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Establish, develop and maintain learning and development programmes, policies and processes that support the strategic direction and mission of the institutes and NBIP.

Responsibilities: Authoring internal technical reports and providing support & advice to new product launches. Mentoring and technology advice to graduate intern.Achievements: Internal recognition (VP Award) for my part in the multidisciplinary team that prepared technical documents and customer value propositions for a major product launch in 2023.

Responsibilities: Providing product support to customers, supporting new commercial opportunities and ongoing testing & development of new products. Managing product formulations and quality.Achievements: Working with commercial, operations and R&D colleagues on three new product roll outs - from laboratory assessments, trials to full commercialisation. Improving customer feedback (CSI measure), by ensuring that technical advice and support is a highly valued part of our customer offer.

Responsibilities: Member of Downstream HR & Learning Team. Provide learning, development and training resources for two global B2B businesses; Working closely with business, third party vendors and HR colleagues to deliver impactful learning experiences tailored to business needs; Communicating with a wide range of professional subject matter experts (technical specialists, engineers, HSSE professionals) to manage projects on time and budget. Work within Group HR policy and promote new, cost effective solutions aligned to ‘borrow, buy, build’ principles.Achievements: Working with subject matter experts & external vendors to create a range of new resources including e-learning modules, wiki-pages, articles, e-books and face to face training materials.Development of two competence management systems for plant operations & aircraft refuelling activities and integration with Group LMS. Ongoing management, updates and review.Design & build of the‘Bitumen Business Game’ - an award winning interactive game designed to enhance commercial awareness & teamwork.Completed a major review of an existing global training programme to evaluate the business case to update and integrate with Group LMS.

Leading a global organisational rightsizing/restructuring change programme. Design & development of virtual and face to face courses. Development and implementation of new competency framework. Developing structured learning plans based on business needs and strategic direction. Building and implementation of KM roadmap. Faculty for Shell Group Leader of Teams programme.

Developing and implementing talent pipeline proposals for Technical Team in EU (including graduate recruitment programme). Leading global implementation of new products. Leading formal investment proposal for new EU Solutions Centre Lab. Managing technical resources with multiple providers. Representing Shell externally on industry bodies.