Liz Forte
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Liz Forte

Role: Marketing Director
Region: South East
Liz is an award-winning marketing leader with 20 years’ experience working for some of the worlds most loved and recognised brands.  She has experience across multiple sectors including Hospitality, Leisure, FMCG and Construction, Liz has a proven track record of driving sustainable growth through digital innovation, accessing new sectors and pioneering new concepts.
Consumer oriented, innovative and results-driven, her sweet spot is working with organisations that want to scale, building a solid growth platform for the future.  Liz has successfully worked with a number of organisations as an interim or fractional Marketing Director or leading specialist change and accelerated growth projects.
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Experience


Compass Group UK & Ireland
Marketing Director for Business & Industry: Responsible for over 650 restaurants as well as retention of B2B contracts, using insight led data to develop a suite of commercially viable propositions and new business.

Consultancy: Part-time Marketing Director for Tesco Hospitality, Southern Sheeting, Revolution Personal Training Studios

Merlin Entertainments
Marketing Director for The London Eye, Madame Tussauds, London Dungeon, SEA LIFE London Aquarium and Shrek’s Adventure. 

Highbourne Group
Chief Marketing Officer for the Private Equity backed Plumbing & Heating organisation- launched the national loyalty programme, pioneered strategic partnerships and developed a data & insight led approach to marketing.

Starbucks
Head of marketing and channel development for Starbucks in the UK and EMEA, Liz set up and established the marketing function, building a 5-year strategic plan to deliver ambitious channel growth targets 

Unilever graduate training scheme from university, before moving on to retail marketing roles with ASDA, Princes Soft Drinks, Tesco and Sainsbury’s. 




Case studies within
South East

Blueleaf: Support with merger integration and rebrand

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Radio Taxis: Creating a marketing structure & defining strategy

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Unigloves: How we drove revenue growth and increased brand awareness

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