Brand manager of the week: Jude Brooks, Interactive manager, Coca-Cola GB

- Describe yourself in three words.

Candid, mischievous, brilliant - and modest.

- How would you define marketing?

The right message to the right person at the right time.

- What would you be if you weren't a brand manager?

A garden designer.

- What advice would you give someone starting their marketing career today?

Get as much work experience as you can.

- What attracted you to your current job?

Everything about it.

- What was your first job?

Receptionist for Emap.

- How did you get your first job?

A half-day temp assignment.

- What hobbies do you have?

Eating, drinking and socialising.

- What makes you angry?

Making avoidable mistakes.

- What's your favourite holiday destination?

Anywhere hot and sunny.

- If you weren't you, who would you be?

Kevin.

- What's your favourite pub?

The Eagle on Farringdon Road.

- What other languages do you speak?

Txt ;-)

- If you were a brand, what would you be?

Marmite.

- What's your greatest ambition?

To have a novel published.

- What is your all-time favourite slogan?

'Hello boys.'

- If you could get tickets to any event, what would it be?

Live Aid.

- What was your finest hour?

Last Friday, 10-11pm.

- If you had three wishes, what would they be?

For my husband to have met my granddad; world peace; and shedloads of cash.

- What have been your best and worst freebies?

The best was a week-long skiing trip. There's no such thing as a bad freebie.

- What headline would you most like to read in Marketing?

'Brooks (38) sells agency to WPP for 拢4bn.'

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