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Avery Centrella
Experience
BBDO Atlanta, USA
Strategist
March 2023 - Present
Clients: Sanderson Farms, Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, New Business
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Conducting in-depth market research across qualitative and quantitative studies to communicate a differentiated and rich understanding of grocery shopper segments.
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Mapping grocery customer journeys to bring brands closer to the needs and behaviours, areas of opportunities and challenges of their shopper.
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Championing and engaging with a food brand's social audience with a 4,800% increase in recipe-related UGC YoY on Instagram and Facebook.
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Owning and leading routine in-depth quarterly analyses of brand KPIs across e-commerce, brick-and-mortar sales, digital, social, search, and sentiment.
Junior Strategist
June 2021 - February 2023
Clients: Sanderson Farms, Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, Laneige (South Korea), New Business
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Enriched food brand partnership with grocery retailers by proposing and implementing a sustainability campaign around an interactive website recipe tool, resulting in 1000+ uses in the first quarter live.
Created award-winning narratives with data and insight at the core of strategic pushes, winning a 2023 Bronze Addy Award for Children's Mia TV Spot.
Produced trend forecasts to inform thought pieces to win new business accounts.
Developed and led strategic thinking on a food brand's first creator campaign, resulting in the highest brand lifetime engagement rate on Instagram YoY (+140%).
Collaborated closely and fostered productive relationships with Account, Creative, and Production teams to ensure seamless and timely briefing and production processes.
Strategy Intern
Clients: Sanderson Farms, Bayer, Covenant House Georgia
May 2020 - November 2020
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Supported tactical and creative briefs across traditional and digital channels.
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Led research and strategic thinking on an intern pro-bono campaign for a non-profit. Compiled and created an agency-wide thought piece on TikTok's emergence.
Institute of Advanced Advertising Studies
Strategist
Client: Cricket Wireless
March 2023 - Present
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Understanding the brand, consumer, and competitive landscape to uncover insights for a 3-month long mock campaign program.
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Presenting a tightly integrated plan with objectives, insights, strategy, budget, and measurement, to execute it across tactics and channels.
Nexus Marketing Agency
Copywriter
January 2021 - May 2021
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Researched, conceptualised, and wrote 75+ pieces of published educational content.
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Implemented and achieved SEO optimisation with increased traffic to client site pages.
National Student Advertising Competition
Strategist and Copywriter
August 2019 - December 2020
Clients: Adobe, Tinder
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Conducted primary and secondary research, leading strategic thinking for two end-to-end integrated marketing campaigns.
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Wrote and edited copy for spot scripts, 20+ page brand book, social copy, and OOH.
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Ranked in the Top 8 of 50 teams in the American Advertising Federation for Adobe Experience Cloud for Advertising, 2020.
EDUCATION
Florida State University
Bachelor of Science in Advertising, with highest distinction
Minor: English
Honours Society, 2017-2020
National Student Advertising Competition, 2019 - 2020
Placement in Florence, Italy, FSU College of Communications, 2018
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