketing leadership
Strategic thinking
Drive for results
Communication / Storytelling
Commerciality

Interests

EXPERTISE

Strong ROI and value focus, Product practices, Product launches, CVP / Brand positioning, Establishing product teams and practices, Coaching experimentation and risk taking, Developing leadership talent and succession plans.

References

Lisa Stewart - Head of Marketplace

Trade Me 021 800 866 lisa.stewart@trademe.co.nz

Jeremy Wade - Head of Classifieds

Trade Me 021 780 299 jwade@trademe.co.nz