Find the real problem
I listen across customers, teams and data before shaping the solution.
Project manager · Marketing, brand, events & operations
I turn moving parts into work that moves forward.
I’m Peace Odekpe—a people-first project manager with experience delivering infrastructure, experiential campaigns, hospitality launches and customer-facing operations. I bring structure to fast-moving environments, translate strategy into delivery, and make change easier for teams and customers.
Birmingham, United Kingdom
Open to project management opportunities
My work sits where people, process and progress meet. I’m at my best when the brief is ambitious, the details matter, and someone needs to make it happen.
Build the useful system
I turn scattered work into clear workflows, ownership and repeatable standards.
Bring people with me
I communicate clearly, manage change practically and keep delivery human.
Selected work
Real projects, shaped around real constraints.
Supporting an 800 km railway programme across six states.
Managed scope, budgets, schedules, logistics, change requests and project teams while coordinating material specifications and workforce support across multiple locations. Sourced and established a dedicated dredging site that created a new business line and shortened delivery by five months.
800 km programmeSix statesFive months savedNew business line
Bringing 90 colleagues across three continents together.
Project-managed the International Oracle Team Bonding Event at Eko Hotel to strengthen relationships between colleagues and management. Sourced team-building games, arranged hotel stays and coordinated travel and event logistics for delegates from the Africa, America and Asia teams.
90 participantsAfrica, America & AsiaApprox. ₦7.9m budgetEnd-to-end logistics
Leading a two-part school recycling programme from concept to execution.
Conceptualised and led the School Recycling Programme and its follow-up phase. The first arm taught pupils how and why to recycle. The second returned to schools to monitor participation, retrieve collected packs and check whether the behaviour had continued. The programme model connected pupils with teachers, parents, collectors, supervisors and education stakeholders.
Lead: concept to executionTwo linked programme phases50-school Lagos modelEducation, monitoring & rewards
Delivering a 5 km corporate race for cancer awareness.
Worked on the sixth NSE Corporate Challenge at Muri Okunola Park, supporting the branded event environment, participant journey and race-day activation. The campaign combined a celebrity-backed #60SkipsChallenge with sponsor visibility, registration, warm-up, route support and entertainment.
600+ runners validated5 km raceCorporate sponsorsInfluencer amplification
Taking insurance education and sales into Ibadan communities.
Developed the implementation plan for a four-day market-storm activation across twelve Ibadan touchpoints. The roadshow combined mobile customer-care units, local entertainment and trained field teams to explain insurance products, capture leads and support on-the-spot account opening.
Four-day rollout12 planned locationsField-team coordinationLead tracking & reporting
Turning an antibacterial-deodorant claim into live experiences.
Helped develop a consumer-led launch campaign for Shield in Zambia, translating insight into activity-based demonstrations across nightlife, sports, colleges, malls and retail. The proposal connected physical trials with social content to show the product’s odour protection during movement.
1,500+ consumer insight baseLusaka & Ndola36 in-store activations planned1m projected digital reach
Employee event & creative design · Coca-Cola Nigeria / EXP MarketingStepping into creative delivery when the team needed capacity.
Supported Coca-Cola Nigeria’s Summer Family Fun Day and personally created campaign artwork when the creative team was overwhelmed. The communication brought together the children’s office tour, games, movie activities and the wider employee-family barbecue programme.
Original creative designFamily event communicationCross-team supportAugust 2019
Moving a live restaurant onto a new operating system.
Coordinated the transition from EPOS Now to Square for Restaurants across the main till, handheld ordering and a kitchen display workflow—while protecting live service, staff confidence and guest experience.
Workflow mappingTeam adoptionLive-service problem solvingSupplier coordination
Turning one-off events into repeatable experiences.
Developed booking communications, table-time policies and service plans for monthly buffets, bottomless brunch, seasonal dinners and private events in a 75–80 cover venue.
Service designEvent operationsCustomer communication
Building evidence-led delivery dispute processes.
Managed Uber Eats, Deliveroo and Just Eat disputes across two sites, bringing together order records, CCTV evidence and clear escalation language to protect revenue and identify recurring service issues.
Root-cause analysisPlatform operationsEvidence & escalation
Taking a farm-to-bag product idea toward market.
Shaped the story, product range and business planning for an organic food brand sourcing from a family farm in Nigeria and selling to UK customers through Amazon and e-commerce.
Business planningBrand positioningE-commerce
Testing a new shipping-barrel venture before investment.
Structured the feasibility questions behind supplying 220-litre barrels for UK–Nigeria sea freight: demand, landed cost, pricing, logistics risks and routes to profitability.
FeasibilityCost modellingMarket thinking
The journey
A career built by connecting disciplines.
Nov 2025 — now
Marketing & Brand Officer / Project Manager
Empress Restaurant
Plans and delivers promotional events, restaurant set-ups, product launches, social content and CRM activity; coordinates suppliers and agencies; and uses market and campaign analysis to guide positioning, budgets and growth.
Jun 2023 — Nov 2025
Receptionist / Duty Manager
Radisson Hotel Group
Coordinated front-office operations, bookings, escalations and shift priorities across high-volume and multi-property environments. Trained colleagues on SAP and EMEA systems and supported consistent service delivery.
Nov 2021 — May 2023
Food & Beverage Assistant
Park Inn by Radisson
Delivered customer-focused food and beverage service while maintaining payment, hygiene, stock and food-handling standards and responding to dietary requirements.
Jan 2018 — Jun 2021
Project Manager
AYBOL Technologies
Managed scope, budgets, schedules, logistics, change requests and teams for multi-location infrastructure delivery, including material and workforce support for an 800 km railway programme across six states.
Jan 2018 — Jan 2021
Account Executive / Campaign Project Lead
EXP Marketing
Managed six client portfolios and led experiential campaigns, coordinating communication, proposals, teams, assets, inventory and activation delivery for major consumer and corporate brands.
Jan 2018 — Jan 2021
Customer Service Representative
OLIPECKA Travels & Tours
Supported customers and travel documentation, resolved dispatch and package issues, prepared operational and cash-flow reports and coordinated annual reporting meetings across three outlets.
Sep 2017 — Apr 2018
Marketing Intern
GTEXT Media & Investment
Supported events, tracked schedules and expenses, coordinated stakeholder communication and planned and reported on social media campaigns using Buffer and Hootsuite.
Business leadership
Marketing, Sales & BD
Mintana Global Logistics
Contributed to market development, customer growth and commercial initiatives connecting Nigerian supply with UK demand.
Capabilities
What I bring to a delivery team.
01Project coordination
02Operational improvement
03Stakeholder communication
04Change adoption
05Customer experience
06Risk & issue handling
07Business analysis
08Brand & growth
Education & training
Strategic thinking, grounded in delivery.
MSc Applied Public Health
Cardiff Metropolitan University · Systems thinking, evidence, population needs and intervention planning.
BSc Mass Communication
Covenant University · Public Relations and Advertising.
Project Management Development
Cardiff University · NVQ Level 5 Project Management; Project Management Practitioner; AgilePM v3 Foundation with Scrum Essentials; Change Management Foundation v3; Agile Project Management Foundations.
Certifications & tools
APCON Advertising, NIPR Public Relations, Google AI Essentials, Digital Marketing, Nikon Photography and PEFTI Filmmaking & Editing. Tools include Microsoft Office, SAP, EMEA systems, CRM, Buffer, Hootsuite and analytics platforms.
Give me a complicated brief.
I’ll bring curiosity, structure and the follow-through to turn it into a clear plan—and a finished piece of work.