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Nottingham, GB

Essen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

• I lead the finance function within a newly formed CFO structure, playing a pivotal role in driving financial innovation, supporting strategic decision-making, and maximising the value of investments in early-stage.
• Developing and implementing financial governance frameworks for a €45M innovation portfolio, ensuring accountability and transparency
• Creating real-time reporting systems, delivering actionable insights that empower executive leadership to make informed, strategic decisions
• Integrating financial governance with innovation teams, striking the perfect balance between fostering creativity and ensuring compliance.

Essen, North Rhine-Westphalia

• Headed the Portfolio and Performance team within Strategy & Innovation Operations, tracking and measuring the performance of E.ON's diverse innovation activities. Delivered real-time, interactive dashboard reporting to.
• Managed a €45M innovation budget, ensuring KPIs were tracked and measurable results were delivered across projects
• Implemented a digitised portfolio management tool, streamlining governance and increasing transparency across the group’s innovation initiatives
• Fostered cross-functional collaboration between finance, operations, and technology teams, ensuring alignment of innovation efforts with corporate objectives.

Essen Area, Germany

• Led the delivery of coaching and support for both central group and regional innovation teams across the E.ON Group, proactively managing the innovation portfolio to foster a mindset shift towards rapid testing and.
• Drove a cultural transformation, helping E.ON evolve from a commodity-focused to a product-oriented company
• Developed and implemented innovation methodologies, such as Design Thinking and Agile, across multiple regions, enhancing the company’s innovation capabilities.

Essen Area, Germany

• Drove global B2C innovation, collaborating across regional units to deliver scalable, customer-centric solutions for over 32 million E.ON customers. Spearheaded the development of new product roadmaps and successfully.
• Launched pioneering platforms, including Meisterando.de and eon-easycheck.de, revolutionising customer engagement with innovative solutions
• Strategically influenced the future operating model post-Innogy acquisition, playing a pivotal role in shaping E.ON's long-term strategy.

International

As an Innovation Consultant for E.ON Group’s Innovation Hub, I led transformative projects across multiple regional units, guiding teams to develop cutting-edge, customer-centric solutions. Leveraging expertise in Service Design Thinking, Google Ventures-style Design Sprints, Growth Hacking, Agile methodologies, and Lean Startup principles, I coached and.

United Kingdom

Technical build work stream lead, delivering a customer engagement product. Responsible for the development, software/hardware testing, smart meter integration and overall integration into a group wide platform. Also responsible for managing the partnership and ongoing relationship of a 3rd party hardware provider.

International

Part of the residential solutions delivery group leadership team focused on topics such as internet of things, connected home but also home heating and pv/battery. Managing an innovation and engineering team based across UK and Germany, responsible for the development of innovative connected home/smart home products or propositions for commercialisation.

United Kingdom & Germany

Part of the residential solutions delivery group leadership team, focused on energy management. Managing an innovation and engineering team based across UK and Germany, responsible for the development of innovative energy management/smart home products or propositions for commercialisation and roll out across multiple regional business units.

United Kingdom/International

Responsible for managing an international project portfolio comprising in excess of 100 projects with an overall budget of 20m Euros.

United Kingdom & International

Responsible for driving the overall performance and delivery of an International innovation portfolio comprising in excess of 100 projects.

Nottingham, United Kingdom

• Production and delivery of individual microgeneration design projects ranging from those requiring the management of 3rd party performance and support. Adopting a high level of technical expertise and creativity to.
• Completion of quote and tender documents in order to assist in the tendering process
• Production of technical designs and specifications in support of tender responses, using relevant software
• Detailed technical feasibility analysis on schemes to incorporate current legislative codes of practise and best practise into designs
• Manage partners to ensure costing of all design jobs are fully comprehensive and within SLA
• Provide technical and commercial analysis reports to ensure viability of solutions in terms of cost, fitness for purpose, build ability maintainability and environmental impact

Nottingham, United Kingdom

• Management of day to day delivery and installation of microgeneration products, including the management of multiple high value projects through the project life cycle, from sales handover through design, planning and.
• Plan, prepare and deliver project plans to accommodate multiple stakeholder requirements
• Management of ESP’s and ISPs, clients and a variety of contractors
• Operational and tactical relationship management of ESP’s, including performance management review
• Manage compliance to SHE requirements, including CDM governance, on site environmental/SHE audits and ongoing contractor auditing
• Process and governance development to continually tailor our methods to suit the needs of our customers

Nottingham, United Kingdom

• Management of day to day delivery of central heating installations, working with internal colleagues and external contractors in order to deliver the business objectives. Key activities included:
• Management of various third party contractors, including regular travel to attend off site meetings within UK
• Day to day service delivery from sale to completion to the customers satisfaction
• Maintain tight control of operational costs in accordance with agreed budgets
• Manage operational health and safety and regulatory compliance
• Integration of home installation engineers across UK to replace ESP’s

Nottingham, United Kingdom

• Maximise the contribution of a team of up to 40 staff; ensuring the achievement of overall business objectives. This included domestic and B2B customers. Key responsibilities included:
• Lead, manage and motivate staff
• Identify, change and drive people or systems changes to improve customer service
• Manage staff through recruitment, performance, attendance, capability and disciplinary procedures
• Set individual development plans, coach staff, identify training needs and develop action plans to meet agreed objectives
• Resolve escalated complaints ensuring that customer’s confidence is maintained and to minimise recourse to Energywatch

Foundation Degree, Mechanical Engineering

Btec Level 3 Advanced Certificate In Mechanical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Pass

Activities and Societies: Assessment 1: Principle of Mechanics Assessment 2: Materials Assessment 3: Heat and Steam100% Pass in all 3.

Bsc, Sports Science

A-Levels / Gcses

4 A Levels 9 GCSE’s (6 at Grade C or above)