About Nicky

Nicky focuses on developing strong client relationships based on mutual trust and respect. It’s why clients keep coming back to us, wherever their career ladder takes them.

About Jackie

Jackie knows brands need big thinking and inspirational creative. But efficient delivery, controlled cost and measured ROI are business critical. She makes sure BJL deliver on both (or else).

About Iain

Iain is BJL’s financial director, which makes him very important indeed. He is extremely good with money and with numbers, which makes him a complete enigma to everyone who works in the creative department.

About Dave

Dave’s job is to control the agency’s output from initial brief through to delivery, ensuring that work is produced as quickly as possible, on budget and to the highest standard. On swelteringly hot days, he’s also the man you go to for ice creams.

About Pete

Ideas are Pete’s best friend. Ideas in any shape or form, on any media. In fact he’ll dig and dig and dig until he’s found one. That’s his Yorkshire determination, or maybe he was a Yorkshire Terrier in a previous life.

About Tom

Tom was raised on a farm, where he took great pride in delivering animals into the world. Now he looks after the creative department, helping nurture their concepts and seeing them grow into fully formed ideas.

About Mandy

Mandy has loads of experience of brand strategy, direct and digital marketing and especially loves building brands through the clever use of data insight.

Recently elected to the DMA North council she is also helping to shape the way best practice is promoted throughout the region.

About Guy

Guy has touched many parts of the agency during his time at BJL and now finds himself building client relationships at the heart of the BJL Brand Team. He thrives in the high paced environment and loves the challenge of an impossible deadline. You'll find him either running around the agency, or the nearest football pitch.

About Lorraine

Lorraine is the first person you will see when you enter the agency. She's in charge of looking after clients and staff, managing diaries, answering phone calls and ensuring that everything runs smoothly.

About Lucy

Lucy’s background in almost all sides of agency life from client to creative, gives her a much broader perspective when delivering insightful, effective marketing communications. Always looking to exceed client’s expectations, Lucy works hard to achieve results; excellent results!

About Matt

Matt is the guy who chases clients for the money they’ve spent, and gets hassled from the people we buy things from. He does invoicing, expenses and he may even lend money from petty cash, so we have to be nice to him. 

About Faye

Faye is the newest member of the finance department, and joins us after completing her Alevels in; accounts, business, art and maths.

Even though she’s good with numbers she does admit she finds it difficult to balance her own bank account.

About Mike

Mike is the newest addition of the ever growing PR team, joining us as a Graduate Account Executive. He recently moved back to Manchester after completing a Masters in PR. He has a strong understanding of Social Media as well as great communication skills, which roughly translates to, ‘he never stops talking’.

About Natalie

Natalie’s background on both client and agency side means she is well placed to understand the big challenges her clients face.

Passionate about direct, digital and social media she has a strong commercial focus and happily pours over client data to look for ways to further improve results.

About Chris

Christopher has been kerning type and meeting deadlines since 1988 and has been known to correctly identify a typeface at 20 paces. His holiday souvenir collection is now world famous, although he is still looking for a pope on a rope.

About Andy

Andy's eye for detail and levels of creativity have been instrumental in winning many large projects over the years. An effective all-rounder, getting stuck into everything from storyboarding and creating 3D animations to the bread and butter email.

About Alex

Alex is all over TV Production like a rash. Striving to achieve creative perfection with one eye on the budget, he has done much to bolster our production facilities in-house.

About Emma

OK, so you need what by when and for how much? No problem. I’ll just juggle a few things, get the brief in, cost the job, and gather the Creative Directors for a review of the work. All done with a smile and a spring in my step. Signed off. Approved. Same again tomorrow then?

About Adrian

Adrian draws upon his artistic background to come up with innovative and award-winning ad concepts and make them look gorgeous. He also draws a mean caricature, which sometimes aren’t so gorgeous.

About Claire

Hard-nosed hack, Claire, knows everything there is to know about print and online media. After a misspent youth on Fleet Street - working for everyone from The Daily Mirror to The Times - she helps us secure the type of crackling coverage that sets news agendas and makes people sit up and take notice.

About Liane

Liane is Alicia’s other half. While Alicia is still circling the spelling mistakes in the Metro, Liane is off – inDesign at the ready, pens on standby; primed to give art some essential direction.

About Annette

Annette is the connection between client and agency, driving for effective, hard-working communication strategies for direct consumer response. She’s also quite chatty. (Just a bit.)

About Anne-Marie

Anne-Marie has been at BJL for 15 years and has a wealth of experience in all things campaign management, and non campaign management for that matter. She is also dead good at baking cakes as well as pub quizzes.

About Katie

Katie has over 12 years experience in the industry and has worked cross channel and media on a variety of consumer brands including Lloyds TSB, NatWest, BT, Oxfam and WWF. Katie has extensive experience in the direct marketing and digital channels and was responsible for leading a team in the Lloyds TSB rebrand ‘for the journey’ in all of the bank’s direct media.

About Mike

Making a difference to businesses is what makes Mike leap out of bed with a spring in his step. Well, that and his newly born child. He loves to get under the skin of the business issue to develop interesting, effective and creative solutions that work.

About Si

Idea is King. And Kings should look awesome. This is where the multi-award winning Si kicks in. He loves creating and crafting concepts that deliver unmissability, via any medium possible. Oh, and he can draw anything from memory, except horses.

About Rebecca

Rebecca has lived and breathed PR for 10 years. She eats up deadlines. No opportunity for brand exposure escapes her. And her focus on firm results delivers campaigns relevant for the target audience – whether it’s getting ‘Lambrini Ladies’ to vote or securing architectural coverage on the importance of glass.

About Lindsay

Lindsay is part of BJL’s PR team and has experience working in consumer, trade and professional services PR.
With a keen interest in social media and its use in communications, she has worked with several B2C and B2B clients helping them to maintain and analyse their online presence to effectively engage with their target audience.

About Carla

Carla’s our resident Antipodean and took the long road to Manchester, having worked in Brisbane, Melbourne, London, Edinburgh and Glasgow. She loves big ideas almost as much as she loves barbecues. She’s also fond of old-fashioned things like punctuation. Bloody writers, eh?

About Jane

As the latest addition to the planning team, Jane began on a work placement which has led to a permanent role.  Graduating with a 1st in Advertising Design she has been able to bring her creative skills to the department, making her a versatile and knowledgeable member of the BJL team.

About Katie

Katie joined us on completion of her
AS-Levels in Business, Accountancy and Drama - we’ve been sure to show her plenty of each. Responsible for processing invoices, entrusted with the stationary supplies, keeper of the finance department’s sweet draw, she unwittingly keeps the whole place afloat.

About Nick

Colours that make pictures and letters that make words, that all become designs for ads and brochures or graphics for logos and identities. Welcome to Nick’s perfect world.

About Sue

Not only is Sue known as the mum of the agency, she also likes to think she is the heart of the agency. Running a busy reception and tending to visiting client keeps her on her toes. Whether you need parking spaces, holiday forms or plasters, Sue’s your girl.

About Charlie

Charlie joined BJL as a Account Executive after graduating from the University of Nottingham.

Whilst he quickly impressed with his enthusiasm and ability for photocopying all manner of things, it was his performance at the Fresh Awards that made an indelible impression on the advertising world: no one has looked that good in a chicken suit since Big Bird.

About Roz

Having realised the grass is much greener on the North side, Roz returned to Manchester after a stint in London. A self-confessed media hound, Roz sniffs out the best places to put her clients news. With experience in everything from anti-drink driving campaigns to lingerie brands, Roz can turn her PR hand to anything.

About Simon

Simon makes sure all creative ideas and concepts come together correct and on time, managing all artwork to suit the needs of the campaign.

About Charlotte

Charlotte’s time working on the corporate side of Simplyhealth has given her a great understanding of both client and employee needs, ensuring effective creative solutions are developed.

About Shelley

Campaign Manager Shelley makes sure that all of her accounts are managed on time and within budget. What’s her secret? Only an unhealthy love of Excel spreadsheets.

About Jennie

Jennie handles all things PR & Social Media – whether it’s getting your brand talked about in the national media, creating a buzz online or making an event go with a swing. Creative thinking, persuasive writing and careful planning are her forte.

About Kath

Strategy and creative. Kath loves both, possibly more than chocolate. Well, nearly.  And there’s not an area of marketing she doesn’t cover. When she’s not delivering integrated campaigns for her commercial clients, she can be found saving the world (without the superman pants), working on heaps of public sector work.

About Shona

After graduating with a 1st in Advertising, Shona gained a placement which soon turned into a permanent role at BJL. Shona looks after a wide range of clients. Plus she has the weighty responsibility of caring for the office aquarium.

About Chris

This laid back Campaign Manager loves any challenge thrown at him. He’s the man you need in a crisis but there never is one with Chris around. Current BJL table tennis champion.

About Kate

Kate is one of those really clever people who knows how to add, subtract, multiply and divide. (Sometimes she can even do it in her head without a calculator or anything.) So it’s hardly surprising that Kate makes our Accounts Department run like a well-oiled machine. She’s also really fast at processing expenses forms – but only if you’ve got a VAT receipt.

About Sue

Sue uses her background in planning and on the client side of the fence to help her (and her team) deliver insightful and effective marketing communications. And as she focuses on the agencies’ FMCG brands, that tends to involve a fair bit of telly. Which is nice.

About Nicola

Nicola has considerable experience working with both public and private sector clients, including Manchester NHS, Manchester City Council, Transform cosmetic surgery group and Airbus Europe. She is passionate about delivering campaigns that are both creatively and commercially hard working.

About Alicia

Alicia is Liane’s other half. While Liane is considering the merits of Helvetica, Alicia is swooning over entendres and toying with conjunctions; as she considers which words make copy worth reading.

About Ged

Ged has over 20 years experience both in London and the North West and thrives on challenges and working in a high performance team.

She also loves talking, which is useful considering her role and can normally get through to potential clients where others fear to tread!

She also has a laugh which is once heard, never forgotten (apparently).

About Andy

Andy loves a challenge. And he’s put to the test every day by demanding Campaign Managers and fussy creative types. He also makes sure everything runs smoothly within our extremely busy artwork department.

About Caroline

Caroline is all about attention to detail. From her management of clients and creative work, right through to her clever co-ordination of clothes and shoes. She’s the agency’s very own Carrie Bradshaw.

About Lizzie

After graduating with an English degree from Durham University, Lizzie joined BJL on a Graduate Placement programme. Refusing to leave, she’s now a permanent fixture. When it comes to media, Lizzie’s your girl. Online, offline, regional, national or trade – she loves it! She’s always calling them to find out what’s coming up; dropping in on them to deliver the latest product, or selling in a news piece that will deliver client coverage. And when she’s not doing all of that she’s supporting the team on client campaigns.

About Lisa

Lisa is an HTML email and front-end developer. She focuses on the latest techniques to make sure we meet the highest standards.

About Michael

Michael is a creative working across print and digital, with a strong, and some might say unnerving love of typography. He loves nothing better than spending time designing and kerning to his hearts content. (He is definitely a type geek).

About Michelle

Michelle is from Leyland; where they’ve been Master truck builders since 1896.

However failing to make the truck building grade, Michelle turned her hand to building flash banners instead. She has now been a master of that, as well as designing websites and emails here at BJL, since 2011.

About Phil

Phil likes to create, but he mostly tidies up other people’s creative work to make it print perfect. He can generally be found wearing headphones and a frown.

About Rob

Rob is the agency retoucher and loves nothing more than a tricky touch-up. He has many skills within the Artwork department but this is his favourite task. Especially when it involves beautiful models that require a little tickling up  - see our latest Transform campaign.

About Steve

As a Copywriter, Steve writes copy. Using only his brain and a chewed pencil, he puts the right words in the right order to deliver the right message. His creative juices are rich and plentiful and he mixes them often with his Art Director's juices to create a cocktail of refreshing concepts.