Interim

Working as an Interim Director

With 30 years’ experience across multiple sectors, I’m skilled at unlocking new insights to overcome any challenge. I’ve worked as an Interim Director for a diverse range of businesses managing divisions of up to 150 people and budgets up to £35m.

A charismatic and natural leader, I build engaged, motivated and happy teams, aligning everyone behind a clear strategic vision.

As a professional interim, I deliver real results, fast. My work was recognised in 2014 when I was named as an Interim of the Year finalist.

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Anglian WaterSam Bridger2020-03-16T10:53:59+00:00

VSOSam Bridger2020-03-16T10:49:10+00:00

MS SocietyMartin Abel2019-03-11T11:23:54+00:00

Turtle WaxMartin Abel2020-03-16T10:50:36+00:00

Sam led the Brand and Marketing team through a period of tremendous change. To have achieved as much as we did during that time, both strategically and tactically, is testament to Sam’s diligence and focus as well as her ability to get the best out of the people around her. Under Sam’s leadership and strategic direction, the team and its output became significantly more focused, objective and outcome-orientated. Sam has an impressive ability to bring stakeholders with her at the same time as cutting to the chase. Her blend of experience, insight and best-for-task processes means we ended up exactly where we needed to be after our time with her. We now have a far stronger brand and marketing function, supported by an ecosystem of well briefed stakeholders and agencies.

Ciaran Nelson, Anglian Water Group Director of Brand and Communications

I thoroughly enjoyed working with Sam. Her brand and marketing experience and knowledge is second to none, and I took every opportunity to learn what I could from her. She was always supportive, and not afraid to get stuck in – a genuine team leader and team player. Her ability to build cross functional, collaborative team-working, aligning different silos of activity in one direction is exceptional. She sets out a clear vision and strategy, and with her witty humour, energy and passion brings everyone on the journey to get behind it. She's an inspiring leader and it was an absolute pleasure working with her.

Natalie Spires, Senior Marketing Manager, Anglian Water

I had the pleasure of working with Sam while she developed and headed up the newly expanded, centralised Brand and Marketing team. There were a mixture of existing employees and new starters in the team and Sam did a great job of balancing the transformational work needed across the business with building a high performing team and leading by example. Sam takes on challenges head on and brings others with her by articulating a clear vision and strategic approach. She was also a great mentor for me, and was excellent at providing recognition and feedback in a constructive and appropriate way. I have come to respect her a great deal and will miss her!

Cat Thompson, Marketing Planning Manager, Anglian Water

I have worked with many marketing consultants and I would rank Sam Bridger amongst the very best. Sam overcame some senior management challenges in such a positive and constructive way that the entire team became fully supportive of the strategies she put in place. The subsequent investment success would not have happened had it not been for the work she did.

David Myers - Walkabout Bars

Working with Sam was truly a breath of fresh air. She’s an extremely professional, yet approachable, communicator and strategist, and I’d have no hesitation in recommending her for literally anything. She's the kind of person you hope you land on a desert island with - within an hour she’d have built a shelter, lit a fire, caught a fish and made an escape plan.

Sarah Westlake - The MS Society

Sam can make a real difference to an organization in a very short period of time. She has a great strategic mind, bringing the right people together to create real change. Her attention to detail, openness to ideas and excellent communication skills make her an extremely effective strategic marketer who can work successfully in any industry.

Helen Bailey - Aviatrix Research

Sam is quick to identify the marketing and organisational challenges that a business faces. She sets out a coherent strategy, expertly builds cross-functional teams and aligns everyone behind a single strategy. She is un-phased by politically charged environments and is also charismatic – which means however complex and challenging the project, it’s a pleasure to work in a team under her direction.

Claire Hunt – Candi Digital

I really enjoyed working with Sam – we had some really steep targets to meet very quickly - Sam knew that the only way of succeeding was via a genuinely integrated approach. She was the driving force in binding a large group of agencies together, creating a 'crack unit' capable of delivering a genuinely integrated campaign at speed. We met the targets bang on time.

Jamie Elliott - DLKW

By far and away the safest pair of hands and the most focused thinker I have worked with for a long time. With multiple, senior stakeholders, tight budgets and very short timescales to manage, we needed experience we could rely on. Sam played a high profile role very effectively and quickly gained the respect and trust of both ourselves and our agencies.

Kate Cullum - Ernst & Young