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Alys Mathew

Marketing Director
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About

I help businesses accelerate profitable growth by connecting brand, digital, customer and commercial strategy. Over the past 20 years I've led marketing transformation across e-commerce, marketplaces, hospitality, retail and telecoms—building brands, launching products, developing strategic partnerships, optimising lifecycle programmes and creating customer experiences that drive measurable business performance. I'm equally comfortable shaping long-term strategy as I am rolling up my sleeves to solve complex commercial challenges. Whether it's entering new markets, transforming digital performance or accelerating customer growth, I enjoy bringing clarity to complexity, building high-performing teams and creating brands that customers value and businesses grow from.

Previous Brands
Amplify Life
Betfair
Hasbro
Hutchinson 3g
Interactive Investor
Just Eat Takeaway.com NV
Sportsworld Media Group
The Jim Henson Company
Vivino
YOTEL
Work Experience
SVP Brand and ECommerce
Jun ‘24 - May ‘26
YOTEL

Member of the Executive Team, owning the global direct to consumer growth agenda across Brand, Digital, Demand Generation, CRM, Loyalty and Performance Marketing for 23 international hotels. Responsible for revenue growth, leading global brand transformation and aligning Commercial, Product, Technology and Marketing around a customer-first strategy.

Head of Campaign Planning
Jan ‘23 - Dec ‘23
Vivino

Led commercial growth across Europe and APAC; owning CRM, pricing, promotions & e-commerce performance while leading an international team through a significant turnaround period.

MARKETING DIRECTOR
Oct ‘21 - Jul ‘22
Amplify Life

Built the commercial and go-to-market strategy for a new consumer, subscription, B2B2C health & fitness platform.

HEAD OF MARKETING - RESTAURANTS
Aug ‘16 - Oct ‘21
Just Eat Takeaway.com NV

Led partner marketing strategy for UK business; responsible for acquisition, engagement, CRM, loyalty, customer communication, out of home branding, budgeting and leadership.

HEAD OF MARKETING
Jun ‘14 - Apr ‘16
Interactive Investor

Owned direct-to-consumer acquisition, retention and digital marketing strategy across all performance channels—Direct, PPC, Display, Affiliate, and SEO—including website redesign, budget allocation and paid media agency selection.

Head of Global Online Acquisition
Feb ‘11 - Dec ‘13
Betfair

Head of Global Online Acquisition: Feb 13 – Dec 13 Senior Marketing Manager International: Feb 11 – Feb 13 Led the global digital customer acquisition strategy across affiliates, SEO, PPC, social, display, and email.

HEAD OF CUSTOMER PROPOSITIONS
Dec ‘07 - Jan ‘11
Hutchinson 3g

Head of Customer Propositions, Mobile Broadband: Reporting in to Director of Mobile Broadband: Sept 10 – Jan 11 -Leadership of the retention strategy for contract and pay as you go customers. Ensuring the right pricing, propositions, customer contact strategy through insight and detailed understanding of customer behaviour to address key drivers of customer dissatisfaction -Developed reporting to identify early churn indicators and built CRM programme to proactively engage with customers, improving customer lifetime by 30% within the first 30 days Marketing Manager – Pay as you Go: Reporting in to Head of Contract & Pay As You Go: Dec 07 – Aug 10 - Responsibility for driving new acquisition, focused on writing strategic plans, financial analysis of performance and launch/lifecycle management of propositions. - Identification of gaps in handset range, working with handset team to deliver channel specific range to drive profitable expansion incorporating selection, product development, forecasting, launch plans and negotiation of vendor funding - Wrote strategic plan, identifying key growth areas to increase sales volume from 56,000 to 100,000 by year end 2010 - Identified target market and analysed financial implications of launching new Pay as you Go telecoms proposition (Flat 12) resulting in excess of 150% sales volume within 12 months

EUROPEAN BRAND MANAGER
Sep ‘03 - Nov ‘07
Hasbro

- Management of DVD game strategy, product development and marketing plans (including TV and radio ad production) across Europe - Created a financial model to review return on investment. Influenced senior management to invest £10.25m development budget to launch new category into existing gaming sector resulting in £65m net sales across Europe within 2yr period

Licensing co-ordinator
Feb ‘03 - Aug ‘03
The Jim Henson Company

Management of all licensees. Creation of all marketing materials and market analysis

PA to Commercial & Sponsorship Directors
Jan ‘01 - Sep ‘01
Sportsworld Media Group

Research on companies targeted for sponsorship and development of marketing materials

Languages
English - Fluent
Education & Training
Institute of Marketing
‘05 - ‘06
Diploma
CIM Marketing Diploma
Newcastle University
‘97 - ‘00
Animal Science
Bachelor of Science
The School of S.Helen and S.Katherine
‘94 - ‘96
A-Level
A-Levels
Westonbirt School
‘89 - ‘94
GCSE
GCSE
London, UK