Alison Collins Email & Phone Number

London, Gb

London, United Kingdom

Lead the Pollen Street Hub - Driving collective value and competitive advantage across the portfolio, capitalising on the combined expertise and assets for the benefit of all. Driving innovation, improving business operations and creating monetisation opportunities. Focus areas include: Business Development, Best Practice, Data & Analytics, and incubation and mobilisation of hub initiatives.Responsibilities also include Environmental Social Governance (ESG) as it relates to our… Show more Lead the Pollen Street Hub - Driving collective value and competitive advantage across the portfolio, capitalising on the combined expertise and assets for the benefit of all. Driving innovation, improving business operations and creating monetisation opportunities. Focus areas include: Business Development, Best Practice, Data & Analytics, and incubation and mobilisation of hub initiatives.Responsibilities also include Environmental Social Governance (ESG) as it relates to our investments. The Hub provides dedicated resource to drive the ESG agenda both internally and throughout the portfolio. Show less

London, United Kingdom

Leading Pollen Street Capital Hub - Driving collective value and competitive advantage across the portfolio, capitalising on the combined expertise and assets for the benefit of all. Driving innovation, improving business operations and creating monetisation opportunities. Focus areas include: Business Development, Collective Efficiencies, Data & Analytics, and incubation and mobilisation of hub initiatives.

London, United Kingdom

Lead a team of programme managers and analysts to ensure strategic planning, visibility on sales analytics & performance management processes and sales programme implementation. Ensure strong business insight, clear cross-functional alignment and drive continual improvement in sales performance and productivity.Specific projects include Sales Analytics, Sales Practice Standards, Digital selling, Commissions effectiveness, Market planning, Client insights and strategic account management

Greater New York City Area

Responsible for Strategy, key initiatives and management of Experian's global Marketing Services business (part of the group leadership team).This involves working across the functions to set and communicate strategic direction (aligned to business direction), report progress and ensuring appropriate initiatives and capabilities are in place to achieve our objectives. Specific projects involve: global value proposition development, emerging market expansion and communications

Greater New York City Area

Responsible for strategic planning and managing key growth initiatives within Experian's Global Product Development, Technology, and Direct to Consumer business. Sat on group leadership team. Specific projects included: Global Data Council lead, Global Interactive propositions, geographic expansion and IT investments

Responsible for Global Strategic Planning for the Experian organisation and coordination of M&A activity - implemented a number of key global initiatives and developed the strategic framework that is used as the basis for communicating Experian's growth strategy to internal and external stakeholders

A key member of the IR function, strong involvement in Demerger of GUS into Home Retail Group and Experian

Evaluated strategic and capital structure options as part of Strategic Review of GUS Plc (resulting in three way demerger of Burberry, Experian and Home Retail Group)

Treasury Analyst and Head of Import Finance function

London, United Kingdom

Trained as Chartered Accountant, worked on multiple audits and due diligence projects - servicing large and small clients - predominantly in TMT

Ma, Arabic

Activities and Societies: St Johns College

Diploma, Arabic Diploma