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StarCompliance partners with compliance teams around the world to provide configurable, user-friendly software solutions designed to simplify every-day compliance processes, while ensuring you meet the strictest regulatory standards. Our expertise and technology help to optimize your compliance program, offering you the highest standards of vigilance and security.My role sits within the R&D function and I lead on product strategy and GTM for the Individual Accountability (SMCR, IAC, IAF, FAR) and Training & Competency products.

Mutual Vision are a provider of core banking, loans origination and online banking solutions to Building Societies, Banks and specialist lenders. Over half of the Building Societies in the UK use our software.We deliver affordable innovation to our customers by enabling collaborative investment in technology based on mutual principles. Mutual Vision have adopted the same business model to deliver digitisation to our customers that the Building Societies use to enable their members to buy and build their own homes.We are constantly evolving a digital ecosystem around our platform by carefully selecting technology partners that deliver complementary products and technologies for the benefit of our customers and encouraging customers to recommend prospective technology partners to join the MV Partner Ecosystem.I head up the Business Development area of the business, overseeing sales, marketing, account management and communications.

Bromsgrove, United Kingdom

A second spell at Redland working as a business development manager specialising in selling software solutions for the Senior Management and Certification Regimes prescribed by the FCA and PRA (regulators to the Financial Services industry). Key responsibilities include: sales & marketing; software demos; sales pitches; responding to RFPs; contract negotiations; attendance and participation at industry events; process improvement and product development. This role requires a high degree of internal and external stakeholder management. Key Achievements:✔ Key role in a project to create a suite of marketing collateral around a new software product, including a new website, sales brochure and pitch presentation.✔ Design and implementation of a new sales process to improve efficiency and sales.✔ Creating and managing a healthy sales pipeline.✔ Generating record sales in FY2019 for recurring annual licence revenue and services revenue✔ Key client wins include a Tier 1 UK bank, M&G Prudential, Columbia Threadneedle, Admiral Insurance, AJ Bell, Hargreaves Lansdown, Legal & General and JM Finn.✔ Responding to ~40 bids with an impressive win rate.✔Leading on designing a new user experience for Redland’s flagship product.

Cheltenham

Working directly for the pre-sales director as the lead consultant, this is a technical pre-sales role requiring a high degree of stakeholder management, both internally with the sales team and delivery team and externally with some of the largest fashion brands and fashion retailers in the world.Designing and documenting bespoke solutions to integrate fashion partners on to the Anatwine network is the key deliverable in the role. This requires workshop facilitation, business process design, technical and non-technical documentation and an excellent understanding of systems integration.As pre-sales lead consultant, assisting in recruitment, mentoring of team members and driving up quality standards of the department through continuous improvement are essential components of the role.

Cheltenham

Leading a team of senior business analysts working to integrate new fashion brands and retailers on to the Anatwine network. Responsible for recruitment, mentoring, standards and process improvement within the team as well as being hands-on with designing and documenting the integration solutions for fashion partners.

Cheltenham

Working in a start-up environment, responsible for designing and documenting bespoke solutions for integrating new partners on to the Anatwine network, working closely with external clients and the internal development teams to see integration projects through to go live. Additional responsibilities included working in an agile methodology to design and document enhancements to the core capabilities of the Anatwine platform.

Bromsgrove

Working as a senior business analyst for a software and consultancy business specialising in training and competency systems with a client-base including many large financial services companies. Responsibilities included running workshops, requirements gathering, solution and process design, responding to RFPs, product development, product demonstrations, presentations, training and recruitment.

Cheltenham

Working in a number roles across a 7 year period for a software house that included clients in the publishing and utilities sectors. Starting as an analyst programmer before moving into business analysis and later going on to become head of consultancy and a key member of the management team. Responsibilities included running workshops, requirements gathering, solution and process design, responding to RFPs, product development, product demonstrations, presentations, training, recruitment, employee performance management, resource management and 2nd/3rd line support.

Cheltenham

Working for 2 years, initially as a production assistant and later as a team leader involved in the creation a national database containing higher and further education courses.

Bsc (Hons) Information Technology For Business, It & Business, 2:1

IT & Business

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